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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1972

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Bond for assault on female

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 May 1972 · page 11

A youth who unlawfully assaulted a former female associate was placed on a $50 bond to be of good behaviour for twelve months…

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Assault and robbery Gaoled for 18 MONTHS

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 May 1972 · page 10

In Cooma Quarter Sessions, a 19-Year-old Queanbeyan youth has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for assault and robbery. He is Stephen Leslie…

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Obituaries Police pallbearers at funeral of former sergeant

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 May 1972 · page 3

Four police officers, three from Queanbeyan and one from Bungendore, acted as pallbearers at the funeral yesterday of a former Queanbeyan police…

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Court List a Record

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 June 1972 · page 1

Yesterday was list day at Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions, the first for about a fortnight, with a record list of charge cases down to be heard…

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Police Lay 80 Charges

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 1

Queanbeyan police preferred 80 charges against 41 different persons in the eight days to 12 midnight last night. Most are listed for hearing at the Court of Petty Sessions tomorrow…

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New police car not new for long

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 3

A new Ford Falcon vehicle of which Queanbeyan police took delivery on Friday, didn’t remain in…

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Juvenile shoplifter in court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 June 1972 · page 5

A 15-year-old girl was committed to an institution after appearing in Queanbeyan Children’s…

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Man Fires 15 Shots in Seige Wounded by Police

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1972 · page 1

A man fired fifteen shots from a high powered rifle during a two-and-a-half hour seige at a Queanbeyan private hotel last…

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Theft From School

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 June 1972 · page 3

Queanbeyan detectives are investigating the theft of equipment valued at $150 from the manual arts room…

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Fined $100 for theft

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 June 1972 · page 4

In Queanbeyan Court of Petty Seasons, Raymond john Armstrong, 25, of Donald Road, has been…

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Six charged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 July 1972 · page 13

Queanbeyan police at the week-end charged Ave persons with driving with the prescribed…

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Magistrate finds manner of speech offensive

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 July 1972 · page 8

In Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions, Relieving Magistrate Mr. K. Clarke has held that a young man’s manner of speech was offensive to police…

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Magistrate’s Warning Staring Gaol Sentence in the Face

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 July 1972 · page 8

Relieving Magistrate, Mr. K. Clarke, told a man in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions last week on his third charge of driving while affected by liquor, that he was “staring a gaol sentence in…

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Young man cleared Assault charges dismissed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 August 1972 · page 6

A young man has been cleared in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on charges of assaulting police, resisting arrest, using unseemly words and unlawful…

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Police ‘Blitz’ on Illegal Parking

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 August 1972 · page 1

Police intend to make a blitz on incorrectly parked vehicles in Queanbeyan, particularly on footpaths and adjacent to flats and residentials…

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Committed for trial on assault charge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 August 1972 · page 6

In Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, a 24-year-old man was committed to stand trial at Cooma Quarter sessions on August 21 on charges of assault…

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Theft From Locked Car

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 August 1972 · page 1

The front door of a car parked adjacent to flats in Macquoid Street, Queanbeyan, was forced…

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Stars in Police Teams

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 August 1972 · page 11

Three Rugby League internationals will turn out for Sydney police in the annual Rugby Union…

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Two fined for theft of pigs

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 August 1972 · page 5

Two men have been fined in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on charges of stealing two pigs from a property at “Poplars”, on the Tharwa Road, on July 29…

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Nine months gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 August 1972 · page 3

In Cooma Quarter Sessions yesterday, Henry Nelson Barnes, 35, of Giles street, Kingston, ACT. was…

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