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Courts & crime, 1947

1,287 stories in Murray's papers · page 22 of 65

Legal Aid For Police Sergeant Sought SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 2

Because they consider the matter is one of grave public concern, the Police Association will ask the State Government to provide Sergeant A. J. Keogh…

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Criticism and Praise Arbitration Court Bill Debated. Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 3

The Government’s new Arbitration Bill if enacted, would strip the Arbitration Court of the prestige and destroy the [?] of the parties,…

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Police to Hold Sale

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 2

Men's and women’s bicycles will be among the variety of property which will be sold at the police station on May 10 in the annual unclaimed…

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Even Police Were Hoaxed Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 5

A silly hoax held up traffic over Victoria Bridge, which links Brisbane with Sooth Brisbane over the Prisbane River, to-day. Someone…

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Jews in Shanghai Accuse British of Murder SHANGHAI

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 5

Eight thousand Jews at a mass meeting protested against what they called the “murder” by the British in Palestine of Dov Grunor and the three other…

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Eight Killed in Clash with Police Peshawar

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 1

Eight persons were killed and 15 were wounded by rifle fire when armed raiders and the police clashed in a village near Dora Ismail Khan, says…

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Doctor Allowed £400 Bail Before Albury Court Yesterday

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 1

Ball of £400 was allowed Hyman Louis Brlckman, medical practitioner, aged 31 years, in Albury yesterday when he was…

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A Cook for Trial Alleged Attack on Police Man’s Wife Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 6

Charged with having attempted to [?] the wife of a young [?] policeman last Saturday night a man was to-day committed for trial at…

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Court’s Ultimatum to Striking Engineers Return To Work Or Union Deregistered SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 April 1947 · page 1

If striking members of the Victorian branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union do not return to work within 14 days the union will be deregistered. This was the direction issued today by the Full Bench of the…

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Corowa Police Court Unregistered Bren Gun Carrier

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 1

At the Corowa Police Court on Monday last before Mr. E. J. Etherion PM. Arthur William Upton was charged with having permitted W. A…

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Stealing of £70 Nine Months' Imprisonment

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 1

(WALTER THOMAS PRIOR (38), labourer, on remand, was charged that on 25th March, 1947, at Deniliquin, he did steal 14 five pound notes, the…

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Nine Months' Imprisonment Stealing from Dwelling

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 1

LESLIE FRANSDEN (28), labourer, was charged that on 3rd March. 1947, he did "steal from the dwelling house of Harold Charles McLaughlin,…

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Licensing Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 2

The following transfers were approv-ed of by the Licensing Bench on Tues-day. Francis Ellen Gibbs to Ellen Mary…

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Alleged Murder by Stabbing Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 1

Frederick William Robson, 48, cutter of Darlingburst, was today remanded without bail on a charge of having murdered Clirrine Rubie May Flake…

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Court of Petty Sessions

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Etherton P.M. in the Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, the following cases were, dealt with:—…

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Police Praised for Handling of Traffic During Recent Celebrations

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 2

Congratulating the police officials on the manner in which traffic had been handled in Albury over the busy celebration period, the secretary of the…

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Urban Committee Approves of £1000 Tennis Court Scheme

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 1

The Henty Urban Committee has formally approved of the proposed scheme of the Henty Tennis Club to provide guarantors and cash to the amount of £500 to be spent on the tennis courts in Henty Park,…

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400 Worth of Property in House Taken by Police Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 3

When railway detectives visited a home in western Suburbs today, a man and a woman were arrested Police lonk away [?] alleged to have been stolen from the…

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Police, Fire Brigade, Ambulances, Hoaxed Shooting at Baccarat School ” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 3

Police cars, fire engines Ambulances, and newspaper reporters rushed to an address to King’s Cross tonight in response to an anonymous phone call, stating that a…

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