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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,297 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 65

Attack on Detective Two Men Heavily Fined in Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

“Let him go or I’ll kill you,” is what Jack Francis Wales, 28-year-old laborer, is alleged to have said to Dec J. E. J. Neville in the…

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Police Residence to Be Tenanted

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

Inspector Yardy stated last evening that the police residence in Kiewa street would be tenanted within the next week or two. It had been vacant…

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“Discontent in NSW Police Force” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 6

Because of serious discontent in the NSW police force over pay, conditions and the recently introduced system under which promotion is based on…

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Death Sentence on “The Tiger” Court to be Asked to Refuse Review WASHINGTON

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

Mr J. H. McGrath (United States Solicitor—General) intends to ask the Supreme Court to refuse to review the sentence of death imposed on…

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Baillie Stewart Charged with High Treason London

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 2

Norman Baillie Stewart, formerly [?] officer of the British Army, was charged in the Old Bailey today on two indictments the first, of high…

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Doctor and Nurses on 369 Murder Charges LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 2

Austrian State police have [?] a doctor and eight nurses of a [?] home on the outskirts of Vienna [?] charge of having murdered [?]…

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Workers Defy Court Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 5

Timberworkers, who held a stopwork meeting this morning, delled an order of the Industrial Court, made yesterday, restraining them…

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Kidnapping And Murder Of Girl Police Ordered To Charge Or Release Trio CHICAGO, January 9

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

On a habeas corpus petition by Verburgh’s daughter, the Criminal Court has ordered the police either to charge or release. Hector…

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Melbourne Police Force

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

Melbourne's Police Force compared more than favourably with police systems of other British countries, and even Scotland Yard, said Mr. W. R…

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Glass- Eater Faints in Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

A tough sailor who chewed glass and punched a constable fainted at the police station when charged, it was state in Central…

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Woman For Murder Trial Father Found Shot In Kitchen MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 4

After inquiring into the death of Robert Francis Abel Herbert, 51. the City Coroner (Mr Wade) today committed Mrs Gloria Mary Bruyn…

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Court Orders Release of Trio [?]

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 1

Hector [?] his wife and Desere Sinet , who had been held in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Suzanne Degnan,…

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McKell Challenged on Police Resignations SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 6

Because of the large number of Police resignations and the existing lag in [?] the public was not [?] the public protection for which…

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Death Sentence for Stealing Fat COLOGNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

An Allied Military Court has sentenced to death two gang leaders who led a raid on fat storage cellars the stole equivalent of the…

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Trials For Murder Of Airmen 2000 Germans Rounded Up LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

At least 2000 Germans have been rounded up and await trial for the murder of or brutal treatment of hundreds of American airmen who…

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Police Interested in Woman’s Death SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

Police are investigating the death of Mary Buchanan Whitehead, aged widow. of O’Sullivan road. Rose Day. Her body was found just…

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Mrs. Livesey Ill May Not Appear In Court Today ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 3

Mrs Ethel Livesey, who arrived by plane from Sydney four days ago. has taken ill at her hotel and Is confined to her bed and It is uncertain…

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Theft From Rutherglen Store

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 2

At the Rutherglen Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday last, before Mr. J. C. Bell, PM, Walter Thomas Rose was charged with entering and…

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Visit of “Witness;” Court Sequel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 2

When a “Jehovah’s Witness” called on a Wagga man recently with tracts and something to say about his society. he was first asked to leave and then…

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Mrs Livesey Too [?] to Appear in Court ADELAIDE, Monday

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 6

Florence Elizabeth Ethel Gardiner aged 46, also known as Mrs [?] was too all to appear before the Criminal Court today to face a…

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