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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

218 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 11

Changes Against Police

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 1

In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday Mr. O'Sullivan said that last week some young men from Paddington visited Newcastle in a car,…

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Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 1

At the licensing Court, Queanbeyan, yesterday, before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M., the following applications were dealt with :—…

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Queanbeyan Burglaries Accused Pleads Guilty Sentenced to Two Years

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 1

At the Sydney Quarter Sessions yesterday, before his Honour, Judge Sheridan. Henry Thomas Pearse, 29, motor mechanic, was charged with having, at…

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Of Local Interest District Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 1

Though five cases were listed for hearing at yesterday’s sittings of the District Court at Queanbeyan, only two were proceeded with, and these…

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Murder Trial

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 2

At the Central Criminal Court to-day Percival Henry" Thomson. aged 53, was charged with the alleged murder of his wife, Annie Muriel…

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Remains of Man Found Police Establish Identity

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 March 1936 · page 4

Late on Tuesday evening, Douglas [?]avers, 14, while fishing in George’s River, found the remains of a man in a cleft of rock at the water’s edge…

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Mother Charged with Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 3

Mrs. Edith Alydia Belcher, aged 50 years, was charged at the Central Court, Sydney, yesterday with having at Manly on March 29 feloniously and…

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Landholder Failed with Charge Against Rab Biter for Stealing Skins

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 3

A point of law determined, in favor of the defendant, an unusual case conducted in the Roxley police court recently. Mr. W. S. Bromhead, S.M.,…

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Small Debts Court Thursday (Before Mr. A. C. Hardwick, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 2

A. J. Graham sued W. L. Moore for £10/4/-. alleged to be balance of interest owing. Mr. J. L. Garvey appeared for defendant. while…

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Three Months’ Gaol For Stealing a Rug

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 1

Thomas Wilson, aged 64, was charged before Mr. Hardwick, P.M., at the local Police Court yesterday, with having stolen a travelling rug, valued at £2,…

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

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

On Thursday A. R. Hogden applied for suspension of labor conditions on gold lease in the parish of Oallen. Mr. P. 0. Ford, Goulburn, who…

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Stabbed with Screwdriver Victim’s Determined Struggle Assailant Marched to Police Station BRISBANE

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 1

Patrick Loughlin, a resident of Burleigh Heads, was awakened this morning by the sound of screws being turned in his room at the rear of his barber’s…

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“Murder Pie”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 2

To prove that Australians can write murder mystery stories as well as those in the foremost ranks oversea, sixteen well-known Australians got together…

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Wheel of Fortune? Brings Man Ten Days’ Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 1

A game of chance, which has no doubt paid and lost money to interested investors, figured in the Queanbeyan Police Court on Wednesday afternoon…

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Warning to Cyclists Breaches of the Traffic Act Police Instructed to Take Action

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 1

For years past many cyclists in this and other country towns have exhibited a total disregard for the rules of the road, and the safety of themselves and…

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"Murder Pie"

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

This book, which is attractively bound, was written by 16 well-known Australians. It has been said that anyone can write a detective tale…

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Police Transfers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 3

Constable Grogan from Captain’s Flat is to go to Burrowa. Constable Walton is to be moved from Jerangle to Captain’s Flat…

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Drunk and Resisting Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 1

Before Mr. A. J. Marx, J.P., at the local Police Court yesterday, John Machon pleaded guilty to being drunk in Monaro Street on Saturday…

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Extradition Order Appeal to Full Court Fails SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 1

The application of John William Shaw McArthur, company director, for special leave to appeal from the judgment of the State Full Court, ordering, his…

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CONSPIRACY Three Men Sentenced to 18 Months’ Gaol SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, John Ellis Findlay, former detective, Ernest Pierce Coombs, agent, and Charles Richard Tanser, agent,…

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