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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,287 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 65

Articles at Police Station

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 2

Among goods which have been handed in to the Albury police station recently and which have not been claimed, are a pair of shoes believed…

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10 Schoolbobys on Murder Charge London

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 6

Premeditated plot to kill the headmaster, disable the assistant-master and escape was alleged against ten boys from Standon Farm Approved…

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Metal Trades Dispute Arbitration Court Raises Wages Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 1

When the Arbitration Court hearing of the Metal Trades dispute was resumed to-day the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr G. Mooney), who has been…

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Landlord Given Possession of House Appeal Will Be Made to Supreme Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 6

Proprietor of Baker’s Motors in Olive St., Alfred Admeades Baker, and owner of a house next door to his garage, Was yesterday granted…

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Lavers Murder Hearing Ends McDermott Sentenced To Death BATHURST

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1

Frederick Lincoln McDermott, 38, laborer, was found guilty in Bathurst court today of the murder of William Henry Lavers near…

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Murder “Confession” Withdrawn LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

The Home Secretary has decided that there are not sufficient grounds to justify his interfering with the due course of the Jaw in the case of…

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Was Dodging Police SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

Ernest Harrison, 55, who crashed 90 feet to his death between two buildings at Miller’s Point on Monday night, had been getting away from the police…

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Ten Boys Committed for Trial on Murder Charge LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 3

Ten boys who were charged with having murdered an assistant master, William Peter Fieldhouse, aged 21, at the Standon Farm Approved School at Eccles Hall,…

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Cigarette Papers From Court Case Returned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

Consignment of over 5,000,000 individual cigarette papers. which was the subject of a court case in Albury last year have now been returned to the…

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Wholesale Arrests By Chinese Secret Police New York

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

Protests by Peiping’s leading university professors and other liberals has climaxed a week’s series of midnight raids, wholesale arrests and…

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Parallel Parking Comes Into Forge From Monday Special Police Will Be On Duty

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

Parallel parking will come into force in Albury on Monday and will apply to all motor traffic throughout the city…

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Thought of Shooting It Out with Police Man For Trial; £9175 Jewel Robbery SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1

A man accused of a £9175 jewel; theft is alleged by the police to have said he had considered shooting it out with the police while making his…

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Murder of Domestic Three Young Men Charged BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 1

Three young men were charged with wilful murder of Flora Prior, domestic, on February 25. They appeared in Rockhampton Police Court today…

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[?] Accessories Taken From Bandiana Dumps Three Lads Before Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 3

[?] the youth of [?] had made a habit of visiting [?] and collecting articles from [?] made known in…

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Items of News Failed to Slow Down at Intersection, Police Say

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 2

Andrew Roy Paton, of Kiewa st., did not appear in Wodonga court yesterday when [?] was charged with failing to slow down at [?] intersection. First…

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Police Pelted with Stones Incident During Royal Tour In S.A. Port Elizabeth

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 1

Workers at Uitenhage pelted police with stones when the Royal train did not halt there on its way to Port Elizabeth…

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Had Illicit Gold; Clerk Sentenced KALGOORLIE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 2

Anthony Arnold Markham lsmay, aged 32, clerk, was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months when he appeared in Kalgoorlie…

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Police Charge Rioters SINGAPORE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 7

One hundred and fifty police charged with rifle butts yesterday to quell 600 Indian [?] in Being village in the centre of Kedah…

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Men Cornered in Building 500 People Watch Police Search Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 3

More than 500 people to-night watched detectives and uniformed police with drawn revolvers search a bond store on East Circular Quay…

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Court Cases

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 1

Before Mr. F. Sheppard: J.P., the following cases were dealt with at yesterday's Court. Harold Cations, aged 45. labourer, was…

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