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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

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

The Broughton School Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 2

When the inquest concerning the death of Dorothy May Everett was resumed at Newcastle to-day. Leonard William Roberts, houseman at…

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Newcastle Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 7

When the inquest concerning the murder of Dorothy May Everett was resumed to-day Detectixe-Sergeant McCarthy said the police had…

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Court of Petty Sessions Business at Queanbeyan Office Comparative Figures

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 1

Mr. C. W. English, C.P.S., has kindly made the Mowing figures available for publication in connection with the principal returns which come within…

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Murder Charge Four Men Committed For Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

Four men were committed for trial by the Melbourne Coroner this week after the inquiry into the death of John Thomas Dempsey, truck driver,…

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Young Woman’s Death Man Charged With Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 3

Roland Stewart Young, aged 24, appeared before Mr. Finlay. J.P. at the Katoomba Police Court on Saturday to answer a charge of having murdered…

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Drunken Drivers Magistrate Suggests Imprisonment

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2

In the Gosford Police Court last week Mr. Carr Boyd,. P.M. imposed, fines amounting to £30 upon. Malcom Terry Hughes, 28, on charges of having driven…

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Costly Assault Two Men Fined Hit the Wrong Man

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2

At the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Session, before Mr. W. F. Britz. P.M., two defendants, Les. Staples and C. Wallace, pleaded guilty, through Mr…

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Pyjama Girl Murder Story at Inquest ALBURY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1

The inquest was commenced this morning at Albury concerning the death of an unidentified young woman whose body was found under a culvert…

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Forgery Alleged Doctor Charged LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 1

Andrew John Gibson, aged 72 years, described as a doctor of medicine, was remanded at the Liverpool Police Court charged with forging a Sydney…

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Pyjama Girl Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 2

Detectives do not believe that the daughter of a well-known Trangie resident, reported to have disappeared six years ago, in identical with the…

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Brewery Agents Criticised Liquor Licence Refused Local Grocer Fails to Satisfy Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 1

Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, Chairman of the New South Wales Licensing Board, who presided at the Queanbeyan Licensing Court on…

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Court of Petty Sessions Brief Sitting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 1

Mr. F. W. Britz, P.M., had a very small list to deal with at the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions to-day, and the Court adjourned half an hour…

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Assault Charge Fracas at Hotel

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 3

At the Canberra Court on Wednesday, Leslie George Rowley and Edward John Shoobert, labourers, of Queanbeyan, Arthur Mahommed, of Sutton,…

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Local and General District Grazier Charged

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 2

A charge alleging neglect to supply information required under the provisions of the Pastures Protection Act was preferred against Harry Grieg…

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No Place Like Jail Only Out a Few Hours Men Charged on

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 3

There is no place like jail for a homeless wanderer, especially on these cold nights. So thought Michael Nolan apparently for he had only been…

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Warned Out of Canberra Man Before the Court Drunk and Disorderly

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 3

Said by the police to have been given 24 hours’ notice the previous day to leave the Federal Capital Territory, as an undesirable Thomson,…

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Police Court Vagrants Jailed Driver’s Licence Forfeited

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 4

There were many cases before the Police Magistrate, Mr. F. W. Britz, at the Queanbeyan Police Court this morning, but the list had been almost…

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Canberra Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 2

At the Canberra Court of Petty. Sessions, before Mr. Britz, P.M, on Wedday, James Boyd, labourer, of Hall, was fined £5 With 10/6 costs, for having…

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New South Wales Police The Celebrations and Earlier Years

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 4

Now that the first intensive period of the 150th Anniversary celebrations has been completed I should like to pay a cordial tribute to the work of…

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Truck Murder Accused Not Guilty

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 3

The four men accused of the murder, of John Thomas Demsey were acquitted at Melbourne by the direction of Mr. Justice Macfarlane…

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