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Courts & crime, 1948

973 stories in Murray's papers · page 33 of 49

Alleged Suicide Threat Police Search for Young Man

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday : After allegedly phoning a message threatening suicide, a young ex-serviceman whose appeal against…

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Red Mob Invades Berlin City Hall; Forces Out Councillors Soviet Controlled Police Fail to Take Action Communist Leader Outlines An “Emergency Programme” LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 1

BERLIN City Council meeting called for this morning was postponed indefinitely after 400 people had forced open the gates and poured into the City Hall building, states the British United Press correspondent in Berlin…

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Aborigine to Be Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday : William [?] 35, a full-blooded [?] appeared in the Central [?] Court today charged…

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Murder Suspects Held

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Tues.: After an engagement in which one terrorist was killed, police on Sunday, in the Changkat…

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The Court House

The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 5

A LONG and lurid story follows the history of the law in Deniliquin from the time a sum of £75 was allotted by the Government for the erection of a Court House in 1847, which was an inedequate sum, and owing to the scarcity of skilled…

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Writ Against Police Foe £5000 Damages Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 1

A man who was recently fined in North Sydney Police Court for using offensive language and assaulting…

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Man Charged with Wounding

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Detectives investigating the shooting of Albert Carrington, 41, of Palmerston st., Carlton, last night, today…

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Fiendish Slaying of Woman Man Sentenced to Death

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.: Mr Justice Maxwell today sentenced to death James Michael Murray, 30, laborer, after a jury had…

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Undertaker Prefers Gaol Rather Than Pay Tax Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

MR LESLIE ANDREWS a 34-year-old Sydney undertaker has announced that he will go to gaol rather than pay social service taxation. He declared to-day that he did not believe in social…

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Father Charged With Offence Against Daughter

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 9

BROKEN HILL, Thurs. : Aubrey Herbert Davies, contractor, of Wicketts Station, near Gol Gol, was acquitted in Quarter Sessions…

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Police Murdered by Bandits

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.: Armed Police in armored cars and light tanks have been sent to Partinico to round up Sicilian…

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Police in Fierce Fight with Mob Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 2

FOUR members of a wireless patrol car had to fight desperately when attacked by a mob of about 50 men outside the Duke of Albany Hotel, Abbotsford, shortly after closing time yesterday…

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Chifley Charged with Apologising for Miners

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: Public would appland infinitely more if the Federal Government ensured the Australian standard of living…

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Berlin Reds Storm Into City Hall Police Look on As Doors Battered London

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

COMMUNIST demonstrators this morning rushed the City Hall and swept aside Soviet sector German police, reports Reuter’s correspondent. They broke down the main door and swarmed…

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Digk Turpin Inquiry Third Man Charged with Alleged Doping Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 12

THE V.R.C stipendiary stewards to-day adjourned the Dick Turpin inquiry for the fifth time. After nine witnesses had given evidence lasting 4[?] hours, the deputy chairman of stewards. (Mr. Reld) said the case…

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Man Shoots Policeman on Way to Police Station

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 1

NEW ORLEANS, Tues.: Two men, one of whom earlier accused the other of stealing from him, shot and…

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Russians Figure In Nasty Incident In Berlin Police Are Seized and Manacled Behaved Like Nazis: French Officer’s Charge LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 3

RUSSIAN sector German police broke into a room in the City Hall and took out in [?]chains and handcuffs a number of western sector police who had entered the hall this…

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Alleged Attempted Criminal Assault

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: A man who attempted to criminally assault a woman at Miller’s Point last night is believed to have been…

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Red Barrister Apologises Misses Gaol Term

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed.: After having at first refused to apologise to the Industrial Court today for having committed contempt…

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“Dug Grave for Victim” Allegations by Police

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed.: Police alleged at Parramatta Court to-day that when arrested Richard Fear, 27, labourer, was armed with a heavy…

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