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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 59

Girl’s Story of Midnight Marriage : ’Groom Sent to Gaol Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 3

STORY of a midnight marriage with a man 26 years her senior while she was half drunk was told in Quarter Sessions to-day by Joan Gertrude Vera McCarthy, 17, of Redfern. The man she married, George Williams, 43, wharflaborer, was sentenced to 12 months’ gaol on a charge of marrying a girl under 21 without the written consent of her parents…

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“Not Allowed to Think in Court”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon: Quick-witted taxi-driver, Albert Frederick Day, inspired a spontaneous burst of laughter with a…

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Man Collapses on Floor of Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday : Frederick William Akers, Eustace st, Manly, collapsed on the floor of the Manly Court today after the…

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Falstein, M.h.r., Appealing to High Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY, Mon.: Max Falstein, MHR, today filed notice on the High Court seeking special leave to appeal from…

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Man in Gaol for 12 Years in Court Again

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 12

SYDNEY, Tues.: Already serving a 12 year gaol sentence, Kenneth Austin, 21, appeared in the Central Police Court today…

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Police Doubts About Man’s Mental Stability

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 12

SYDNEY, Tues.: Charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on another taxi driver, Francis Charles Way, 25 taxi driver, was…

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Sentenced to the “Rising of the Court”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed. : A man charged with attempted suicide was sentenced to the “rising of the court” at Kogarali Police Court…

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Charged With Selling Babies

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 3

ROME, Wednesday : Police at Bitonto, in Apulia, have arrested a midwife on a charge of selling over 100 babies to childless…

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Sterilisation Saves Woman From Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 10

LOS ANGELES, Wed.: Georgette Bracks, SO, who was convicted of beating her baby to death, was' released…

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Pay Out for Theft Cost £50,000

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 10

LISMORE, Wed.: A reduction £50,000 in the value of property stolen from the railways 1948 as compared with…

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Aspersion on Police Premier Declares

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed. : Mr Chaffey (CP, Tamworth), in the Legislative Assembly today, asked if the Government had taken any…

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400 Strikers Facing Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wed.: Arising from the one day tram stoppages, the hearing of 400 prosecutions for disobeying an order…

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Evatt’s Secret Police Interrogate Journalists Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 1

THE Commonwealth Investigation Service today conducted another interrogation of journalists in the Parliamentary Press gallery. The interrogation was carried out by Mr. Officer, of the Melbourne…

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Comic Court May Be Reserved For Sydney Cup SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 12

IT is unlikely that Comic Court will oppose Carbon Copy in, the A.J.C. St. Leger. Advice from Adelaide today stated that Comic Court would concentrate on the Sydney…

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Motor Mechanic Charged With Cycle Theft

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

A 34-year-old motor mechanic John Henry McGrath, of Albury, appeared before Albury Court on Wednesday on a charge of…

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Arrest Last Night Two Charged with Theft

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 4

Two young men, strangers to the district, were arrested last night on a charge of theft. Walter James Cross, 20 years;…

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Pentridge Wardens Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday : Offences against the Gaol Act led to three former warders at Pentridge Gaol being convicted at the…

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Son Charged With Wounding Father

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: On a charge of wounding his . father, George Frederick Nealer, 52, with intent to murder, at Preston…

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Police Call—Boot Wanted

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 1

An clastic sided tan boot has been lost and Deniliquin police are interested to learn of its wherea[?]outs…

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Police in Car Smash

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 3

An accident occurred on the Albury road about three miles on the Albury side of Howlong on Wednesday evening at about 6 o'clock when a Police…

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