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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 53 of 59

Police Say Man Drove Fast Too

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 9

Convicted at Albury Court yesterday, on a charge of having exceeded the speed limit of 30 miles an hour in a car in Mate…

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18 Die in Clash Between Strikers and Police

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 3

LAGOS (Nigeria), Mon.:— Eighteen persons were killed, and 31 were hurt in clashes between the police and coal…

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High Court Decides Against Continuance Of Basic Wage Hearing SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 3

THE High Court today refused to grant a write of mandamus ordering the Arbitration court to resume the suspended hearing of the £10 a week basic wage case. The Court suspended the…

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Gaoled for Cattle Stealing

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Tues: On a charge of cattle stealing, Warwick Thomas Whitehead, 38, was sentenced to six months’…

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Boy on Breaking- Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 1

Detectives Smith and Rangott, of Albury, after questioning a 14-year-old boy charged him with breaking, entering and…

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Life Term for Wife Murder

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.: Judge Mansfield in the Criminal Court today imposed a sentence of life imprisonment with hard labor on…

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Boy Not Guilty of Murder

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.: Edward George Crick, 12, yesterday walked down the steps of the Old Bailey acquitted of the murder…

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Police Stopping Land Seizure in Italy

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 16

ROME, Tues.: police yesterday were oat in force to stop peasants from starting work on thousands of acres, of land they…

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Charge Against Police Constable for Alleged Assault

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 3

Arising out of the same incidents, Patrick Arthur Smith proceeded against Kenneth Donald Cavanagh for alleged assault. Mr. W. White…

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Big Gaol Break

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 7

ISTANBUL, Wed: Reports from the Turkish province of Hakari state that 149 convicts are at large after the biggest prison break in Turkish…

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Bridges’ Chief Counsel Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 5

SAN FRANCISCO, Wed: Vincent Hallinan, chief counsel for Australian-born Harry Bridges, was sentenced to six months for criminal…

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Father on Assault Charge Weeps

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.: A man who was sentenced to three years for attempting to have carnal knowledge of his eight year old…

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Items of News Youth on Car Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 2

Arrested at 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday by Dets. Smith and Rangott, Douglas Ryan, 18, of Tawonga, appeared in Albury Court yesterday…

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Defended Drunk and Language Case. Assault Charge Against Constable Withdrawn

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 3

In the local Police Court on Monday before Mr. E. M. Debenham, S.M., Patrick Arthur Smith was charged with being found drunk in…

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Police Sergeant, Two Constables Suspended

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 3

DORRIGO, Wednesday : A police sergeant with 29 years’ service and two constable were today suspended from…

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Soviet Trains 60,000 “People’s Police” In Germany LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 3

LATEST information makes clearer than ever the military nature of the “Bereitschaften,” the special units of the “People’s Police” the Soviet zone of Germany, says…

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Bricklayer on Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 10

LITHGOW, Thurs.: James Alexander McLean, former leading bricklayer at Lithgow powerhouse, was today…

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Car Driver Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Eight months’ gaol and an £80 fine were imposed on a driver, Robert Moulds, 19, of Darlinghurst, laborer, in the…

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7 Years' Gaol for Killing Parent

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs : Maxwell Evatt Timothy, 24, a shunter, of Crown street, Wollongong, was sentenced to seven years'…

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Small Debts Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 5

Mr. E. M. Debenham, S. M., presided at the-Small Debts Court on Wednesday when F. C. Grant, for the Postmaster-General…

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