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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 28 of 59

Albury Court Action

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 June 1949 · page 2

Typographical error in the concluding paragraph of the report of a action in Albury cn Thursday, and published in yesterday’s…

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Floods Hold Up Divorce Court Action

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 June 1949 · page 14

SYDNEY,' Fri.: The Stuart Jones divorce case was adjourned again today to allow the Crown to make inquiries at…

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Death for Stealing Flour

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 June 1949 · page 6

BELGRADE, Sun. : A Yugoslav people's Court has sentenced to death the ringleader of a group of 13 "economic saboteurs…

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Sheep Stealing Charge Heard at Wagga Today

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 8

The case in which Thomas Edmond Keith Ryan, Wagga P.P. Board stock inspector, is charged with sheep Stealing, commenced…

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Crowd Pelts Police with Stones

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 10

CALCUTTA, MOB: Police used tear gas and lathis (wooden sticks) to disperse about 109 demonstrators who today defied a ban on procesions by…

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A Stock Ins[?]ector Before Wagga Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 10

WAGGA. Mon.: Public gallery in Wagga, Court was crowded throughout, the day when the hearing [?] a sheep stealing…

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Police Protect Miners Still Working

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.: Police from Ipswich and Brisbane arc guarding entrances to two small mines, Mt. Elliot and Normanton, in the…

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Bricks From Old Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 1

To get bricks for the new Housing Commission flats in Thurgoona St., the contractor, Mr. F. W. Lerocke, is dismantling watch towers and outer walls at the old Albury Gaol. The picture shows men at work on the tower which guarded the…

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Judge Critical Of Court Acoustics

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 2

[?] in Albury courteen ware “shocking.” Judge F. W. [?] said yesterday, Judge Berne, who is presiding…

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Sheep Skin Stealing Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 July 1949 · page 12

SYDNEY, Thurs,: A 45 years old employe of Dalgety and Co. Ltd. was charged in the Central Police Court today with stealing 2500…

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Sheep Stealing Charge at Wagga

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 July 1949 · page 4

The stock inspector of the P. P. Board, Thomas Edmond Keith Ryan, was committed for trial on a charge of sheep…

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Laborer Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 11

James Martin, 49, laborer, who on Wednesday was acquitted by an Albury Quarter Sessions jury of breaking, entering and…

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Judith Coplon to Be Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Friday: A jury yesterday found Judith Coplon guilty of having stolen secret Government documents with…

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Young Girl Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 10

PROTECTION against marauders of her type should be afforded the public, Judge Berne said in Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday when he sentenced 18-year-old Elaine Meryl Fraser to 12 months’ gaol…

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Arbitration Court Chief

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 18

Judge W. R. Kelly has been appointed Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court. When he became president of South…

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Deserted Wife Tells Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 10

Alleging that her husband had deserted her without just reason, Hazel Bertha May Loney, of Townsend st., Albury…

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Red Prisoners Released Police Locked Up

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 18

TOKIO, Fri.: Four hundred Communist demonstrators yesterday occupied the: Talra police station in the Fukushima…

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Judge Praises Albury Detectives, Other Police Officers

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 3

“I should think that a detective’s job in Albury would be one of the hardest to imagine,” Judge…

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Mother’s Dash From Court with Child

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.: On hearing a court order today that she would have to give up her two children to her husband, a woman ran…

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13 Years’ Gaol for Shooting Red Leader

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 3

ROME, Sunday : A court yesterday sentenced Sicilian student Antonio Pallante, 25, to 13 years and 8 months’ imprisonment for…

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