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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1912

198 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 10

Braidwood Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 October 1912 · page 2

At the local Police Court on Wednesday last, before Mr. Jas. Higgins, J.P., a stranger named Patrick Mullins, who had been arrested the previous afternoon in an inebriated…

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Police Court. Friday, October 18, 1912. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 October 1912 · page 5
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George Leslie Radcliffe, on bail, appeared to answer a charge of embezzling the sum of £10, the property of A. W. Moriarty…

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Warden's Court. Friday. October 18. 1912. (Before Mr. Warden G. R. Williams.) Frederick Johnson v. Leonard Partridge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 October 1912 · page 2

Complainant sought to hate it declared that defendant had forfeited the sluicing claim between tenement No. 15 in the Tumut and Adelong Mining Division of…

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Warden's Court. Friday, October 18, 1912. (Before Mr. Warden G. R. Williams.) Frederick Johnson v. Leonard Partridge

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 October 1912 · page 2

Complainant sought to have it declared that defendant had forfeited the sluicing claim between tenement No. 15 in the Tumut and Adelong Mining Division of…

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Police Changes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 October 1912 · page 2

CONSTABLE BAILEY, of Emu Flat, formerly stationed in Braidwood, and after wards at Moruya, has been appointed to Cobargo station. Constable nightingale, of that…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Friday, October 25, 1912. a New Court of Appeal

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 October 1912 · page 2

WHEN the Legal Practitioners' Amendment Bill,—as the measure was euphemistically styled—came before the Legislative…

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High Court of Bravery. Royal Humane Society

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 October 1912 · page 3

Har[?] [?] writes in the "London [?] Mail":— There are some windows in London [?] the look of old pictures,…

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For Approaching Marriage. Peculiar Court Case. Barsalow

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 October 1912 · page 5

A young married woman, arrested in Sydney, was rewarded to the [?] court, and charged by Charles Cobby with [?] as a haller of [?] From the evidence for the [?] is…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Friday, November, 1. 1912. Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 November 1912 · page 2

THE quarterly Licensing Court sat on the 30th instant, the chairman (Dr. Blackall) and member (Fred Campbell, Esq.,) being present…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 November 1912 · page 2

At the local police court yesterday, before Mr. W. O. Russell, J.P., Edward James Sullivan was charged with stealing a bunch of rhubarb, valued at 5d,…

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Police Court. Monday, November 4, 1912. (Before Mr. W. O. Russell, J.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1912 · page 2

JOHN MOORE, a stranger, pleaded guilty to being drunk on the Queanbeyan railway platform and was fined 2,6, in default 24 hours…

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Trouble at Banks-town. Aldermen and Press in Conflict. the Police Called In

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1912 · page 6

The ordinary meeting of the Bankstown Council on Thursday night resolved itself into what was mild riot. Aid. Huston asked the Mayor to hear a deputation which had…

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Braidwood Police Court. Friday. (Before Mr. Galbiaith. P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 2

William Lupton was fined L3 with 6s costs for using indecent language, in a public place in Braidwood. There was a second charge against him of using indecent…

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Small Debts Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 2

Robert Ad ms was sued by John Tanner for L1 10s, the value of two cords of wood belonging to him which defendant bad maliciously burnt. Mr. Fell appeared for…

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The Police

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 2

THERE has been another change in the police force in Braidwood, Constable Freeman having been transferred to Tathra, in the Bega district, and Constable Parry from…

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Attempted Criminal Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 November 1912 · page 3

A MARRIED woman living at north Sydney was found gagged and almost unconcious on the path between Bradley's Road and Athol; and the woman stated…

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Sacrilege and Loot. Bandit at Bay. Besieged If a Monastery. Defies Police and Soldiery. Extraordinary Scene in Poland. Explosives End the Affray. St. Petersburgh, Monday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 November 1912 · page 6

The historic town of Czestochowa, in Russian Poland, was the scene of an extraordinary combat between the police, the soldiery, and a notorious bandit, named…

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"Reggie! Reggie! His Sister's Voice. Clever Police Ruse. Bank Defaulter Captured. Sunday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1912 · page 5

A clever ruse enabled the police to effect the arrest of Reginald Wright, a clerk in Lloyds Bank at Bournemouth, who had absconded…

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The Police

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 November 1912 · page 2

THE Sub-Inspector of Police, Mr. W. Walker, who is due for his annual holidays, takes his departure to-day by motor car for Goulburn. During his absence Senior-Sergeant Wood…

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