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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Police Chief to Attend Inquiry To-morrow—judge

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Metropolitan Police Superintendent, Mr. W. C. S. Thompson, to-day was directed to testify before the Liquor Royal Commission to-morrow. The Royal Commissioner Mr…

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Man Charged After Girl Disappears

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 3

LEETON: Police have charged a man with carnally knowing a 13-year-old girl who disappeared after an…

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Burrinjuck Police Station Re-opened

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 2

The Police station at Burrinjuck has been re-opened with Constable M. E. Lewis, transferred from Bega, in charge…

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Police Chief in Witness Box at Commission

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Metropolitan Police Superintendent, Mr. W. S. Thompson, to-day entered the witness box at the Liquor Royal Commission to give evidence…

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Boorowa Drover Fined in Cowra Court "Loafing On Reserve," Says Magistrate

Boorowa News · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 3

A Boorowa drover who "loafed" a mob of 1300 sheep on a Cowra reserve for three days was fined at Cowra…

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300 Attend Annual Police Ball

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the attendance at the annual Police ball on Friday night was about 100 less than last year, the function will prove…

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Police Chief Gets Leave of Absence

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Metropolitan Police Superintendent W. C. S. Thompson, at the Liquor Royal Commission to-day, was granted permission to leave the hearing…

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Two Men Charged with Sheep Stealing Sequel to Persistent Police Investigations

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 1

The culmination of persistent police inquiries into reports of single sheep disappearing from properties in the district was the arrest of two Crookwell men on Thursday…

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Police Court

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 4

Mr. Percy Home, 32 years, of Hill Street, Taralga, failed to appear on a charge of being drunk before Mr. E. Lee, J.P…

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Arrests In South Africa As Police Move In

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Wednesday: South African police last night struck a Blow at the heart of the Non-White Movement of Defiance against Prime Minister Daniel Malan's apartheid laws by arresting seven prominent leaders. Among the seven—charged…

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Stealing Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 2

A 19-years-old Sydney youth, was remanded in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a…

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Theft From Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 3

Thieves last night smashed the side window of a car parked in Auburn Street, and stole three suitcases…

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Points Rifle at Police Goulburn Incident

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 1

An injured Italian youth pointed a loaded .22 rifle at two police who attempted to arrest him in Goulburn to-day…

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Excitement in Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 8

Excitement in the Orange Court the other day when Mr. C. W, English, SM., almost disappeared behind a cloud of…

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Lighting Sets Found by Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 2

Goulburn Police-to-day appealed to persons who have had generating sets or portions of them stolen from…

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Police Chief in Box Thompson Absent

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Vice Squad Inspector, Stanley Clarence Crothers, said at the Liquor Royal Commission to-day he had recently purchased a second-hand…

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Sentence of 18 Months' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 1

"I don't believe your story. It is too improbable," Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., said in Goulburn Police Court yesterday afternoon when he sentenced a 36-year-old man to 18 months' hard labour…

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£400 Theft Two Men on Bail

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 2

Two men appeared in Gouburn Police Court yesterday in connection with the recent Marulan South…

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Inquiry Into Police Force

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Opposition. will move in the State Legislative Assembly to-day, for an inquiry into the police…

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Crookwell Soldier Sent to Gaol

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 3

A Crookwell enlistee for the Korea force, Oliver James Carruthers, was one of three men sentenced to four years' hard…

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