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Courts & crime, 1944

811 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 41

Industrial Magistrate’s Criticism Firm Pined £50; Failed to Fence Machinery SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 4

Maximum penalty of £50 was Imposed on Richard Hughes [?] Ltd, by the Chief Industrial Magistrate (Mr Prior) today for having failed in fence dangerous…

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Illegally Transporting Racehorses Case Before Special Federal Court Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 3

Richard Peter Cruise pleaded not guilty at a Special Federal Court to-day on two charges of having illegally transported racehorse to Tumut;…

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Police Inquiring Into Origin of Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 2

About 10 o’clock on Saturday night a fire broke out at Wodonga on the ridge to the rear of Bandiana. The fire was brought under control during…

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Flogged Worker With Dog Chain. Two Years’ Gaol For Farmer AUCKLAND

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 February 1944 · page 2

For brutality to a 24-year-old farmhand, Joseph Cox, 35, sharefarmer, was sentenced yesterday to two years’ hard labor…

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“Take 24 Hours Out in Gaol”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2

When a defendant was fined 5/, with 8/ court costs, in the Wagga court yesterday, after being convicted on a traffic charge, he said he would not…

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Preferred Gaol Bather Than Pay Fine SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 3

For the fifth time, Bromwell Corkaine, of Mosman, elected to go to gaol today rather than pay a fine of £2 and enter into a bond. Corkaine…

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Breach of Defence Act Brings One Month’s Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2

When Lawrence Keith Fairburn, a litter, was called up for military service be failed to answer the call. His failure to do so led to his…

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Cases in Closed Court

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2

Where cases in which children are concerned are heard, the courts are closed to the public, but the N.S.W. Cabinet has decided that in cases in…

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Two able Policemen Court Deny Allegations By Italians LISMORE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 1

A submission that after proceedings by a police constable against Jack Rann, the Italian community in the district put their heads…

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A Taxi-driver Fined First Case of its Kind Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 2

A case which occupied the attention of Albury court yesterday, was the first of its kind lo be heard, Mr Angel, who appeared for Albury…

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Rent of House Reduced Application Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 February 1944 · page 3

An application for the determination of a fair rent In respect to a home situated in 557 Stanley st., Albury, was heard at the Fair Rents Court yesterday…

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Lost Goods at Police Station

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 February 1944 · page 2

A woman’s expensive diamond ring was found in Dean st yesterday, and handed in at the Albury police station, where it may be claimed by the…

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Will Contest in Court Award to Artist SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 February 1944 · page 2

Counsel for Miss Mary Edwards and three other Sydney artists has asked the trustees of the National Art Gallery to name its legal representative…

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Two Charged with Assault

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 2

At a special sitting of the Corowa police court on Wednesday, Before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., Frederick Wilson, of Edward street, Corowa, a…

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Gaol Terms Possible for Fire Breaches

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 2

The police will press for severe penalties for breaches of the law controlling fires. This will be done at the request of the Chief Secretary…

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6 Months’ Gaol for Abandoning Baby

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 3

Found not guilty by a jury in the Bendigo Supreme Court this week on a charge of having attempted to murder her infant child at Bendigo on…

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Alleged Interview with Constables Italians’ Stories in Court LISMORE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 6

Two Italians save evidence when the hearing of a conspiracy charge against two police officers was continued at Lismore Police Court today that…

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Germans Murder 128 Russian Children LONDON, February 10

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 February 1944 · page 1

The bodies of 128 children, aged from 2[?] to 16 years, who had not only been shot, but their skulls and bones broken, have been discovered by Red Army…

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Murder Victim Identified Another Woman May also Be Dead SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 February 1944 · page 1

The body of a woman who was murdered in Centennial Park yesterday has been Identified as Joyce Patterson, of Darlinghurst with…

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Attempted Murder A.M.F. Lieutenant Charged

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 3

On Saturday night the wireless patrol [?] to the home of Captain F. L. Grose of the Victorian Stevedoring Co., in Second [?]me, East Kew, Where an AMF…

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