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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 24 of 59

Legal Costs in Marathon Equity Court Suit Estimated at £60,000 SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 3

A RESERVED judgment in the Equity Court to-day by Mr. Justice Sugerman was the sequel to the longest hearing of a case of its kind ever to come before an Australian court. Costs are estimated at £60,000. Today’s proceeding lasted for…

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Three Years’ Gaol for Assault on Child

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues: In Quarter Sessions today a barrister asked Judge Redshaw to impose a light sentence on a storeman who had…

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Big Cash Theft From Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 15

BRISBANE, Tues: About £1600 in cheques, bank notes and coins was stolen from a safe in the Grand Hotel, Alice st, Brisbane,…

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Seamen Sentenced; Refused to Leave Ship

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 10

GEORGETOWN (Brit. Gaians) Tues: Twenty-five members of the crew of the Canadian freighter Sunavis were today sentenced…

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Two Years’ Gaol for Drunken Driving

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 10

TAMWORTH. Tues.: Cecil Claude Dodd, 41. lorry driver of Inverell, was sentenced to years’ imprisonment by Judge…

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Woman on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tues: The City Coroner (Mr Burke) today committed Mrs Ella Florence Phillips, of Ludbrook ave, Caulfield,…

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Famous German Brothers Charged by British

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 3

HAMBURG, Tues.: Two famous Ge[?]nan shipbuilding brothers, Rudolf and Walter Blobm, of Blohm and Voss, have been…

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Police Accused of Killing Demonstrator

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 14

TOKIO, Tues.: The Japanese Communist Party has charged, the Japanese police with having pushed young Labor…

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Unions Will Fight Spreading of Hours in High Court Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 6

UNION will take action in the High Court to block any decision made by the Chief Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Mooney) on an application by employers for, spreading hours of industry during power rationing Mr Mooney late this afternoon…

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Order Made in Moratorium Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 10

At Albury Moratorium Court yesterday Mr Qaiggin, SM, made an order for Edward Joseph Brady, executor of the estate of…

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Theft of Machine-guns Alarms Police Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 4

THE possibility that machine-guns stolen from a suburban drill hall may get into the bands of subversive groups has alarmed police. Yesterday army authorities…

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Killer Sent Back to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A murderer released on licence was sent back to gaol by Judge Curlewis today, to serve the…

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Man to Be Tried on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Charged with the murder of Mrs. Catherine Cecillia Tompson, 52 widow, Edwin George Words,…

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Court Application on Ballot

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The ALP in[?] group in the Clerks Union intend to apply to the court tomorrow for an injunction to…

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Items of News Jewellery Robber Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 2

Walter William Court, of Wagga, was sentenced to two years' gaol Goulburn Quarter Sessions recently on a charge of breaking,…

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New Police Chief for Riverina

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 11

SYDNEY, Fr[?] The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Scott) today announced important changes in senior police positions…

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Solicitor, Who Lost Clients' Money Betting, Sent to Gaol Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 1

SPENCER INGRAM-PEARSON, 33, solicitor, of Potts Point, who pleaded guilty to 16 charges of fraudulent misappropriation of £9616 entrusted to him by clients, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by Judge Lamaro at Quarter Sessions to-day…

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Albury Gaol, Once Home of Many a Malefactor, Awaits a happier Era

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 11

ITS cells empty, its windows broken, its timbers mouldering, its yards weed infested, Albury Gaol is now no more than a hollow, echoing tombstone to the purpose it fulfilled for 90 years. No prisoners shuffle each to his…

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"Whose Baby?" Case for the High Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Unsuccessful parties in the Kyneton baby dispute, Mr and Mrs W. H. Morrison, will take the…

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Vital Court Decision on Petrol Rationing Monday Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 3

JUDGMENT on the Commonweal Government's power over the rationing of petrol will be given by the High Court in Melbourne on Monday. In March acting on the…

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