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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1916

114 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 6

Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 2

At the Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. S. B. Gunn, P.M., G. H. Hudson pleaded guilty, through Mr. F. P. Woodward, to a…

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Araluen. Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 January 1916 · page 4

Last Thursday the local court was packed to hoar a case where in the police charged a young man named Wm. Costello with…

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Braidwood Police Court. MONDAY. Before Messrs. Harris and Kemp, Js.P.). Sarise of Charges

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 5

William Chuchin was charged with being drunk in Wallacestreet on Sunday afternoon. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £1…

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Braidwood Police Court. Friday. (Before Messrs. Kemp and Harris, Js.P.). Drunkenness, &c

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1916 · page 5

William Lupton pleaded guilty to charges of drinkenness and indecent language the previous day in Braidwood…

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Braidwood Police Court. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.m.). a Change that Failed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 5

Percy Chuchin was charged with having incited a prisoner to resist the police in the execution of their duty…

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Warden's Court. Wednesday. (Before Mr. Warden Williams.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 5

The dredging lease application of Patrick Coffey, No. 87, parish of Elrington, was enquired into. The Warden recommended the…

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Industrial Court. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 4

W. J. Whitfield, trading as Whitfield Bros., was charged on the information of Inspector Army tags with failing to keep time…

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Small Debts Court. Wednesday. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 5

E. A. Whittaker v James G. McMillan and John McMillan.—Claim, £6, chaff supplied. Mr. Roach for plaintiff. There was…

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Soldiers Pay. Husband and Wife Charged

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 10

Alfred William Gillett, 41, and Elizabeth Mary Gillett, 34, appeared before Mr. Barnett, S.M., at the Central Police Court this…

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Braidwood Police Court. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M.) Breach of the Liquor Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 2

Elizabeth Torpy pleaded guilty to having on the 19th February supplied one, Percy Gowen, a person under the age of 18, with…

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District Court. TUESDAY. (Before Judge Hamilton). Claim for Wood

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 3

Robert George Thompson sued Luke John Hickey for, £21 lls 10d, the value of certain firewood, fencing, &c…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 March 1916 · page 2

John Henry Taylor sued Thomas Allen for £16 5s, rent of a paddock at Monga. The defence was that an agreement had been…

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Bungendore Police Court

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 13 March 1916 · page 2

On Tuesday last Mr. Gunn, P.M., from Cooma, took his seat for the first time at Bungendore…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 March 1916 · page 2

At the Queanbeyan Police Court last Wednesday Harold James Robson, a lad about 17 years of age, surrendered to his bail to answer a…

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Fair Rents Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

The Fair Rents Court opened in Sydney on Monday. The Attorney-General stated that the Court was unique in the…

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The Fair Rents Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 1

According to Mr. Varney Parkes, who was a conspicuous failure as a politician, and who now follows the profession of…

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Collapse in Court. Death of a Witness

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1916 · page 3

A sensation was rallied in the Bathurst police court through a, witness dropping dead. A case against a local hotelkeeper for…

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Brutal Murder in Sydney

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 2

George Pappageorgi, manager of the Allies Cafe, George-st., Haymarket, was murdered between midnight and six o'clock…

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Small Debts Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 2

At the Braidwood Small Debts Court on Wednesday, before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M., Patrick Clarke sued H. J. Johnson for…

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The Fight for Malan-court. Desperate Work

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 8

The "Petit Journal" tells the following story of Malancourt: The Germans at 8 in the evening determined to seize the village…

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