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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

218 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 11

False Pretences Six Months’ Gaol for Showman Exhibited Plaster Figure as a Petrified Maori

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 2

At the Yass Police Court on Wednesday, Bronte Hodge, 30, a sideshowman, who was arrested the previous day at the Yass Show, was sentenced to six…

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Police Court Monday (Before Messrs. Jas. Higgins and J. J. Donnelly, Js.P.). Assault and Damage

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 3

J. Turnock was charged with unlawful assault on Winnie Smith, and also with malicious damage (breaking a water jug and two glasses) at…

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Another Assault Case

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 3

Ronald Frederick Arthur Coleman was charged with unlawfully assaulting Peter Douglas Hush on 29th February. He was undefended, and…

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Bloodhounds to Check Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 6

We have been handed a copy of "Smith's Weekly," dated Feb. 22, in which appears another of its famous sheep-stealing articles. The first…

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"Petrified Maori" Showman Sent to Gaol Figure Made of Plaster

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 4

At the Yass Police Court last week Bronte Hodge, 30, a sideshowman, who was arrested at the show, was sentenced to six months…

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Grazier Charged With Manslaughter Two Men Die After Road Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 2

Following an accident on Friday night on the Hume Highway, about two miles from Yass, Bernard Edward Ross Ryan, 26, grazier, was charged…

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Magistrate Warns Motorists

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

Mr. Scobie, S.M., at the Traffic Court in Sydney on Monday, made it clear that breaches of the Traffic Act would in future be more severely…

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Sheep Stealing (To the Editor of the "Dispatch")

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

Sir.—I have read with interest several letters in "Smith's Weekly" re sheep stealing in the Braidwood district. What a reflection to cast…

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Man Shot Wife Charged and Remanded GOSFORD

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

Frederick Foster, an orchadist at Ourimbah, was shot yesterday, and is in a serious condition, At the Gosford Police Court to-day…

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Evening Sittings of Police Courts

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

The Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) said to-day that the Government was considering the possibility of establishing evening sittings of…

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Police Sergeant's Scathing Condemnation Modern Youth Castigated

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

During an address before the Albury Rotary Club in defence of the Boy Scout movement, Sergeant J. P. Blackmana, of the Albury police…

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The Mount Austin Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 2

The trial was commenced at the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Milner Stephen, of Roy Malcom Souter, aged 17. on a charge…

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Wagga Murder Youth Found Guilty

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 4

Roy Malcolm Souter, 17 was found guilty, at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, of murdering Christopher James Bolger. a young grazier, whose…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 2

H. E. Williams, a stranger, charged with having driven a motor vehicle while not holding a driver's license. There was no appearance…

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Murder of Natives Death Penalty Unlikely SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 1

According to Mr. E. Joakley, District Officer at New Guinea, who arrived in Sydney to-day, it is doubtful if Ludwig Schmidt, the German who was…

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Police and S.p. Betting Raid Methods

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

When the Royal Commission inquiring into charges against the police over S.P. betting raid methods was resumed to-day, Mr. Mackay,…

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Sheep Stealing Grazier's Big Loss

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 3

Sheep stealing is rife in various parts of the Goulburn district, Mr. J. W. Heffernan, of Gurrundah, having reported the loss of 100 merinos from…

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Car Driver Charged With Manstaughter SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 1

Russell French King, 33, was charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day with the manslaughter of Mrs. Rose May Sullivan, 43, her son, Kenneth…

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Telephone at Police Station a Glaring Injustice to the Public

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 2

Mr. W. W. Hedges, M.L.A., has received the following from the Police Department:—"With further reference to your representations on…

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Our Racing Letter They Can Close the Gates If Occurrences Such as These are Allowed. Three of the Best-backed Horses in City Tattersall's Cup Put Out of Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 1

If the stewards don't take drastic steps to stop the sort of happenings which occurred in City Tattersall's Cup at Randwick on Saturday they…

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