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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 48 of 59

Detective’s Account of Amazing Career of Young Union Official; To Be Sentenced SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 2

CHARGED with having committed a public nuisance, William Thomas Dobson (22), former assistant secretary of the A.L.P. industrial group of the Clerks’ Union, was remanded for sentence at Quarter Sessions today until next Tuesday…

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Gaol Escapees Soon Recaptured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 11

SUBNET, Sun,: Gaol escapees in two States were recaptured yesterday. In NSW, Briant Keith Gibson,…

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Murder Victim's Body Dismembered

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Sun: The dismembered body of Stanley Setty, a London car dealer, who disappeared on October 4 when he went…

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Nazi Secret Service Expert Gaoled for Murder Plot London

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 3

NAZI secret service expert, General Karl Gutenberger, was sentenced to four years’ gaol a t Aachen yesterday, for conspiring to murder Aachen’s American-appointed burgomaster in 1945, says Reuter…

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Charged with Truck Stealing Two Youths at Court Today

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 1

Two youths appeared at the Deniliquin Court of Petty Sessions this morning to face a charge of stealing a motor…

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Items of News Gaol Demolition Work

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 2

Work is to commence today on the demolition of the cells at the old gaol building in Albury, to provide bricks for the…

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Police Seek Missing Boy

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.: Police are searching for a 14 year old boy who disappeared from his home at 11 Glenn road, Arncliffe, on…

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Public Inspection of Old Gaol Suggested (To the Editor)

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 1

Sir.—You report the proposed demolition of the present cells at the Albury goal, and it occurs to…

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Police Dogs Patrol Buckingham Palace

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 6

LONDON, Tues.: Police dogs, each accompanied by a plain clothes officer, patrolled Buckingham Palace grounds throughout…

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Man Shot by Police Fails to Appear for Trial•

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tues: Shot twice by policemen while making escapes—one on July 22, and again on August 14—Frederick…

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Inquiry Order on Rail Theft Claims

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 3

The Minister for Transport (Mr. M. O'Sullivan) said last week he would ask the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. P. C. Garside) to…

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Longest Case in N.T. Police History Ends

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 1

DARWIN, Wednesday : Albert Young, a contractor, was sentenced to nine months' hard labor by the magistrate…

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Boy, Aged 12, on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday : A 12-year-old schoolboy appeared in court today charged with murdering murdering four-year-old Stanley…

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Gup Carnival Opens Tomorrow Comic Court Flemish and Foxzami to Win Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 15

•THE Melbourne Cup meeting of 1949 will open at Remington on Saturday when the most even field for many years will contest the Victoria Derby.-horses have accepted for the Derby and it is a remarkable occurrence since the first Derby was run in 1855, there has never before been…

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Eight Years' Gaol for Tomahawk Killing

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 October 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday : Stefan Kolacz, a 29-year-old Ukrainian migrant, was sentenced eight years' imprisonment…

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Man’s Murder Hoax Story

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 11

SYDNEY, Sunday : A hoaxer today caused more than 50 police to search for the body of a woman believed to be in…

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Arrest in Headless, Legless ,Murder

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 8

LONDON, Sunday : A company director was charged at ROW street Court yesterday with the murder of a car dealer…

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Police Guarding K.C.’s HOME

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Detectives believe that a home-made bomb which shattered two large windows at the home of…

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Conscripts to Be Court-martialled

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 8

ROTTERDAM, Sun.: Dutch conscript servicemen who refused to go aboard the Indonesia-bound troopship, Zuiderkruis, yesterday…

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Police Transfer

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 2

Sgt. J. E. Squire has been notified of his transfer to Bega. Sgt. Squire was recently promoted to a higher grade and it will be remembered that…

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