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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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British World Police Force Leader LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 1

Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander will head- the British team at the five-power military conference—called to establish a world police force…

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K.C. to Appear at Caldwell Court-martial SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 2

Mr. J. E. Cossldy. KC. and Mr. J. W. Bavin, formerly RAAF legal officer at Eastern Area Headquarters, will appear for Group Captain Clive Caldwell when his…

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Police Raid Tennis Club House Seize Several Bottles of liquor ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 2

The tennis club-house at the Memorial Drive courts was raided late last night by licensing police, who took the names of about 12…

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Sailor on Slaying Charge to be Court-martialled SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 2

A finding of manslaughter was recorded by the city coroner today at an inquest on Mrs Marjorie Higham, aged 27, who was killed in a car…

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Corowa Short of Police

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

Corowa is suffering from a police shortage--a condition of affairs which has prevailed for quite some time, but at present the position is…

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Cigarette Kiosk Murder Manhunt Continued Yesterday SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3

The manhunt was continued today for the murderer of Mrs Jean Wicks 45, whose battered body with portion of a clothes line fied loosely round…

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Case of Man in Gaol for 15 Years to go Before Appeals Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 6

Eric Kelly, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1930 on a charge of having wounded Nathan Segal, a pawnbroker, with intent 10 murder,…

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Supreme Court Sittings Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 5

Tuesday, October 15, has been chosen as the date for the sittings of the Supreme Court, at Albury. Quarter Sessions dates include the…

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People Vainly Seek Homes Whilst Albury Police Residence Empty

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 8

At least three of the hundreds of families in Albury searching for homes could be housed If the NSW Police Department allowed the…

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Spent Just One Day Out of Gaol HOBART

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 3

Trevor Eugene Campbell pleaded guilty in Hobart Police Court yesterday to charges of being drunk and disorderly and assaulting and resisting the police…

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Political Murder Egyptian Senator Assassinated LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

Reuter’s Cairo correspondent says that the Egyptian police believe that the arrest of a youth for the murder of the Egyptian…

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Police Charge Funeral Procession BOMBAY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 3

Sixty were injured, eight seriously, when police charged the funeral procession of a bus driver who was killed in a clash in the Bombay Assembly elections…

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Police Tell How Fireman Was Killed Man Dropped Stone, They Allege GOULBURN

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 1

It was disclosed at an inquest yesterday into the death of Arthur Patrick Watson, aged 26, of Junee, fireman on the…

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New Magistrate at Wagga WAGGA

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

Mr. R. A. Hardwicke formerly CPS at Parramatta sat in Wagga court today for the first as a police magistrate. He has been appointed magistrate for a large…

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Sequel To Political Murder Revolvers Allegedly Found In House CAIRO

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 5

It is alleged that when the [?] searched the house of the Under-Secretary for Communications (Te[?] Ahmed Bey.) whose son was…

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Shot In Cold Blood German Murder of British Commandos NUREMBURG

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

A German account of the exe[?]tion of a British [?] which [?] in a [?] near [?] in November [?] was…

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Adulterated Food Three Fined in Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Three people were fined in Albury court yesterday on charges of selling adulterated food. Stanley Williams, Holbrook, for…

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First Session of the Court of International Justice

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

For the first time after the liberation of Holland, the Court of International Justice came together in the large hall of the Palace of Peace, at the Hague. It will start its work again to help the nations that…

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Soldier’s Allegations Refuted Fined in Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Allegations that the six men who were passengers in a car struck by his motor cycle were drunk, made in Albury court…

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Police Tell How Fireman was Killed Man Dropped Stone, They Allege

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

It was disclosed at an inquest on Saturday into the death of Arthur Patrick Watson, aged 26, of Junee, fireman on the Sydney…

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