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Courts & crime, 1948

973 stories in Murray's papers · page 40 of 49

Murder of Journalist Reds Are Charged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Mon [?] Gregory Staktopoulos, journalist, [?] Salonika, his mother, Anna Staktopoulos, Amad Mouzenides, and…

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Man Charged Following Toddler’s Death

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday : Sequel to the death of a baby girl who was crushed by a motor lorry against a shop wall at Auburn on Saturday…

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Wife Again Remanded on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday : On a charge of having [?] her husband, Alfred William [?] Mrs Irene Violet [?] 33, of…

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Tennis Notes Grass Court Opening Delayed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 4

Owing to several causes, the grass courts of the Corowa Tennis Club will not be opened next week-end as had been hoped. This is due firstly…

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Paper Office Search by Secret Police Canberra, Monday

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 1

SECURITY POLICE investigating the “secret documents” case to-day searched the office occupied by the “Sydney Morning Herald" in the Federal Parliamentary Press gallery, Parliament House…

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Court of Petty Sessions Insulting Words Charge

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 1

At the Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday or last week before Mr. A. V. Quiggin P.M, Everard John Evans appeared on a charge of having used…

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Witness Too Ill to Give Evidence Doctor Tells Wagga Supreme Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 11

WAGGA, Mon. : Although a witness in a Supreme Court action here today was present in court, a doctor stated in…

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[?] Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 3

[?] Tuesday : Found [?] of unlawful possession of articles valued at between [?] £900, May Daphne…

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Albury Urgently Needs More Police

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 12

THOUSANDS of pounds worth of valuable property in Albury is in constant danger from fire and robbery because of the lack of police protection. There is no other city in NSW…

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British Information Bureau Raided by Czech Police

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 6

LONDON, Tues.: Czech police yesterday raided the British Information Bureau in Prikope, near the centre of Prague, and forcibly…

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“Body in River” Verdict [?]Ractor Driver Sentenced to Death

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Eric Stanley Jacobi, 44, tractor driver, of Cordon st., Foo[?]cray, was [?]tenced to death today for the…

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Alleged Leakage of Information Girl Typist Charged by Government Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 1

A GIRL typist employed by the Department of Post-War Reconstruction was charged to-day with having divulged information to the Press. The charge was laid departmentally by the department…

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R.A.A.F Mechanic Alleged He Was Offered £800 To Commit Murder Dramatic Evidence at Inquest Into Engineer’s Death Widow Says Husband Left Home After Fight With Son SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 3

MRS. HEATHER LE GALLIEN, widow of Charles Louis Have-lock Le Gallien, 49, wealthy engineer, who was stabbed to death at his North Sydney office on September 30, said to-day that her husband left their Lindfield home in October last year after a…

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Robbed Sergeant of £20 Bandiana Batman Gets Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 11

Pleading guilty to a charge of having stolen £20 from Eric Raymond Symons a soldier at Bandiana, Michael Patrick…

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Items of News Two Men Arrested for Wine Theft

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 2

Two men were arrested last night by Constable Kane, of Wodonga, and were charged with allegedly stealing a case of wine…

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Wodonga Police Cross Border

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 2

A sedan motor car owned by Mr Malcolm Hepburn, of Camberwell (Melb.), was driven to Albury by the thief and abandoned…

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Le Gallien Murder Witnesses’ Allegations Against Son SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 5

WITNESS, testified at the City Coroner’s Court to-day to having discussions with Charles Ivan Le Gallien about the possibility of murdering his father…

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Intent to Murder Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Friday : In the City Court today diaries Grantley Dyer, 19, and Kevin McDonald, 19, of the Morning Star Home,…

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Menaced People with Broken Glass Man Gets Gaol Sentence

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 5

In Dean street on Friday afternoon last week a man swang a sharp-edged piece of plate glass at passers-by on the crowded…

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Court Tribute to Det. -Sgt. Munro

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 14

Impending departure from Albury of Det.-Sgt Monro was marked in the closing stages of the Quarter Sessions yesterday…

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