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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

271 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 14

Small Debts Court Tuesday, April 23, 1929 Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M.

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 1

E. A. Avery v. Albert Cunningham, claim for £7/13/2 for work and labour done. Verdict for plaintiff for £3/16/7 and 7/- court costs…

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Queanbeyan Police Court This Day Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M.

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 1

Joseph Mitchell was fined 10/- in default three days’ imprisonment on a charge of being drunk in Monaro Street yesterday…

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Alleged Stealing Tale of a Watch

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 April 1929 · page 3

At the local Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M., Edward James Ivell was charged with stealing on or about 25th May, 1926,…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. Saturday, April 27, 1929 Vile Language

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 April 1929 · page 1

Michael Staples pleaded guilty to being drunk at Civic Centre, Canberra, and was fined £1, in default seven days’ hard labour…

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Telegraphic News (Australian Press Association Message). Remarkable Story Of Murder and Attempted Suicide

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 April 1929 · page 2

At Strasbourg, the finding in the woods of the body of a murdered woman, which later was identified as that of an…

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District Court Monday, April 29, 1929 Before His Honor, Judge White Garnishee Matter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 April 1929 · page 1

Canberra Freeholds v. Charles Storey. Lillis and Co., garnishee. Canberra Freeholds having secured judgment against Storey were now…

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Horses and Drays Charge of Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 1

Peter Thompson, or Walter Joseph Mulligan, appeared before Mr. J. W. T. Forest, P.M., in the Police Court this morning, charged as follows :—…

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Communists Barricade Street Eight Killed, Eighty Wounded Battle With Police BERLIN

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 1

Late to-night the situation took a serious turn in the northern quarter of the city. Under cover of darkness…

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May-day Demonstrations Thousands Arrested in Paris Police Fire on Communists LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 May 1929 · page 1

Reports from European capitals reveal that demonstrations have been quieter than in other years on May Day…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 2

Ernest Charles Stubbs was charged with being drunk and disorderly at Canberra yesterday. The evidence of the police was to the effect that…

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Married Life in Tent Story Told in Divorce Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 4

A story that she had lived her married life in a tent was told by Ada Coleman (formerly Hawkins), of Braidwood when she applied to Mr. Justice James…

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District Court Thursday. (Before Judge White). Claim for Bricks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 2

Edgar A. C. Maddrell, of Braidwood, sued Duddleston & Rennie, contractors, of Yass, to recover £60, being the balance alleged to be due on the…

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Alleged Stealing Accused Acquitted

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 2

At the Cooma Quarter Sessions, held yesterday, Judge C. A. White presiding, James Winston O’Keefe pleaded not guilty to stealing four painters’…

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Stealing from the Person a Canberra Case

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4

Before Judge White, at Cooma Quarter Sessions, yesterday, Allan Angus McCauley pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing £2 from the person…

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Heavy Fines for Stealing Horses and Drays

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 1

At the local Police Court on Saturday Peter Thompson, alias Walter Mulligan who was convicted before the Police Magistrate, Mr. Forrest, on Thursday…

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Queanbeyan Police Court SATURDAY, 4th MAY Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. DRUNKS

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 1

James Alexander Taylor was charged with being found drunk in Queanbeyan Brickyards on Friday and was fined 20/-, in default 14 days’ hard labour…

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Warden's Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

The Warden, Mr. Forrest, P.M., sat in his Warden's Court jurisdiction on Tuesday. Earl Eyre's application, which was adjourned from last…

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Police Court This Day Before Mr. E. H. Kelly, J.P. Alleged Stolen Bedsteads

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

The time of the Court was taken up for some time to-day in a case arising out of the removal of two iron bedstaeds from cubicles at the Causeway,…

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Beds in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

At the local Police Court this morn[?]ng two bedsteads were much in evidence but blankets would have been very acceptable to the Bench, witnesses…

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Millionairess Sentenced

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 2

Louise Portoil, an octogenarian millionairess, was sentenced to 15 years' gaol for the murder of her servant…

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