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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

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Queanbeyan Police Court Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. Monday, August 6th Drunk and Disorderly

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1928 · page 2

Peter Richmond was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Monaro Street on Saturday. Sergeant Willson stated that defendant was…

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Queanbeyan Police Court WEDNESDAY, 8th AUGUST Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M.

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 2

George Bowen, who was remanded for eight days on bail the previous day was further charged with having in his possession at Mugga Quarry…

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Police Court Tuesday. (Before Mr. Forrest. P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 2

Small Seidel was charged under the Motor Traffic Act with having dispossed of a motor car in May last and falled to report the sale within seven…

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Police Court TO-DAY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 August 1928 · page 1

James Ralston pleaded not guilty to behaving in a riotous manner in Monaro Street yesterday. Constabie Shaw stated that he saw…

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City Burglary Allegations Against Canberraite

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 16 August 1928 · page 1

George Bowen who was previously before the Court on 7th inst., on charges of vagrancy and being in possession of suspected stolen goods and…

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Police Court Monday, August 20, 1928

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 August 1928 · page 2

Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M., presided yesterday at the monthly Court of Petty Sessions. UNLAWFULLY ON LICENSED…

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Theft of Motor Car

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1928 · page 4

Brought back to Goulburn in the car which it is alleged they attempted to steal, Charles Hazelwood and Oscar Carlson were at the Goulburn…

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Max and Wife Arrested Charged with Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 August 1928 · page 1

At the Central Court to-day, Ernest Percival Trapman, aged 20, and Amelia Trapman, aged 27, were remanded for a week on a charge of…

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Pulpit and Gaol Analysis (Published by Arrangement)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 August 1928 · page 2

"The fight against the Prohibition law in U.S.A.," says the "Times," New York, "was carried yesterday into the precincts of Park Avenue, where…

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Queanbeyan Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 1

For exceeding the speed limit along Uriarra Road, Canberra Roland Midson was at the Police Court yesterday fined £3 and 8/- costs, in…

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Bush Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 6

William Edwin Stuart, the young Scottish migrant, who has been charged with the murder of George Little on the bank of the Balonne River…

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Dulwich Hill Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 2

There was a sensational development in the Dulwich Hill murder case yesterday, when John Patrick Reynolds (18), was charged with the…

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Attempted Child Murder Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 1

Mary Kathleen Nolan, was remanded at the City Court, Melbourne, on charge of having attempted to murder her child…

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Revision Court Municipality of Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 2

The Court for the Revision of the Roll of Electors for the Municipality of Queanbeyan was held at the Court House yesterday. The Town Clerk…

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Revision Court Shire of Yarralumla

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 2

The Revision Court for the purpose of revising the Roll of Electors was held at the Court House yesterday. The Shire Clerk, Mr. G, D…

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Stealing Charges

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 August 1928 · page 2

This morning the cases of stealing which were preferred against a 17-year-old youth on Tuesday and were remanded, came on for hearing at…

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Alleged Murder Charles Jackson on Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 September 1928 · page 1

The trial was commenced at the Central Criminal Court today of Charles Henry Jackson for the alleged murder of…

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Children’s Court Two Youths Remanded on Serious Charges Bail Refused

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 2

In the local Children’s Court yesterday afternoon, two youths, who were residents of Canberra, were conjointly charged with five offences which,…

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Arrested in England for Alleged Murder in Queensland London

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 September 1928 · page 1

Hubert Storey, aged 21, was remanded for a week at Bow-street Police Court on a provisional warrant charging him with the murder of Frederick…

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City Burglary

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 3

George Bowen, who was arrested at Canberra, and was recently before the local Police Court on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of…

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