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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

202 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 11

Dublin High Court Prohibits Military Tribunal from Trying O’Dyffy DUBLIN

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 1

The High Court has granted a conditional prohibition preventing the Military Tribunal from hearing and determining…

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Gave False Information to Police Man Arrested and Charged SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 1

Detectives have arrested a man alleged to have given the police false information, thereby causing public…

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Wagga Murder Victim Identified

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

The identification of the body of a man which was found in a sack in the Murrumbidgee River, near Wagga, gives the police their first real clue in…

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New Police Regulations

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

Friday week's Government Gazette contains news which will not be received by the police force with transports of joy. Amongst other items,…

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Police in Northern Territory

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

Instructions have been issued to police in the Northern Territory that the use of chains in manacling prisoners must cease, and more…

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Wagga Murder Man Before the Court WAGGA

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 1

At the Wagga Police Court to-day Edward Henry Morey, aged 32, trapper, was remanded on a charge of having…

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Notes and News Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2

There was again a very light list at the monthly Police Court on Tuesday. A claim for wages, G. E. Ben-nett v. Geo. Brown, was settled…

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Conversion of Gaol Hospital And Additions to Queanbeyan Lock-up

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 1

Only one tender was received by the Public Works Department for structural alterations to the Queanbeyan Police…

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Man Before Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

At the Queanbeyan Police Court yesterday morning Amos George Thompson (22) was charged with assaulting James Welch McFarlane, occasioning…

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Alleged Assault Brawl m McQuoid Street Man Admitted to Hospital

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

About midnight on Saturday a brawl occurred in McQuoid Street, following which a man was admitted to the District Hospital/suffering from a deep…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Police to Lecture

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 3
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The Department of Education has notified the N.R.M.A. that approval has been given for senior officers of the police force to lecture to child…

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Kidnappers Hold Man for Ransom Will Murder Him If It Is Not Paid St. Paul, Minnesota (U.s.a.,)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

Kidnappers demanding two hundred thousand dollars ran-some are holding Edward Bremer, aged 36, banker, son of a…

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McQUOID Street Assault Amos Mayer Committed for Trial Long Standing Feud Comes to Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 2

The brawl in McQuoid Street on the night of January 13, which was evidently the culmination of a long standing…

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Stealing Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

Albert Edward Almond, 19, labourer, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment in the Goulburn Reformatory for stealing a bag of flour…

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Canberra Police Court Tuesday, January 23 Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P. M. Alleged Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

Ellen Lilian Sexton proceeded against her husband, Joseph Frederick Sexton a hotel employee, on a charge of having assaulted her at the Manuka…

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Film Scene Taken in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 4

Considerable excitement was caused at the Darlinghurst, Sydney, Criminal Courts the other day when, during the hearing of a case in which Dr. Everard,…

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Cricket Ground Stabbing Man Appears Before Court Echo of Divorce Suit SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day William Howard Holden (40), salesman, was charged with having maliciously…

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Popular Police Officer

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 1

Prior to their departure for Goulburn Constable and Mrs. Barton were tendered a farewell at the Nerriga Hall. Between 40 and 50 friends, who…

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Theft of £2928 Brings Two Year’ Gaol Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions today Francis Michael Too hey, aged 39, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for the…

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