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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1964

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Police Find Lost Wood Seekers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1964 · page 1

A Canberra man and his 14-year-old son, who were reported lost to the Queanbeyan police on Saturday…

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Police down Walsh’s in social League

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1964 · page 3

The Police defeated Walsh’s 11-10 in the long awaited Rugby League clash at Taylor Park on…

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Two charged with Golf Club robbery

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1964 · page 4

Queanbeyan police have arrested . two youths aged 20 and 18 and charged them with breaking, entering and…

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Police Act to Avert Gang Brawl

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1964 · page 1

Queanbeyan police on Sunday afternoon intercepted three car-loads of youths from Canberra in…

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Two Extra Court Days Allocated

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1964 · page 1

Queanbeyan has been allocated two extra days per month for sittings of the Court of Petty Sessions in a new roster for the Cooma Magistrate’s Circuit. The Clerk of Petty…

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Mayor confers with Acting Police Chief

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1964 · page 1

The Mayor (Ald. F. E. Land) returned to Queanbeyan this afternoon after having had discussions…

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Visit from police commissioner

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1964 · page 1

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. N. Allan, may pay an official visit to Queanbeyan when he…

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£5 Fines for Stealing Petrol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1964 · page 4

Two young men who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing three gallons of petrol, were each fined £5…

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Bomb Gaoled at Police Station

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1964 · page 1

Up until this afternoon, a live Plat bomb occupied the No. 2 cell at the Queanbeyan an Police Station…

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Police Officer Tells of Axe Warning

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 September 1964 · page 1

A police constable said in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions morning that he had heard a warning shout, “Look out, he’s got an axe,” during an altercation in a house at Elizabeth Crescent on January 17 this year…

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Court Hearing in Fourth Day Assault charges against five police withdrawn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1964 · page 1

Nine summons charges of assault against five police officers were withdrawn and dismissed in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions this morning. The summonses were…

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A Ct. Police Powers Extended

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1964 · page 2

A report this morning that New South Wales police were being given special powers within the…

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Assault case finding tomorrow

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1964 · page 1

Hearing of charges of assault and resisting arrest against Gyula and Lazlo Mesics, of Elizabeth…

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Six months gaol on 11 charges

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 October 1964 · page 2

Bruce Edgar Donehue, of 24 Glebe Avenue, Queanbeyan, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment last week in the A.C.T. Supreme Court, was sentenced to a…

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Police Have Lost Purse

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 November 1964 · page 2

Queanbeyan Police are anxious to find the owner of a purse lost at Capri Casuals store in Monaro Street,…

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Queanbeyan police plea knocked back

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 November 1964 · page 1

The commissioner of Police has advised the Municipal Council that it is not possible at this stage to appoint…

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Police must not hide

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 November 1964 · page 6

Police officers must not conceal themselves with a view to detecting motorists committing offences…

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Youth remanded on murder charge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 November 1964 · page 1

A 16-year-old Newcastle youth was remanded in custody until December 7 by Mr. M. Farquhar, S.M., when he appeared in Queanbeyan Children’s Court yesterday on a…

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Queanbeyan murder Another two youths charged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 November 1964 · page 1

Another two youths have been arrested charged in Gosford Court with the murder of a man whose body was found on the banks of the Molonglo River, near Whisker's Creek…

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Berridale murder suspect

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 December 1964 · page 1

Police at Cooma, under Detective Constable R. Gorham, of Queanbeyan, were questioning a man this afternoon…

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