On Garage Premises Man Sent To Gaol
Following brief evidence. Victor Andrew Daley, 43, a stranger, was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour when convicted at the Goulburn Police Court,…
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Courts & crime, 1940
119 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 6
Want More Police Council Will Make Request
The need for increasing the Police Force at Queanbeyan was stressed at the meeting of the Municipal Council last night, and with this residents…
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When a constable called at the Hunter’s Hill Police Station on Saturday he discovered the body of Sergeant Frank Lund, 41, in a cell with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep-stealing Charge Farmer Bound Over for Three Years
“Sheep stealing is so easy to accomplish and so very hard to detect, particularly in these rough mountainous country places,” remarked the P.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Petty Sessions Business at Queanbeyan Returns for 1940
The annual returns compiled by the C.P.S. (Mr. English) and his assistant, disclose the following figures:— In the Court of Petty Sessions there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stealing Charge Youth Before Court
Before Mr. Ryan, P.M.. on Tuesday last, Henry Gabriel, a youth of 18 pleaded guilty to stealing a brake cable valued at 3/6, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Dangerous Driving Lorry Driver charged
Yet another remand in the case in which Kevin Woods 25, of Goulburn, is charged with having driven a motor lorry in a manner dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Insult or Assault Woman Complains Agent Gets Benefit of Doubt
Most of Tuesday afternoon at the Local Court of petty Sessions before Mr. Ryan P.M was occupied by a change of assault The complainant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan Court Mouse Badly Ventilated Building
Those who official duties necessitated their presence at the Queanbeyan Court House on Tuesday put in a very uncomfortable day. The heat and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Traffic in Monaro Street Police Request to Motorists
During the past few weeks it has come under the notice of the police that a number of motorists drive into vacant spaces in the central parking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Made False When Applying for a Driver’s Licence Man Gets Three Months 7-Gaol
.Arraigned before His Honour, Mr. Justice Lukin, and a jury of 12 at the Supreme Court, Canberra, yesterday, James Julian McGuire, mechanical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fined Two Pounds Failed to Tell Police of Accident
Failure to notify the police of an accident within 24 hours of its occurrence on Sunday. November 19. cost Mervyn Neville Eldridge £2, with 8/…
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Police at Trinity Road, London, have fixed an accident register, made at the station, to the railings facing the pavement. Changeable figures…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire President Court Case Over Meal Allowance
That on November 14, 1939, he accepted 2/6 to which he was not entitled under the Local Government Act was alleged against George E…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Assault and Robbery Queanbeyan Man the Victim Three Men Charged
An alleged fracas at a house in Auburn Street on October 14 was the basis of two counts preferred at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions to-day…
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At the Goulburn Police Court on Saturday morning two young men who recently staged a daring escape from the Goulburn Reformatory and were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Thursday (Before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M.)
Arthur Dorn was charged with driving a motor vehicle without being licensed as a driver. He pleaded guilty, and was represented by Mr…
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Shortly after they booked Passage on the Melbourne express, a 15-year-old messenger boy and a young man were arrested in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Assault Alleged Incident at Pictures
At the local Court of Petty Sessions to-day before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., John W. Joseph was charged with offensive behaviour on January 24th…
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Ray Esmond was charged with not returning his expired driver’s licence within three days of - expiry. He was fined 2/6, with 5/6 costs. It was stated…
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