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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

194 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 10

Dole Fraud Cases Sentenced to Imprisonment

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

“I have a great deal of sympathy for you people tramping the roads, but I also have sympathy for the taxpayer who is paying for these rations,” said…

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Ormond Murder Case Accused Establishes Alibi Must Appear at Court Before Release Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 1

The view expressed by the Secretary of the Victorian Crown Law Department is that notwithstanding the alibi set up by Robert James McMahon, who…

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Fight Which Didn’t Eventuate Police Court Proceedings Instead Charge of Riotous Behaviour

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 2

At Queanbeyan Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. H. Kelly, J.P., Edward Charles Rushton was charged with behaving in a riotous manner in…

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The Ormond Murder Case Sensational Development

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 2

There was a sensational development at Leeton on Wednesday in the Mena Griffiths murder case, when 13 residents of the district identified…

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Telegraphic News Sydney. 2 P.m. the Ormond Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 2

Notwithstanding that R. J. McMahon, who is charged with the murder of Mena Griffiths at Ormond (Vic.), has established a conclusive…

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Police Court Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 5

Patrick Joseph Donnelly, grazier, of Gininderra, was arrested on the 10th inst., near Bombay, Braidwood, by Sergeant Genner and charged (1)…

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Police Court Friday Other Cases

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 2

John Alfred Love, of Bombay, was charged with haying 18 sheep in his possession reasonably suspected of having been stolen…

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Milton Poisoning Accused Before Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 2

Giving evidence at the Milton Court on Tuesday against William James Rixon, who was charged with attempted murder, Detective…

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Police Methods

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1931 · page 5

Sergeant W. P. Jennings and Constable John O'Donnell, both ol Regent-street Police Station, were committed for trial from the Central…

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Court Sensation

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1931 · page 1

Sensation followed sensation in the Leeton Police Court on Thursday, when Patrick Michael Lynch, licensee of the Hotel Leeton, was charged…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 February 1931 · page 1

Patrick Joseph Donnelly, grazier, of Gininderra, was arrested on the 10th instant, near Bombay, Braidwood, by Sergeant Genner and charged (1) with…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 3

At the Bega Quarter Sessions last week Oswald James Turnbull, of Moruya, pleaded not guilty to stealing five heifers at Moruya, the property…

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Gangster in Court Charged with Contempt and Vagrancy Chicago

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 1

The nation-wide interest in the trial of the famous gangster, Scarface El Capone, who is charged with contempt of court, was further intensified to-day,…

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Police Fail on Drunk Charge

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 1

A case which excited tremendous interest in Goulburn was heard on Friday last against Arthur Frederick Carr, a well—known Chatsbury…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing Case Dismissed Braidwood

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 March 1931 · page 1

Patrick Joseph Donnelly, grazier, of Gininderra, was to-day charged, before Mr. Forrest, P.M., with stealing ten sheep the property of Douglas Oswald…

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Alleged He Was Destitute Attempt to Obtain Food Order Man Sent to Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 March 1931 · page 2

Before Mr. Forrest, P.M., yesterday, Jack Dunn was charged with having falsely pretended to First-class Constable Crawford that he was a person…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing Gininderra Grazier Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 2

At the Braidwood Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Forrest, P.M., Patrick Joseph Donnelly, grazier, of Gininderra, was charged with stealing…

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Constable Discharged From Police Force

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 1

Following a departmental inquiry, Constable Arthur Edmunds has been dismissed from the police force, and Constable Leonard Jones transferred to…

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Police Court Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 1

At the Braidwood Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Forrest, P.M., Patrick Joseph. Donnelly, grazier, of Ginlnderra, was charged with…

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Police Court (Continued from last page). Another Case

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

Mervyn John Tong was charged with having on 11th February last eleven sheep in his possession reasonably suspected of having been…

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