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

Courts & crime, 1952

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Gaol for Illegal Use of Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 2

In the Canberra Court, Mr. F. C. P. Keane, S.M., sentenced three youths to two months' imprisonment for illegally using…

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Court Told Of Fight Near Dance Hall

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 1

An altercation between a police constable and a Sydney man was described in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday as "quite a fracas." Mr. J. B. Mullen, Solicitor,…

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Local Court Busy

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 4

Constable O'Brien was working overtime on Friday night last when he arranged local accomodation for three visitors who…

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Court Sequel To Crash Into Bank

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 5

Driver of a semi-trailer which crashed into the Commonwealth Bank, on November 6 last year, was fined £5…

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Police Reminder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 4

Goulburn Police to-day reminded graziers that Agricultural and Pastoral returns posted to them for completion are…

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Police Hunt Continuing

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 4

Goulburn Police to-day continued their search for an escaped convict believed to be at large in the…

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Gaol on Principle

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 May 1952 · page 1

BATHURST,: A poultry farmer, Claude Milton Luck, of Havannah Street Bathurst chose "on principle" to go to gaol for…

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Stop Press Woman Arrested On Murder Charges

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 May 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY: C.I.B. detectives to-day arrested a 32-years-old woman, Mrs. Yvonne Fletcher, of Ferndale St., Newtown, and…

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15 Police to Settle Baboon

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 May 1952 · page 4

MIAMI, Sunday: A 14-stone 10lb. baboon escaped from a private zoo here yesterday and bit two children and a man as…

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Captured in Auburn Street Escapee Sent To Gaol Ten Months

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 1

Victorian penal settlement escapee, Wilfred Basil Blake, 23, Was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment with hard labour in Goulburn Police Court yesterday…

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Alleged Attempted Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY: Coff's Harbour Police last night arrested and carged Lewis Henry Johnstone, So, with having shot at his wife…

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Riot In S. Australian Gaol Last Night

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 5

ADELAIDE: An undisclosed number of prisoners was injured at the Yatala Prison last night as the outcome of a riot there. The rist is believed to have…

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Suspected Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 May 1952 · page 5

BRISBANE: An abandoned taxi cab, smothered in blood, has led to the police suspecting the murder of the driver, Athol M…

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Alleged Murder of Two Men

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY: Thirty-two-year-old Yvonna Fletcher, of Ferndale Street, Newtown, who is charged with the murder of two men,…

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Two Men on Assault Charge "I Don't Believe The Defence," Says S.M.

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 6

"If I accept the evidence of the defence, I am asked to believe that the constable invited one or two men to engage in a fight with him, then, to save his own skin, brought these proceedings…

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Railway Porter Faces Charge of Embezzlement Suspended Sentence Imposed by Magistrate

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 1

A young railway porter previously employed at the Crookwell Railway Station appeared before Mr. Paton, S.M., at Crookwell Court of Petty Sessions last Friday, to answer…

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El Alamein Veteran Fined for Stealing Used Ice Cream Cones As Football

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 1

A British migrant who served with a famous Highland Regiment in North Africa and who was discharged medically unfit from the services after being blown up at El Alamein…

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Bigga Man Wanted To Fight Police Constable

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 3

As a result of his expressed desire to "lock horns" in manly combat with Constable 1st-class E. Boyd, of Bigga, on March…

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Killara Murder Inquest

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY: The inquest into the death of Mrs. Leopoldine Hacker has been fixed for July 15, the chief of the C.I.B.,…

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Hayes Guilty of Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 1

A Central Criminal Court jury late yesterday afternoon found John Frederick ("Chow") Hayes, 39, guilty…

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