Sensational Gaol Break
In the early hours of yesterday seven prisoners broke out of Beechworth Reformatory Prison in Victoria. The cell doors were opened with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1945
109 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 6
Italian Purge Court Heavy Sentences ROME, Monday (A.A.P.)
The Purge Court has sentenced General Roatta to life imprisonment in absentia. Roatta recently escaped from a gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Captain's Flat Police Court Cases
Before the Police Magistrate, Mr. Scroope, on March 9th, Joseph Maitland Bigg was charged that on the 10th day of February, 1945, he did use…
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Several persons were charged at the Queanbeyan Court, before Mr. F. T. Scroope, P.M., this morning with having been drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fined £30 for Stealing Lambs
Pleading, guilty at the Goulburn Police Court on Monday to a charge of stealing seven lambs valued at £7, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault on Vienna Russian Pincers Movement LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)
With the capture of Bruck, which is announced by Marshal Stalin, Marshal Malinovsky burst clean through the gap between Neusiedler Lake and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Double Murder Charge Against Soldier
Francis Alexander Walls, 46, soldier, was charged in Central Police Court yesterday morning with having murdered Cecil Miller and Arthur Graham…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Hold Up Car
With drawn revolvers, two detectives stepped in front of a car in Pacific Highway, near Hornsby, on Wednesday night, and ordered the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Trial Woman Acquitted
At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, yesterday Elsie Mary Hoare, 49, was acquitted on a charge of having murdered her husband,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£10 Fine for Stealing Bicycle
At Goulburn Police Court on Monday, Arthur Lever Maxwell, railway employee, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted and fined 10 and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth On .Murder Charge
John Kannelagopoulous (also known as John Cane) 40, cafe proprietor, who was shot in the abdomen last Friday night when about to lock up,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Quips Sidelights at the Inquest
When W. Clarke was giving his evidence at the inquest on Tuesday he kept addressing Sergeant Prankish as "Your Warship.'' The Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Taking Timber From State Forest
At the Braidwood Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. McElroy, Albert A. Norman was charged with cutting one tree on Endrick State Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Saturday Half-holiday Widespread District Hostility. Public Meeting Decides to Fight Matter to Finish in Court
There was a splendid attendance at public meeting on Saturday, including a hummer of ladies, in connection' with the above, very strong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Blayney Murder
Cyril Norman, 31, was sentenced to death in the Central Criminal Court an Tuesday for having murdered Constable Eric George Bailey, 38, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Stealing Young Man for Trial
At the local Court of Petty Sessions this morning, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., John Patrick Kevans was charged with stealing the sum…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Begged Alms Got 14 Days Gaol
Before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., at the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Ernest Collins was charged with begging aims in the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Money Lost at Dogs Leads to Court Case
A court case followed the loss, of a. wallet and sum of money at the local greyhound coursing meeting on May 26th list. The matter was heard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Thursday. (Before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M.)
Alphonsus B. Nomchong was charged with (1) having driven a motor vehicle which, together with loading, exceeded 45 feet in length, and (2)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not Guilty of Murder
In the Criminal Court, Sydney, yesterday, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Keith Kitchener Hull, 28, salesman,…
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