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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1972

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Up to 18 People in Hotel Scuffle — barmaid tells Court

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 30 March 1972 · page 5

A barmaid from the Royal Hotel told a Court hearing last week that up to 18 people were involved in a fight in the main lounge last month. She is Valerie Tibbels,…

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Young woman charged with manslaughter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 April 1972 · page 1

A young housewife was remanded in custody yesterday on a manslaughter charge involving the death of her daughter, aged three years 11 months…

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Woman charged: sequel to fatal accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 April 1972 · page 6

A 21-year-old Victorian housewife yesterday was remanded to Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Way 16 to face a culpable driving charge…

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Mother charged over death of young child

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 April 1972 · page 6

A Queanbeyan woman was formally charged with feloniously slaying her four year old daughter in a Court hearing yesterday…

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Police Crackdown on Youthful Footpath Cyclists

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 April 1972 · page 5

Queanbeyan’s senior police officer this week warned the gloves were off in future with new measures replacing lenient treatment given so far to children riding bicycles on footpaths…

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Chased by police Woman used four letter word

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 April 1972 · page 7

A woman charged with using a four letter word to describe three police officers was run down on foot and arrested in an incident in January…

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Six Months Gaol -Stealing Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 April 1972 · page 4

A young man who was still on parole after serving a previous sentence was sentenced to six months goal in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions last Thursday on a stealing charge…

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Theft From Motel

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1972 · page 6

A room at the Olympia Motel in Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, was stripped of most of its movable…

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Suspended Gaol Sentence Rifle fired in domestic row

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1972 · page 11

A man who held a rifle to his wife’s head and threatened to blow her brains out was given a suspended prison sentence in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions…

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Property at police station

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1972 · page 11

Queanbeyan police are anxious to locate the owners of a quantity of property and valuables…

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Suspended gaol term Carried Knife for Protection

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 April 1972 · page 8

A 45-year-old plasterer was given a suspended two months gaol sentence in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions for carrying a knife…

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Drove against police advice—fined $120

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 April 1972 · page 7

A bricklayer who was warned by police not to drive but did so ten minutes later was fined $120 and disqualified for twelve months when he appeared in Queanbeyan…

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Five months gaol Drove Influence While Disqualified

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 April 1972 · page 6

A 25-year-old Queanbeyan man who drove under the influence whilst disqualified and still under a bond for a previous offence, was sentenced to five months imprisonment in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions…

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Aspros secreted in bloomers Shoplifters Fined $65 for Stealing Items Worth $1.96

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 May 1972 · page 3

Two shoplifters have been fined a total of $65 in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions for stealing items valued at only $1.96. Both were apprehended…

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Six month’s gaol for cafe theft

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 May 1972 · page 5

A 26-year-old labourer was sentenced to six months imprisonment In Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions for stealing $135 in cash from a Cooma cafe on April 10…

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Four months gaol for carrying knife

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1972 · page 9

In Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions, Andy Szmechlic, 47, of no fixed place of abode, has been sentenced to four months gaol for carrying a cutting instrument…

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Police Kept Busy

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1972 · page 1

Queanbeyan police had a busy period on Saturday night when two accidents occurred almost simultaneously about 8.30pm. Picture on the right shows a car which left…

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Adults and juveniles charged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1972 · page 3

Two adults and two juveniles have been arrested at Campbelltown and charged with 10…

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Suspend gaol term for wife assualt

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1972 · page 8

A suspended four months gaol sentence has been handed down in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions against a young man for an unlawful assault on his wife…

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Lost property at police station

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1972 · page 6

There are. a number of valuable items on band at Queanbeyan Police Station which have been…

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