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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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

Houses Wanted Landlords and Tenants in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 October 1939 · page 1

The acute house shortage in Queanbegan and the consequent difficulty experienced by landlords in inducing tenants to vacate premises, is…

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Warning by P.M. Higher Fines for Sunday Shooting Six Men Before Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 October 1939 · page 1

“I am receiving a great many complaints. The practice is very dangerous, especially as in some eases these parties shoot across the…

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Three Acquitted One Man For Trial Grave Assault Alleged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 3

At the Canberra Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Ryan. P.M.. Daniel Robert Grant, Roy Joseph Blewitt, and James Thomas Grant…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery Three Men Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 2

Before His Honour, Mr. Justice Lukin and a jury of 12, at the Supreme Court, Canberra on Wednesday, Clifford McDonald and Daniel Robert Grant were…

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Another Assault McDONALD Found Guilty

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 2

At Canberra Supreme Court yesterday jury of 12 found Clifford McDonald guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Harry Jarvis at Capitol…

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Braidwood Parties in Court Dispute Re Building Captain's Flat Case

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 October 1939 · page 6

Most of the time at the District Court proceedings before his Honour Judge Nield at Queanbeyan on Tuesday was occupied by a difference…

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Alleged Assault Police Ask for Remand

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 2

At the Goulburn Police Court on Wednesday morning James Theodore Cavanagh 29, John Joseph Kennedy. 37, and John Francis Mungovan, 22,…

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Amy Johnson in Court Apologises for Bad Language

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 6

Amy Johnson, the airwoman, showed ber nails to the magistrates at Cowbrodge, near Cardiff, after a policeman had alleged she dug them…

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Police Court Thursday (Before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M.)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 2

Arthur Rixon was charged with (1) Driving a motor vehicle negligently, and (2) that he failed to stop his car after an accident…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Safety Police to Go

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 3

The Home Office Motor Patrol Scheme, which has been operating under the Lancashire Constabulary for over a year, is now to come to an…

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Alleged Forgery Cases Against Ex-police Constable Dismissed

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 November 1939 · page 5

The cases at Braidwood Police Court on Thursday against A. L. Burr, ex-police constable, arising out of certain alleged irregularities in…

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Three for Trial Alleged Assault at Goulburn Queanbeyan Resident Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 November 1939 · page 3

Three defendants in an assault case concluded, at the Goulburn Police Court on Tuesday—James Theodore Cavanagh, 29, John Joseph Kennedy,…

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Alleged Murder

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 7

At the Central Court to-day John Henry Moran (34), a seaman, was remanded until December 6 on a charge of having murdered bis wife,…

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Assaulted His Sons Father Sent to Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 2

At the Wollongong Quarter Sessions yesterday, Joseph McCloskey was found guilty of charges of having assaulted his sons, Joseph Mervyn McCloskey…

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Double Murder Death Sentence in Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 4

John William Davis, secretary and accountant, was sentenced to death in the Bendigo Supreme Court on Tuesday. He was found guilty of the murder…

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To-day’s Court Quartetts Charged Various Offences

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 1

Four young men, who were on the road, made their appearance before Mr. C. W. English, J.P., at the Queanbeyan Police Court this morning on…

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Woman’s Fall Over Gap Police Recover Body

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 3

The body of Mrs. Ethel Montgomery. 49 of Roslyn Street, Darlinghurst, was recovered from the rocks at the foot of The Gap Watson’s Bav, on…

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Drug Addict Sentenced to Three Months’ Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 4

At the Gilgandra Police Court Doctor Francis Robert Guinane, 39, medical practitioner, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of…

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Paved Footpaths Amounts To Be Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 1

Recently the Municipal Council has put down concrete paths, 4ft. wide, in portions of Lowe and Crawford Streets. The proportionate charges to be made…

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The War Day by Day First German Assault Stemmed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 1

It has now been made public that the first great German offensive was held up in its early stages. In a special Order of the Day to French…

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