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

Courts & crime, 1952

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Goulburn Police Help Recapture Youths

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 5

Nine police from Goulburn, Gunninig and Yass yesterday morning recaptured two youths who escaped from Yass police cells on Wednesday night and travelled to Gunning in a transport vehicle…

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Repairs to Boorowa Court House

Boorowa News · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 2

Crs. T. Perceval and R. L. Gorham, of Boorowa Shire Council, will interview the local State Member, Mr. F. J…

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Landholder Seeks Inspection of Property Prior To Hearing Of Court Case

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 4

A solicitor wrote to last week's meeting of the Gundagai F.P Board on behalf of Tarrabandra grazier, H. W. Robertson, seeking…

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Town Property in Jeopardy an Open Letter to the Mayor, the Sergeant of Police, and the Minister for Transport

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 2

LAST evening between S.55 and 7.S the Yass Fire Brigade station and the fire fighting appliances therein were virtually immobilised because that section of Meehan street was cluttered with transports…

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Alleged Assault On Constable

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 1

In Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday a 22-year-old man was charged with assaulting a police…

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Constable Alleges Assault At Dance

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 1

A young police constable told Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday afternoon that two men had assaulted him at a dance in the Masonic Hall early this year…

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Criminals Stage Riot in Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 3

TRENTON, New Jersey, Monday: Mutinous convicts under siege in a wing of the state prison lured Warden William…

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Prisoners in Local Court Left Alone Five Minutes, Escaped

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 1

Two youths who had been left alone in the exercise yard at Yass Police Station for five minutes had escaped, Goulburn Court of Petty sessions was told yesterday…

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Two Men Charged with Assault at a Dance

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 4

An employee of the Governor-General told Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that he had fought in the street with a man who had earlier assaulted a police constable. He said the constable had been…

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Gaol Escapees Committed For Trial

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 4

TWO YOUTHS who escaped from Yass lock-up exercise yard yesterday week and were recaptured the…

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New Chief of High Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 5

CANBERRA: Sir Owen Dixon, a Senior Puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia, will succeed the Chief Justice, Sir…

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Stealing Charge

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 3

A new Australian, Ma[?]zyslaw [?]rski, was arrested by Yass [?]ice on a charge of stealing [?]ods from a room at the…

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"Wolf" Whistle Sample Given to Local Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 1

A Goulburn railway employee demonstrated a "wolf" whistle in Goulburn Police Court yesterday to show how a 67-year-old man had be haved offensively to his mother…

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U.s. Underworld Man Goes to Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Frank Costello, long linked by police and official investigators with the underworld, yesterday was…

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U.s. Court Dismisses Plea by Steel Chiefs

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: American steel companies yesterday lost their plea for a court order barring the Government from seizing their 8,000 million dollar plants…

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A Month for Stealing

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 5

A 62-years-old man was sentenced to one month's hard labour in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for stealing a…

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Two Fined for Theft of Petrol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 8

Fines of £7 were imposed in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on two young men charged with stealing four…

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Police Locate Goulburn Girl

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 1

Bowral police yesterday apprehended a 14-year-old Goulburn girl who had been missing from her home for several days. Police reported that the girl…

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From Everywhere Police Boys' Club

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 4

The Wollongong Police-Citizens Boys Club building is nearing the final stages of construction. The official opening of the…

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Contemptible Theft

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 5

Says the Junee paper: Some people are as hard and heartless as hunks of steel. Some time ago a little chap was accidentally…

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