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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

271 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 14 of 14

Queanbeyan PoIice Court Monday, December 9 Before Messrs. E. H. Kelly and G. O’Hanion; J’s.P. DRUNKS

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 2

James Patrick Rees pleaded guilty through Mr. Woodward to being drunk in Monaro Street on Saturday and was fined 10/- in default 48 hours hard…

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City Hotel Tragedy VERDICT — Murder and Suicide

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 2

The inquest into the double tragedy at the Burlington Hotel was concluded on Tuesday. The coroner found that Elsie Pearl Elsey died from the…

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Telegraphic News (Australian Press Association Message), Blackmailer Sentenced to Three Years Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 1

Frank Arnold, aged 32, a musician, who was convicted of blackmail on Wednesday last was at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day sentenced to…

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Thirty-four Women on Trial Charged with Poisoning Their Husbands Budapest, Thursday

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 1

A sensational trial of thirty-four women, who are charged with poisoning their husbands, was commenced to-day…

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Stealing Case Man Sentenced to Six Months

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 2

Frederick Woods, on remand, appeared before Mr. Forrest, P.M., yesterday, on a charge of having stolen one leather bag, valued at 5/-, cash…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Monday, December 16th. Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. Indecent Language

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 1

Robert Buie pleaded guilty to using indecent language in Crawford Street on Saturday night. Police evidence was that the language was used in the…

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Young Woman Sent for Trial on Murder Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 4

At Tumut Police Court last week, Coroner Blakeney held an inquest as to the death of a female infant, whose body was found tinder a sheet of iron,…

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Long Police Service Braid Wood Native Entertained

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 5

First-class Sergeant A. A. Dolman, who was born at Bombay, Braidwood, who recently retired from the N.S.W. police force, after 37½ years' service,…

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Other Horse Stealing Cases

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 2

At the close of the fifties James Young, who at that time lived on the north bank of the river near Yarralumla, sent his son William to the forge…

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A Case of Stealing That Miscarried

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 2

About the year 1865 Thomas Gribble and Thomas Wells were carrying on the road from Queanbeyan to Braidwood and one morning three of…

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Fined Five Pounds for Stealing Ganger’s Money

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 6

At Queanbeyan Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Forrest P.M., Edward Joseph Bennett was charged that on December 21st. at Weetangerra, he did…

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True Stories of Canberra Now First Published Horse Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 2

A few words of explanation re the Smith-Pickering case may not be cut of place, so I give them here. William Hatch, who at the time was one of the…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Monday, December 23, 1929 Before Mr, J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. Insulting Words

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 1

Ernest Frederick Rushton pleaded guilty to using insulting words on Saturday last to Richard McTernan. He was fined 40/- or 21 days’ gaol…

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