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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

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Municipal By-Election Court Cases Dismissed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 2

Cases arising out of alleged proceedings at the Municipal By-election at Yass on October 16 last came before the Court of Petty Sessions…

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Acquitted of Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 2

Thelma Linell-Cook, 31, was acquitted in the Central Criminal Court yesterday on a charge of having murdered her husband, Ronald Sydney…

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Illegal Use of Car R,a,a.f. Youth Sentenced to Six Months Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 3

Pleading guilty, and offering no explanation regarding his delinquency George Gibson, 18, R.A.A.F. was sentenced to six months’ gaol…

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Alleged Theft

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 1

Marjorie Hamilton was charged that on June 2, 1944: at Queanbeyan she did steal 1 shopping bag, 1 lb. of butter and 8 lbs. of sugar, to the…

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Captain's Flat Cab Stealing Case

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 2

George Joseph Gibson, who was arged at Goulburn Police Court on 9th May with stealing, or at least legally using a motor car at…

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To-day’s Police Court Before Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M. Breach of Motor Traffic Act

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 1

Leslie John Mclntyre was charged that on March 31, 1944, not being a person exempted by the regulations of the Motor Traffic Act he did…

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Braidwood Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 2

The P.M. did not attend the monthly Court yesterday. The case in which Thomas Oliver, of Gundillion, is charged with stealing a rug the…

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Two Months’ Gaol Alleged Stolen Goods in Custody Lengthy Court Case

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 2

Before Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M., at Queanbeyan Police Court last Tuesday, George Alfred Anthony Moore…

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Telegraphic News Supreme Court Decision Upset

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—The Full High Court to-day upheld the appeal of the COmmonwealth against a decision of the N.S.W. Supreme Court,…

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Praise for Police

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 2

At the conclusion of the breaking and entering and stealing cases in Goulburn last week Judge Berne paid a very high tribute to the manner in…

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Murder Charge Trial of Agostini

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 June 1944 · page 1

The trial in Melbourne of Antonio Agostini, 44, of Beach Road, Darling Point, Sydney, waiter, for the alleged murder of his wife, Linda Agostini,…

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Landing on Saipan U.S. Assault Troops Achievement Pearl Harbour, Thursday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 June 1944 · page 1

Strong Pacific farces of U.S. assault troops, following an intensive preparatory bombardment bombardment of Saipan, Tinian, Dagan, Guam, and Rota…

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Alleged Stealing Defendant Discharged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 1

Glyn Ronald Robert Cavanagh was changed before Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M., this morning that on or about May 3rd, at Queanbeyan, he did steal…

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Murder Charge Agostini on Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 2

The trial was commenced yesterday in Melbourne of Antonio Agostini, 41, waiter, of Sydney, who is charged with having murdered his wife,…

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Deceived the Police Men Dressed As Women

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 2

According to evidence given at the Liverpool Court yesterday, two men disguised themselves as women so skilfully that for a while they…

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Father Aged 81 To Face Murder Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 2

On Wednesday at Newcastle the Coroner, Mr. A. G. Chiplin, committed Alfred Fawcett, 81, of Tooke Street, Cock’s Hill, on a charge of having…

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The Police Fell Fob the "Dames."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 1

According to evidence given at the Liverpool Court, two men disguised themselves as women so skilfully that for a while they deceived Constable…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 1

Arising out of alleged incidents at Bungendore on April 22 last, Thomas Augustine Nash appeared before Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M,. on May 16. He…

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Failure to Assist Police Alleged

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 2

An unusual case was heard at Narrandera Police Court when Winton Thomas Watkins was charged with failing to aid a policeman in the…

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“Stars of the Air” Elisabeth Lambert — Prolific Young Writer Poet, Dramatist and Court Reporter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 4

FAIR-HAIRED, blue-eyed Elisa-beth beth Lambert, a young Sydney journalist who covers the courts and writes a special column on…

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