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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

21 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2

A Despicable Theft

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 2

PERHAPS the most despicable act of vandals in this district is regularly perpetrated in Corbett Gardens, Bowral. It is the theft of…

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Pure Food Act Cases at Bowral Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 6

Arthur Joseph Marden, of Main Street, Mittagong, was fined £2, with 10s. court costs, on a charge of selling adulterated milk. Mr. J. L. Price…

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Unusual Case at Bowral Court Indecent Language in Cells

The Southern Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 7

An unusual case was heard before Mr. A. J. paton, S.M., at Bowral Police Court on Thursday of last week, when William Conroy and…

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Sheep Stealing Local Grazier Suffers Big Loss

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 4

Bowral police, under Sgt. Hardy, arc investigating the theft of a number of sheep from the "Currawong" property of Mr. Blake Pelly at…

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Sheep Stealing Local Grazier Suffers Big Loss

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 2

Bowral police, under Sgt. Hardy, are investigating the theft of a number of sheep from the "Currawong" property of Mr. Blake Pelly at…

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Alleged Driving Under Influence Case Fart Heard at Bowral Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 4

A case in which [?] Ray Butter was charged with driving under the influence of [?] was part heard at Bowral Court on Thursday last…

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Stolen Property Recovered Man Charged with Stealing

The Southern Mail · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 6

Detectives from Liverpool and Bowral police have recovered a large quantity of goods answering the description of those stolen from homes…

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Hotel Meal Hours Times Fixed by Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 2

At last sitting of the Licensing Court for this district, the Magistrate (Mr. Blackmore, S.M.) said it had been decided that compulsory hours…

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Bowral Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 4

For failing to prevent the spread of codling moth on a property in Burradoo Street, Burradoo, James Carr, one of the two executors of the…

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Assault in Bus Man Convicted on Two Charges

The Southern Mail · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 10

Occurrences in a bus travelling from Bowral to Berrima on 2nd April, 1949, resulted in a 19-years-old youth being fined after being…

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District Robberies Man Before Court at Bowral

The Southern Mail · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 2

At last sitting of Bowral Police Court, Henry Vincent Ling, 37-years-old labourer, of no fixed abode, who is thought to have come to this…

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Traffic Offences at Bowral Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 4

For failing to keep to the left while driving a motor vehicle, Robert Benson, of Arncliffe, was fined £2 10s., with 10s. costs, at Bowral Police…

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Constable Assaulted Three Months Gaol for Defendant

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

A man who struck a police constable in a lane at Moss Vale on 1st July and later threatened to kill him was sentenced to three months hard…

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Document Given to Police Returned Servicemen Take Action

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 4

At last meeting of Bowral Returned Servicemen's League it was decided that a circular forwarded to the sub-branch be handed to the…

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Local Robberies Gaol Terms for Offenders

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 2

At last meeting of Campbelltown Quarter Sessions, presided over by Judge Neild, three defendants charged with robberies in this…

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Bowral Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 2

Frederick Roy Saunders, labourer, of Mittagong, pleaded guilty to stealing £2, the property of the Commissioner for Railways, and was…

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Police Search for Body Lake at Mittagong Dragged

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 November 1949 · page 2

On Sunday it was reported to Mittagong police that some woman's clothing had been found adjacent to the lake in the Lake Alexandra…

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Berrima Gaol Historical Details

The Southern Mail · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 2

Berrima Gaol, one of the familiar familiar historical landmarks of the Berrima districts has ceased to exist, and on its site has been erected what is…

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Bowral Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 2

At Bowral Police Court on Thursday last, Douglas Allen Webb, licensee of the Grand Hotel, was fined 25, with 10s court costs for failing to…

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Gaol Escapees. Recaptured at Mittagong

The Southern Mail · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 2

Two youths, William Garrard and John Francis Tonkin, both aged 20, escaped from Berrima Goal on Wednesday afternoon. Both were serving…

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