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Courts & crime, 1941

833 stories in Murray's papers · page 38 of 42

Former Racing Broadcaster in Court Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 November 1941 · page 7

Harry Solomons, the former well known racing broadcaster, appeared in the City court to-day on a charge of the larceny of a motor car at…

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Police Raid Wagga Sports Club

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 November 1941 · page 2

On Saturday night nine officers of the police force at Wagga conducted a raid on the De Luxe Sports Club in Bay[?]s st., and in the billiard room it…

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Baby Seriously Injured Little Girl’s Story to Police MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 November 1941 · page 6

While taking her infant cousin a[?] another young child for a walk in Albert Park on Saturday afternoon, a 10-year-old girl was induced to enter a…

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Pyjama Girl Mystery Revived Dr. Benbow’s Remarkable Claims Believes He Knows Site and Circumstances of Murder Asks For Impartial Non-Departmental Inquiry

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 November 1941 · page 2

MYSTERY of the Pyjama Girl, whose body was found shot, battered and partly burned in a culvert on the Howlong Road, near Albury, on September 1, 1934, to be near to a solution…

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District Court and Sessions

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 1

His Honor Judge B. V. stacy commenced hearing cases in me ? Court this" afternoon - The Quarter Sessions will be held to-morrow whos…

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Air Force News Tarmac Topics Mumblings About the Men on the Ground who Keep the Planes in the Air Attempted Murder!

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 4

Phew! What a heading!! Rather gruesome, what? You should ask our Graceful how a poker feels— What a bump!!!.!…

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Norwegian Seaman Sentenced Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 November 1941 · page 1

Josef Gunderson, a Norwegian seaman, appeared In the City Court to-day on a charge of being a prohibited Immigrant. Evidence was given that Gunderson…

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Embezzlement of £1189 Three Years' Gaol for Soldier Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 November 1941 · page 2

Albert C[?], aged 38. former South Australian manager of General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and now a member of the A.I.F., was to-day sentenced to…

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Radio Star's Marriages Three and Aged. 36 Court Told Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 November 1941 · page 4

More successful in radio than matrimony. was the opinion of Mr. Justice Martin In the Practice Court today. when lie delivered judgment,…

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66 Men Charged [?]t Griffith

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1941 · page 1

Synchronising with the running of the V.R.C. Derby recently, the police at Griffith simultaneously made a raid on two billiard rooms…

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Assault Case Verdict of Not Guilty

The Independent · Thursday 13 November 1941 · page 2

Arthur Edward Mullins appeared before Judge Stacey in Deniliquin Quarter Sessions yesterday, charged that on 20th July…

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Alleged Theft of £200 Worth of Jewellery Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 November 1941 · page 6

At the City police court today. Louis Holmes, of Manor Grove. East St. Kilda, was charged with the In[?] of jewellery valued at £2000, the…

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Hanged for Double Murder London, November 12

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 November 1941 · page 4

Lionel Ropert Nathan Watson, aged 30, Bakelite moulder of Middlesex was hanged at Pentonville Prison to-day for the murder of Phyllis Elizabeth Crocker and…

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Stealing from Canteen Ex-parte Conviction

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 3

In the Court of Petty Sessions, before the P.M. on Tuesday, Luke Robinson Stewart was charged for that, on 19th August he did steal the sum…

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Assault On Welt-Known Resident Jury’s Verdict “Not Guilty”

The Pastoral Times · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 1

[?]ore Judge Stacy and a jury of 12 in the Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, Arthur Edward Mullins was charged that on July, 20, at Deniliiquin, he did assault Donald Charles McMillan, and that he did then heat and ill-treat McMillan, occasioning actual…

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‘Murder Incorporated’ Alleged Member Killed in [?]All New York, Nov. 13

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 2

Abe Rel[?]s, who was alleged to have been a member of the so-called “Murder Incorporated,” the members of which were alleged to have committed…

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10 Years’ Gaol for Assault Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 8

A sentence of 10 years gaol was imposed by Judge Marke[?] in Qua[?] Sessions to-day on Roy Gavin aged 28, [?]aborer, for [?]sault on Mrs. Ver[?]…

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Balranald Licensing Court

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 2

At the Balranald Licensing Court, on Friday, before Mr. V. H. Wells, Licensing Magistrate and Member of the Licenses Reduction Board, the…

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Police Chief As Star Witness Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 2

When Arthur A. Sharpe, of [?]andwi[?]k was to-day charged at the Central police court with having driven a bus in a manner dangerous to the…

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Death in Gardens Soldier on Murder Charge MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 4

Following the discovery by a young munitions worker of the body of a man in the Tr[?]ry Gardens on Saturday, September 27, Alfred Bye, aged [?] an…

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