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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

271 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 14

Police Court Before Mr. E. H. Kelly, J.P.

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 2

This morning Patrick McGuigan appeared on a charge of being drunk and disorderly at Civic Centre, Canberra, yesterday, also with using…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Monday, June 10th, 1929 Before Messrs. E. H. Kelly and G. O’Hanlon, Js.P Rumpus in Cafe Canberra Man Charged with Riotous Behaviour

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 1

John Morris was charged with behaving in a riotous manner in the City. Cafe Canberra, on Saturday last, also with damaging one glass to the value…

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New Sydney Talkie Theatre Opens with Paramount’s “The Canary Murder Case”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 3

The new Haymarket Theatre, Sydney, which opened on May 31, with the Paramount, all-talking picture, “The Canary Murder Case,” is the fourth…

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Valuation Court (To the Editor of the "Review")

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 2

Sir,—Will you kindly correct an error you made in the "Dispatch" on 7/6/29. You said that the Appeal Court reduced ray land to £2/15/…

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A Justified Assault Agent Treated As a Burglar

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 2

When James Patterson sought entry into the house of Grant Hervey, armed with a restraint warrant taken out for arrears of rent, the latter said: “You…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Before Mr. E. H. Kelly, J.P. Alleged Intent to Defraud

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 1

Robert James Ross Geddes, who was remanded on a charge of intent to defraud Cuthbert Winter of the sum of £20, as reported in our issue of June…

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Tragic Sequel to Murder Trial

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 2

incensed at what they considered to be a miscarriage of justice in a murder trial, mobs at Limoges (Paris) came into desperate conflict…

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Extraordinary Assault

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 6

W. B. Murray, a Gundagai car proprietor, was driving a stranger to Tumut, and when about six miles out from Gundagai the man hit him a…

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Local & General News Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 2

James Kerr McInnes, of Braidwood, was arrested on the 12th inst., and charged with having, on or about 23rd March last, stolen two sheep, the…

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A Stolen Watch Two Men Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 1

At the Queanbeyan Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Goldie, P.M., two men, Austin McGinn and Martin McGinn, were each charged with stealing…

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Police Court To-day’s Cases Before Mr. Goldie, P.M. Indecent Language

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 2

Edmund Power was charged with having used indecent language at the football ground at Russell Hill, Canberra, on Saturday, 8th June…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Monday, ’June 17th 1929 Before Mr. G.S. Goldie, P,m. Drunks

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 2

John Edward Hurley was charged with being drunk in the lavatory of the Royal Hotel on Saturday last. Fined 15/- or three days…

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Was Radiator Stolen? Civil Servant Before Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 3

Before Mr. Goldie, P.M., at the local Police Court to-day, John McFarlane appeared to answer a charge that on 13th May at Hargrave Crescent, Ainslie…

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Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 1

The Chief Secretary, Mr. F. A. Chaffey, has informed the Farmers and Settlers' Association that inquiries made by the police show that…

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Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 1

The above was held this morning a Queanbeyan Courthouse before Mr. Forrest, P.M., when renewals were granted to the following hotel licensees:…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Monday, June 24th, 1929 Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M. DRUNKS

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 1

Henry Hickey and Norman H. Maxwell pleaded guilty to charges of being drunk in Monaro Street on. Saturday afternoon and were each fined 10/- in…

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Queanbeyan Police Court Before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest Pm. Riotous Behaviour

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 27 June 1929 · page 1

This morning Joseph McMahon and Leonard O’Reardon pleaded guilty to charges of riotous behaviour in Crawford Street last night…

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Brother Charged With Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 June 1929 · page 1

There was a dramatic turn of events at the City Coroner’s inquiry concerning the death of Eli Joseph Simon, who was fatally shot in a Darlinghurst…

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The Cost of Murder in U.s.a

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 June 1929 · page 2

Alarming increases in the murder toll of the United States are revealed by the American Bar Association's Crime Commission…

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Sydney Shopbreaker Sentenced to Ten Years Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 July 1929 · page 2

Frederick Gibson, aged- 35, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and declared to be a habitual criminal at the…

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