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Courts & crime, 1945

923 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 47

Artists Prevented From Appealing Into Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 March 1945 · page 6

As the result of an Instruction issued by the Attorney-General to Messrs A. N. Harding and Breeder, solicitors, the appeal of the Sydney artists, Mary Edwards and…

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“Has to Bath in Trough” Albury Woman Tells Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 March 1945 · page 4

Mr. [?] made no reduction in the rest [?]…

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Doctor and Secretary Charged Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 6

Hearing was resumed at the Central Police Court today of the case in which Reginald Stuart Jones. aged 42, medical practitioner, of Macquarie street…

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District Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 1

At the District Court yesterday before His Honour Judge F. W. Berne, Alexander John Anderson, 46, formerly of Jerilderie, petitioned for a…

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Bulgarians Murder British P.O.W. LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 2

The Minister for War. Sir James Grigg, revealed in the House of Commons today that some British p.o.w. in Bulgaria had been put to death before…

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“Man Whose Ear Is Always Cold” Strange Divorce Court Story. SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 2

A Sydney specialist had recommended him to travel and see new placet and people, was the evidence given by Phillip Coggan, aged 67…

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Two Women Charged with Murder Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 6

Eileen Mary Furlongs aged 3[?], and Millicent Tangga. aged [?] were charged at the Central [?] Court today with having murders…

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Five Years’ Gaol for Painter. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

Five years imprisonment was imposed on Robert Francis, aged 34. painter, in General Sessions today on a charge of garage breaking and stealing of lyres and tubes…

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Divorce Suits Before Corowa Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

In the District Court al Corowa this week Alexander Anderson. Jerilderie. farmer and grazier sued for a divorce from his wife Margaret Anderson. on…

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Seeks Court Order Against Former Wife SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 1

An application for attachment of his divorced wife for non-payment of costs amounting lo £48 17/G 'incurred in a divorce [?] was made by a husband…

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Acquitted of Charge of Bigamy Ex-Soldier Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 5

After a brief retirement a jury at Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday acquitted Phillip David Biddell. ex-AIF, aged 23, of Northcote, Victoria,…

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Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 3

When the name of Desmond Lance McCullock was called at the Court House, Corowa, on Saturday morning last,- Const Naish stated that there…

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Soldier Acquitted in Albury Court Was Charged With Manslaughter

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 4

Judge Berne at Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday discharged the jury from giving a verdict in a case in which Elwin [?] Breust…

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Man Released on Bond Sequel to Mailbox Theft at Henty

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

In consideration of his unblemished record over the past 24 years, coupled with the fact that he had a wife and two young children to…

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Taxi Driver Murderer. Hanged Amazing Scenes Outside Gaol. LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

Karl Hulton, American [?] who was sentenced to death for [?] murder of a taxi driver, was ha[?] murder of a taxi driver, was [?]…

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Allegedly Gave Bogus Name to Police

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 6

For having driven a motor cycle [?] for having given a false name and address to the police William Allan [?] a…

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Police Do Not Press for Heavy Penalty

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 5

When asked by the magistrate (Mr . J. C. Bell) in Wodonga Court of Petty [?] yesterday why he had ridden [?] at night without lights…

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5 Yeats for Wharf Laborer Judge Praises Police Work

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 2

A sentence of five years penal servitude was imposed on Leslie William [?] wharf laborer, aged 27, at Albury Quarter Sessions last night by Judge…

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Youth Fined at Wodonga Court Damaged Public Property

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 5

Several Wodonga youths who wanted to steal peaches from a garden at the northern end of the town recently first blew several street electric light…

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Army Man for Assault on Japan ? WASHINGTON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 March 1945 · page 1

Admiral Chester Nimitz (Commander-In-Chief of the Pacific Fleet) is making a surprise visit to Washington to confer with Admiral King…

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