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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,907 stories in Murray's papers · page 32 of 96

£31,000 to be Spent Improving Albury Hotels Approval by Court Accommodation for Travellers Police Inspector’s Comments

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 6

Before [?] is out, Albury will be the best [?] town between Sydney and Melbourne so far as hotel [?] is concerned. This was…

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Police Inquiries for Priest Launceston

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 8

Inquiries are being made by police concerning the whereabouts of a Roman Catholic priest who arrived at the north-west coast from Melbourne…

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Jockey Must Pay Wife’s Divorce Costs or Go to Gaol SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 2

William Henry “Puller, jockey, was ordered by acting-Justice Edwards in the Divorce Court to-day to pay £33/-17/[?] representing his wife’s costs in…

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Licensing Court. Important Sitting at Jerilderie

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 4

An important sitting of the Licensing Court was held at Jerilderie recently, when Mr Laidlaw, Chairman of the Licensing…

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Allegedly Told Police- Woman’s Fortune Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 1

When George W. Edwards, 20, appeared at the Central police court to-day on a charge of having unlawfully pretended to tell fortunes, a…

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Police Fire and Kill 32 Persons at Meeting 20,000 at Congress Rally Madras, April 20

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 1

Twenty-two persons were killed, and 48 were injured when the Mysore State police fired on a Congress meeting at [?], near…

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Slayers of Husband and Wife Unknown Lidcombe Bombing Inquest Man’s Strange Story to Police Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 4

A verdict of murder by a person or persons unknown was returned by Coroner (Mr. Williams) at the conclusion of the inquest to-day into deaths of Alfred Ernest Smith, union organiser, and his wife, Mary Ann Smith, who were killed in a bomb explosion at their home at Lidcombe on…

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Killed His Brother 10 Years’ Gaol Term Jugo-slav Sentenced. Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 4

Pleading guilty to a charge of manslaughter, Bozo Gavrilovich, a 23-year-old Jugo-Slav, was to-day sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment with hard labor…

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Alleged Attempt to Assault Two-year-old Girl Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 5

After an intensive search or the Kew district, members of the police wireless patrol last night arrested a man whom it is alleged attempted to…

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N.S.W. Police Chief Wants Salary Increase SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 4

One of the first matters which will come before the reconstituted Cabinet will be an application of the Commission[?] for Police (Mr. Mackey for an…

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Loss of Rodney Investigation by Court Jurisdiction Challenged Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 3

The jurisdiction of the Court of Marine Inquiry to proceed further with its Investigation into the sinking of the launch Rodney, with the loss…

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Industrial Dispute Hold-up at Lysaght’s Court Proceedings Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 8

Before the Industrial Commission to-day Mr. Justice Cantor declared that if the State Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association could…

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BOY, 16, Faces Charge of Murder “Something Seemed to Snap” His Story of the Shooting Mt. Gambier

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 4

The trial of Ronald Albert Sharpe, 16-year-old State ward, who is charged with the murder of Miss Catherine Theresa Bradley at…

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Court Gives Sanction Youth Employment Scheme “Legion of the Lost” Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 4

The Full Court of the Arbitration Court to-day approved of a scheme by the N.S.W. Government to provide employment for youths in industry. The scheme will come into operation immediately. The Full Court granted an…

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Court Crowded for Trial of Man Death of a Housemaid Evidence for the Prosecution MAITLAND

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 8

The Circuit Court was crowded to-day when the trial was resumed of Leonard William Roberts, 34. houseman, who is charged with…

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Police Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 1

In the Deniliquin Police Court, before Mr. A. J. Paton, J.P., on Wednesday, Rupert William Mortimer (64) was fined £1, in default two days’…

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Shooting of Oaklands Farmer Murder Charge Laborer Sentenced to Death

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 15

Thomas Henry Mansell, a farm laborer, who had been charged with murdering Thomas Henry Dickins, a farmer, at Oaklands, near Berrigan, on…

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Speaking of Tracker Gaol Sentence for Black

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 31

In sentencing a semi-myall aborigine named Humbert Tommy to three years' gaol on a charge of wounding with intent to inflict grievous bodily…

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Boy Aged 16, Sentenced to Death Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 2

Charged with the murder of Miss Catherine Theresa Bradley, 63 at Richmond Park, Robe, Ronald Albert Sharpe 10, was found guilty by…

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Iron Guards Sentenced Without Trial Bucharest, April 28

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 8

On hundred and sixty seven members of the Iron Guard, who were recently arrested in connection with the plot lo overthrow the…

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