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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 59

American Woman And Russian Held On Document Stealing Charge Govt. Records Allegedly Taken Washington

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 3

THE Attorney-General (Mr. T. Clark) has announced that a member of the Russian delegation to the United Nations and an employe of the American Justice Department…

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Girl, 17, on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW, Monday. : Charged with the murder of her stepmother, a 17-year-old girl was today in the Children’s Court…

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Princess Visits Police Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Tues.: Princess Margaret yesterday visited the East London Juvenile court in London’s slum-land and…

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Alleges Insult and Assault

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: A tally clerk alleged in the Central Police Court today that after he had given evidence in the…

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Dairyman on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 12

ROCKHAMPTON, Tues.: A 36-year-old dairyman was charged in the police court today with mudering Henry Joseph Dunn, 27…

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Police Seek Accommodation

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 2

Two young single police constables who are being transferred to Albury from Sydney to reinforce police strength here, are urgently…

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Missing Woman’s Escort in Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 3

HOBART, Toes.: A man said to have come from the mainland with a woman who had been reported missing by her…

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Lang Alleges Theft of Letters Written by Ministers

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 4

CANBERRA, Wed.: Mr Lang Ind. Lab., NSW) asked Mr Chifley in the House of Representatives today to institute an…

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“Jock” Garden Comes From Gaol to Give Evidence at Timber Deal Inquiry Tells of Close Association with Mr. Ward in Politics Relates Alleged Conversations With Minister Concerning Lease SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 3

DROUGHT from Long Bay Gaol to give evidence before the New Guinea timber deal Royal Commission, John Smith (“Jock”) Garden said to-day that External Territories Minister (Mr. Ward) [?] told him that Ray Parer’s application for a timber licence was…

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Licensing Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

Mr. F. L. Kelly appeared for both parties when the licence of the Globe Hotel, Deniliquin, was transferred from Henry Albert…

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Revision Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

Mr. E. M. Debenham, S.M., presided at the Revision Court on Wednesday when-the rolls of voters of Trusts under the Water…

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Murder Shots Heard 3000 MiIes Away

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thurs : Shots that caused a double murder and suicide in a lavish New York city apartment last night…

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Juvenile on Cab Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 2

Sequel to the disappearance of a motor car belonging to Mr Glen Ovens Boyle, school teacher, from Albury on February 12 last, and…

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Heavy Gaol Terms for Bank Robbers

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Fri.: Four men involved in the Sanford Bank hold-up today received sentences ranging from 10 years…

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Question to Police

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 2

At the request of the retailers’ section of Albury Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber’s Council has decided to ask if Albury…

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Laborer Sent for Trial Assault and Robbery Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 12

Holding that a prima facie case had been established, Mr [?] SM, In Albury Police Court yesterday, committed…

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Court’s Order Defied

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 14

BRISBANE, Friday : The executive of the Brisbane Tramways Union today decided to call another city tram and bus stoppage…

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‘Bargain Sale’ Rush to See Man in Court London

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 3

ONE hundred and fifty men and women made “a bargain sale” rush to get into Horsham Magistrate’s Court to-day when John George Haigh appeared. Haigh, a 39 year old company director, was formally remanded…

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Seven Sentenced for Sabotage

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 12

BELGRADE, Sun.: A People’s Court has found seven people guilty of sabotaging the co-operative farming system in the…

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Reds Trying To Frustrate Conclusion of Atlantic Pact Youths in Rome Beaten by Police Moscow Turns Heat On Finland LONDON,Sunday

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

COMMUNISTS’ efforts to frustrate the conclusion of an Atlantic Pact, despite the fact that a draft has already been drawn up, still continue. To-Day’s reports from the…

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