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

Courts & crime, 1952

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Police Moves

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 3

The Premier, Mr. Cahill, said yesterday that the recent retiremant senior police officers had nothing to do with…

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Police Fight Comms

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 8

VIENNA, Friday: Police last night fought more than 800 Communist youths who tried to storm a Vienna cinema to…

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Traffic "Blitz" by Local Police

Boorowa News · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 1

Under directions from the Commissioner of Police the local officers will be paying special attention to traffic…

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Court House Hotel Romps Home in Spastic Derby

Boorowa News · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 1

The Court House Hotel romped home an easy winner in this month's Spastic Centre Derby…

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Alleged Beer Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 September 1952 · page 3

Two labourers appeared in Goulburn Police Court to-day charged with the theft of 14 dozen bottles…

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Vicious Assault In Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 September 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Two elderly women were dragged from their beds, robbed and battered by three armed thieves who broke into their St. Kilda home early today. While the women, one of them…

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Police Moves

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Superintendent W. R. Lawrence to-day took up duties at police headquarters as Acting Deputy Commissioner…

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Local Court Good Revenue Producer

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 6

The local Court of Petty Sessions must surely be starting to pay its way. In the fast few weeks busines ha been on the up…

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Police Escort, Band for V.-r. Visit

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 1

Preliminary details covering the visit of the Governor-General, Sir William McKell, for the official opening of Lilac Time…

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District Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 5

In the District Court yesterday before Judge J. M. Brennan, Peter John Jacobsen, of Drummoyne, claimed £1000 damages…

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Storeman Stole From Employer—sentenced to 2½ Years Hard Labour

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 2

Russell Westley Dowling, storeman, 25 years old, Ford Street, North Yass, was sentenced to two and a half years hard labour, by Judge J. M, Brennan at Yass Quarter Sessions yesterday on two charges of larceny…

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Police Morgue Is In Appalling State

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 2

The "Evening Post," on January 30 this year, published an article deploring the conditions then existing at the Police Morgue. This week—just eight months…

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Negro Woman Charged With Triple-Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday: Police investigating the slaying of three young children belonging to one family have…

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Morgue Is "Police Property"

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 1

Goulburn court keeper, Mr. R. Clinghan, to-day claimed that the morgue at the rear of the Court…

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Boorowa Solicitor and S.m. in Court "Brush"

Boorowa News · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 1

There was a brief "exchange" between magistrate Finlay and solicitor Quilkey, of Boorowa, at last Tuesday's…

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No Big Police Reshuffle

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 September 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY: The Acting Commissioner of N.S.W. Police, Mr. C. J.. Delaney, said to-day, he knew [?] thing of a proposed…

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Police Vigil Traps Juveniles

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 1

A four-hight vigil by Sergeant E. I. Bailey in the rear yard Of a Goulburn Street business house will…

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Police Will Try To Make Human Glove

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police will endeavour to make a human glove from skin taken from the hand of a dead man…

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Mystery Man in Eden Police Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: The body of a man found at Lake Merimbula, South Coast, on Tues- day, is not that of Frederick Alexander, 34, who disappeared near Eden a week ago. C.I.B. detectives, who have established this, now are…

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Extra Police on Duty

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 1

Additional police will be on duty in Goulburn on Monday, for the Six Hour Day Lilac Time procession…

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