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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

105 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 6

Military Service Court Refuses Exemption To [?] Applicant

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 April 1942 · page 2

An application for exemption from military service, lodged by George Ferdinand Baraka, of Kennedy Street, Kingston, was refused by the…

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Gaol for Mcdade

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

At the Sydney Quarter Sessions this week Bernard McDade was sentenced to seven years’ hard labour on a charge if armed robbery…

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Stones and Fire Trouble at Mongarlowe Neighbours in Court

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1942 · page 2

While It Is still not clear who threw the first stone, the sound It made on Archibald Cargill's roof on the night of 24th January last echoed in the…

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Sent to Gaol Ignored Registration Order

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 April 1942 · page 2

At Dubbo Police Court, Mr. R. G. Cookson. P.M sent a man to gaol for three months hard labour for failing to register for military service when…

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Old Cooma Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 2

Ald. Allen, of the Cooma Municipal Council, suggested that the old gaol should be of some use to the authorities in the present crisis…

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Police Court Tuesday, April 21 Before Mr. M. J. Ryan, PM

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 1

Harold Hawke failed to appear to answer a charge of drunkenness, and forfeited his recognisance of 10/…

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Sheep Stealing Charge Cooma Grazier Convicted

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

Commenting that he could not accept as satisfactory the evidence given by defendant nor come to the conclusion that it was a case of…

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Schooners-‘mugs’ Night Episode Leads to Court Case

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 2

A considerable portion of the time at the local Court of Petty Sessions last Tuesday (before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M.) was occupied in hearing a…

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Captain's Flat Police Court Cases

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 2

On 4th May Walter Clarke was fined 10/- in default one day's hard labour for drunkenness, jand was also fined £2 for using indecent…

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

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 2

D. Wehby was charged with behaving in an offensive manner in the Post Office, Braidwood, on 4th March. He pleaded guilty…

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£500 [?] Fixed in Stealing Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 May 1942 · page 2

George Richard Seely, a middle-aged man, was remanded until June 22 when, at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, he was chatted by…

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Murder of Women

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 3

The U.S. Army Command has appointed eleven officers to the general court-martial, before which an American soldier will appear to…

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Closing of Police Stations

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 3
Also in Queanbeyan Age

In the Legislative Assembly Mr. J. W. Selffert, M.L A., asked: "Will the Premier say whether it is a fact that the Police Department is closing…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 June 1942 · page 1

At the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday last, before Mr. M. J. Ryan. P.M., Alexander Crowe and James Rowe, charged with…

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Warning to High Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 June 1942 · page 2

During the debate the Minister for Customs, Mr. Keane, intimated that the High Court would not be permitted to interfere with the necessities…

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Alleged Assault at Araluen (Continued from front page). SUMMING-UP

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 2

His Honour, after explaining the legal meaning of the word assault said that accused could be acquitted en both counts or convicted on one…

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Alleged Assault at Araluen Man Acquitted on Serious Charges Story of Hectic Battle in a Gully

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 1

Two stories of events in a gully, near the Burketown road at Araluen on January 15 of this year occupied the attention of His…

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Higher Wages for Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1942 · page 3

The Premier, Mr. McKell, announced yesterday that the Government had decided to increase the salaries of all police officers by 10/6…

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Youth Charged Breaking, Entering and Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 2

But for the circumstances of ill-health leading to his discharge from the A.I.F. in 1940, it is possible that the career of Henry David Seal, who…

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