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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 27 of 59

Two Years’ Gaol for Killing Father

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: A 33-years-old factory worker was sentenced to two years' hard labor in the Central Criminal…

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Man Charged Following Early Morning Shooting

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Albert George Adams, 21, was charged today at. Fawkner with causing grievous bodily harm to Kenneth…

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Allegedly Assaulted Police

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 2

A 26-year-old laborer from Collingwood (Melbourne), was charged at Culcairn yesterday with allegedly assaulting a policeman with…

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Fled From Secret Police

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 18

BERLIN, Fri.: Hans Zimar, head of the Soviet-licensed German Newsagency Bureau, has fied from Potsdam a second…

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Husband Charged with Killing Wife

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 12

PERTH, Sun.: John Arthur Stevens, 33, timberman, of Hannan’s Lease, was arrested at Kalgoorlie yesterday and charged with…

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Alleged Confession of Grim Murder

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 4

PARIS, Sun.: A young Frenchman was arrested in Marseilles yesterday as he was about to join the Foreign Legion and…

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Sharkey to Be Sentenced Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 2

GENERAL secretary of the Australian Communist Party, Lawrence Louis Sharkey, was found guilty of seditious utterances by a Central Criminal Court Jury to-day…

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Car Smash — Six Admitted to Deniliquin Hosiptal Man Charged

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 1

As a result of a collision involving a motor lorry and a small sedan car, six persons were admitted [?] Deniliquin…

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Japs Wants Big Armed Police Force

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 11

TOKIO, Monday : Japanese Prime Minister (Mr Yoshida) is reported to be considering asking General MacArthur for…

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Han Hangs Himself in Police Cell

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 7

BRISBANE, Mon.: A man who escaped from the police on Friday afternoon and tried to stab himself with a knife when…

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Pay Book Will of 1919 Accepted by Court Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 4

THE will of a soldier of World War I, written in pencil on the back of a pay book in Germany, was accepted, as valid in the Probate Court to-day. The will dated January 1, 1919…

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Kidnapper Sentenced to 10 Years

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 June 1949 · page 14

BERLIN, Tues: A U.S. District Court yesterday sentenced Bernard Eckner, 46, a self-confessed agent of the MVD (Soviet secret police)…

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Police Report on Racehorse [?]

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 June 1949 · page 15

SYDENY, Tuesday: The A.I.G may take action against several- persons after it considers the police…

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Charged with P.o. Robbery

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY. Wed.: Detectives have arrested two young men and charged them with breaking and entering William street Post Office, on…

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Unsolved Mystery of Trotsky’s Murder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 7

On August 20, 1949 in his house [?] Mexico, [?] [?] was dabbed to death by means a steel pick driven into…

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To Stop [?] [?] Before Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 4

[?] of goods war [?] [?] and Commissioner for Railways had decided to take special [?] is order to prevent…

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Letter to the Editor Commission and the Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 6

Sir,-A statement was made publicity by the offifcial spokesman of the Albury branch of the Communist Party, that the High Court…

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Man Gaoled for Assault on Police Sergeant

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 1

At the Court of Petty Sessions, Culcairn, on Saturday, Bryant Henry Davies, of 101 Gore street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, was charged before Messrs…

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[?] Police Allege Man Had Small Eo[?]ty

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 5

ORIGINAL deposit of £ 40 for a motor cycle comprised in a hire purchase agreement was the only equity William Arthur Wo[?]es, 28-year-old Albury laborer, possessed in transactions involving six motor…

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An Editor Released From Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 June 1949 · page 14

LONDON; Fri.: Silvester Bolam, editor of the London “Daily Mirror,” who, on March 25, was sentenced to three months’ gaol for…

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