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

Courts & crime, 1952

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Police Appeal

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Sergeant Edward Clyde Davis said this morning that an appeal against his dismissal from…

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Police Campaign to Reduce Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 1

Superintendent A. L. Ney, Officer-in-Charge of the southern Police Area, to-day gave details of an intensive police campaign to reduce the toll of the road…

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Judge Says Police Chief Fit to Give Evidence

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Liquor Royal Commissioner , Mr. Justice Maxwell, said to-day there was no doubt that Metropolitan Police Superintendent, W.C.S. Thompson, was fit to give evidence to-day…

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Three Months for Stealing

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 4

William Phillips, labourer, no fixed abode, was sentenced to three months hard labour by Mr. Win. Finlay, S.M., at Yass Court…

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Police Inquiry

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 3

Acting Police Commissioner, C. J. Delaney, said yesterday that officials were, examining all evidence given by police at the…

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Inquiry on Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 1

Leader of the State Opposition, Mr. Vornon Treatt, who to-day moved in the Legislative Assembly for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the "integrity of the New South Wales Police Force generally."…

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More Allegations Against Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Liquor Royal Commissioner, Mr. Justice Maxwell, said to-day allegations of police protection of baccarat and two-up schools had been contained in letters and telephone calls he had received…

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Big Tea Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 3

Thieves yesterday drove a truck loaded with four tons of tea from a South Melbourne transport depot…

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Ex-escapee Before Gunning Court 18 Months' Hard Labour

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 6

John O'Connor, one of four prisoners who escaped from Oberon Prison Farm in 1948 and was sentenced to six months, goal at Goulburn, was last week sentenced to 18 months' hard…

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Police "Blitz" on Local Traffic

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 1

Two members of the Goulburn Police Patrol, Constables Dodds and Stewart, staged a regular "blitz" on…

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Heavy Fines Imposed for Stealing Sheep S.M. Refuses to Grant Bonds

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 1

Remarking that there was not the slightest doubt that the act of two men charged with sheep stealing was premeditated and deliberate, Mr. Paton, S.M., rejected applications,…

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J.o. Wool Profits Held Up by Court

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 2

A government spokesman said last week that there appeared to be some misunderstanding of the Government's policy in…

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£400 Theft Baffling

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Police are stunned with the audacity of the 400 theft from Mayne Nickless Ltd. yesterday…

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Theft at Cooma

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 September 1952 · page 7

Police at Cooma are investigating a £200 theft. Thieves on Friday night entered the shop of P. D. Murphy Pty. Ltd. and…

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Johnny Ray Has Stay in Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 1

BOSTON, Monday: Sob singer, Johnny Ray, was arrested on a drunkenness charge to-day. He was gaored for four hours…

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'Bachelor's Party' Led To Court Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 2

A "bachelors' party" resulted in a 26-year-old man being fined and placed on a bond in Goulburn Police Court yesterday. The man is Harvey Duncan…

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Court Farewells Acting C.P.S.

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 1

Mr. W. T. (Bill) Evans, assistant Clerk of Petty Sessions in Goulburn for nearly three years, commences duties as C.P.S. at Kurri Kurri, near Newcastle, next Monday…

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They Chose Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 September 1952 · page 3

EAST LONDON (CAPE PROVINCE), Wednesday: A month's imprisonment was the unanimous choice of 131 Africans and…

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Arrested On Theft Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 September 1952 · page 3

A 29-year-old man, arrested in Goulburn yesterday morning, appeared on a stealing charge in the Police…

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Alleged Assault On Goulburn Man

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 September 1952 · page 2

Mr. T. A. Doolan, S.M., in Central Court yesterday, remanded until September 8, four men charged with assaulting…

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