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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

763 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 39

Police Chief Strongly Criticised Charge Against An Editor Dis[?]issed. SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 2

Strong [?] of the NSW Police Commissioner (Mr. Mackay) in [?]ering the suppression of the [?]rge pre[?]rred against…

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Airmail Charged With Shooting With Intent MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 March 1943 · page 4

An a[?]man was charged at The city watch-house today with shooting Acting Corporal A. R. Beasley. of the RAAF Prowest Corps, with intent to murder…

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Nazis Murder Polish Prisoners London, March 6

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 March 1943 · page 2

The Polish Government in London has revealed that the Germans, under the pretext of preventing the spread of typhoid, which broke out in…

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Corowa Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 March 1943 · page 2

On Saturday last Stanley Herbert Trueman was charged before Messrs J. P. Leahy and B. J. Rodgers, Js. P., under the Vagrancy Act with having…

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Service Policeman Shot Aircraftman Charged

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 March 1943 · page 3

Acting Cpl. Arthur Reginald Beasley (formerly of Deniliquin), an Air Force Service policeman, was shot in the abdomen at R. A. A. F. service police…

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Long Chase After Youth Charge of Stealing

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 March 1943 · page 1

An exciting chase after a youth on. Wednesday evening- resulted in the youngster temporarily eluding the police. Next morning the youth was…

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Riot on Ship Seamen Sent to Gaol ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 March 1943 · page 1

Seven days' imprisonment was imposed on six firemen of the crew of an Allied ship when they were convicted in th City Court today of having…

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Murder O F Boy Was Brutally Outraged SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 March 1943 · page 1

A post-mortem examination today revealed that 11-year-old Albert Crulcher whose body was yesterday found in a brick pit in Granville, had been…

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Stealing Charges

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

At the Berrigan Police Court on Wednesday afternoon last, before Mr J. Beavers, P.M., Henry Edward Ferguson an Ronald Amos Fruend…

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Murder of Taxi-driver Unsolved Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 4

Mystery [?] surrounds the death of Francis John Phelan, aged 31, taxi-driver, of Drummond st., North Carlton, whose bullet-riddled body was found in a gutter…

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Seeks Divorce Man’s Story to Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 4

Albert William Swim field, machinist, of Heading at Newtown in seeking a divorce from his wife Dorothy Agnes Swinfield, on the grounds of her alleged adultery with…

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Man Walk Out of Court Before Being Fined LITHGOW

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 2

Before a charge of absenteeism against them had been heard, a number of miners led by the secretary of the Western District of the Miners'…

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Cabinet Stands by Police Chief Echo of McNulty Case SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

No action is to be taken by State Cabinet against the Police Commissioner (Mr McKay) in connection with the McNulty case. Ministers were of the opinion that…

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Claimed He Was a Minister Man’s Appeal Fails in Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 11 March 1943 · page 2

“The conviction was def[?]ly wro[?] in [?] sight of Almighty Fod,” [?] a 21 years old Jeho[?]h’s Witness A[?]ander James Watt, in Albury Cou[?]…

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Gaol Sentenced Quashed Sydney Tailor's Appeal Upheld Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 1

Price fixing regulations do not apply to suits made to order, according to a decision of the State Full Court on Monday. Sir Frederick Jordan, Chief…

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Appeal Against Gaol Sentence Dismissed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 3

At the Albury Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, before Judge Kinsella, Alexander James Watt, 21, appealed against a sentence of three months'…

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Items of News Annual Police Sale

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 2

Albury police will hold their annual sale of unclaimed goods on Saturday, April 27. 12 noon. Bicycles will constitute the main offering, nine of which…

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More Police Inspectors For Metropolitan Area SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 4

With the object of enforcing discipline among members of the police force in the area, six police inspectors have been appointed to the police metropolitan area…

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Attracted by Newspaper Picture Woman’s Supreme Court Action Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 March 1943 · page 6

Peggy Stacey plaintiff in a breach of contract case in the Supreme Court today. claimed that [?]he had been brought to Australia by a man attracted by her picture…

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A Captain Is Bound Over Case Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 March 1943 · page 2

Captain Harold Sydney Wright, [?] at the Albury railway station, and in Albury Court yesterday that George Walter Daniel interfered with his…

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