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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Bogus Police Bash Woman Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 4

Two young men who [?] as police men [?] ester Street, Newtown, last night…

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Holiday Accidents Light Police Patrols Save Lives

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 6

Coincidence of a low road accident toll and the presence on main roads of the greatest number of police traffic patrols since the…

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Took Guest Home; Robbed, Battered Him, Police Allege Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 4

A North Fitzroy laborer who was charged at the City watch-house late last night with assault and robbery, was alleged by the Police to have…

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Drunken Drivers May Get Gaol for Five Years and fined £500 SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 3

Drastic alterations to penalties relating to serious traffic breaches arc proposed by, the traffic and police authorities. One proposed amendment…

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Bomb Exploded in German Court LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 2

It is officially announced that al bomb exploded in the Denazification court at Nuremburg last night, says the British United Press correspondent…

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Corowa Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 1

At the Corowa Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Etherton, P.M., Mrs. Rita Pearl Knight, of Edward street pleaded not guilty to a charge…

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Gaol Escapees Remanded BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 5

Derwent Evans [?] aged [?] and Victor John Travis, aged 20, who were recaptured after escaping from Brisbane gaol, were remanded for…

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Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 1

At the Corowa Licensing court on Tuesday before Mr. Etherton, P.M., a Hawker's Pack License was granted to S. W. C. Mills, and a business…

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Henty Police Station Repairs

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 1

The Premier (Mr McKell), replying to representations on behalf of the Memeber for Albury (Mr C. J. Hurley), revealed that work soon to…

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Duke’s Horse For Mounted Police SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 2

The Duke of Gloucester has donated his horse, Once Again, to the N.S.W. mounted police and it will be ridden in a mounted police escort for the…

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Man’s Remarkable Record in Gaol BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 6

A sentence of eight months gaol for escaping from Boggo Road [?] was imposed on Arthur Ernest Ha[?]iday aged 36, in the police court today…

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Parallel Parking at Albury Hints by Police

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 4

With the announcement that parallel parking would be reverted to in Albury, police officers yesterday stressed certain clauses in the motor traffic…

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Boy, Aged 15, on Murder Charge Ex-serviceman-father’s Death Perth

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 1

The story of a violent struggle between a man and his wife in which the daughter and sons took their mother’s part, was told in the Albany police…

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Wore Kilts in Court a Laborer Heavily Fined

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 4

A man who had represented himself to be a former rating of [?] Royal Navy and a member of a Scottish Regiment had told a detective who had…

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12 Die in Rioting in Bombay Police Fire on Demonstrators Bombay

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 1

Twelve people have been killed and 110 injured in Bombay riots in the last 24 hours. There have also been cases of arson in disturbances…

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Married Man Charged With Girl’s Murder BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 1

Reginald Spence Wingfield Brown, aged 49, of Lucia, was charged last night with the murder of a pretty 19-year-old stenographer. Bronia Mary Armstrong. A nurse, yesterday morning, found the strangled, scantily clad body…

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Death Sentences for Political Murder Warsaw

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 6

Two men have been sentenced to death for the murder of M. Boleslaw Sc[?], secretary of the Pol[?] Peasant Party’s Executive Comm[?] in…

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“Adventures” End in Hands of Police NEWCASTLE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 1

Attempting to escape from the police, who surrounded them on a cliff face near King Edward Park, Newcastle, this morning, two…

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Court of Petty Sessions Postal Employee Charged

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 4

At the Corowa Court on Tuesday of last week before Mr. Etherton, PM. Everett John Evans (20) appeared on two charges of having…

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Remanded on Murder Charge Sequel to Girl’s Death Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

Reginald Spence Wingfield Brown aged 43, [?] was remanded to January 20. when he appeared in Brisoano Police Court to day charged with…

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