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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

1,192 stories in Murray's papers · page 40 of 60

Little Progress Culvert Murder Mystery Specialists Examine Girl's Body

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1934 · page 1

After a busy day yesterday, detectives investigating the Albury culvert murder mystery were unable to report progress.,…

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Threats Against Youth Police to Protect Him Jury's Recommendation Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1934 · page 1

Jack, Perey Stephen, 19 Clerk, was acquitted at Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of perjury arising out of evidence he had given in the Arigus…

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“Police Lost Heads” What Films Show Grim and Terrifying LONDON, October 11

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1934 · page 4

Pictures of the assassination were displayed in a news-reel in London to night ,and- was grim and terrifying in its realism,…

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Legless Soldier Vanishes Had Large Sum of Money Intensive Police Search. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1934 · page 1

An intensive search is being conducted for a legless soldier named Frederick George Trice, of Guildford, who disappeared on Wednesday with…

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Harbor Collision Sequel Master’s Court Application Judge’s Comments Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1934 · page 8

On the ground that the order of the Court of Marine Inquiry, following the sinking of the ferry Bluebell in Newcastle Harbor in August, was…

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Aftermath of Assassinations Boy King Meets Mother Fifth Victim of Shooting Dies French Minister Resigns Allegations That Police Lost Their Heads Paris, October 11

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1934 · page 4

Guining a kingdom through the loss of his father, Alexander II., King Peter II., on whom the full significance of the assassination of the King has not yet dawned ,was reunited with his mother, the widowed Queen Marie of Yugo Slavia this afternoon and heard from her the full details…

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Grl’s Pyjamas Key in Murder Mystery An Important Development

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 1

The pyjamas worn by the girl victam of the culvert murder- may yet play an important part in establishing her identity and the her slayer…

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Hectic Wrestling Police Inspector Intervenes SYDNEY bouts SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 1

Gus Sonnenberg, ex-world’s wrestling champion, defeated Tony Felice two falls to nil in four rounds at Rush cutter Bay stadium last night. A…

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Man Shot Dead Street Corner Tragedy Suspect Surrenders to Police SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 3

William Katen Crown 56 of Concord, was shot dead at a street cornel near us home last night subsequently a young man…

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Shoot Themselves Young Man and Woman Were in Hands Op Police Paris Oct. 13

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 2

Armed guards between Fontaine and Courtenay who were searching for a suspect named Chalny signalled a motor car containing a…

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Boy King Life in Danger An Alleged Confession French Police Active Remarkable story Unfolded PARIS, October-12

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 2

Brilliant work by Inspector Beck who arrested them before they were able to cross the Swlss frontier, thwarted an attempt to…

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“A Modern Borgia” Girl Killed Father Amazing Outburst in Court Death Sentence Passed PARIS, October 12

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 3

Denounced by the prosecution as a thief, a liar, and the perpetrator of an odious crime that required pitiless retribution,…

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Beryl Cashmere New Zealand Search She the Murder Victim ?Pyjama Clue Woman Says Garment on Dead Girl Belonged to Beryl Cashmere Wellington (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 1

In an endeavour to trace a young woman named Beryl Cashmere, the police have solicited the aid of the National Broadcasting…

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Local and General Police Court

The Independent · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 2

Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, J.P., In Deniliquin Police Court yesterday morning, Robert Gillieis (28) was charged with being drunk in Napier…

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Horse Stealing Case

The Independent · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 4

At Narrandera Police Court, Joseph Blain was charged with stealing four geldings, the property of Charles Young (deceased). The…

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Is This Gaol?

The Independent · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 4

A message from London states that Kaye Don, the racing motorist, who is serving four months' imprisonment for the manslaughter of his…

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Man Shot Dead Following Street Argument Defendant Charged with Murder. Sydney

The Independent · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 3

At the Burwood Court to-day, Lindsay Frederick Bell, 23, labourer, single, was remanded until November 1, on a charge of having…

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Assassing Charged. Marseilles

The Independent · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 3

Benes, alias Raich, actually Ivan Rajltch, and Novak, alias Pospisel, actually Pospichil, were to-day charged with complicity in the…

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Albury-road Murder

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 3

There was a new development in the culvert mystery on Thursday afternoon last, when detectives despatched the body of the unknown…

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King’s Death Two Charged With Complicity Action by French Police London, October 14

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 3

Following in rigorous cross-examination which lasted for .24 hours, .the. French police to-day charged [?] Benes alias Raich whose [?]…

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