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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

89 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 5

Three Months' Gaol for Evading Call-up

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 2

Practically the whole of yesterday was taken up with the case in which Jack Graham was charged by the military authorities under. the…

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Lively Court Proceedings

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 2

Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at the Leeton police court when a prisoner convicted of false pretences and remanded for sentence…

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Two Months' Gaol for Failing to Answer Call-up

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 2

Darcy Joseph Johnson, of "Woodbine," Bungendore, was charged, before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., at Queanbeyan Police Court on Tuesday with…

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Aboriginal Tracker Honoured Asking’s Police Medal for Distinguished Conduct

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 2

I have, learned with pleasure that the Governor Lord Wakehurst, has received advice that the King has approved of the award of the King’s…

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Three Months' Gaol Refusing to Obey Military Call-up Braidwood Man Sentenced

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 1

At the Braidwood Police Court on Thursday last, before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., John Darcy Graham was charged with having refused to obey…

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Three Months’ Gaol Refusing to Obey Military Call-up

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

At Braidwood Police Court last week, before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., John Darcy Graham was charged with having refused to obey an Army…

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Aboriginal Teacher Honoured Ring's Police Medal for Distinguished Conduct

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 4

I have learned with pleasure that the Governor, Lord Wakehurst, has received advice that the King has approved of the award of the King's…

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Notes and News Police Constable to Visit Nerriga

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1943 · page 2

Mr. J. W. Seiffert, M.L.A., has been advised by the Premier's Department as follows:—"With reference to your personal representations on behalf of…

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Telegraphic News Police Inquiry

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1943 · page 3

The Police Departmental inquiry [?] charges of misconduct against [?]n-clothes Constables T. E. Car[?] and N.W. Grigg was adjourned…

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Theft of Bicycle Brings £7 Fine

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 February 1943 · page 3

Identification of part of a stolen bicycle by the Scientific Bureau of the Sydney C.I.D. resulted in Albert Kelly, blacksmith, of 76 Causeway,…

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Six Months’ Gaol Enemy Aliens Refused To Work

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 2

In the A.C.T. there are two camps of enemy aliens employed on forestry work. The men work a 44-hour week and are paid award rates…

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Petrol Theft at Canberra

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 2

For -stealing petrol and a petrol tank cap from a car in Mort Street, Braddon, on January 7, Harry Goward, 19, a deserter from the Army,…

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Heavy Fink Charged Too Much For Apples

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 3

John Cassidy and Theo Notaras, joint proprietors of the Capitol Cafe, Civic Centre, were charge before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., at Canberra Police…

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Sent to Gaol Objected to War Service Religious Beliefs No Excuse

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 3

Refusal to take the oath for military service, resulted in willoughby Rosewarn, timberman, of Canberra, being sentenced to three months…

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Disastrous Fire Gundagai Court- House Destroyed

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 3

Built in the early sixties of last century, Gundagai’s historic Court House, situated in a prominent position in Sheridan Street, was…

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Magistrate's Sympathy— and Poultice

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

Having failed to enrol in the Citizen Forces, Donald Sutcliffe, aged 35, gardener, of Canberra, was instructed on Wednesday at the…

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Gaol for Man Who Objected to War Service Religious Beliefs No Excuse

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 3

Refusal to take the oath for military service resulted in Willoughby Rosewarn, timberman, of Canberra, being sentenced to three months'…

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Danes Sentenced LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 February 1943 · page 2

A Stockholm report from Copenhagen says that 28 Danes have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from one to ten years for…

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Alleged Assault Defendant to Pay Costs

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 March 1943 · page 1

On Tuesday afternoon, at the local Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., Margaret Ann Flanagan proceeded against Claud…

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Three Men Charged Trouble on Railway Station

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 March 1943 · page 1

Arising out of charges of offensive behaviour on Queanbeyan Railway platform on Saturday night, two defendants. Hilton J. McCauley and…

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