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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

218 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 11

Murder Feared Search for Missing Man

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 September 1936 · page 2

William Henry Lavers, a share farmer and storekeeper, is believed to have been murdered outside his store at Glenelg, about 12 miles from Grenfell, on…

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Murder Charge Follows Young Girl’s Death Dubbo

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 September 1936 · page 1

Isabel Trudgett aged 17, died in Wellington District Hospital last night from septicaemia. The police believe the girl was seen ill in bed in a house…

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Police Dragging River For Missing Storekeeper GRENFELL

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 September 1936 · page 1

The police to-day commenced dragging the Lachlan River at Grenfell, where it is thought that the body of William Lavers, the missing…

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Vagrancy Charge Belgian Sentenced To One Month’s Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1936 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon before Mr. Swiney, P.M., Henry Emile Stopin was charged with being an idle and disorderly person having insufficient…

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Was It Murder?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 September 1936 · page 2

A human skull was found last night in a shaft at the All Nations mine at Bingara with a hole about the size of a shilling in the centre of the…

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Canberra Court Cases

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1936 · page 2

Charged at the Canberra Police Court on Tuesday before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M., with having driven a motor car while not being the holder of a licence,…

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Police Court Friday (Before Messrs. J. Grigg and Dr. Harris, Js.P.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 6

When the case C. A. Green (agent for Pearl Hilly) versus T. Allen to recover possession of house and land in Braidwood was called, Mr. J…

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Police Telephone

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 2

The fight that the "Review" has been putting up to have a telephone installed at one or other of the police residences in Braidwood has…

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Divorce Court

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 5

In the Divorce Court at Sydney, before Mr. Justice Boyce, Edgar Brazil Wallace had petitioned for restitution of conjugal rights against…

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Bound Over On Attempted Murder Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 2

At Moree Quarter Sessions, before Judge Clancy, Clarence Reginald Northey was charged with having, on July 30, feloniously attempted to…

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Nine Months’ Gaol For Young Man Two Chances Not Given

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 2

When Donald Edward Breen, aged 19, asked from the dock at the Yass Quarter Sessions on Friday for another chance to lead a new life. His…

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Unlawful Arrest £300 Damages Against Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 2

Robert Thomas Percy Manners, aged 24 years, a journeyman printer, was last week awarded damages of £300 in this action against Constable G. A…

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Police Telephone Municipal Council Agitates for Its Installation

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 5

The urgent need for a telephone at the police station was stressed at the last meeting of the Municipal Council on Monday night, the…

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Damages Against Police May Check Crime Investigation

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 4

Since the comment by the Chief Justice, in a case of wrongful arrest, that police are not entitled to detain a person for questioning unless they…

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Industrial Court Employers Fined Various Breaches

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 1

As a result of a visit of an industrial inspector earlier in the year, a number of charges were heard before Mr. W…

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Boy Charged with Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 1

James John O’Neill, aged 40 years, horse trainer, was fatally wounded by a bullet from a .22 cailbre rifle at his home in Hindmarsh (S.A.) on Saturday…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 3 p.m. the Dubbo Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 7

Inez Evelyn Clarke (44) was charged at the Dubbo Police Court to-day with having, on or about August 26, murdered Ruby May Green, whose…

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Three Policemen Charged

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

Detective-Sergeant Silcock and Constables Roach and Murray—against whom Robert Manners was given Judgment for damages for…

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Police Co-operation

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 1

Amongst the latest regulations in the New South Wales Police Force is one governing country district patrols and which aims at co-operation between…

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Murder Theory Exploded Body in River

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 2

A well-known Gundagai business man made what he believed to be a startling discovery at the week-end (says the "Independent"). He…

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