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Courts & crime, 1934

1,192 stories in Murray's papers · page 28 of 60

Mysterious Fires Five Persons are Charged Attempted Fraud Alleged Ballarat

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 September 1934 · page 1

When Robert John Quigley and Joseph[?] were charged at the City police court to-day with having conspired together with Annie…

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Floods in India Two Deaths in Tragic Circum Police Fire on Mob Calcutta, September 2

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 September 1934 · page 5

The Ganges floods were responsible for two deaths in [?] circumstances to-day, The inhabitants of several villages which were…

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Young Woman’s Charred Body Found in Culvert Near Clad Only in Night Attire Artly Burnt Sack Over Head Identity a Baffling Mystery Murder Believed Several Days Old District Scoured to Find if Victim Lived Here

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 September 1934 · page 1

Her head shockingly battered, the lower limbs charred by the flames with which her murderer would have destroyed her, the body of a young Woman, clad in flimsy pyjamas, and the head arid shoulders enshrouded in a half-burnt wheat sack, was found haphazardly hidden in a pipe calvert five miles from Albury on the Howlong road on…

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Stealing Two Young Men Charged

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 3

BEFORE Messrs Blackmore and Wyse, J’s P. at the Police Court, on Thursday, two young men were charged with stealing a bridle and…

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Heard at the Police Court Yesterday

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 1

Mr. Mueller: New, as to this police “pimp”— Inspector Burke: I object: Mr. Mueller: Well, police agent…

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Betting Cases Fines of £20 and £15 Evidence at Police Court Yesterday

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 1

REFERRED to by Inspector Burke as “a surprise packet.” Constable Smith a young member of the police force from Berrigan, gave evidence in…

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Police Court Monday, September 3, 1934 (Before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P. M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

Clive McMillan was Charged under the public Instruction Act with having failed to send a boy aged thirteen and one half years to school Evidence…

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Albury Murder Mystery Description Fits One Girl Who Left Sydney with a Theatrical Company. Sydney

The Independent · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

In connection with the finding in a culvert of the charred body of a murdered girl near Albury, the Sydney relatives of a girl say that the…

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Gruesome Tragedy Woman's Charred Body Found in Culvert Five Miles Clad in Night Attire Brutal Murder Suspected

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

A crime that has no parallel in Albury's history is now [?] the attention of sydney and Albury detectives…

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Hunt for Culvert Murderer Carries Investigators Into Country Woman’s Name Still Unknown Intensive Police Investigations But Few Clues to Help Them Public Stirred by Horrible Crime Man Says He Had Seen Victim in Albury

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 1

Nearly three days Lave elapsed since the body of the young woman who was brutally done to death was found in a pipe culvert on the Howlong load road, five miles from Albury, and her identity is as big a mystery as ever. Meanwhile, the activities of the police have not ceased for a…

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Murder of Russian Police at a Dead-end Appeal to the Public Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 1

Police have made no progress to their investigation into the murder of the Russian, Paul Drasdoff, by bandits at Waverley on Saturday night…

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Money Demanded Men Allegedly Said They Were Police Remanded for Sentence Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day John Kelly. 50, laborer, and Sydney Brightfield, 26, laborer, pleaded guilty to having with menaces demanded money…

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Mining Industry Its Gloomy Outlook Discussion in Court Reference to City “Gold-miner” MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 2

Mr L C Meagher, representing the Mines and Metals Association, told Chief Judge Dethridge in the [?] Court to-day that in spite…

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Key to Culvert Murder Mystery Hoped For By Week-End Will Photograph Give Clue? Albury Woman Who Went to Melbourne Intensive Canvass of Border Towns Yesterday Long Trip Reveals Little of Value to Detectives

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 1

Investigation of the culvert murder five miles west of Albury on the Howlong road has reached a stage wherein the means is obscuring the end : the object is the detection of the murderer, but seemingly the only way of attaining the objective is to establish the woman’s identity, and detectives are now concentrating wholly on this feature…

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Gaol for Traveller Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 4

James Bodinner, 46, traveller, of Shepparton, who admitted previous convictions in other States, pleaded guilty in General Sessions to-day to…

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Inquiries in Melbourne Callers at Police Headquarters a Man’s Belief Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 1

Several people called at police headquarters, Russell street, to-night, in an effort to establish the identity of the girl who was murdered near…

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An Old Man’s Wealth Police Get a Surprise Appeared to Be Poor Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 2

An old man who-was taken to the Hospital for the Dying early this morning requested the Redfern police to go to his room, which he rented…

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Appeal to Public “Someone Knows Girl” Police Chief Believes Victim an Albury Girl SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 1

An appeal to the public to assist the police in identifying the Albury murder victim was made by the Commissioner for Police (Mr. Childs)…

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Secret of Identity Still Checks Culvert Murder Mystery Solution Visit to Culcairn Sideshows Reveal Nothing Hunt Extends to Four States Missing Albury Girl Found in Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 1

The efforts to establish the identity of the woman victim of the culvert murder mystery, whose battered and fire-charred body was found in a pipe culvert on the Howlong road, nearly five miles west of Albury, have now extended to no fewer than four States…

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Albury Police Court Petty Thieving

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 12

George Deegan, 26, pleaded guilty to stealing a suit-case containing clothing of the total value of £7, the property of Victor Dawson Jennett, at…

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