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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 43 of 59

Yarrawonga News Items Police Chiefs Address

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 5

Share was nothing to be [?] of at being a Christian said the Chief Commissioner of the Victorian Police (Mr. Alex…

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Author Allegedly Told Police He Was 99!

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Hon.: Author Lester Basil Sinclair told police that he was aged 99, and 6ft. 7in. tall,…

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Man and De Facto Wife on Murder Charge Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 4

AN elderly man and his de facto wife were to-day charged with the murder of a man who died after being stabbed in the throat on Saturday night. They were John Wardrope. 64,…

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Unlawfully Taking and Using Motor Vehicle. Man Charged at Urana

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 2

Before Mr A, V. Quiggin, S.M., at Urana Percy Napier, was charged with unlawfully taking and using a motor vehicle, the property of G, W…

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Police Probe Hanging and Gassing Deaths

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: Two deaths, one by hanging and another by gas, are being investigated by police tonight…

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Charged with Attempted Suicide

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 September 1949 · page 12

QUEBEC, Wed.—AAP: Mrs Arthur Pitre, friend of the Quebec jeweller, Albert Guay, accused of plotting to kill his wife…

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Diemaker on Attempted Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 September 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.: Joseph Peter John Nickl, 68, diemaker, of Leichhardt, who was alleged to have shot a man in the stomach…

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Butcher Denies Reporting £4000 Theft

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A Manly master butcher today denied any knowledge of a police report that £4000 in cash had…

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Gaol Break Escapee Still at Large

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 2

A man who burnt his way out of the Hay lock-up on Wednesday night has not yet been traced. The man, who gave his name to the…

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Hay Gaol Escapee Still at Large

The Pastoral Times · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 1

The prisoner who burnt his way out of Hay gaol is still at large, Deniliquin police stated when this issue went to press…

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Culcairn Police Ball Tonight

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 12

The Culcairn Police Ball to be held in Culcairn Memorial Hall this evening promises to be one of the social highlights of the…

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Comic Court Will Have Final Cup Trial on Saturday (From “Hurst Park.”) MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 15

CAULFIELD Cup favorite, Comic Court, will have his final trial for the big Caulfield event in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. It is likely that he will have only four opponents and there appears to…

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"Tokio Rose" to Be Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO, Fri.: American-born "Tokio Rose"— . Mrs Iva Toguri d'Aquino— has been found guilty of…

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Woman Alleged Victim Of Brutal Assault

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: All available detectives are searching for a taxi driver who is alleged to have brutally assaulted an attractive…

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Man, Sent to Gaol. Disguises Identity

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Mr Justice Martin told the Crown Prosecutor in the Criminal Court today that he had no power to…

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Four Years’ Gaol for Setting a Fire

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Fri.: “Yon are likely to destroy valuable property, even life itself,” said Mr Justice Martin in the Criminal…

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Oman Tells Court She Ants to Marry Dying Man

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 9

SYDNEY, Fri.: An application from a middle-aged woman to shorten the time of making [?] her husband's divorce…

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Court Bars R.S.L. FROM 4 Expelling Three Members Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 October 1949 · page 1

JN the Equity Court to-day, Mr. Justice Roper ruled that the expulsion of three men from the R.S.L. was unconstitutional. Declaring that the three men…

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Men Charged Following Woman's Death

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday : Police this morning charged a 35-year-old man with the wilful murder of Mrs…

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Successful Police Ball At Culcairn

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 7

The Culcairn Police Ball held in the Memorial Hall on Friday night, was attended by 400 dancers and a gallery of onlookers. Secretary was Miss…

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