Is Boxing Sport or Murder
Is boxing a sport, or is it legalised murder? These are questions being asked by the Oslo evening paper. "Dagbladet," in an intensive campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1951
84 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 5
Gaol Escapees
Six inmates of Bathurst gaol made a daring escape yesterday but two of them were recaptured about 10 miles from Bathurst last night. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wollongong Murder
As a result of the hearing of charges against three Hungarian migrants for being concerned in the death of Mrs. Lucy Frances Burrows, licensee of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol-Breakers Charged
The six prisoners who escaped from Bathurst Gaol on September 24 were committed for trial yesterday at the Bathurst Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Stealing Penalties
The Federal Rural Conference of the Liberal Party has found that the penalties for sheep stealing are inadequate. It has decided to ask all State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.s.w. Police Force Rated Among the World's Best
The N.S.W. Police Force was "equal-ly as good, if not better," than any other police force in the world" the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Scott)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Sent To Gaol Illegally Used Car
In the Canberra Court on Thursday, before , the S.M., Mr. F. C. P. Keane, three men were charged with illegally using a motor car and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court of Petty Sessions Before Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M.
Wednesday’s sittings of open court were very short, only two cases being dealt with. On a charge of drunkenness,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revision Court
Tallaganda Shire rolls were revised at Friday's Revision Court, before Mr. A. J. Paton. SM. The Shire Clerk (Mr. M. J. Noonan) stated that in "A"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Petty Sessions
At Wednesday’s sittings of Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., the business in open court was light…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hectic Football Referee Attacked in Maher Cup Game lADY and Three Men in Court
When the Cowra Gundagal Maher Cup Football match finished at Cowra recently, spectators swarmed on to the field and severely attacked the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Use of Electricity Landlord and Tenant Differ Assault Charges Follow
A difference between landlord and tenant over the use of electricity in the house, led to a court action in which the tenant and his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol For Lighting Fires
A rabbiter who lit four fires in [?] and grassland along Dead man’s Creek, near Maitland Court yesterday. He was William Garland, aged 48,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suicide Linked With Murder
Police believe that a youth, Pte. Harold Lionel Merriman Dyson, 17, who committed suicide in the yard of his motherâs home at South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canberra Police Raid Shed
As a result of the raid by Canberra police on a shed in the Oaks Estate, last. Sunday night, 25 men forfeited their bail of £2 each at Canberra Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Theft
When aper son leaves his clothes on a beach usually they disappear entirely. A British migrant who went for a dip on Wollongong beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Pay Too Low. Says Country Party Member
The N.S.W. police were grossly underpaid, declared Mr. G. R. Crawford (C.P., Barwon) in the Legislative Assembly. The Commissioner of Police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Murder and Suicide
Police allege that a wealthy widow poisoned her 13-year-old son with strychnine, tried to poison her 10-year old daughter, and then poisoned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young East German Defies People’s Court
Herman Flade, a 13-year-old student in East Germany, has become to many of his countrymen a symbol of courageous belief in truth, decency…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Charge
A 19-year-old youth will appear in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, charged with attempted murder. Ivan Joseph McCauley has…
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