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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

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

Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

Before Mr. G. C. Hook, this morning, Albert H. Eppelstun was charged with behaving in a riotous manner in Young Street yesterday. First-Class Constable…

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Mount Austin Murder 17-Year-Old Youth Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

Roy Malcolm Soutar, aged 17 years, said to be a native of Woollahra, was charged by the police on Tuesday night with the murder of Christopher Bolger,…

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Murder Charge Two Men Remanded SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

At North Sydney Police Court to-day James Richard Geddes, 23, shoe clicker, and Reginald Davies, 40, labourer, were remanded until January 10 on a charge…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Women As Traffic Police

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3

In Chickasha, Oklahoma, 22 women on the relief rolls have been appointed as traffic police. Wa[?]ing red flags, they direct traffic from roads which…

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Theft From Hotel Three Months H.L. for Culprit

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2

At Yass Police Court before Mr. J. W. T. Forrest, P.M., William-Stanley Hine (38) was charged on December 23, with stealing a leather overcoat…

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Police Superintendent Parker Promoted

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

Superintendent O. H. Parker has been notified of his removal and promotion to Sydney as Superintendent in charge of Country Area F. There…

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Bombing of Red Cross Unit Described by Doctor as “Wholesale Murder”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

Dr. Fride Hylander, a survivor of the raid on the Swedish Red Cross ambulance at Dole, on which bombs were dropped and machine-guns fired, gave…

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“Boy Gunman” Shoots Himself When Tracked by Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2

James Alfred Penrose, 18, suspected of having shot and critically wounded Constable John Terbutt near the Central Railway Station, Sydney, on…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 3

Considerable interest, a lot at amusement, and a whole heap of ridicule has been aroused at the publication in n Sydney weekly paper of…

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Barrowman’s Death Two Men Charged With Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

The Sydney Coroner on Wednesday found that Leslie Arthur Paterson, 34, barrowman, of Willoughby, died in the Royal North Shore Hospital on…

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Sheep Stealing "Braidwood at the Mercy of Organised Gang" Fantastic Report in Sydney Weekly

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 2

The full-page article which appeared in a Sydney weekly paper last week has created not only a vast amount of merriment and ridicule,…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 3

An application by John Reid for authority to enter two areas of about 100 acres each, in the parishes of Marlowe and Tomboye, was granted…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 2

Several defendants appeared on various charges before Mr. G. C. Hook, J.P. at Queanbeyan Police Court on Monday…

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Sheep Stealing Alleged Move by the Graziers’ Association

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 1

At a meeting of the Queanbeyan branch of the Graziers’ Association of New South Wales held at Queanbeyan on Saturday, the prevalence of…

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Sheep Stealing Prominent Grazier's Resentment (To the Editor of the "Review")

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 6

Sir,—When in Braidwood to-day my attention was drawn to a sensational article in "Smith's Weekly" regarding the alleged sheep stealing…

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Sheep Stealing "Braidwood at the Mercy of Organised Gang" Fantastic Report in Sydney Weekly [Continued from last issue]

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 3

"Two hundred miles south from Sydney, in the Braidwood district, where some of the State's best wool is grown, the sheep-farmers…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 2

We notice that Mr. W. D. Gordon's letter in connection with the recent damning article in "Smith's Weekly' also appears in the Goulburn "Post."…

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Fiendish Murder Girl's Throat Cut with Razor

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 3

The township of Nyngan was shocked on Tuesday night, when a man named William Kennedy, 25, using a razor, s[?]denly attacked and…

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Another Sheep Stealing Joke

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 6

Last week a complaint was lodged at the Braidwood police office by a grazier that 100 of his best sheep bad been stolen out of a flock of…

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Hotel Lodger’s Privilege Magistrate’s Decision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

Mr. A. G. Hardwick, Police Magis trate, made one point in the Liquor Act very clear at last Bega Police Court at which a couple of business men were…

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