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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

220 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 11

Card Parties Illegal Supreme Court Decision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1932 · page 1

Cord tournaments are illegal. The N.S.W. Supreme Court, following a recent English decision, has established that as the law of the State…

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Assault Charges

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

Mick Chris and Tony Koloff had cross charges against each other for assault arising out of a fight at a eucalyptus camp at Euradux. The…

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Wholesale Sheep Stealing Alleged

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

At Harden recently, before two local Justices, Albert Archibald Stuard (28) was charged with stealing 52 wethers, value £26, property of some…

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Police Court Tuesday (Before Mr. J. W. Forrest, P.m.). Traffic Cases

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

Bert McGrath was charged with driving a motor lorry without a license. He pleaded guilty, stating he was unaware he had committed an…

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Warden's Court Tuesday (Before Mr. J. W. Forrest, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

Sidney John Plain applied for authority to enter an extended area of 350 acres on port. 85 and 86, parish Oallen, county Argyle…

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Magistrate's Criticism

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 September 1932 · page 3

An attack on the Department of Labor and Industry was made by Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M., in the Albury Police Court, when fining a woman…

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Warden's Court at Araluen

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 September 1932 · page 3

Following is a list of the cases heard before Mr. J. W. Forrest, P.M., on 5th September:— Mining Purpose Lease application…

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Alleged Stealing Story of Motor Cycle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 September 1932 · page 1

Before Mr. Forrest, P.M., on Monday last, William Monk was charged with stealing one motor-cycle, two spanners and one screw-driver of the value of…

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Theatre Directors Charged Alleged Fraud Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 September 1932 · page 1

To-day’s proceedings in the fraudulent conspiracy charges against three former directors of Harry Rickards Tivoli Theatres Ltd., W. J. Curtis, K.C.,…

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Albert Park Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 September 1932 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—The jury failed to agree in a charge against Walter Henderson for the alleged murder of his mother at Albert Park in July…

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Stealing Charges Churchman Gets Heavy Sentence Winnipeg

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 September 1932 · page 1

John A. Machray, K.C., churchman, lawyer and financier, aged 67, who is suffering from cancer of the bladder, was sentenced, to seven years on each…

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Canberra Court Cases

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 September 1932 · page 4

Mr. Forrest, P.M., dealt with several cases at Canberra Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday last. John Alexander James, medical…

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Three Years' Gaol. Heavy Sentence on Braidwood Man for Offence Against Young Girl

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 September 1932 · page 3

Remanded from the Children's Court at Braidwood on 6th September, one a charge of assaulting a female with intent to commit rape,…

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Libel Action Against Premier £5000 Claimed by Mr. Eldridge £2 Paid Into Court SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 September 1932 · page 1

The Premier (Mr. Stevens) to-day filed a general plea of not guilty in the case in which J. C. Eldridge, a former M.H.R., is claiming £5000 for libel…

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Warden’s Court Unusual Application

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 September 1932 · page 1

In the Warden’s Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, as a matter of extraordinary urgency, Steward Duncan Ledger, of The Mullion, near…

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City Robbery Suspect Charged , SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 September 1932 · page 2

At the Central Court to-day, Paul Grierson, 32, mechanic, Dorry Barton. 26, domestic, were each charged with having, in. a house in Bede Street, Rose…

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Canberra Court Cases Prosecutions Under Health Regulations

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 September 1932 · page 3

At Canberra Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M., there were two prosecutions under the Public Health Regulations in Canberra, at the…

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Alleged Communists Charged With Breach of Commonwealth Crimes. Act

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 1

The case in which three alleged Communists were charged with having committed a breach of the Commonwealth Crimes Act, was adjourned at the…

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Police Court Thursday (Before Messrs. J. J. Donnelly and M. J. Coffey, J's.P.). Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 October 1932 · page 2

Henry Heanes was charged with having wilfully killed one sheep, the property of Mr. George Ernest Reynolds, at Ballalaba, on 1st October…

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Police Court Tuesday (Before Mr. W. J. Forrest, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 October 1932 · page 1

Sydney Claude Erskine, of Major's Creek, was charged with being drunk. He did not appear, and his 10/ ball . was estreated…

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