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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

141 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 8

Policeman’s Duty Definitions by Police Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 2

Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. (formerly C.P.S. at Queanbeyan), replying to an objection raised by a solicitor at the West Maitland Police Court, said that…

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Woman Charged With Attempted Murder AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 1

The Magistrate at Hamilton Police Court to-day remanded Petrina Petersen, aged 30, domestic, on a charge of having attempted to murder her two…

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Police Court Thursday (Before Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 7

John McGrath was charged with using threatening words in Wallace-street, Braidwood, on 16th November, to wit, "I will get you for this…

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Countess of Jersey Court Grants Her Divorce LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 1

The Countess of Jersey, who was formerly Miss Richards, of Cootamundra (N.S.W.) has been granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court, on…

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Court of Petty Sessions Business at Queanbeyan Office Comparative Figures

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 1

An officer in Queanbeyan who holds 15 different positions spends his working hours at the Court House daily, and deals with public monies that are…

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Warden's Court Thursday (Before Mr. F. W. Britz, P.M.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 6

Donald A. Matheson, John Green and Harold Beadman applied for extension of term of authority to enter portion 1, No. 6, parish Coghill, for…

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Alleged Assault Defendant Fined ‘Trouble About a Partnership

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 4

In Queanbeyan Police Court this morning, before Mr. F. W. Britz, P.M Louis John Keeffe, of Mowatt Street, Queanbeyan, proceeded against James…

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Abolition Op Arbitration Court in N.z

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

According to a message from Auckland the abolition of the Arbitration Court by the Labor Government is probable as an outcome of the New…

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Unusual Point Supreme Court to Decide Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 1

Whether an habitual criminal is a civil servant for the purposes of the Premier’s Plan will be decided by the Supreme Court at an early date…

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Baby Not a Pedestrian Magistrate on Hole in Traffic Regulations

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

A baby in a perambulator is not a pedestrian. This ruling was given by the Hull stipendiary magistrate, Mr. J. R. Macdonald, when a Hull…

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Police Magistrate's Straight Talk

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 2

In a case at Queanbeyan Police Counrt, when a milk vendor was charged with not having kept sufficiently close to the left-hand side of…

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Police Court Thursday (Before Mr. P. W. Britz, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 2

The case A. Belette v. J. Batly for the alleged use of threatening words, which had been adjourned from the December Court, did not take long to…

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Fowls Stolen Man Sentenced to One Month

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 4

At the Yass Police Court this week Milton James Smith (24), Frank Cassidy (40), and Ernest Everett Clifton (39) were charged with stealing three…

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Canberra Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 3

Mr. F. W. Britz, P.M., was on the bench yesterday at the Canberra Police Court, when Alexander Collingridge was charged with having driven an…

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The Police Dismissals

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 7

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Mr. Lynch) told the Police Ap peals Board to-day that he bad acted under the instructions of the…

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Police Assaulted Big Fines Imposed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 4

William Charles O’Neill and Garnet O’Neill, brothers, pleaded guilty in the Bega Police Court last week to assaulting Police Inspector Martin and…

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MISAPPROPRIATION Solicitor Sentenced to Three Years SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

Alexander Stanley Gourlay, aged 38, solicitor, who pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions yesterday, to 2[?] charges involving misappropriation of…

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38 Years’ Service Police Superintendent Parker Retires

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 3

After 38 years’ service in the Police Department of New South Wales, Superintendent O. H. Parker, formerly stationed at Goulburn, retired from…

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Motorist Charged Elderly Woman Found SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

At the North Sydney Police Court to-day Rayle Charles Cooney, aged 50 years, manager, was remanded until February 26 on a charge of having…

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Canberra Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 4

Mr. F. W. Britz., P.M., presided in the Canberra Police Court on Wednesday last, when Ronald Oliver Walker, licensee of the Hotel Ainslie, pleaded…

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