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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

106 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 6

Films For Gaol Prisoners

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 8

Addressing the annual of the Prisoners Aid Association of New South Weles, the Minister for Justice Mr. [?], said…

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Youth in Court Nine Serious Charges

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 7

Behind closed doors at the Kogarah Police Court, a 16 year-old boy, who the police, alleged, figured in Tuesday’s gunfight at Bexley, was…

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Double Murder Trial Death Sentence on Former Air Pilot LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 1

Former R.A.F. Pilot, Neville George Heath, aged 29, who admitted to the murder of two women in revolting circumstances, was…

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Constable Charged With Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 October 1946 · page 3

Detectives test night arrested a police constable in the Eastern Suburbs and later charged him with the murder of his. wife. He is First-class…

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German Police Want War Criminals

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 October 1946 · page 2

LONDON.—American military authorities turned away German police whom the Bavarian Premier, Hoegner, had sent to the gaol to arrest…

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Popular Police Sergeant George Johnson Retires

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 October 1946 · page 1

Following the official Police farewell on Friday, Police Sergeant George Johnson was tendered a public farewell at the Diggers' Rooms,…

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Month's Gaol For Stealing £2

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 October 1946 · page 1

At this morning's Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., Norman Clarence Adams was charged with stealing £2 in money…

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Admiral Prefers Death to Gaol LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 October 1946 · page 1

Grand Admiral Erich Raeder has asked the Allied Control Council in Germany to change his war crimes sentence to death instead of life…

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Gaol for Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 October 1946 · page 3

At the Court of Petty Sessions last Tuesday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., John Charles Pett appeared on three charge of…

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Women Police Urged by C.w.a

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 October 1946 · page 1

The annual conference of the Murrumbidgee-Lachlan Group of the Country Women's Association, held at Leeton recently, decided to press for…

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Sentenced Nazis

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 3

Lord Justice Lawrence, President of the War Crimes…

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Telegraphic News the Dubbo Murder

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 2

DUBBO.—Henry Noel Grace, farmer and grazier, of Apsley, near Wellington, was acquitted on a charge of having murdered Henry Taverner…

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Murder and Torture in Bengal

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1946 · page 2

CALCUTTA.—Refugees continue to pour from the riot areas of Eastern Bengal, bringing horrible tales of Murder, torture and indescribable…

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Court Upholds Regulations

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 2

In Melbourne on Tuesday the Full High Court unanimously upheld the validity of the National Security (War Service Moratorium)…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 2

At last Tuesday’s court Arthur Richmond was charged with being found drunk in Grawford Street on October 12. Sergeant Ayres stated…

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Police Court Driving Under the Influence

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 2

Before Messrs. J. Barrett and M. J. Coffey, JsP., on Monday morning Victor Emanuel Bopping, eucalyptus distiller, was charged with having on…

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Betrayed Jews to Gestapo Degroot Sentenced to Death AMSTERDAM, Tuesday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

A Special Court sentenced to death perfume dealer, G. J. Degroot for betraying Jews to the Gestapo. Degroot allegedly received about…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery Two Men Committed For Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 November 1946 · page 2

Most of the time , at the local Court Petty Sessions last Tuesday was occupied with hearing charges against Leslie Adams and Jack Goodwin on…

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Police Transfer

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1946 · page 3

Constable J. R. Cavanagh, of Braidwood has been transferred to Tarago, a action just recently reopened. During his stay here he has proved a…

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Driving Tests Again in Britain Examiners Must Have Ten Years Unblemished Record and Have Trained at Police School LONDON, November 1st

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 November 1946 · page 4

About 150 new examiners—both men and women—today began carrying out, driving tests on Britain’s learner motorists. These tests were…

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