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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1969

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Police report a quiet weekend

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 October 1969 · page 1

Officer-in-charge of Queanbeyan Police, Sgt. R. Aldridge, this afternoon, reported one of the quietest holiday weekends on record as far as police were concerned…

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Magistrate’s concern Two motorists under influence in one accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 October 1969 · page 2

A second motorist has been fined in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor as the result of an [?] at the intersection of…

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$1000 jewel theft

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 October 1969 · page 1

Hammonds Jewellery Store . in Monaro Street was the target of a thief thieves between 4;50…

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Police building referred to State Premier

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 October 1969 · page 8

Queanbeyan Chamber of Commerce has brought the condition of Queanbeyan police station and…

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Cooma Quarter Sessions Four years gaol for $92,000 mail robbery

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 November 1969 · page 7

A former Queanbeyan postal clerk and a railway clerk have each been sentenced to four years’ gaol for a $92,000 mail bag robbery at Queanbeyan in August this year. They are Colin Bruce…

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Police co-operation after robbery attempt

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 November 1969 · page 1

Canberra and Queanbeyan Police cooperated closely yesterday afternoon following the armed robbery ever attempted in the A.C.T…

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Police Station a broken down hovel-Monaro

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 November 1969 · page 9

Mr. Steve Maugery Member for Monaro in State Parliament last week described Queanbeyan police station built in 1870 as a disgrace to the present Government and to all previous Governments. During debate on the…

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Language and Assault

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 7

In Queanbeyan Court .of Petty Sessions, Graham J. Swan, of Kowen Forest, ACT, was fined $25 for…

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Acquitted of assault charge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 7

In Cooma Quarter Sessions last week, peter Shane Johnson, of Canberra was acquitted on a…

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$200 Fines for Stealing Car

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 7

Two Queanbeyan youths have been fined, $200 each and directed to enter into good behaviour bonds in Comma Quarter Sessions on Charges of stelaing a motor vehicle…

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Youths acted like hoodlums — Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 3

Two youths who took exception — physically and vocally — to a trampoline poline being dismantled…

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police station inspection

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 1

Supt. wood, the super [?] in charge of police building in NSW accompanied by Mr. T…

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Valuable items at Police Station

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 1

A number of valuable items found in the Queanbeyan area in the past week, have been…

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DUI fines total $400 “Potential killer” say Magistrate to youth

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 December 1969 · page 4

In Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions, Mr; D..G. Hughes, M, told a youth who pleaded guilty to 9 charge of driving under ,the influence of intoxicating liquor that in the condition in which he drove on October 11, he was a “potential killer.”…

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