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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1922

82 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 5

The Recent Burglary

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 2

The burglary of Mr. E. N. Mutton's store premises has resulted in an unexpected development. One boy is alleged to have turned King's…

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The Surry Hills Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 7

The Attorney-General has declined to file a bill against Frederick Reardon and his sister, Esther Eggers, under committal by the Coroner on…

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Police Court. Friday. (Before Mr. Longfield, P.m.). False Return

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 3

Arthur James Roffe was charged was having on or about the 26th November, 1920, at Braidwood, being a Commonwealth officer required to…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 August 1922 · page 2

At the Police Court on Wednesday morning before Mr. E. Angove, J.P., a young man known as 'Bert' Griffen was charged with being…

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The Hornsby Murder Inquest Opened

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 August 1922 · page 5

The inquest on the murder of Frank Cecil Kemmis, a bank manager, in a Hornsby train, on July 7, was opened on Wednesday morning…

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Assault Case

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 2

At the Parramatta Quarter Sessions on Monday, 4th instant, three young men hailing from Avon Dam, viz.,. Thomas William Alder, Alfred Lawrence Parker,…

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Murder and Prohibition Staggering Comparison (Published by Arrangement)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 September 1922 · page 5

Writing from New York, Mr. Winthrop D. Lane, in a special article to the London "Times," characterises the effect of prohibition in America…

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District Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 September 1922 · page 2

His Honor, Judge Hamilton, presided over the District Court on Tuesday morning last. Patrick Donnelly sued John…

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Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 October 1922 · page 2

At the court yesterday morning before Mr. C. T. Campbell) J.P., a number of offenders appeared to answer charges of…

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Murder Gang Inhuman Family

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1922 · page 5

A father and two sons named Jankowski have been condemned to death at Graundenz, in Western Pruesia for a series of murders? of…

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Centennial Park Murder

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

Sylvester Patrick O'Reilly was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with having murdered Clarence McLennan, whose body…

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(Published by Arrangement.) Police Tyranny. Woman in Hysterics

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 October 1922 · page 4

This is the sort of thing that occurs in U.S.A. since Prohibition was foisted on to the people. It is taken from the New York…

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Another Murder Mystery

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 5

I The body of a woman whose age could not even be guessed at, owing to the state of decomposition, was dug up in Moore Park, Sydney, not…

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Revision Court

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 2

The revision of the Municipal and Shire rolls was made by Mr. Shropshire, P.M., on Friday at the police court. In the case of the former no…

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Police Court SATURDAY (Before Mr. Collis, J.P.). Alleged Stealing

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

Robert Stutchbury, of Braidwood, who was arrested the previous day, was charged with having a rug, valued at £2, in hie possession…

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Murder of an Aboroginal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 November 1922 · page 4

At the Darwin police court on Monday a white man, named George Turner, was charged with the murder of an aboriginal at Bullita…

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Strikers Sent to Gaol

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 November 1922 · page 7

Thirty-one members of the crew of the steamer Waikawa, who were arrested on Saturday, ware at the police court this morning charged with…

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Murder Gang Many Victims

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 November 1922 · page 3

With the arrest of two women at Chicago charged with murder, the police believe they have unearthed a strange agency, which made a…

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Braidwood Police Court Alleged Unlawful Assault

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1922 · page 4

At the Braidwood police court on Friday, before Mr. Shropshire, P.M., John Day pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawfully assaulting…

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Local and General News Court Confused

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1922 · page 2

A witness in a case at the police court on Friday for a time had his attorney, the P.M.. and the court generally floundering for a time. He…

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