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Courts & crime, 1948

973 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 49

Old People’s Home Hospital “Finished With” Gaol Site Proposal

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 2

“In my opinion the hospital is finished with the proposal to erect an old people’s home on the gaol site,” said the…

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Girl Charged with Stealing

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 3

At the Corowa court house yesterday afternoon before Mr. P. A. Kennedy, J P. Edna Mae Speering, 19, housemaid employed at the Corowa…

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Stealing. Charge Case Adjourned

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

Arthur Finlay Smith was .charged at the Court of Petty .Sessions on Wednesday that he did between April 27 and May 6, steal two glass panel doors…

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Boxer on Assault Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 8

SYDNEY; Thurs.: Ex-middle, weight r champion boxer, Alan Westbury, 31, was remanded until June 22 at Central Court…

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Father Acquitted on Assault Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thurs.—At Darling, burst Quarter Sessions today the jury acquitted Vincent Thomas Cluney, 32, storeman,…

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Licensing Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

Mr. E. M. Debenham, S.M., presided at the Licensing Court on Wednesday, when the licenses of all hotels in the. Deniliquin Police Licensing District…

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Tuesday's Court: Driving Cases

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 4

Court on Tuesday was postponed from 12. to 2 p.m., the Magistrate, Mr. E. M. Debenham, having been delayed by the state of the roads. Two…

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Court of Petty Sessions

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

The following minor matters were brought -up for hearing before Mr. E. M. Debenham, S.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday…

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ALBURY P.O. THEFT Man Treated Leniently By Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 7

A postal assistant at Albury, John Gerald Spain, 28, was discharged without conviction on entering into a bond of £56 to…

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Assault Charge Against Teacher Dismissed Punishment Right Upheld

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 7

Charge of unlawful assault against a district school teacher was dismissed in Albury children’s court yesterday. Teacher…

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Rode with No Light; Insulted Police Sgt

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 7

At Albury police court yesterday James Ernest Auhi Macaulay st, Albury, was fined £5 on a charge of having used…

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Sydney Man and Charge Dismissed by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 2

A charge of false pretences involving a cheque for £15 preferred against a Sydney man was dismissed at Albury court…

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Non-paying Hotel Guest Man Fined by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 15

Ronald Charles McPherson, 46, who described himself as a salesman, was convicted at Albury yesterday on £ charge of…

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Man on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY. Sun.—Charged with having, on June 10 murdered Mrs Avice Victoria Gasking, 59, Taronga Park, James Michael…

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Undertaker, Firemen, Police Hoaxed

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.: Radio flashes to police patrols at 10 o’clock last night sent two cars racing to a block of fiats…

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Murder Charge Follows Early Morning Arrest Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 June 1948 · page 1

After a midnight dash from the city, detectives under Inspector Clifton intercepted a car near Camden this morning and arrested a man in connection with the death of Francis John Allard, 31, whose…

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Man Charged Following Bush Shooting

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Monday : Francis Clyde Newman, 20, Charlotte Bay, Forster, was shot in the face while oil a shooting expedition…

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LABORER, 39, Remanded on Murder Charge Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 4

Percy Charles Neville, 39, laborer, was charged in the Central Police Court to-day with the murder of Francis John Beaumont Allard 40, whose body was found in a storm-water channel at Alexandria last Thursday…

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Crowd Watches Assault on Constable

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 June 1948 · page 3

WAGGA, Tuesday : Over 300 people stood watching a Wagga police constable kicked and punched in a Wagga street on…

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Gangsters' Campaign of Murder

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 June 1948 · page 11

SINGAPORE, Tuesday: About 12 Chinese Communist gansters, armed with tommy guns and Sten guns, and revolvers, last…

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