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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1965

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D. G. Hughes appointed district magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1965 · page 1

Mr. D. G. Hughes, who has been Clerk of Petty Sessions Chamber Magistrate and District Coroner at Queanbeyan for almost 10 years, has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate for the Cooma Circuit…

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Magistrate‘s last sittings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 January 1965 · page 1

Mr. [?] Berman, stipendiary Magistrate for the Cooma Circuit who held his last sittings In the district at…

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Fined £15 After Brush with Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 January 1965 · page 9

A man who police said threatened to “fix his wife” was fined a total of £15 on charges of assaulting police…

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Ten fined for faulty tyres Police Active

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 January 1965 · page 6

At the last sitting of the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions ten motorists were fined…

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Guilty of Queanbeyan Murder Three youths sentenced to life terms

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1965 · page 1

Three youths have been found guilty by a Goulburn Supreme Court jury of having murdered a man near Queanbeyan on November 17. They were each sentenced to life…

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Woman fined for stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 March 1965 · page 2

A woman who was given A suspended three months sentence for stealing at the Canberra Court in…

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Maximum fine for indecent language inadequate Magistrate’s opinion

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 March 1965 · page 2

In fining one of three men who appeared in the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, to answer charges of indecent language Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. [?]…

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Dramatic police arrest Captain’s Flat theft thwarted

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 March 1965 · page 1

Constable Blyton, of Captain’s Flat police, last night made a dramatic arrest of two young men disturbed during an attempted robbery…

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Traffic Superintendent advises council police control at main intersection not necessary

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 March 1965 · page 1

The Superintendent of Traffic, Mr. A. J. McCloskey, has advised the Municipal Council that it is still felt that regular police control at the intersection police control…

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Lost articles unclaimed at police station

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 March 1965 · page 6

Queanbeyan police are anxious to contact the owners of a number of articles lost recently and which have…

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Map claims police told “a pack of lies”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 March 1965 · page 4

A man claimed at the last sitting of the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions that two police officers had told “a pack of lies” during evidence against him…

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CORONER’S FINDING—Murder - suicide in double shooting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 April 1965 · page 7

A man who shot a woman dead in her home in The Crescent, Queanbeyan, last December, subsequently killed himself in his hairdressing salon in Crawford Street…

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More must be spent on police services

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 April 1965 · page 7

New South Wales spent less per head on police services than any other Australian State the Liberal candidate for Monaro, Mr. Steve Mauger, said yesterday…

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Youth Remanded on Murder Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 April 1965 · page 1

A 16-years-old youth was remanded until Wednesday when he appeared in Queanbeyan Children’s Court this afternoon charged with the murder last night of his 22-year-old sister. The dead girl is Els[?]en…

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Murder charge Magistrate refuses youth bail

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 April 1965 · page 1

In Queanbeyan Court yesterday a 16-year-old -youth was remanded to May 21 on a charge of having murdered…

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Aftermath of jewellery robbery Police move swiftly

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 April 1965 · page 1

Detective Ccmstable Tom Spinks descends from the awning of premises in Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, early yesterday morning after recovering a jeweller’s velvet ring display case. The case was thrown onto…

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Collided with Police truck

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 April 1965 · page 4

A man who pleaded guilty to driving negligently and colliding with the Police van while unlicensed, was fined…

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Police Prosecutor for Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 April 1965 · page 1

Sgt. Geoff Hill, a Police Prosecutor, has been appointed to Queanbeyan on a full-time basis and is…

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Man charged after railway van theft

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 May 1965 · page 1

A man appeared in the Queanbeyan Court of petty Sessions yesterday morning charged with the theft of a…

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Police warn on fireworks

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 May 1965 · page 1

Officer-in-charge of the Queanbeyan Police Station, Sgt. First Class G. Murray, today issued a warning…

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