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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1963

68 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 4

Four youths on theft charges

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 January 1963 · page 2

Four Quean youths who had embarked on a stealing escapade from cars in the Canberra area on Christmas night, were dealt with in Canberra Court yesterday…

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Damaged police typewriter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 January 1963 · page 4

A man with a previous record of malicious damage, resisting arrest and offensive behaviour, was fined a…

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Police report a quiet holiday period No fatalities during 1962

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 January 1963 · page 1

The holiday in Queanbeyan and district proved to he quiet and uneventful, with no road accidents of a serious nature reported, despite a considerable volume of tourist traffic…

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Four motorists answer charges Four traffic offenders, who either appeared or were represented at the, last Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions, were fined a total of £15 with £4 costs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 January 1963 · page 4

One of the offenders, Leonard B. Donoghoe, of Atkinson Street, Queanbeyan had his negligent driving charge…

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Bogus collector sentenced to 2 months gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 January 1963 · page 2

A man who collected money in a hotel bar by means of false representation, was sentenced to two months gaol at Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on December 21…

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Indecent Language to Police

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 January 1963 · page 4

A man who used indecent language to police in the street from a flat in Seiffert Centre was fined £5…

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Higher status sought for Queanbeyan police

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 January 1963 · page 1

The Municipal Council has asked the N. S. W. Police Department to give consideration to having Queanbeyan made a 24-hour station. This was decided at a…

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Man charged following accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 January 1963 · page 6

A man was charged last night at the Queanbeyan Police Station, with driving a vehicle whilst under the…

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Suspended sentence on assault charge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 January 1963 · page 5

At the last sitting of the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on December 21, Mr. M. F. Farquahar, S.M., told a migrant charged with assault, that he felt he should send…

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Police blitz on night shooting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 January 1963 · page 1

Queanbeyan Police have received numerous reports from landholders, of people shooting firearms at night…

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Gent’s bicycle at police station

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 January 1963 · page 3

The person who lost a gent’s bicycle, may collect it by describing it at the Queanbeyan Police Station…

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Fined £30 after scuffle with police

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 January 1963 · page 6

Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. I. T. Forrest, warned a man on Wednesday that he would go to gaol if he came before him again for fighting with police…

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Bicycle Stealing Prevalent

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1963 · page 1

Queanbeyan police are alarmed at the number of bicycles being stolen from outside the War Memorial…

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Man charged with housebreaking this morning

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1963 · page 1

A Queanbeyan man appeared before- Mr. D. G. Hughes in the Queanbeyan Court this morning on five…

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Licensing Court Resumes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1963 · page 1

The hearing of an application by the, Queanbeyan Leagues Club for a licence under the Liquor Act, was…

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Council seeks increase in court sittings

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 January 1963 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council wilt approach the N.S.W. Justice Department, with a view to having additional sittings by the Stipendiary Magistrate at Queanbeyan…

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“Wild Bill Hickock” in Queanbeyan court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 February 1963 · page 4

A young man who the Magistrate, Mr. I. T. Forrest, S.M., described as a “Wild Bill Hickock,” was fined £20 at the last sitting of the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions…

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Increase in Police hours unnecessary

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 February 1963 · page 13

The N.S.W. Police Department does not consider operation of the Queanbeyan Police Station on a 24 hour…

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Court days under review

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1963 · page 1

The Minister for Justice, the Hon. N. J, Mannix, may approve additional sitting days at Queanbeyan of the…

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“Expensive Miss” Says Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 March 1963 · page 2

Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. I. T. Forrest summing up a, case in which a young Queanbeyan man had been charged with breaking a plate glass window, costing him…

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