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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 26 of 59

Girl, 17, To Be Sentenced For Her Step-Mother SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 1

A 17-YEAR-OLD girl, charged with having murdered her stepmother by shooting her in the back with a pea-rifle at point-blank range, was found not guilty of manslaughter by a Central Criminal Court jury late this afternoon…

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Workers Police in Fierce Riot

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 3

CALCUTTA. Thurs.: Police yesterday fired 60 shots and used tear gas in a fierce hand-to-hand battle with rioting workers at a pottery…

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Women Co-operate in Daring, Jewel Theft

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: Two women . co-operated in a daring snatch and grab theft from a Pitt-street jewellery shop during…

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Court on [?]

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 14

IN September last year, after he had been discharged from Albury [?] where he had been an [?] for some time, [?] railway employe, Charles st., found a man and woman had taken up residence in his home…

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Rutherglen Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 5

Fines totalling £90 were enforced [?] Mr Bell SM. [?] the Rutherglen [?] Court on June 7. John P[?] [?] of the…

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[?]C.t.u. Agrees to Ballot Probe by Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 15

MELBOURNE, [?] A proposal [?] the Arbitration Court be [?] the power to investigate [?] union ballots in certain…

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Cave-Dweller on £6500 Stealing Charge SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 June 1949 · page 1

DETECTIVES late this afternoon arrested a 24-year-old cave dweller at Collaroy and charged him with the theft of nearly £6500 worth of negotiable shares from a docotor’s home at Collaroy on…

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Laborer on Stealing

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 June 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY Mon.: Ball of £100 was allowed a 24 year aid laborer in the Central police court today. Police alleged that the…

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Alleged Theft of Cornsacks

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 June 1949 · page 3

At Yarrawonga Court last week two men, Joseph Allan Saunders and Charles Alexander Kendall, both of Melbourne, were remanded to appear…

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“Battledress” for Gaol Inmates

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 June 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mop.: The 1900 prisoners under sentence In NSW would soon be issued with a new grey uniform of a…

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Soldier Critically Hurt Truck Driver Charged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 June 1949 · page 2

A PEDESTRIAN suffered a possible fracture of the skill and scalp lacerations when knocked down by a truck on the Tallangatta rd. three miles from Wodonga, early last evening…

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Gaol Licence Revoked

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 2

In Wagga Court yesterday, Mr Quiggin, S.M., directed that man released from gaol on licence be recommitted to the place of…

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10 Greeks Sentenced to Death

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 3

ATHENS. Tues : A Greek Guerrilla “Cabinet Minister.” Takis Moulopoulos and nine other Communists, including three…

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Red’s Appeal Against Gaol Sentence

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.: An appeal by way of a special case against the conviction last October of, Gilbert Burns on a sedition…

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Murder Charge Follows Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 15

HOBART, Tues.: An employe of the mental hospital at Lachlan Park, Leslie Joseph Priest, 24, was charged today. with having…

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Police Protect Book Makers’ Stands

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 3

LONDON. Tues.: Police last night guarded bookmakers’ stands on the open heath at Ascot racecourse, to prevent…

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Reds’ Charges Against Police Chief Fail

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 3

PERTH, Tues.: Charges against the Commissioner of Police (John Doyle) by a Western Australia Communist Party…

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2000 Jap. Police Battle with 3000 STRIKERS TOKlO

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 3

EIGHTY Japanese strikers were injured, four seriously, when 2000 police last night fought 3000 strikers at the Japan steel manufacturing company plant in atom-bombed Hiroshima…

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Court of Petty Sessions

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

The following cases were dealt with at the Court of Petty Sessions by Mr. A. V. Quiggin, Magistrate yesterday:--…

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Seven Years’ Gaol, for Assault and Robbery

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri: A 31-year-old traveller was sentenced to seven years' gaol for having assaulted and robbed a…

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