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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 47 of 59

Police Believe Shearer Was Murdered

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 1

COONABLE, Monday : Concentrating on the theory that Claude William Woods, 37, shearer, of Coonamble, was…

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Court Hearing May Be Long One

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 8

LITHGOW. Mon : The hearing of charges against men arrested, in connection with alleged thefts from Lithgow powerhouse is…

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Jumped Off Bridge Into Edward River Then Faced Three Charges at Court

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 1

ALLEGEDLY dared by his wife, a man jumped off the, National Bridge into the Edward River and, as a result faced three charges at the Deniliquin Court of Petty Sessions…

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Woman’s Story of Revenge Murder

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 5

AACHEN, Tues;. Use Hirsch, a 26-year-old former leader in the Nazi Girls’ league, told a German court yesterday that…

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Two Brothers Charged With Assault

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed: Police have rescued a 27-year-old man who was allegedly attacked by five men at a Brooklyn factory and abducted in…

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Housewife Sentenced to Death

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Wed. : Mrs Nora Tierney, 29-year-old housewife, has been sentenced to death for the murder of three-year-old…

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Police Youth Club for Beechworth

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 9

First Constables W. G. Elliott and P. J. Molloy attended the monthly meeting of Beechworth Progress Association on Monday…

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Eyes on Vagabond,, Comic Court, Carbon Copy Saturday Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 16

THE running of three horses at the Moonee Valley races on Saturday will have a tremendous effect on Melbourne Cup betting. They are Vagabond and Comic Court in the W. S. Cox Plate, and Copy in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup…

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Negligent Driving Alleged Man Charged

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 8

Clement Theodore Gabriel pleaded not guilty in Albury court yesterday to a charge of having on April 19 last. driven in a negligent manner in…

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Man on £10,000 Theft Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 5

PENRITH, Thurs : Hearing of a charge of the theft of Commonwealth property worth £10,126/8/6 from Wallgrove…

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For Trial on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs: Rex Llewellyn Flanagan was today committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Mrs…

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Ukrainian in Strange Murder Trial Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

ONE of the most amazing murder trials in the history of Victorian courts concluded tonight when Stefan Kolacz, 29, a Ukrainian migrant, was acquitted on a charge…

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Police Ball Benefits Far West Children's Health Scheme

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 2

The following were present at the annual meeting of the Far West Children's Health Scheme at Culcairn: Messrs W. J. Conley (president), C. E…

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Arbitration Court Again Turned Into a Department Store Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

THE Arbitration Court looked like a department store today when boxes of shoes, blouses, slips, brassieres and other apparel worn by women were brought into court to replace stocks of outer garments which were used in evidence yesterday…

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Carbon Copy, Comic Court Chosen for Valley Tomorrow Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 15

THE three best racehorses in Australia and the pick of the three years-old will provide a galaxy of talent for racegoers at Moonee galley on Saturday. . Vagabond .and Comic Court will meet in the W, S. Cox Plate, while Carbon Copy will carry No. 1…

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M Two Allegedly Intoxicated Motor Cyclists Each Fined £10 by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 12

STATING that he took a serious view of the offence, Mr. Quiggn, S.M., in Albury Court yesterday imposed a fine of £10, in default 20 days' imprisonment, upon Maxwell Lewis Woods, Pemberton st„ for having abetted a person under the influence of intoxicating…

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Native on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 18

SYDNEY, Fri: A 25-year-old aborigine, Billy Milwujum, was charged in Darwin Police Court today with the murder of his 40-year-old…

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Magistrate Refuses Debt Application “Good Spender in Hotel”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 8

An offer by Edward Brown for time to pay a judgment debt of £10/18/6 obtained against him by Jack Albert Bruce, motor…

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Bankrupt Hid From Wife; Ended Up In Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 8

In the Bankruptcy Court today that Arthur Leonard Fennell, b[?][?]cher, of Harden, while hiding from his wife, had also…

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Magistrate Refuses Wife’s Plea Husband May Still Drink

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 9

At Albury Court yesterday Mrs Lorna Florence Brady, of the Railway Hotel, unsuccessfully applied for a prohibition…

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