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

Courts & crime, 1954

612 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 31

Charged with £3000 Thefts

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: A man arrested at Sutherland early this morning had been charged on a number of…

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Police Search For Escapee

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Police in Northern N.S.W. are still searching thick bush near Lismore for a criminal who escaped…

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Thieves Escape Police Net

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Burglars who broke into a city store during the week-end escaped from 100 armed…

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Assault On Local Taxi Driver

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 1

Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions was told yesterday that two men had assaulted a local' taxi driver in his cab on the Hume Highway about six miles from Goulburn. The taxi driver, Arthur James…

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Police Switch Search For Missing Newcastle Baby

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police switched the search for a missing Newcastle baby to Sydney to-day, after it had been reported that' the child's kidnapper had been seen boarding a southbound train late yesterday. The child, Christopher Hills,…

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Publishers Fined For Contempt Of Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Full Bench of the State Supreme Court to-day fined Consolidated Press Ltd.,…

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Theft From South Goulburn School

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

Thieves stole petty cash from the office of the South Goulburn School last night. They entered the school…

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Court Ruling on Dog

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 7

The State Full Court yesterday set aside a verdict against a man for shooting a dog. The dog was killed within 300 y[?]rds of its…

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Eight Police Commence Leave Pending Inquiry

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY; Wednesday: Eight police officers commenced leave yesterday on the direction of Police Commissioner Delaney following Premier Cahill's announcement of an investigation into assault allegations…

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Case Settled Out of Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 1

A Goulburn Supreme Court case involving parties from Young district and Cootamundra has been settled out of…

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Youths Charged

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 8

Police charged our youths in the Children's Court yesterday with having raped a 19-year-dld girl in Centennial Park last…

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Woman Charged : Baby Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 3

NEWCASTLE: A Newcastle housewife was to-day remanded to Thursday on a charge of abducting four…

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Supreme Court Judgment

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 3

An action commenced in Goulburn on Tuesday by Henry Rupert Bennett against the Australian Mercantile Land &…

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Police Waiting on Analyst's Report

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY Tuhrsday: Police are Waiting on a report from the Government Analyst before proceeding into an investigation into…

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Police Supt's. Inspection Of "Snowy" Project

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

District Police Superintendent, W. H. Johnson, has returned to Goulburn after a tour of inspection of stations in the Monaro, Snowy River and South Coast areas. He inspected 21 stations in a…

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Local Theft

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 3

Thieves broke into the Goulburn Battery Service in Cilnton Street last night. They stole 30/ in small change…

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Cooma Gaol Inmates'

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 3

A former Goulburn Prisons Officer, Mr. A. McCullock, is supervising major renovations and extensions at…

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Five Years' Gaol For Army Man Cruelty To Natives

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

NAIROBI, Friday: Army Captain, Gerald Griffiths, will serve his prison sentence in Britain if yesterdays' findings of his court martial are confirmed. This was announced by a…

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Baby Dead : Murder Charge

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE, Monday: A 10-months-old baby was found dead near a bloodsoaked bed by police last night…

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Theft at Bowning Offenders Arrested At Tamworth

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

Two men have been arrested at Tamworth in connection with breaking and entering the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Privett,…

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