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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

202 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 11

Man Found Dead Police Discover Body in Bed Death Due to Heart Failure

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 1

M[?]chael Neil Bradley, 37, a single man described an an agent, living alone in a cottage in McQuoid Street, Queanbeyan was found dead in bed at his…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

Horace James Swan, 26, pleaded .guilty before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M., at the Queanbeyan. Police Court yesterday, to a charge of drunkenness on the…

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The Albury Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 7

In connection with the finding of the body of the murdered girl at Albury. Sydney relatives of the girl say that the description exactly fits her…

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The Cowra Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 7

At the inquest at Cowra concern-, ing the death of John James Mea-gher, the Coroner, after hearing evidence, committed his wife, Eileen…

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Brutal Murder Near Albury

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

Forehead cruelly battered In, legs and lower part of abdomen charred to a black mass, but clothed in white and yellow pyjamas, the body…

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Murder Mystery Missing Girls Being Traced SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 1

In order to assist the police in their-efforts-to have the girl who was found murdered at Albury identified, it has been…

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Charge of Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 1

Charles Frederick Coppin, 35, was arraigned before Mr. K. Anderson, J P., at the Queanbeyan Police Court on Wednesday, charged with having…

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The Albury Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 2

Norman Jackson, an unemployed motor mechanic, informed detectives that the day before the Albury murder a girl "shouted" him drinks in a…

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Albury Murder Woman Identifies Victim SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 September 1934 · page 1

Detectives now believe that they have hit on a definite clue to the identity of the girl whose charred and mutilated…

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The Albury Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 September 1934 · page 2

NEWCASTLE.—In view of its possible relationship to the murder of the girl whose body was found near Albury, police are investigating a…

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Police Court Tuesday. (Before Mr. G. A. Hardwick, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 September 1934 · page 2

W. Corner was charged with smoking in the auditorium of the National Theatre, a public ball, on 30th August. He pleaded guilty…

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Murder at Fremantle 73 Knife Wounds

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 September 1934 · page 3

In a house at Fremantle on Tuesday a Sicilian stonemason, Carmelo Mentisano, was found dead. When the body was examined, it was revealed…

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Warden's Court Tuesday (Before Mr. G. A. Hardwick, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 September 1934 · page 1

Peter Douglas Hush, laborer, Charloyong, applied for authority to enter portion No. 77, of 80 acres, parish i Marlowe, county St. Vincent. He…

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Action Against Police

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1934 · page 2

lu No. 1 Jury Court to-day .Central Investors, Ltd., brought an action to recover £25,000 damages from cer-tain members of the police force. The…

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Sentenced to Death

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 September 1934 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—After a retirement of three hours the jury found John Hope Boles guilty of the murder of Kathleen Dorman, with a…

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Heavy Damages for Assault on Newspaper Editor

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 3

A verdict was given for the full amount claimed in the case in the Campbelltown District Court, in which Arthur Mullane, of P[?]ton,…

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Stock Stealing Convictions Considered Inadequate

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

Graziers maintain that penalties imposed for convictions in stock-stealing cases are inadequate, that often the criminal is not caught, and…

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Barry Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 October 1934 · page 2

At Bathurst Circuit Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, the trial was opened of Charlotte Fowler, 59, who is charged with the murder of…

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The Barry Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1934 · page 7

BATHURST.— The trial was open-ed" here to-day of Mrs. Charlotte Fow-ler, aged 59, on a charge of having murdered John Ryan (79), who was…

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

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

Maurice Ryan was charged with being a person deemed to be insane and not under proper care and control…

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