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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1922

82 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 5

The Melbourne Murder Case

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1922 · page 7

An anonymous letter has been received by the police threatening the lives of the detectives engaged on the Tirtschke case unless they…

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Unjust Act Magistrate's Comment

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 January 1922 · page 5

When James Brady, licensee of the Grand Central Hotel, Goulburn, was charged at the police court with allowing a man…

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Melbourne Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 January 1922 · page 7

The Melbourne police expect to shortly make an arrest in connection with the Tirtschke murder…

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The Latest. The Tirtschke Murder an Arrest. Melbourne

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 January 1922 · page 2

The Melbourne police have arrested Colin Ross in connection with the Tirtschke murder. Ross appeared in court to-day. The police…

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The Melbourne Murder Arrest Made

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1922 · page 4

A man named Colin Campbell Ross, aged 28, was arrested in Melbourne on Thursday afternoon on the charge of having murdered…

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Braidwood Police Court FRIDAY (Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M.) Breach of Companies Act

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1922 · page 4

The "Braidwood District News, Ltd. was charged with not having within three weeks after the ordinary general meeting of the…

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The Melbourne Murder Inquest Opens

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 January 1922 · page 7

The inquest touching the death of Alma Tirtschke, aged 12, whose dead and outraged body was found in a lane off Gun Alley, Melbourne,…

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The Melbourne Murder Sensational Evidence

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 January 1922 · page 2

At the inquest yesterday a sensation was caused by the evidence of Ivy Matthews, a barmaid. She said she had been employed at…

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District Court

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 2

The District Court will be held at the Braidwood Courthouse on Thursday next before Judge Hamilton. Only one case has been…

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The Melbourne Murder More Sensational Evidence

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 3

There was another bombshell at the inquest on Thursday. Some more sensational evidence was given, this time by Sidney John…

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Assault Case

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 7

At the Goulburn Quarter Sessions on Tuesday last, before Judge Bevan, Vincent Adrian Irwin who committed from Moss Vale onsss…

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District Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 7

The sittings of this Court, set down for yesterday, did not take place. Neither the judge, solicitors or the litigants put in an appear…

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Magistrates Warning "Prohibition a Joke," He Says Murder and Misery [Published by Arrangement.]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 February 1922 · page 4

Magistrate H. H. Dale, formerly a member of Congress, in Fifth Avenue Court, characterised bootleggers as murderers, and asserted…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 February 1922 · page 2

A Court of Federal Petty Sessions was held this morning for the purpose o hearing cases instigated by the Federa Taxation Department for failing to send in…

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Braidwood Police Court FRIDAY (Before Mr. Shropshire, P.M.). Taxation Returns

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1922 · page 5

The following were proceeded ainst by the Deputy Federal Commissioner of Taxation for failing to furnish returns for the year…

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Gun Alley Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 4

In the Victorian Criminal Court on Monday the stage was set for one of the most sensational and sordid dramas ever enacted in that…

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The Gun Alley Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1922 · page 5

The jury in the Gun Alley murder case found Colin Campbell Ross guilty, and he was sentenced to death…

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What Led Up to the Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 8

"What's that!" shouted old Gold-bags, his eyes flashing his countenance the fine purple or a rather over-ripe plum. "You mean to…

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Speeding Up Murder Liquor Smugglers in U.S.A. [Published by Arrangement]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 6

"Up until the latter end of September" says the New York "Sun" "the Rio Grande River was a barometer for booze smuggling…

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Braidwood Police Court FRIDAY (Before Massrs Collis and Vider, Js.P). False Pretences

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1922 · page 4

Patrick Malone was charged with having at Newcastle, on the 24th January last, falsely pretended to V. D. Geary that he was…

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