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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

105 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 6

Alleged Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 1

This afternoon, before Mr. Ryan, P.M., at, the Court of Petty Sessions, Edward Charles Rushton appeared on a charge of unlawfully assaulting David…

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Saturday Incident Three Men Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 1

Arising out of an incident on Saturday last Edward Robert Savage was charged before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., at the local Court of Petty Sessions this…

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Youth’s Death Man on Murder Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

Bruce Edward Holden, aged 16, of Fivedock, died in the Balmain Hospital yesterday from internal injuries alleged to have been caused by an air…

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Police Court Thursday (Before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.m.). Fires at Eucalyptus Tanks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 2

William S. Grant was charged with igniting inflammable material, to wit, dry eucalyptus leaves, at Coghill, near Braidwood, during the month of…

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Cannot Give Away Piece of Road Fair Value Must Be Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 2

In connection with the road purchase application by the Ambulance Transport Board, for a piece of road for the new Ambulance Station at Queanbeyan…

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Taxi-Driver Attacked Police Make Arrests

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 1

On Wednesday, while conveying some passengers, two girls and two men, along the road to Canberra, Mr. Fred Rottenberry, the driver of the taxi,…

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Wanted to Make Friends Court Charges Follow Man to Pay £10/2/6

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

When Edward Charles Rushton went into the home of David Perrott on the evening of Boxing Day he went to make friends. His…

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Alleged Assault Four Strangers Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1

Arising out of the alleged attack on Mr. Fred Rottenbury on the Canberra Road on Wednesday night, as reported in our Friday’s issue. Jack Anderson,…

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Small Debts Court

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

In the above Court on Thursday, before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., Jack Graham sued R. H. McCarron for an amount of £21/5/-. goods sold and…

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Good Hope Grazier Faces Murder Charge At Yass Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 4

Thomas William Davis, 53, grazier and butcher, of Good Hope, was charged at Yass Police Court on Tuesday with the murder of Ida May Faulder at Good…

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Theft of Petrol Twa Youths Fined

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 3

At the Lockhart Police Court yesterday, fines of £36 were imposed on Francis O’Connell and Raleigh Watson for the theft of 44 gallons of petrol…

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Husband Shot Wife Charged With Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 3

On a charge of having feloniously and maliciously murdered her husband, Horace Thompson, 40, at Balmain yesterday morning, Catherine Mary…

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Murder Charge Against Mother

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 1

John Doyle, nine weeks old, was found by police dying with 12 wounds on his head, in a house in Wolli Street, Kingsgrove, yesterday. He died on the…

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Assault Victim Dies

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 3

Detectives are making a wide search for three soldiers who are alleged to have assaulted William Coleman, 44, of Farrell Avenue, King’s Cross, so…

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Daring Burglary Over £240 Stolen From Shire Employee's Home

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 2

A stir was caused in Braidwood on Wednesday night when word was flashed round that the home of Mr. Arthur Fletcher, who is employed on…

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Murder Charge Yass Grazier Sent for Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 2

At the inquest on Ida May Faulder, 36, also known as Mrs. Davis, held at Yass, a youth gave evidence of an alleged argument in a kitchen…

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Assault on Taxi- Driver Culprits Sentenced to Two Years

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 1

“I think that two years is not sufficient,” said Mr. Justice Lukin in the Supreme Court at Canberra yesterday when passing sentence on Leslie Evans,…

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Training Britain S Military Police

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 4

The mounted Military Police os the British Army control traffic ana the movement of troops, both at home and on the battlefield. This picture shows the start of a cross-country motor cycle ride, which is part of their training…

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Unlawful Assault. Young Man Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 February 1942 · page 1

Before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., this morning, at the local Court of Petty Sessions, Henry Ford was charged with unlawfully assaulting Walter Ford on…

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Boy Soldier In Children’s Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 3

Of the three youths who appeared in the Goulburn Court last week charged with having stolen articles from two suit-cases belonging to…

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