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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

12 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Police Misinformed Case at Bowral Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 2

That the brother of the driver of a [?] lorry involved in an accident at Burradoo had represented that he was driving the lorry at the…

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Stealing Apples Was Costly Orchardists Keep Watch at Yerrinbool

The Southern Mail · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 8

Orchardists on the Hume High way at Yerrinbool are completed to watch day and night to keep out marauding motorists. The road is…

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Farmer Prefers Gaol to Fine Failed to Eradicate Rabbits

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 7

At last sitting of Moss Vale court, Charles Miller Hughes, a farmer of bust Kangaloon, was found guilty of failing to destroy rabbits at his…

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Property Owners Fined at Court Did Not Suppress Rabbits

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 2

At last sitting of Moss Vale court there were four cases in which the Moss Vale Pastures Protection Board proceeded against the owners of…

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Old Days of Berrima Gaol

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 7

The rebuilding and reopening of Berrrima gaol for up-to-date methods of treatment of prisoners, repeats what happened there almost a…

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Berrima Murder Young Man Sentenced to Hang

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 2

A jury tooK only 15 minutes to find Stanley David Kennedy, 22 years old labourer, guilty of murder of Charles David Lyons, 80 years old…

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Bowral Court MR. A. PATON. S.M., PRESIDING

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 2

Harold Moore of Hilltop. pleaded guilty to a charge of cutting timber on Crown Lands. Information was laid by Arthur William Blyth…

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Murderer Was Tried Out of Court Unusual Method of Proving Innocence

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 6

The monstrous killing of Julia Wallace, of Liverpool, one winter's night 19 years ago, was unique because every circumstance that pointed to…

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Wounding With Intent to Murder Bowral Resident Before Court

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon, about 5 p.m., William Parsons, aged 62 years, of the Royal Hotel, Bowral, was taken to the District Hospital, suffering…

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District Court Work Extends Decentralisation Policy

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 4

A number of District Court judges have already dealt with cases under the expanded jurisdiction conferred on the District Courts by the recent…

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Bowral Court THURSDAY, 15th JULY

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 6

A raid by Sydney police on Mittagong and Bowral on 8th July resulted in three men being charged at Bowral Court on Thursday of last…

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Bowral Court MR. A. PATON S.M. PRESIDING

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 5

Henry Joseph Briggs. 36 years old seaman, was charged with stealing, between 1st November, 1948 and 6th September, 1949, 24 one-gallon…

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