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Courts & crime, 1943

763 stories in Murray's papers · page 27 of 39

Soldier Arrested by Wodonga Police

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 August 1943 · page 2

Constables Probyn and McKenzie, of Wodonga, yesterday arrested a soldier who was charged with attempting to break into Ebden railway station on…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing by Drover

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 August 1943 · page 2

Without proceeding to conviction, Mr Stewart. PM, in Albury Court yesterday, ordered Roy James Alchin. drover, aged 21. to enter into a bond of…

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Markov Taken by Assault. London, August 23

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 August 1943 · page 3

Following the fall of Kharkov, Premier Stalin has issued a special Order of the Day in which he makes it that the city was taken by…

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Bail Refused on Murder Charge. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 August 1943 · page 1

Boll was refused Victor Osborne Anderson. [?] when he was remanded until September 8 [?] Central Police Court today on a charge of having murdered William…

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High Court and Fines on Watersiders SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 August 1943 · page 1

Power of the Stevedoring Industry Commission and the Waterside Employment Committee to impose fines on waterside workers was challenged in the High Court…

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Three Months' Gaol For Theft of Bottle of Beer SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 August 1943 · page 4

Three wharf laborers, who were convicted at the Central Police Court today with having stolen beer from a wharf, were each sentenced to three months'…

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Three Young Men Is Trouble Gaol Term Imposed

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 August 1943 · page 2

In Wagga Police Court yesterday James Bretherton, aged 25, laborer , Neville Vincent Elphick aged 20. laborer, James Arthur Shooks. aged 18, laborer, pleaded…

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Soldier Charged With Murder CESSNOCK

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 August 1943 · page 6

An inquest was opened today into the death of( William [?] Carter, aged 18, of R.[?]. who died in a Northern military camp or. August 13. Charles O'Leary, aged…

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Murder of Millionaire NASSAU (Bahamas), August 24

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 August 1943 · page 1

At the resumption of the preliminary trial of Count Alfred de Marigny on a charge of having murdered his father-in-law. Sir Harry Oakes, millionaire,…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing Drover Before Albury Police Court

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 4

Without proceeding to conviction, Mr. Stewart, P.M., in Albury Police Court on Monday, ordered Roy James Alchin, drover, aged 21, to enter into…

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Fined £5 for Stealing Bicycle

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 2

On Wednesday evening Mr. Colin Campbell left a bicycle outside Mr. F. Moltine’s private house in Cressy street. Half an hour later the bicycle…

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Three Months for Theft of Beer

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 1

Three-Wharf-labourers, who were convicted at the Central Police Court, Sydney, with having stolen beer from a wharf, were each sentenced to three…

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Magistrate and “Scrap of Paper” Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 6

Six men were sentenced to terms of imprisonment at Central Police Court to-day for taxation broaches. When they were sentenced they were so affected that they…

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Woolcott Forbes to Appear in Criminal Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 August 1943 · page 1

John Woolcott Forbes will make his appearance in court before a judge and jury in the Central Criminal Court. To make this course possible an officio…

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Murder of Waitress Truck Driver Charged Melbourne

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 August 1943 · page 2

At the City Watchhouse early to-day. Harold William Nugant, 25, truck driver, was changed with the murder of Pearl Oliver, 19-year old waitress,…

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Magistrate's Ejectment Application Refused SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1943 · page 2

Reginald Gordon Cookson, stipendiary magistrate, today applied to Mr Goldie, SM, at North Sydney court for the [?] of a tenant occupying premises…

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Chinese General Inspects British Airborne Assault Troops

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 August 1943 · page 2

General Halung Shih-hul, leader of the Chinese Military Mission to Washington, inspecting the equipment of airborne troops at an R.A.F. station in Britain which he visited on his way to China. The airborne troops had just landed from a glider during a demonstration…

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Spanish Saboteur Sentenced to Death LONDON, August 31

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1943 · page 3

Luis Lopez Cuenca, aged 22, who was arrested in time to prevent a devastation act of sabotage at Gibraltar, was today sentenced to death…

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Compensation Court at Albury Today

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1943 · page 2

Today Judge Moffitt will sit at Albury in the Workers' Compensation Court. Matters for determination will be: Veronica Jean Leach and…

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Street Shooting Sequel Man Remanded on Murder Charge MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1943 · page 2

William Sydney Nugent, aged 25, of St Kilda, truck driver, who was arrested at Geelong on Saturday morning, was remanded until September 6 by the City Court…

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