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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,297 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 65

Textile Worker Fined £20 Before Albury Court on Betting Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 5

George Stanley Matt, textile worker, residing at Greencourt Flats, in Smollet St., was fined £20 in Albury Court yesterday on a…

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Magistrate Refers to a ‘Scandal” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

Making the sale of furniture the condition of granting a tenancy was a scandal, which was creating a good deal of unrest, said Mr…

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Police and Pickets in Battle

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

Picture by radio from New York shows : Police and pickets battle in front of the main Western Union Telephone and Telegraph Company’s buildings, after five non-striking workers attempted to pass through…

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Court Pleadings to Remain Secret for 20 years LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

Kenneth Fullerton, described as a British subject, was today sentenced to 2½ years hard labor on charges of espionage, theft and illegal possession…

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Woman on Murder Charge BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 3

Mrs Amelia Dow, aged 57, of Red Hill, Brisbane, was arrested on Saturday night and charged with the murder of Mrs Freda Bevan, 25 years old…

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Homma Sentenced to be Shot MANILA

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 5

The War Crimes Tribunal today found General Homma guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to be shot. [?]umma [?]red in a grey…

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Police Seeking Motorist

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

Wodonga police are attempting to trace a utility truck which knocked down a soldier on the Murray Valley Highway at Bandiana on Sunday…

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Homma's Appeal Supreme Court Declines to Intervene

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Monday:-The Supreme Court has rejected a request by General Homma for an intervention. General Homma, yesterday, was…

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Last Minute News to Be Tried at Gibraltar Man Charged With Hanging 11-year-old Boy. London

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

Thomas McGlynn, aged 24 who was arrested aboard ship and charged at Gibraltar on February 9 with the murder of Charles Greeny at Liverpool…

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Thefts From Trains Police Arrest Two Men at Gun Point SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 1

Police investigations into thefts from goods trains between Sydney and Brisbane led to the arrest at gun point last night of two men,…

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Tobacco Kiosk Murder. Evidence at Inquest Journalist Present in Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 1

On the morning of January 2, Mrs Jeanette Wicks, 45, left her home in Macleay St., Potts Point, carrying £200 or more in a wallet…

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Rail Truck Pilfering Two Men Charged SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 1

Charged at Ryde court today with stealing four cartons of footwear and a bale of drapery valued at £250, the property of the Commissioner of…

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Seaman Fined £100 Allegedly Charged £5 Dozen For Beer SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 1

To charge £5 for a dozen bottles of beer was pure, unadulterated blackmarketing, Mr Atkinson, SM, said in a special Federal Court…

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Last Minute News Man to Hang For Hobart Murder HOBART

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 2

Frederick Henry Thompson aged 32, will hang for the murder of a 7-year-old girl, whose body was found In a cemetery near Hobart by a visitor…

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Protecting Youth Campaign to Fight T.B. Police to Lend a Hand

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 2

The work of the NSW police— from cadet to commissioner—in every conceivable field of patriotic and charitable endeavor, has…

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Police Boys' Club is Certain If Deniliquin Citizens Give Warranted Support Mayor Should Convene Public Meeting

The Independent · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 1

A Police Boys' Club to provide healthy recreation and environment for the adolescent youth of Deniliquin will soon be an established fact, if local citizens and public bodies give the movement the whole-hearted support Which such a splendid scheme…

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Tobacco Kiosk Murder Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

Women, some of whom had waited two hours for the doors to open, again rushed for seats in the tiny public gallery at the City Coroner's…

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A Murder Further Evidence at Inquest

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday:-Evidence by scientific experts was given at the Coroner's Court, today, when the inquest was continued into the death…

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Threatening Police Soldiers Fined £5 for Dance Hall Interlude

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 2

In the Court of Petty Sesions, before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M., yesterday, two young soldiers, were fined £5 each and costs…

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Kiosk Murder Mrs Wicks was Strangled According to Medical Testimony at Inquest SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

Mrs Jeanette Wicks, 45, whose battered body was found in her York st. kiosk on January 2, died from strangulation and not from…

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