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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

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To-day's Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 2

Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M. Today's Police proceedings caused much interest locally, the Courthouse being crowded…

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Big Theft

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 7

Herbert Eiley, clerk, pleaded guilty at the Sessions to-day of stealing £4,450, the property of the Railway Workers' Industrial…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 3

William Coleman and John Ernest Bennett were charged with having in their possession on the 19th August last, at Durran…

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Alleged Child Murder

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 2

Elsie Krause, 17, was charged a fortnight ago with murdering her child at Albury. The jury disagreed on that occasion, and the second…

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Police Favoritism

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 1

The "Sydney Morning Herald" (14/9/'21) contains a trenchant article protesting against the administration of the liquor law in…

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Braidwood Police Court FRIDAY (Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M., and J. Vider, J.P.). Liquor

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 3

Bert Musgrave pleaded guilty to being found on the premises of the Royal Hotel on the 23rd August last at a time when such premises…

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Licensing Court. FRIDAY (Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M., and J, Vider, J.P.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 5

The application of Michael John Coffey for a renewal of the license of the Royal Hotel was granted. The license fee was fixed at £30…

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Police Court. Tuesday, September 20. Assaulting a Policeman (Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 September 1921 · page 2

Michael Patrick Maxwell was charged with behaving in an offensive manner on the 16th September and with unlawfully assaulting Constable Monk in the…

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Police Favoritism

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1921 · page 2

The "professor of everything and master of nothing" (there's nefariously nothing yet that he has had anything to do with that has not…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 October 1921 · page 2

At the police court this morning the following cases were dealt with:— M. McGillan v. Mrs. Forbes,…

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Local and General News Another Great Police Capture

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1921 · page 2

The only business at the police court on Friday was a charge ag-ainst John Musgrave of not having a number plate affixed to his…

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Police Partiality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 October 1921 · page 1

In connection with a charge of assault upon the licensee of a well-known city hotel at the Sydney Quarter Sessions Lost week,…

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Strange Murder Trial

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 November 1921 · page 7

A message from Paris states' that the "Gentleman Girard" case—one of the strangest in the history of scientific crime—opened on Friday…

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Court Fixtures

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 November 1921 · page 4

Special Licensing Court on December 7 for renewal of liquor and billiard licences. Revision of jury list for District Court by the justices, December 8…

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Redfern Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 November 1921 · page 7

Walking down Pitt-street the police noticed a man on the opposite side of the street yesterday whom they wanted in connection…

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Meritorious Police Service

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 November 1921 · page 2

A correspondent forwards us a cutting from a Sydney paper with he following endorsement:—"According to some bf your articles…

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Police Court. Tuesday, 22nd November. Before Mr. J. Shrosphire, P.M.

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 2

Before Mr. J. Shropshire, P.M. J. Grady, was charged with stealing a hat.—Case dismissed. McMillan v. Foster, neglecting…

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Demoralising the Police [Published by Arrangement]. Prohibition in U.S.A.

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 3

The following (from the "New York Times") an example of om of the effects of the unworkable prohibition, laws in the United Sta-…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 November 1921 · page 2

Before Mr. E. Angove, J.P., at the local Police Court last week, James McIntyre and Joseph Andrew Mitchell were charged with riotous behaviour, and were each fined…

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Sensational Escape From Gaol

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1921 · page 3

Forty-four political prisoners at Kilkenny (Ireland) escaped through a tunnel with an exit on a public thoroughfare…

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