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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Problem For Apiarists Court Says Bees Are Domestic Animals

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 4

The “Bairnsdale Advertiser” Victoria, reporting a police court case last month, gave something of interest to apiarists…

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Police Court Show Week Brings Big List of Cases

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 2

At the Braidwood Police Court, before Mr, R. Astill, J.P., on 24/2/47, Robert Colemane was charged with driving under the influence of…

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Stealing Charges March 26th. (Before Messrs R. Astill and J. Barrett J's.P.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 2

Arthur Herbert Clayton was charged with stealing the sum of £60 in Australian bank notes. Remanded to Court of Petty Sessions, Newtown, on 3/3/47…

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Police Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 2

There was a big list of cases at yesterday's court before the Police Magisrate, Mr. T. H. Brooke. One defendant faced no fewer than six…

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Alleged Assault Man Committed For Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 2

Before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M. at the local Court of Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, Colin Smith was charged with assaulting and illtreating…

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Trouble Over a Torch Stealing Charge

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 4

Henry W. Kelly was charged at the Braidwood Police Court on Thursday before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., with having stolen a torch, the property of…

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Driving [?] Influence Police Charge Fails

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 1

At the Braidwood Police Court on Thursday last, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., Robert F. A. Colemane was charged with driving a motor vehicle…

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Gundagai Man Says He Will Go to Gaol Rather Than Pay Fine

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 2

Mr. Jim Robinson, of "Bengarralong" has informed the Pastures Protection Board that he will not pay the fine imposed on him in the…

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Warden's Court Thursday (Before Mr. T. H. Brooke. P.M.)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 3

J. Worldon, for whom Mr. Garvey appeared, applied for suspension of labour conditions attaching to his alluvial prospecting area for a period of…

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Trespass and Malicious Damage Greenwell Point Man Before Nowra Court

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 4

An unusual case came before Mr. A. E. Hodgson, P.M., at the last sitting of the Nowra Police Court, when Adelaide Neate, a widow, of Nelligen,…

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Hypocrites Over Country Racing, Says Junee Solicitor Licensing Would Give the Police Proper Control

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 4

"I always feel that we are a lot of hypocrites when we are dealing with cases like this," said Mr. A. H. Crawley, in his address to the Bench in the…

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Court Martial Follows Near Mutiny

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 2

Lieut William Behran Simms, R.A.N., was charged before a court martial aboard H.M.A.S. Hobart to-day with conduct prejudicial to good…

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Police Constable Farewelled

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

On Monday night last a farewell dinner was tendered First Class Constable Dudley Beer, of the Queanbeyan Police Force, on the…

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Late Supt. Jeffrey Police Funeral

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2

The late Superintendent George Jeffrey, who was a son of the late Mr. John Jeffrey of Braidwood, was accorded a police funeral at Newcastle…

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Coal Ministers Shot Spanish Police Allege Communist Plot VALENCIA, Friday (A.A.P)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2

Nine coalminers were shot dead when police discovered what they called a Communist plot to dynamite the power plant in Utrilla…

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Police Highway Patrols

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 April 1947 · page 1

The "negative approach" of the police authorities regarding city car parking and traffic prosecutions is attacked by the N.R.M.A…

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Police Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

At Tuesday’s Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., Sid McCauley, James O’Donnell and Joseph Robinson forfeited their…

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Small Debts Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 2

(Before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M.) Robert H, McCarron v. William L. Moore, for debt for work, done and goods supplied from 11th April, 1930,…

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Telegraphic News Trouble Over Police Transfer

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 3

Addressing the Police Association Conference to-day Sergeant A. J. Keough, who yesterday alleged that he had been transferred from Peak Hill…

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Tarago Hall Rumpus Bungendore Man in Court

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 2

A Bungendore resident was fined £1, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, at the Goulburn Police Court on Monday for having behaved in an offensive…

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