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Courts & crime, 1945

923 stories in Murray's papers · page 19 of 47

Fighting Men Awakened by Police MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 3

Between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. yesterday nearly 1700 servicemen were interviewed and 25 arrests were made in a raid by four civil police and 26…

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Culcairn Laborer Sent To Gaol Alleged Theft of Clothing

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 5

Norman Le[?] Brown, aged 31. married, laborer, from culratrn was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in Gculburn Gaol by the magistrate (Mr G…

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Constable Remanded on Stealing Charge HOBART

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 4

Constable Donald Gerald Bradshaw was remanded in the City Court today on a charge of shopbreaking ,and stealing. It was staled that a number of other charges…

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Police to Hold Ball

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

At a meeting last night the Albury police decided to hold a ball in aid of the hospital, ambulance and orphanage on or about June 27. This will be the…

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Bogus Police Gang Arrested PARIS

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

The French police have arrested [?] members of a gang of bogus police men, who had Battened on the Paris black marketeers, and other persons [?]…

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Ejectment Order Sought Case Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 5

Mrs Margaret M Davies Davies, residing in Olive st., asked the Police Magistrate (Mr R. M. Sitwart) in Albury court yesterday to grant her an ejectment order…

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Prices Breaches Fines Cases Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 4

Inspectors of the Prices Commission called on business proprietors in Albury and other Riverina towns [?]way through last year, and…

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Under Influence Charge Truck Driver Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 6

A motor track driver, Daniel [?]eaphy, aged 37, employed by the CCC at Bandlann, denied in Albury court yesterday that 12 glasses of beer,…

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Sentenced Following Sale of Oats MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 6

A bootmaker who was alleged to have sold 103 bags of oats and chaff at 80 to 90 per cent above the fixed price was sentenced in the Third…

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Two Charged Following Soldier’s Death SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 5

Sylvester Daniel Murphy, aged 20. motor driver, and John Carl Farrell. aged 30. presshand, were charged in the Central Police Court today with…

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May Summon Minister Before Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 4

Suggestion that the Federal Minister for Labor (Mr Holloway) should be summoned before the court to explain certain reported utterances of his…

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Charged with Vagrancy

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 2

Arthur Wallace Kemp, aged 39 who was arrested at Henty on Monday night, was charged with vagrancy in the Albury court yesterday. He was…

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“More Police Needed on Wharves” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 2

Only 15 police are available to control the 64 wharves, extending from Woolloomooloo to Balmain. It is estimated that over 200 are necessary to…

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Police In Exciting Chase After Car Man Wounded Now in Hospital MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 6

Wounded behind the right knee, a man was found near a canal at St Kilda this morning by the police after sensational chase round a circuit of St Kilda streets,…

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Corowa Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 2

Ernest, O'Hara Kernaghan was before the Court of Petty Sessions at Corowa on Friday last with having been found drunk in Sanger Street,…

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Alleged Theft Of Clothing Culcairn Labourer Sent to Gaol

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 3

Norman Leslie Brown, aged 31, married, labourer, of Culcairn, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Goulburn Gaol by the…

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Charged With Murder “Had Been To Pictures a Lot” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 1

When Dennis James Lyons, aged 16, was charged with murdering John Canellocopulus, known as Cane, proprietor of the Mayfair…

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Magistrate Is Outspoken

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 2

“Offences of this nature cannot be tolerated,” Mr J. C. Bell. P.M., told Austin Albert Pymont, aged 24, soldier, in the Wodonga court yesterday,…

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Wharf Laborer Sentenced SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 1

Searched after leaving No 2 wharf last night, Thomas Henry Slater. 33 Wharf laborer, was found to have 12 pair of foundation garments valued…

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Alleged Assault on Wahgunyah Girl

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 2

Corowa Police during the week were called upon to investigate a complaint by a Wahgunyah girl under 16 that she had been criminally…

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