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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

973 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 49

Husband Sentenced; Wife Released on Bond

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Alexander Harry Paulsen. 38, boxing: promoter, the principal of the Harry Paulsen Boxing Troupe,…

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Removed Wrong Weed From Property Farmer in Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1948 · page 7

At Wodonga Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, before Mr Bell, PM, Alfred Gordon Fable, of Barnawartha, claimed he had…

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Bought Bike From Soldier Man's Story in Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1948 · page 7

Charged with having stolen a bicycle valued at £5, the property of Walter Geier, Horace Raymond Mills, boiler attendant,…

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U.S. Drops Plan For Special Police Force For Palestine LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1948 · page 1

Informed sources at Lake Success said to-day the United States had abandoned plans to call special police force to augment die Palestine froce Commission, but the American delegation…

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Woman Bared Leg to S.m. Alleged She Was Kicked by Police

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. — In the Central Police Court today a 41-year-old woman bared her right leg up to the hip to show…

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Man's Alleged Second Visit to Shop Sent for Trial by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1948 · page 7

A man who appeared in Albury Court in 1946 charged with breaking into a Dean street delicatessen shop was committed…

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Police Baton Strikers Kansas City

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 5

Police with batons battled with meat packing house strikers and pickets and at least half a dozen strikers, including…

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Three Years’ Gaol for Killing Wife

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues. — A former prisoner of the .Japanese, [?] James Hitching, 27, was sentenced to three years' hard…

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Nazi Wardress Who Killed 3000 Women Sentenced to Death London

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 3

A British War Crimes Court yesterday sentenced to death a German S.S. wardress, Ruth Closius, 28, for sending over 3000 Allied women to death in the gas chamber at the Ravens-bruck women’s concentration camp…

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Little Girl Saw Mother Killed Pathetic Story; Father on Murder Charge Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 3

A little girl was a pathetic figure in the Criminal Court today, when she gave evidence concerning the death of her mother, with whose murder her father has been charged…

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Young Airman’s “Celebration” Leads to Appearance in Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 2

Celebration of the completion of a course he had been undergoing at the RAAF School at Wagga, led to the appearance…

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Man's Gaol Sentence Quashed

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY. Wed.—Appeal by Frank Abbott, 42, psychiatrist, of Darlinghurst, against a sentence of 14 days' gaol on a charge of…

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Police Officer for Mt. Beauty

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 9

Mr Mitchell, MLA, has been advised in reference to his repre-sentations, urging that a member of the police force be permanently…

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Re-arming of Jap Police Force Sought

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 3

TOKIO. Wed.: The Japanese Government may soon approach General MacArthur to request the re-arming of the police force, it…

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31 Sydney Firemen Overcome by Fumes and Smoke; Police Inquiring SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 1

Members of the CIB Arson Squad tonight were called in to investigate the cause of a city fire in which 31 firemen were overcome by smoke and fumes, six of them being admitted…

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Red Spy Ring Trial; 36 Sentenced to Death

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 9

Sentenced to Death.: The Associated Press correspondent in Salonika reports that a Greek military court today sentenced to death 34…

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Youths Sentenced For “Shocking Crime.” Chief Justice’s Comments

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Found guilty by a jury of attempted rape upon a 22 year old staff nurse, three youths were sentenced by…

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Land and Valuation Court Mr. Sheahan Appears for Ex-Soldier

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 6

An unusual precedent was adopted by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) in the Land and Valuation Court last week when…

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To Be Sentenced for Slaying Mother

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri. George Bechtold, 21, who was charged in the Central Criminal Court today with the murder of his mother…

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Stole Old Man’s Wallet Two Accused Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. — Before Mr Justice Martin and a in the Criminal Court today, Leslie Goldberg, 38, of…

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