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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 59

Chase After Car Has Sequels in Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 April 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday : After a chase along the Western Highway as far as Pendle Hill yesterday, police arrested two men…

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Need Not Work in Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Mr L. J. Mc-Phillips, Communist secretary of the Ironworkers' Association, who is in Long Bay Gaol, will…

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Woman on Murder Charge Given Bail Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 April 1949 · page 6

A 43-year-old woman charged in the City Court yesterday with murder, was granted bail so that she could be with her two young children…

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Man Acquitted on Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY, Mon.: Acquitted last week on a murder charge, after his third trial, a man was discharged at Central Police Court…

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Woman on £6671 Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 1

A 35-year-old married woman who was arrested in Albury yesterday morning: following inquiries by…

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Stealing Charge Substantial Bail Required

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 1

Norman Leslie Elliott appeared at the Court of Petty [?]essions yesterday,- before Mr. [?] M. Cronin, J.p., charged…

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Man on Jewellery Theft Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: Two de[?] lives today arrested a man in the city and recovered jewellery valued at 800 reported stoleu…

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Alleged Assault Victim May Die

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 7

S YD NET, Mon.: On a charge assaulting Alfred John Blair, 36 causing him actual bodily harm, his brother-in-law, a. 37…

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Former German Envo to Be Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 3

NUREMBERG, Mon.: An American war crimes tribunal today found Baron Ernst Von Welzsaecker, former German…

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Minor Court Matters

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 1

Mr. J. M. Cronin, J.P., was on the Bench at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday When several cases of drunkenness and…

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Found “Wanted” Man in Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 2

DABWIV, Mon.: A Native Affairs patrol officer, S. Kyle-Little, who appeared for a native, Willy, in Darwin Coroner's Court…

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Accused in Court with a Broken Back Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 3

LYING on a bed with a broken back in front of the dock of the Central Criminal Court today, Robert Matthew Thomas, 19, laborer, was charged with, murder, he was alleged to have shot…

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Guilty of Stealing

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1949 · page 4

At Narrandera Quarter Sessions, before Judge Berne, George Thomas Mc-Curry and Ronald Herbert Binder, pleaded guilty to charges of stealing…

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Attack Made On The Arbitration Court MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 April 1949 · page 1

THE Arbitration Court was attacked to-day by the Victorian secretary of the Seamen’s Union (Mr. W. Bird) at a Yarra bank protest meeting against the gaoling of the Ironworkers’ Union’s…

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Executioner in Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 1

BERLIN, Wed,; Gustav Voelpel, the German executioner who claims to have chopped off 30 heads since…

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Guilty of Alleged Assault

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 15

WANGARATTA, Wed. : A jury this morning returned a verdict of guilty against Andrew Joseph Byers, charged with assault…

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[?] Woman Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE Wed. : A [?] born Gipsy, woman, [?] [?] mother of seven children and a caravan [?]…

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Woman Discharged on Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.: A 35 years old woman charged with stealing £1000 after breaking and entering the home of her step-father in…

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Boy Murderer Sentenced to Death

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 1

BREMEN, Wed.: Found guilty of murder, a ship's steward, who told the judge that he had killed a 12-year-old and had…

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A Town Hall Official on a Theft Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 April 1949 · page 1

HOBART, Wed.: Recently awarded the OBE, the secretary to the town clerk and clerk of committees on the…

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