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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1916

114 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 6

Braidwood Police Court. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. Arnott, P.M.). Alleged Assault

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 4

Frederick Grant, junr., was charged with having on the_22nd July unlawfully assaulted Charles Anthony Green…

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A Remarkable Theft

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 6

A resident of Gowrie-road, Toowoomba, reports a remarkable theft. He is an orchardist, and amongst other trees there was a very fine…

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Braidwood Police Court. MONDAY. (Before Messrs. W. Harris and Kemp, Js.P.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1916 · page 2

Thomas McGrath, aged 10 years, was charged on the information of Darby McGrath, his father, with being an uncontrollable child…

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Ought to Be at the Front Indignant Magistrate

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 August 1916 · page 3

Twenty-seven men, the majority of them young, were charged before Mr. Smithers, P.M., at the Sydney Central Police Court with having been found without lawful…

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Germans. at Large in Australia. Magistrate's Protest

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 2

A case In which a British subject was proceeded against for having used indecent language in the bar of the Empire Hotel was heard at…

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To-day's Police

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 2

William Brooks was this morning before Mr. Gunn, P.M., being an officer of the Commonwealth Government, charged with having stolen…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 2

The hearing of the charges against William Brooks for having stolen a piece of corned beef valued at 4/6, the property of the Commonwealth Government, and Paul…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 2

Yesterday before Mr. Irish, J.P., Harold Charles Jacobs, a jockey, faced the barrier to answer a charge of drunk and disorderly at the Race…

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Love Lessons of an Anzac Strange Story in Police Court

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

A strange story was related in the Sydney Central Police Court last week by a returned soldier who had fought at Gallipoli. It…

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Braidwood Police Court WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. W. S. Arnott, P.M., and F. E. Grenenger, J.P.). Liquor Act

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 5

William Grant was charged with having on 19th August last, at Bateman's Bay, imposed upon R. J. Brookes, licensee of the Clyde…

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Braidwood Police Court. MONDAY. (Before Messrs. Kemp and Harris, Js.P.). Assault

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 5

Alfred Hawkins was charged with having unlawfully assaulted William Marsden in Solusstreet, Braidwood, on Saturday…

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Local and General. the Police

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 2

Sergeant Colmer, of Braidwcod, I has been promoted to Wyalong. This officercame here from Araluen, and has only been located…

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Effect of Six O'clock Closing. Police Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 4

As a consequence of recent disclosures made about the evasion of six o'clock closing of liquor bars, and which became the…

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Bungendore. Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 2

On Monday, before. Messrs. J. J. McJannett and T. S. Hyles, Js.P., an old offender was brought up on two separate charges, drunkenness…

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Police Court. Wednesday, September 13. (Before Mr. S. B. Gunn, P.M.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 2

Two young men pleaded guilty to behaving in a riotous manner in Crawford Street on the night of 6th inst. The whole trouble arose…

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Industrial Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 2

Messrs. Hayes and Russell, Ltd., were proceeded against by Inspector Armitage for a breach of the Shop and Factories Act. Mr. F. P…

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Tottenham Murder. Three Men Arrested

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 5

A telegram received from Inspector Whitfield, at Tottenham, on Saturday night, announced that three men, believed to be…

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"Humane" Murder. the Sensational Story of a Lover's Crime

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 5

A remarkable murder trial has just been concluded in Berlin. Hugo Noecker, a young married man, employed as a clerk in…

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District Court. Thursday, October 5, 1916. (Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.) Richards v. Richards

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 2

The hearing of this case occupied the attention of the Judge all yesterday morning.—Plaintiff, John B. Richards, sought to recover £10 4s…

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Local News. Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 October 1916 · page 7

At this Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Warden Williams, Jas. D. Rank in applied for authority to enter and search for gold on 2…

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