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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Police Search for Thug Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 2

Ruby Walker, aged 35, single, who was battered, bound and gagged by a thug at Bellevue Hill yesterday was reported to be in a satisfactory…

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Mother of Three Children Shot Dead Husband Charged With Murder SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 1

Mrs. Louise Elizabeth Haynes. aged 38. mother of three children, was found dead in her Summer Hill home today with a bullet wound in her head…

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Man on Murder Charge Woman’s Death in House Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 1

Charged with the murder of his sister-in-law, Marie Elizabeth Kilmarlin, at Waverley early this morning, Kevin Leahy, aged 49, taxi driver, was…

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Remanded on Murder Charge SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 6

Arthur Redvers Hayne. 4[?], telegraphist. was remanded to January 10. when he appeared in Burwood Court to-day charged with the murder of his…

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Taxi Driver on Murder Charge SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 6

Kevin Leary, 49, taxi driver, was. remanded to January 9 when he appeared in Central Court today on a charge of having murdered his sister-In-Law, [?]…

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Randwick Bashing Police Will Hold Inquiry Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 6

Police will hold an official inquiry into the bashing of a man on Randwick racecourse yesterday, but will [?] no further [?] unless the victim so deslres…

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Widespread Jewish Terrorist Activity In Palestine British Officer Killed; Soldiers, Police, Civilians Wounded Street Battle Rages in Tel Aviv

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 1

Reports of firing, explosions of bombs and land-mines, and attempts by terrorists to use came Into Jerusalem last night from parts of Jerusalem as well as from Haifa. Tel Aviv and outlying towns as Tubariya, which had previously been free or trouble. Sixteen terrorist attacks were reported from various parts of Jerusalem during the night…

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Charged With Manipulating Price of Butter New York

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 2

The Federal Government has charged the president; Henry Rathburn, and three members of the executive committee of the…

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Police Allege Poison in Brandy SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 5

A man gave a woman [?]randy containing poison at Rose [?] on Friday, the police alleged [?] Central Police Court yesterday…

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Police Save Soldier From Drowning MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 3

When they formed a human chain down the steep bank of the Yarra river this morning, four wireless patrol police saved a soldier from drowning…

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Stood by and Saw Police Assaulted Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 1

A large crowd of hostile people refused to go to the aid of three police-men who were being attacked during a brawl in king street near George…

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Wives Seek Police Action Drive Against S.P. Bookmakers SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

Hundreds of complaints most of them from the wives of punters, ore one reason for the all-out drive by police against off-the-course…

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Police Kill Indian Strikers LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

Police shot dead two men and one woman when they opened fire to disperse a crowd of rioting mill workers, says neuter’s correspondent at [?] Troops…

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Two Gaoled for Bashing Police Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 1

In the Central Police Court to-day two men were sent to gaol and three were fined on charges arising out of a brawl in the city on Saturday night…

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Two Men Remanded Were Before Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

George Richard Thomas Harrison, 20-year-old riding school proprietor, was remanded in Albury Court yesterday until January 14 on a…

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Tangambalanga Laborer in Court Offensive Behavior Was Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

Charged in Albury Court yesterday with behaving in an offensive manner In Dean st. on January 2, Louis Henry Walters, laborer, aged 58, of…

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Wodonga Bus Driver Given Chance Police Put in Good Word For Him

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

Mervyn Roy Paxton, bus driver, aged 21, of Stanley st., Wodanga, was charged in Albury court yesterday that on January 5 he attempted…

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Union Official on Stealing Char[?] SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 2

Joseph Carpebdale, aged [?], charged at the Central Police C[?] day with having stolen £1314 [?] the Australian Workers’ Union [?]…

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Jap Faints When Sentenced To Death New York

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 2

The Shanghai correspondent of American Associated Press says that Chinese military tribunal hag sentenced to death [?]…

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Two Years’ Gaol for Carrying Pistol Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 4

When he pleaded guilty to having carried an unregistered pistol in the Redfern Police Court to-day, Denis Keane, aged 21, laborer, was…

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