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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

1,192 stories in Murray's papers · page 37 of 60

“An Incorrigible Criminal” Judge Tells Surveyor Is Sent to Gaol Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 7

“You are an incorrigible criminal,” said Judge Thomson when passing sentence of three years and a half imprisonment on Thomas Brown, 50,…

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Mysterious Jewel Theft £450 Worth Disappear from Office Woman Was ’Phoning Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 1

Two days home from a trip to France, Mrs. Mathilda Briel, wife of a French wool buyer, of Washington avenue, East Malvern, lost…

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Station Murder New Clues Discovered Gunman Seen by 5 People MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 1

Five persons are believed to have seen the man who shot Henry Thomas Norwood, relieving stationmaster at Carnegie, on…

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Sale of Drugs More Powers for Police Amending Bill in Assembly Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 5

Moving the second reading of the Police Amendment (Drugs) Bill in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) said it…

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Pieman’s Marriage “Was Not a Success” Wife’s Story in Divorce Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 4

The proprietor of a ker[?]side restaurant, known as the “Cafe d[?] Fairfax”, figured in a suit in the Divorce Court to-day, when…

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Theft of Overcoat Corowa Man Before Wagga Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 3

Charles Robert Pinn, drover, who stated, that lie came from Corowa, was charged, on remand from Junne, at the Wagga Police Court on Tuesday…

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Five Men Sentenced Wool Stolen From Train Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 4

Five men were sentenced at Parramatta Police Court to-day on charges of having stolen wool from railway goods trains. Two were…

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Police Court Monday, October 1, 1934 (Before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M.) Traffic Prosecutions

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 6

William E. Dow was fined 26 and ordered to pay 56 court costs, for having failed to return expired driver's license within three days of the…

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Gaming Charge Science Aids Police

The Independent · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 4

A way in which science aided a police investigation was mentioned at thee Prahran Court, when Wallace Saunders, wood merchant, of…

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Mother Charged With Assaulting Baby “An Extraordinary Case” Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 1

A tour months old baby was the principal exhibit in a case at the City police court to-day, in which Jean Barry, 28, of Rosslyn street,…

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Cousin Joins the Police Swamp Creek, Khancoban

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 21

Dear Uncle,—It is a long time since I last wrote to you. I have been down to my sister's place. She lives at Markwood. I only had a week, and it…

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The Storyteller the Island Murder Instalment No. 3 CHAPTER III.—(Continued.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 17

"HE was extremely courteous to me just now. Still there is a wicked look in his eyes which leads me to think he might prove to be…

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Raid on Sydney Premises Police to Pay £5 Damages

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 35

The case in which Central Investors Ltd. claimed £25,000 from certain members of the police force, following a raid by police on premises in Sydney…

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“Squaring the Police” Allegation’s Against Two Men Conspiracy Charge Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 5

In General Sessions to-day two men, one a former policeman, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having conspired together with a third man to…

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Escapees Sentenced Bid for Liberty Failed French Island Incident MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 5

When Eric Pike, 20, and Thomas Fullerton, 20, appeared before Mr. Bond, P.M., at the City Police court to-day on a charge…

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Had Just Served 7 YEARS Man Arrested Outside Gaol Lawyer’s Protest Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 1

Arrested outside the Brisbane gaol after serving seven years on another charge. Robert James Skelton, alias James Fitzgerald, 51, painter,…

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Girl Is Still Unnamed Fife Weeks of Inquiry Culvert Murder Victim

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 1

Was the Albury culvert outrage victim murdered, or did she die of another cause? This query continues to agitate the minds of…

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Murder Theory Detective Probes Woman’s Body in River HAY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 1

Police have not yet ascertained how Mrs. Mary Aughtie, 30, whose body was recovered from the Murrumbidgee river at Hay last night, got into…

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“Afraid to Give Evidence” Man Tells Police Defendant Discharged Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 4

When Joseph Finnie, 32, appeared at the Central police court to-day on a charge of having assaulted David Green, thereby occasioning him…

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Stabbed to Death Lloyd George’s Former Secretary Police Seek Suspect Montreal, October 6

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1934 · page 1

William Owens, a former secretary to Sir. David Lloyd George, and- an employe of a Montreal Stock Exchange firm, died early on Saturday from a…

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