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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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

Serial Story Murder at My House Chapter Xxviii

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1948 · page 4

MARIE was quite-quite dead. No doubt of it. No living person ever lay like that so utterly relaxed and yet so awkward. Be…

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Serial Story Murder at My House Chapter Xxix

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 November 1948 · page 4

I WAS only guessing—there were gaps, of course, in the pattern as I saw it then. Only the police could check and question and find…

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Serial Story Murder at My House Chapter Xxx

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 4

A MAN’S love is a curious thing. It can possess him absolutely possess him altogether. It is never as strong in him as the urge to…

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Jap War Monsters Sentenced Story of Great "Sheet Blitz."

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 4

Private Riroaki Kono, a Japanese interpreter who kicked and punched an Australian officer in a Tokyo POW camp because he would not lick his…

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Serial Story Murder at My House Chapter Xxxi

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 4

AFTER an eternity Bob lifted his head and just looked at me. I felt, his eyes going over my face, painting it forever in his memory,…

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Tokio Trials Executions Deferred Pending Court Hearing WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 2

By majority of five to four, the United States Supreme Court yesterday granted a hearing to the two Japanese War Lords convicted…

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Allard Murder Trial Jury Fails to Agree

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 8

At Central Criminal Court, Sydney, a jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday at the trial of two men for the murder of Francis John…

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Fire on Reserve Police Action Sought

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 3

Members of Braidwood P.P. Board took a serious view of a fire which broke out on the 10-mile reserve on 15th November. The Rabbit…

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Jury List Revised at Special Court

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 2

A Special Court of Petty Sessions for the revision of the jury list for Braidwood District, for the year, 1949 was held at the Court House, Braidwood…

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Double Murder Youth Sentenced to Death

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 4

Eric Thomas Turner, 20-year-old labourer, was sentenced to death yesterday in the Central Criminal Court…

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Guilty of Murder

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 3

William Benjamin Harvel-Bugg, 17, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Central Criminal Court yesterday…

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Police Patrols will Check Motorists

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 2

Inspector T. J. Ellis, officer in charge of Goulburn police, has revealed that an “extensive check” would be made on motor traffic over the holiday…

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