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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

833 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 42

Woman Charged with Murder Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 1

Following investigations by detectives into the death of Aileen Twitchett aged 17 of Bairnsdale, who died last Wednesday a married woman…

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Police Have Day Off Restored Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 2

N.S.W. police have had their day off restored to them. The Secretary of the Police Association (Mr. Cosgrove) said yesterday that this meant that if…

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Illegally Used Car Soldier Fined £10 by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 May 1941 · page 2

Norman James McLaren, a member of the A.L.F., who had been in camp at Bonegilla, was fined £10, in default 30 days' gaol, in Albury police court…

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"Was a Wife in Name Only" [?]Sband Tells Court Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 May 1941 · page 6

James Gordon Hardman, registrar of the High Court of Australia, to-day obtained nullity of his marriage to Gladys Elizabeth Henderson. They…

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Woman Sues Constable Alleges Assault in an Hotel Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 May 1941 · page 2

Alleging assault and negligence, Mrs. Kathleen Patricia McCann, aged 31, of Chippendale, sought damages from Constable Ernest…

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Burglar Sentenced Three Years’ Imprisonment Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 2

Found guilty of burglary, Francis Ross. 33, of Drummond st., Carlton, laborer, Who had previous convictions, was sentenced by Judge Clyne, in the…

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Spy's Transmitter Police Circular

The Independent · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 6

First-class Sergeant M. Sedgwick, who is in charge of the Deniliquin police, has received from the Commissioner of police an illustrated…

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Girl As Alleged Bandit Strange Court Story Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 6

[?]ma Peers, aged 20. van committed for trial from the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of demanding money from Mart Smyth, assistant, in…

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Court Martial Ordered Sequel to Voyage of Internees London, May 14

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 1

As a result of the report of the Court of Inquiry into alleged actions against internees aboard the liner [?] while they were being brought…

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Dogs and Goats a Job for the Police Council Has No Power To Deal With Strays

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 3

Few Albury citizens know that their policemen can be lined if they fall to deal effectively with the nuisance of straying dogs. Yet,…

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Secretary Flares up at Hospital Board Meeting Brushes with Acting-chairman But Is Calmed by Police Sergt-director and Later Gets Increase in Salary

The Independent · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 1

Mr. W. J. Salter, secretary of the Deniliquin District Hospital Board of Directors, had a brush with the acting-Chairman (Mr. Jeff Powles) at Tuesday night's meeting of the Hospital Board in Tattersll's Hotel. While the meeting was discussing the progress of…

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Police and Stray Dogs

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 4

Following the publication of a section of the Dog and Goat Act in the "Mail", which suggested that the police alone were responsible for the…

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Mother and Two Children Dead Motorist Charged SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 2

Crossing a street in A[?]burn last night, Private Burnett Tolley, of the A.I.F., saw his wife and two of his five children knocked down…

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Magistrate’s Son Missing Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 3

[?] the hearing of a charge was [?] to be resumed at Parramatta [?] Court to-day the magistrate (Mr. eridan) was handed a message, in…

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Jehovah’s Witness Sent to Gaol Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 1

A member of Jehovah's Witnesses, Reginald Victor Williams, of Wetalla, was sentenced to six months' gaol in the Toowoomba Police Court to-day…

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Magistrate's Son in A.I.F. MISSING John Sheridan

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 2

When Mr, Sheridan, S.M., was about to hear a case at Parramatta Court yesterday, he received word that his son, who is with the A.I.F…

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Man With 12 Children in Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 2

Because of his previous good character, a married man, who has a family 12 children, was treated leniently by Albury police court yesterday,…

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Gaol As Means of Evading Military Service Auckland

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 3

A young man whose effort to get arrested was most deliberate, according to the police, was sentenced to throe months’ hard labor for having…

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Cut Way Out Gaol Two Brothers Escape MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 1

Two brothers, Ronald Francis [?]Keefe, aged 38, and Thomas O'Keefe, aged 33, of Warrnambool, who were in the Warrnambool gaol on remand…

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Police Scrutiny Alleged Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 4

Labor’s campaign director in the Boothby electorate, Mr. R. S. Richards, Lender of the South Australian Labor Opposition, alleged to-day that…

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