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Courts & crime, 1940

1,006 stories in Murray's papers · page 26 of 51

Veterinary Surgeon Fined on Five Charges by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 2

Charles Norris Callow, aged 59 years, veterinary surgeon, of Schubach street, Albury, appeared in the Albury Court before Mr. I. Beavers, P. M.,…

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Air Cadet Limps Into Court on Crutches Colleague Was Killed in Crash Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 2

Badly hurt in a plane accident on January 22, Harold Robert Cox, air cadet, limped into the Coroner’s court to-day on crutches to give evidence at…

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Four Months Gaol. Sentence in Forgery Case

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 3

Pleading guilty, to four charges of forging and uttering forged cheques, Jack Goodwin, 20 years, transport driver, of Bunbarths, was…

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Not to Pay for Police Protection County Council Wins Point Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 3

The Premier (Mr. Mair) stated tonight that he would Rive instructions that the charge of £2163 12/1 being made on the Sydney County Council…

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Appeal Dismissed, “So Son Not to Enlist” Man Tells Court Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 4

In the State Full Court to-day Harold Morton, aged 58, canvasser, declared: “I was going to send my son and daughter to the war, but I won’t now.”…

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Gaol for Aliens Four Are Sentenced Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 6

Mr. Sheridan, S.M., in the Central Police Court to-day sent four aliens, including a woman, to gaol for breaches of the National Security…

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Is Kangaroo “Murder Victim?” Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 4

Detectives at Hamilton are of the belief that Dr. C. H. Mollison, Government Pathologist, will confirm that small bones found in ashes of a…

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Six Months’ Gaol for Larceny of Car Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 2

Mr, Justice Gavan Duffy, in the Criminal Court to-day, sentenced Frederick Daley, 19, laborer, of Reid street, Northcote to six months’…

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Skeleton Unearthed at Dubbo Believed Victom of Murder SYDNEY, Friday Morning

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 3

The Dubbo police believe that a human skeleton unearthed near the town yesterday may be linked up with the disappearance of two men in the…

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Swoop on Germans Albury Police Co-operate Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 3

Members of the police force and military intelligence officers swoop-down down on many aliens, mostly Germans, in Sydney and other parts of…

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Carrying Guns on Sunday Three Men Meet Police Officer

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 1

Three young local residents who were met by Inspector Sedgwick while riding bicycles and carrying firearms along the…

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No Murder! Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 June 1940 · page 10

The Government Pathologist (Dr. C. H. Mollison) has identified the charred remains found in the ashes of a road-fire at Glenisla. near Hamilton, early…

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Police May Have to Work 7 Days a Week Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 June 1940 · page 4

It is likely that members of the police force will be asked to consider working seven days a week as a contribution to the war effort. Other…

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Wagga Council Employe Charged With Larceny

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 2

At Wagga Police Court yesterday, Donald F. Bertram .aged 42, Wagga, wa committed for trial at the Wagga Quarter Sessions in July on a charge…

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Will Not Sit As Magistrate London, January 10

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 3

The national vice-president of “The Link,” Professor Sir Raymond Beazley has decided not to sit in Birmingham as a magistrate until after the…

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Police Show Their Patriotism Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 6

As a contribution to the national war effort. mere than 1200 members of the N.S.W. police force to-day agreed to force their weekly day off duty…

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Gave Clenched Fist Salute in Court Contempt Charge Follows PERTH

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 3

Three men and a woman who stood up in the body of the court and raised clenched fists after a Communist bad been convicted of…

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Italians in N.S.W. Plans for Internment The Police Force in Action SYDNEY, Tuesday Morning

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 2

Soon after the declaration of war by Italy, police throughout the State put their plans for the internment of Italian aliens smoothly into…

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Soldiers Help Police Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 3

In their raids on Italian homes to-day, the police were accompanied by members of garrison battalions armed with rifles with…

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Assault on Trotsky Alleged; an Arrest Made Mexico City, June 10

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 3

Ramon Fernandez, a Spaniard, has been arrested at Vera Cruz and brought to the capital. It is alleged that he has confessed to having…

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