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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

224 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 12

Queanbeyan Police Court SATURDAY, 5th MARCH Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. DRUNK

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 2

Thomas Farrelly, charged with being drunk the previous day, was fined 20/-, in default seven days hard labor. MONDAY, MARCH 7th, 1927…

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Alleged Assault

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 1

John Jocelyn, Thomas Edward Keyte and Richard C. Webb were charged with having on the 14th January last assaulted one Joseph…

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Police Court. Tuesday (Before Mr. Forrest, P.M.). Mental Case

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 1

Peter Donoghue, on remand, was brought up before the Court. Dr. Harris deposed that he had examined the defendant on two…

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Queanbeyan PoIice Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 1

Business at the local Police Court has been light during the week. On Wednesday John Charles Woodley charged by provisional warrant with…

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Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. Saturday, March 12

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 1

William Creswell was fined 15/- or three days on a charge of drunkenness. MONDAY, MARCH 14. DRUNKS…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Before Mr: C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. Wednesday, March 16

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 3

Ross Cayford pleaded guilty to two charges, one of being drunk in Monaro Street, and one of being drunk in Crawford Street…

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Alleged Stealing

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 6

At the local Police Court last Friday Thomas Samuel Moore was charged with stealing a suit of clothes, valued at 69/9/-, from George Saxton…

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Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. SATURDAY, 19th March Drunks

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 March 1927 · page 1

One first offender failed to appear and his recognisance of 10/ was entreated. An old offender, in the person of…

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Queanbeyan Police Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 March 1927 · page 1

Before Mr. Forrest, P.M., yesterday, Joseph Ryan and Alexander McDonald were each fined 10/- or three days for over-imbibing the previous day…

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Stealing

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 March 1927 · page 6

Thomas Samuel Moore was charged with stealing from the Two-mile Camp, Federal Territory, a suit valued at £9/9/- the peroperty of George…

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Police Court WEDNESDAY, 23rd MARCH Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. DRUNKS

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 March 1927 · page 6

One. first offender had his 10/- [?]all money estreated. Horace Lyons was fined 5/- or 24 hours…

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Police Court Thursday, March 24th Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. ASSAULT

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 1

John Roy West was charged with assaulting Joseph Richmond. Mr. Tucker, for defendant, pleaded not guilty…

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Charge of Stealing

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 1

Edward William Lawless pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing on[?] bottle of whisky, the property of Joseph Richmond…

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An Impounded Cow Causes Police Court Case

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 1

At the Police Court yesterady, before Mr. Forrest, P.M., Owen Williams proceeded against James George Harris on a charge of rescuing a cow from…

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Fair Rents Court

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 3

Yesterday, before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M., sitting in the above Court, R. P. Pike sought to have the rental of a residence determined…

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Court Interludes

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 2

A witness before the local court, asked to spell offensive had a shot at it thus—“inofice.” The next witness was also asked to…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Wednesday, March 30, 1927. Before Mr. J. W. T Forrest, P.M.

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 2

John Conway pleaded guilty to two charges of being drunk in Monaro Street and using indecent language…

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Radio near Racecourse Police Interfere

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 6

The fact that two men were found and arrested by police in the scrub near Newcastle racecourse with a radio receiving set in their possession…

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Police Court Friday, April 1, 1927 Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M.

The Queanbeyan Age Canberra Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1927 · page 1

One first offender was fined 5/- or the rising tor being drunk in Monaro Street the previous day. William Doyle pleaded guilty to a…

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Small Debts Court

The Queanbeyan Age Canberra Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1927 · page 5

The following cases were dealt with at the Small Debts Court last week: — Albert R. Brown v. Harry Adams. Claim for work alleged to have been…

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