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

Courts & crime, 1954

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Negroes Plead Guilty: £71,000 Theft Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday: Five Negroes arrested in connection with the theft of about £71,000 in new notes from the Federal…

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Police Believe Station Hand Shot Himself

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 3

TAMWORTH, Tuesday: Police believe that a station hand shot himself twice in the head yesterday. The two bullet wounds at first led to the theory that the man…

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Imprisonment For Hotel Theft

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 1

A comparative stranger to Crookwell, William Moran, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Goulburn…

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Extensive Renovation To Police Residence

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 1

After some years of representations by succeeding police sergeants the Department of Public Works has…

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Horse Owner Before Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 2

A 66-year-old pensioner was fined in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for driving a horse and cart…

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Armed Police in Search for Gunman

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 1

ORANGE, Wednesday: More than 50 heavily armed police are scouring rugged bush country on the western outskirts of Orange for a madman, who last night shot and critically wounded a taxi-driver…

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Boorowa Police Court

Boorowa News · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 1

A long list of cases are set down for hearing at the Boorowa Court of Petty Sessions to be held next Wednesday, May…

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Bulgarian Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 8

Salvi Radeff, a 25-year-old Bulgarian, was remanded to Monday in the Orange Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a…

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Test Player Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 8

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Friday A former West Indies Test cricketer was charged early yesterday with the murder of his…

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"You Could Be Whipped" Says Judge Twelve Months For Bedroom Assault

Boorowa News · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 1

Mr. Justice Brennan at Young Quarter Sessions on Tuesday reminded a man that he could receive a…

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Speed-up in Hearing of Court Cases Chamber Of Com. Takes Up Matter

Boorowa News · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 1

The delay in the hearing and finalising of law cases at Boorowa was discussed by members of the Boorowa…

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Police Search For Missing Girl

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Police are searching for a 15-year-old Newcastle girl who disappeared on Saturday night…

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Move "To Knock Off" President Negro Goes To Police

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 3

FREDERICKSBURG (Virginia), Sunday: Police said to-day they had uncovered what may have been a plot against President Eisenhower's life during a visit the President made to Fredericksburg…

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Police Describe Saturday Morning Traffic in Cooma Street As “A Shambles”’ Motorists Disregarding Regulations

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 1

“The traffic in Cooma Street on Saturday mornings is at times nothing less than a shambles,” Yass Police stated last week. “It is due to a total disregard of traffic regulations.”…

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Daring Taxi Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police in Sydney are searching for a daring thief who stole a woman's handbag last night,…

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Paymaster for Gaol

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 7

Lieutenant Norman Dallray Pcole, the Army paymaster convicted in Japan or embezzling £62.000 in Army funds, arrived…

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Court Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2

In a recent issue, it was reported that S. R., Buttle Pty. Ltd. had been fined in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions for…

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Court Sequel To Altercation

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2

A Sloane Street altercation between a father and his son on May 8 had a sequel in Goulburn Court of…

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Daring Theft of £12,000

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday:— Mail bandits locked postal officials inside a branch post office in Central Brighten…

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Gaol For Reid's Flat Aborigine

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 2

At Young Quarter Sessions last week, His Honour, Judge Brennan, sentenced a Reid's Flat aborigine to 15…

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