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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Coroner’s Court Inquest on Alfred Keatch

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

Mr. F. P. Woodward, Deputy Coroner, on Tuesday afternoon commenced the inquest into the death of Alfred Keatch who died as a result of injuries…

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Sequel to Motor Smash Canberra Residents in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 1

Miss Ida Frazer was charged with a breach of the Canberra Traffic Ordinances regarding the limitation of speed on certain streets or area to…

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Heard in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

During the course of the language case at the local Police Court on Tuesday, defendant said the constable when serving the summons, advised…

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Small Debts Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

In the Small Debts Court on Tuesday, Mrs. Ellen McDonald, of Goulburn claimed the sum of £24/5/-, which was alleged to have been loaned to Mr…

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Youth Charged With Stealing Watch and Chain, £5 Note, and Motor Lorry

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 1

The youth (Robert Weir), who oppeared before the Queanbeyan Court last Wednesday was again before the P.M. (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) on three…

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Police Court Monday, January 28, 1929 Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. DRUNKS

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

Patrick Murphy, charged with being drunk in Monaro Street on Saturday last, was fined 5/- or the rising. Norman J. Maxwell was charged with…

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Queanbeyan Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 1

At the Police Court yesterday, Robert Weir, who was convicted on Monday last on three charges, as reported in Tuesday’s issue, was sentenced to four…

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Children’s Court

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 1

Before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., yesterday a youth of 16 pleladed guilty to illegally using a motor car, also to a breach of recognisances to be of good…

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Gun Alley Gougers v. Police Paddock Pushers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 2

The rivalry between these teams is very keen. On Sunday they met in combat, when the "Gougers" strung together 249 in their first innings, of…

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Salvation Army Seeking Court’s Guidance LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 2

Catherine Booth has decleared that it is not opposed to the Salvation Army practise to seek the Court’s guidance on…

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Brutal Assault on Girl

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 5

Consternation has been caused in Bowral by a brutal assault on a well-known young lady resident on Tuesday…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. DRUNKENNESS

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 2

Allan Angus McAuley pleaded guilty to being drunk in Monaro Street on Sunday, and also using indecent language at the same time. On the…

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Indecent Language and Resisting the Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 2

Michael Patrick Maxwell pleaded guilty to using indecent language in Monaro Street on Saturday, and was fined £5 in default one month’s hard…

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Gaol for Solicitor

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 2

At the Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday, Percy Davey Wynne, 44, a solicitor, of Sydney, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude on charges of…

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Police Court Tuesday (Before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 February 1929 · page 2

Robert Brooks, of Canberra, pleaded guilt to having on 24th December ridden a motor cycle in Wallace-street without a light. Fined 20/,…

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Republican Leader Sentenced

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1929 · page 7

Eamon de Valera, the Irish Republican leader, who was arrested last week at the Free State border on his way to Belfast, has been sentenced…

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“The Canary Murder Case.”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 February 1929 · page 4

Seven suspects of a murder crime contribute to the mystary of “The Canary Murder Case,” a aPramount picture recently completed at the…

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Queanbeyan Police Court MONDAY, 11th FEBRUARY. Before Messrs. Howie and O’Hanlon, Js.P. Indecent Language

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 February 1929 · page 2

William Edward Rankin was charged with using indecent language in Monaro Street late on Saturday night. The facts of the case were stated by…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M.

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 1

Yesterday morning two defendants, charged with drunkenness in Queanbeyan on Saturday, did not appear and their recognisances of 10/- each…

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Picture Film Screened in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 3

Probably for the firs| time in the history of Australian Courts a “movie” film of a street accident was screened in court as evidence. In a case at the…

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