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

Courts & crime, 1953

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Theft From Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 2

A pair of sun glasses and a steel measuring tape were stolen from a car which was standing outside the home of Mr. Alva…

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£7000 Jewel Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday: Actress Vivien Leigh has had a setback in her convalesence from a nervous breakdown following…

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Two Years' Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 1

Judge Curlewis yesterday sentenced a 20-year-old motorist, who drove dangerously, to two years' gaol. The…

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Theft From Parked Motor Cycle

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 1

A headlamp and a storage battery were stolen from a motor cycle which was left parked at Goulburn Loco Sheds, on…

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Alleged Murder of Four: Other Charges Woman Refused Bail

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: A 63-year-old woman appeared in Central Court to-day, charged with the murder of four people, and the attempted murder of three others…

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Selling After Sunset Yass Police Stop Auction Sale

Boorowa News · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 3

Yass police stopped an auction sale of furnishings in the Memorial Hall supper room one Saturday recently,…

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The wife who was sent to gaol for having a baby

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 July 1953 · page 2

An attractive, thirty-year-old mother, sentenced to two months’ gaol recently for “contempt of court” because she had another…

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Children in Trouble Fine Police Service

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 July 1953 · page 3

IN A BBC talk, Ian Colquhoun, a journalist on the staff of Britain’s “Daily Herald,” spoke of the way in which Liverpool, one…

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Police Claim Parked Truck Obstructed Traffic Local Fined £3

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 14 July 1953 · page 3

A min it who left his truck parked for three nights in succession in Montague Street was charged with obstructing the traffic and fined £3 in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions last Friday…

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Eisenhower Thinks Truce Is Near Despite Red Assault

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Tuesday:, President Eisenhower believes that a truce. is near in Korea—despite the new major assault by Communist troops against the United Nations lines…

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Attempted Murder

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Thursday: Detectives last night arrested a young Mowbray man, and charged him with having…

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Man Charged: Shooting At Burrowa

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 1

In the Burrowa Police Court to-day a man was charged with maliciously wounding David Garret…

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Conflicting Evidence In Case At Local Industrial Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 3

"Sullivan is obviously a nervous type, but this would not prevent him from remembering the nature of the work he was engaged on and facts strongly suggest that he was employed by defendant (Auto n) as a painter," said Mr. C. N. Finlay, S.M., in the Industrial Court on Tuesday…

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Railway Detective Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 1

Detective Sergeant B. J. Catt, of Goulburn, who was called to Burrows on Tuesday night, yesterday gave…

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Police Officers' Deaths

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 3

Two high ranking ex-police officers died in Sydney yesterday. They were ex-Inspector…

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Letters To The Editor Police Protection

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 2

Sir,—The increases in the number of robberies in this city gives rise to the thought whether this city has sufficient police…

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£800 Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 1

Thieves last night broke into a clothing store owned by Ray McLean, in Ford Street, Glenmain, near Wagga, and stole…

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Theft From Truck

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 2

Four suitcases and a tarpaulin were stolen from a semi-trailer while it was parked in Verner Street, between 6.40 and 7.50,…

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Police Transfers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 2

Constable G. A. Goldman, who has been on traffic duty at Yass for the past fifteen months, has been notified of his transfer to…

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Police Raid on Burrinjuck Recreation Hall Man Committed To Trial For Alleged Obstruction

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 2

AT YASS COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS ON FRIDAY, MR. WM. FINLAY, S.M., COMMITTED BERNARD SUTCLIFFE, OF BURRINJUCK, FOR TRIAL AT YASS QUARTER SESSIONS ON SEPTEMBER 9 NEXT, ON A CHARGE…

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