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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

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

Christmas Eve Assault Costs a “Tenner”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 1

This morning at the local Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M., Frederick - Fyuricic was charged with unlawfully…

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£100 Fine and Gaol For Sly Grog Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 4

Claude Wilkinson, 48, labourer, Windsor Plats, Brougham Street, city, was fined £100 and sentenced to three months’ gaol by Mr. Scobie, C.L.M.,…

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£1140 Theft Alleged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

At Liverpool Police Court yesterday Cecil John Bowie, 18, labourer, of Fuller Road, Old Guildford, and William John Thorne, 26, labourer, of…

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Sentenced to Death Fascists in Italy LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 1

The German newsagency announced that the former Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, who is Mussolini’s son-in-law, was sentence to…

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Copenhagen Police Interned by Germans STOCKHOLM, Monday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 1

It is announced in the Free Danish Press Service in Stockholm that the Germans have interned the entire Police Force in Copenhagen, totalling…

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Trouble Over Gravel Ends in Fight Cross Actions for Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

Events which happened on Thursday last, January 13, in Queanbeyan, led to Herbert George Clark charging Evlogi Todoroff Staneff with assault, while Staneff laid a cross charge against Clark, also alleging assault. By consent, both charges were heard together…

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Violence to Children Cases for Open Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3

The State Cabinet has decided that cases in which persons are charged with violence to children should he heard in open Court…

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Broker Sentenced to Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 1

Edward Bellamy Jackson, 58, broker, of Iredale Avenue, Cremorne, in the Special Court yesterday, was sentenced to six months’…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 1

Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, J.P., on Monday, Jacob Smith Miller, aged 19, was charged with using indecent language in Monaro Street on Saturday…

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Latest War News Mass Murder of Poles by Germans

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 2

LONDON.—The special Soviet Commission investigating the murder of Polish war prisoners by Germans has reported that over 11,000 corpses, clad…

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Murder of Poles Russian Investigation LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 1

Th[?] Sovie[?] Commission investigating the mass murder of Polish prisoners of war in the Katyn Forest [?] Smolensk0 believes that when…

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£3772 THEFT Five Men Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 2

Five men were charged at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday with having stolen Federal Government property worth £3,772…

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Man Faints in Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 2

When he was fined £10, with £4/7/ compensation, for stealing two cases of asparagus valued at £6/13/- from Darling Harbour railway yards,…

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£26 in Fines Pastime Club Visited Nine Men Charged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 1

Before Mr. R. Donaldson. P.M., this morning at the local Court of Petty Sessions, a number of local residents were charged with being found in a…

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£10 Fine for Cycle Theft

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 3

A bicycle taken, on a recent Sunday from a church ground was later found in the back yard of Gordon Rowe with a different pair of wheels. At Goulburn…

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Is It Murder?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 3

The body at a woman, so far unidentified, was found to-day beside the pond in Centennial Park. The possibility of murder is being…

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Theft of Motor Accessories Five Men Convicted

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 2

Four men were sentenced at New castle Quarter Sessions on Wednesday to imprisonment, and a fifth was placed under a good, behaviour bond,…

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Park Murder Inquiry

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 1

Defectives made ittle headway yesterday in their inquiries into the murder of Mrs. Joyce Pattison, 31, of Bourke Street, Darlinghurst, whose…

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Notes and News Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1944 · page 2

At the Braidwood Police Court on Friday, before Messrs. L. E. C. Luff and F. Astill, J's.P., Clarence Raymond Wood, soldier, 38 years of age…

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Police Court Friday. (Before Messrs. L. E. C. Luff and F. Astill, J's.P.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

Timothy Kennedy was to charged with, on 2nd March, in Coghill Street, Braidwood, having driven a motor vehicle while under the influence of…

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