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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

199 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 10

Husband Sent to Gaol Battered Wife’s Face Threatened Her With Gun

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 1

With her face still very badly bruised and both eyes black and blue, Margaret Mabel Thurtell appeared in the Queanbeyan Police…

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Police Cause Scatter Raid on Queanbeyan Hotel

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 1

When Sergeant North entered a Queanbeyan hotel on Saturday night there was a scatter, and about 20 men, some of whom police allege were…

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Captain’s Flat Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 3

At the Police Court on Monday last, before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M., Neville Kennedy was charged on two counts of offensive behaviour…

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Local and General Shire Appeal Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 2

At the Appeal Court on Monday, before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M., the Shire clerk, Mr. P. B. Taylor, announced that a settlement had been…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 3

Frederick Blakeley, authority to enter No. 470, parish Tomboye. Withdrawn. Thos. B. Ashton, authority to enter 100 acres, parish Meangora, county…

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Stock Stealing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 5

The Assistant Minister, Mr. Hawkins, in moving the second reading of the Wool, Hide and Skin Dealers" Bill in the Legislative Council, said…

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Local and General Daring Burglary

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 2

For the second time in a few months burglars have carried out daring job: in Braidwood and got clean away with the spoils. Some time back Mr…

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Telegraphic News Sydney. 2 p.m. Gold Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 2

The Orange police are investigating the theft of £400 worth of cyanide gold from the iron cyanide vats at the Bismarch mine works at…

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Court Martial of Politicians

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 2

ATHENS.— Twenty-six politicians are to be court-martialled to-morrow for alleged complicity in the recent revolution. It is expected that the…

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A Very Particular Man Wouldn’t Drink Before Children [?] “Don’t Believe You,” said Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 April 1935 · page 2

Samuel Arthur James Bray, of Canberra, is a very particular man. He told the Queanbeyan Police Magistrate (Mr. Hardwick)…

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“Human Nature” Magistrate’s Tribute

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

A tribute to the better side of the mass of complexities known as “human nature” was paid by Mr. Hardwick. Police Magistrate, in the Queanbeyan…

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Exciting Police Chase

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

A French police car was unable to stop a tobacco smuggler's car near the Belgian frontier, in spite of keeping up a steady fire with automatic…

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Cars for African Police

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 7

The Smith African Government has decided to accelerate the mechanisation of its police force. A sum of £35,000 is to be spent on the…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Cars for African Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 2

The South African Government has decided to accelerate the mechanisation of its police force. The sum of £35,000 is to be spent on the purchase…

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Police Raid

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 May 1935 · page 2

Detectives raided a flat at Believue Hill this morning and arrested a man. It is alleged that they found a fully loaded revolver and two bundles of…

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Inquest Opens Inverloch Murder Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 3

The inquest opened to-day into the murder of Ethel Belshaw (12), who was found bound and suffocated, with a stocking thrust down her throat, at…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 2

The thirteenth was an unlucky day for a man named R. McGrath when he used insulting language at Nerrlga in the hearing of Constable Wells…

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Cleared of Inverlogh Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 2

A youth, who was held by the police on a charge of the murder of Ethel Belshaw at Inverloch on New Year’s Day, has been cleared by the verdict…

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Of Local Interest Police Station Pet

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 1

There is a remarkable pet at the Queanbeyan Police Station, a one—legged sea-gull, which has made its home at the Station. Hundreds of…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 2

An application for authority to en­ter 15 acres, parish Corang, by W. W. Taylor, was granted for 12 mon­ths. Rent, 3d per acre,…

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