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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

1,192 stories in Murray's papers · page 20 of 60

Widow’s Amazing Statement [?]nks Husband with River Murder Mrs. Lillian Anderson’s Trial Jury Locked -Up for Night Verdict Today WAGGA

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 July 1934 · page 5

Repeating the allegation which she made at her first trial at Sydney, her husband had told-her he had killed Percy Smith in a quarrel, and thrown his body into the Murrumbidgee River, Mrs. Lillian Anderson, who is charged with the murder of her husband, Moncrieff Anderson,…

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Sheep-stealing Charge Man to Appear at Mildura Court

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 28 July 1934 · page 4

Charged with stealing 151 sheep valued at £90, Stephen Walter Clifford appeared at the Wentworth Court this week before, Mr. H. G. Woods, J.P…

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Most Stay in Gaol Mrs. Edols Loses Appeal Weeps When Addressing Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1934 · page 4

The Court of Cri[?] Appeal to-day dismissed the [?] of Mrs. [?] Edols against sentences tota[?] two years,…

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Murder of Dr. Dollfuss

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1934 · page 4

Europe received, a shock when the announcement was made that Dr. Dollfuse, the Chancellor of Austria. had fallen a victi[?] to political…

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Lover Vanished Jilted Girl Awarded £200 Remarkable Court Story MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1934 · page 4

A [?] story or a man’s sudden disappearance two days before his marriage to an alterative girl, was told in the County…

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Curfew Order in N.Z. Magistrate’s Remarkable Decision Alleged .Communist Sentenced Wellington (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 July 1934 · page 1

Four men who were convicted on charges arising from an attempt to hold a street meeting were sentenced by the magistrate at Auckland police…

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Killed His Rival Trapper Sent to Gaol Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 July 1934 · page 1

During a quarrel between two young rabbit trappers over the right to trap rabbits in a paddock at Benambra, near Omeo Clifford Joseph…

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Umpire Menaced Hatpin Stuck in Leg Police Save Him Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 July 1934 · page 4

As the field umpire, Mowlar was leaving the ground at the conclusion of the Williamstown-Northcote match yesterday he received a very hostile…

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Alleged Theft of Rings Three Men Before Court Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 5

Eric Courtney, 34, salesman, Francis Fraley, 24, plasterer, and William Wallace, 27, motor driver, appeared at the Central police court today on…

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Police at Wargunyah

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 2

In connection with the removal of the police officer from Wahgunyah the president of the Ruthergien Shire Council (Cr. C. L. Dobblu[?] has…

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Trouble Over a Rug Jindera Dance Incident Man Discharged on Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 3

James Phillips, 35, pleaded not guilty when charged at the Albury Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with stealing a rug valued…

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Sentenced for Vagrancy Man Would Not Go to Home Strange Mode of Living

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 3

Harry Poulton, 55, when charged at the Albury Court, of Petty Sessions yesterday with having had no lawful visible means of support, pleaded not…

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Hay District Court. Moratorium Applicdon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 2

At the Hay District Court, on Friday, before His Honor Judge Coyle, In the matter of the Hay Municipal Council v. Kathleen Boyle, an…

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District Court Judgment Debtors Examined

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 2

Two parisons against whom judgments had been obtained were examined In the District Court on Tuesday, before Judge Coyle as to their…

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Has Ten Wives Northern Native “King” Sidelights at Murder Trial DARWIN

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 3

The hearing was began in the Supreme Court today of the case in which three Caledon Bay natives, [?] Mow and…

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Allegedly Defrauded “Bank Loses £2777” Assertions by Police Prosecutor MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 1

Sums of money amounting to £2777 were alleged by the police prosecutor to have been paid between May 14 and June 19, by the National Bank of…

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Girl and a Ring “Mug” in Melbourne Gave it to Her Court Charge Fails Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 1

Patricia Myra O’Brien, 20, appeared at the Central Police Court on a charge of having had in the custody of a pawnbroker a ring reasonably…

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How Dr. Dollfuss Died Dramatic Story at Trial Former Soldiers Face Court Two Sentenced to Death and Hanged VIENNA, July 30

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 August 1934 · page 1

More details of the assassination of Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, the late Chancellor of Austria, on July 25, were revealed to-day at the trial before a special military court of Otto Planetta, aged 35, on .a charge of the murder of Dr. Dollfuss, and high treason, and Franz Holzweter, aged 30, on…

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Alderman in Court An Abduction Charge Information is Dismissed SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 August 1934 · page 2

Joseph Patrick Neaylon, 35, postal employe, and an alderman of the Paddington Municipal Council, was discharged at…

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No Excuse for Conduct! Judge Tells Prisoners Girl and Youths Sentenced SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 August 1934 · page 1

“There is nothing to excuse the conduct of anyone of you As for the, girl her behaviour is astonanding” declared Judge Barton, at…

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