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Courts & crime, 1940

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Police and Military Service Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Mail) slated to-right that he had not received requests from the Commissioner of Police to make police available for military…

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Anti-italian Rioting Round-up By Police LONDON, June 11

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 8

Violent anti-Italian riots broke out throughout the country late last night as police swooped, rounding up enemy aliens. Huge…

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Must Stay in Gaol Until He Dies Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 4

State Cabinet decided to-day that the prisoner. Leslie Clive Worrell, who is now undergoing a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of his…

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Police Band and Choir Not for the Country Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 6

Members of the police band, choir, and orchestra will not be allowed to tour the country to raise funds for war purposes. “They have quite…

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J.p. Says Man’s Behavior Was Disgusting Fined by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 2

Edward Geoffrey Dowell, aged 29, laborer, of Albury, was fined £3 in default six days’ imprisonment by Albury Court of Petty Sessions…

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Police to Select Reserve Force Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 5

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Tonking) said to-day that the police would have a free hand in the selection of men to get enrolled in the N.S.W. reserve…

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Case Before Court for 109 Days Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 5

The alleged conspiracy case involving a M.L.A., and four other men, at the Central Police Court, which to-day reached its 109th day, is expected to…

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Italian Burglar Sentenced Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 June 1940 · page 4

Sentence of nine months imprisonment was imposed on Agazio Princi, 42, an Italian, at the Quarter Sessions today for housebreaking and stealing…

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Gaol Sentence Doubled Sidney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 June 1940 · page 9

The Full Court to-day increased the sentence of two and a half years’ gaol imposed on a father for a criminal assault on his daughter, aged 12, to five…

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Lucky to Miss Murder Charge Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 June 1940 · page 10

Walter Carrington Casey, 46, glassblower, was sentenced to two and a half years by acting Judge Studdert at the Quarter Sessions to-day for…

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Orchardist Charged with Murder “Argument Over a Drain” HOBART

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 June 1940 · page 3

Walter Newman Rodman, aged 65. orchardist, of Glen Huon. appeared in the police court yesterday on a charge of murder of Edward James Bennett,…

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Police Reserve Force for All States? Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 June 1940 · page 3

The Federal Government has been asked by the State Government to call a conference of police commissioners to discuss the establishment of a police…

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Declared Illegal Communist Party Fascist Organisations, Too Police Act Swiftly No Speeches On The Domain SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 June 1940 · page 2

Swift police raids in Sydney and suburbs last night followed the drastic Commonwealth regulations declaring illegal the Communist Party of Australia and a number of Fascist organisations…

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Prderewski and the Police Army

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 June 1940 · page 1

The great pollsh patriot and president of the polish National Council in France, M. I. J. Paderewaki, has issued an appeal for help and…

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Judge Not Sure Doubts About Functioning of Arbitration Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 June 1940 · page 5

The opinion that the Federal Arbitration Court could not under present conditions approach the problems and deal with them…

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Allegations Against Doctor Bail Refused When Charged PERTH

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 2

Dr. Leslie Ronald Jury, aged SS, of the medical staff of Fremantle Hospital, was remanded in Fremantle Court to-day, charged under the…

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Fox Terrier Strays Into Police Station

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 2

Whether this is a tribute to the dog’s intelligence or not, an evidently verymuch-lost fox terrier wandered into Albury police station yesterday…

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“Police Exceeded Powers” Union Documents Allegedly Seized SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 4

If it was correct that the police had seized trade union documents while dealing with the activities of aliens at Mackey (Queensland), they had…

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Court and Working Conditions Judge’s Further Comments Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 6

In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. Justice O’Mara gave an explanation of the remarks made by him on Tuesday morning…

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Greyhound Not a “Noxious Animal” Important Court Judgment Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 2

An Important judgment affecting die rights of owners of greyhounds was glen by Mr. Justice Ravin in Chambers to-day. He held that…

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