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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

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Industrial Disputes Government Charged Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 3

The Federal Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federal inn (Mr. [?]) claimed to-day that most of the industrial disputes now in existence [?]…

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Liquor Law Anomaly Hotelkeepers In Doubt Cabinet and Police

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 4

Although the Cabinet has directed the police to enforce the law covering trading hours of hotels more strictly, no effect appears to have…

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Charge of Stealing Bonds SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 2

The hearing was concluded al the Kogarah police court to day of the case in which Leo Gia[?]m Johnston, aged 35, poultry former, of Menai, is…

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Wool Waste Treatment Discovery Disclosed in Court LONDON, January 9

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 1

Joseph Ba[?]lly, a Belgian, was acquitted at the Leeds court on a charge of stealing eleven boles of wool entrusted to his company for…

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Judge Defied Spinster to Disclose Financial Affairs "You Can Keep Me in Gaol Till I Am Carried Out in a Coffin" MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 1

One of two spinster sisters declared bankrupt on the application of Benalla Shire Council told ludge Lukin in the Bankruptcy…

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Radio Station Raided by Police and Military Hughes Says, "Deliver Them to the Seamen" ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 1

Literature and dockets were ran[?] and documents examined to[?] when military officers, soldiers [?] plain clothes policemen and…

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Magistrate and a Soldier

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 4

When it appeared that a soldier w[?] have to remain in a cell for the [?] while he waited for leeal assistance from his own unit, the police mag[?]stra[?]…

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Hay Court House Record of Year's Work

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 2

A record of the work of the Hay Court House for the past year is contained in the annual return prepared by the C.P.S., Mr. H. G…

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Laborer and Cheques Given Chance by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 5

Wilfred West, farm laborer, of Burrowye, aged 36, who appeared before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., in the Albury Police Court yesterday on…

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Must Die in Gaol Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

State Cabinet to-night recommended to the Executive Council that the death sentence passed on Harold James Richards, aged 49,…

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Rebuff to Police Chief Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 3

The Premier (Mr. Mair) stated to-night that Cabinet had decided against attaching to the staff of the Police Department, a qualified legal officer as…

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Stock Removed From Lawful Impounding Two Men Fined by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 6

Lengthy evidence was given in a case in the Albury Police Court yesterday before Mr. I. [?]eavers, P.M., when the Albury Council…

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Professor Charged With Wife's Murder LONDON, Jan. 15

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 3

Arthur Lloyd James, university professor of phop[?]ies, linguistic adviser to the B.B.C„ and secretary of the B.B.C. committee of spoken…

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Contempt of Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 3

When a defendant appeared in Balranald Police Court to answer a summons for removing 262 pine poles from Crown land, Mr. T. A…

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Alleged Army Deserter in Court “Carrying Another Man’s Discharge” Melbourne. Wed[?]

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

Stated to have deserted from the Army six weeks ago Robert Hocking, [?]er of Park st., South Yarra, had an A.I.F. discharge in his possession in…

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Constable Charged

The Pastoral Times · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 3

Summarily dismissed from the police force in Melbourne this week, Norman Arthur Howard (35), first constable attached to the Mobile Traffic Branch…

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Solicitor Sentenced Will Appeal Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 2

After a hearing which, with adjournments. hart lasted since September 10 of last year, the case in which John Royston Wishart. solicitor, was…

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As Others See Us Pity the Poor Police

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 2

Under large headlines—"Local Police Bundled off to Dead End Towns,", the Gosford "Times" says: "Without giving the slightest reason,…

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Pyjama Girl Mystery Body Claimed by Woman Court Case Likely

Albury Banner Wodonga Express and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 25

A woman, who is said to be living in Cootamundra, claims that the Albury "Pyjama Girl," who was found murdered six…

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Charged for Entry Into Free Shelter London, Jan. 16

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 1

Henry Adolph Ramsay, seed 44, a clerk, has been sentenced to imprisonment for a year for having charged householders for…

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