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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

1,141 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 58

Three Face Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Son.: Top rank homicide squad detectives swooped on suburban houses at dawn today and arrested two men…

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Intent to Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun: Police at Young today charged a 49-year-old orchard worker with shooting with intent to murder…

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Five Held for One Murder

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.: With the arrest and charging of two more en today, five men have now been charged with the murder of…

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Mother on Child Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Mon: Sitting hunched forward in the dock with her head bowed, Barbara Mary Wingrove, 25, today heard…

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Attempted Murder Hearing Adjourned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday : Because one of three men who appeared at St Kilda Court today on a charge of…

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Wounded Man “Holding Out” on Police

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday : A man wounded in a shooting affray in an hotel bar yesterday had not told police all he knew…

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Month’s Gaol for Westerling

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Wed. (A.A.P.-Reuter) : Captain Turco Westerling was sentenced to one month’s simple imprisonment in…

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Tarakan Officers for Court Martial Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1

Two of the ship's 'officers of H.M.A.S. Tarakan will be tried by court-martial for responsibility for the explosion on the vessel at Garden Island on January 25, when eight lives were lost…

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Remarkable Claim in Divorce Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 5

A remarkable claim was made in the Brisbane Divorce Court on Monday week, when Mrs. Maud Hold, of Miles, told the court that her husband…

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Melbourne Tramway Dispute Court Refuses to Deregister Union Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 5

Deregistration of the Tramway Employs’ Association would have serious repercussions in other States, said the Federal secretary of the association (Mr. T. Junor) today…

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Gaol for Illegal Use of Car

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 3

For illegally using 2 motor car the property of Helen Taylor Scott, at Albury on March 9 Robert. George Hanscom (27),…

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Five Men on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Five men appeared in the City Court today charged with the murder of Mervyn Batten, 30 year old…

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“Filthy and Shocking” Four Men Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 4

At Albury court yesterday police alleged that four men were living near the sports ground in Hume st. under…

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Tarakan Officers for Court-Martial Named

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Fri : The Minister for the Navy (Mr Francis) cited two naval officers who would appear before a…

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Dynamite Theft Linked with Plot Against Hirohito

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 3

TOKIO, Sun.: As Emperor Hirohito left Tokio on his Imperial train southward bound today, Japanese police on the…

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Land-grabbing Peasants Clash with POliCE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 1

PALERMO, Sun.: Land-grabbing Sicilian peasants. clashed with the police again today. Eleven policemen and four peasants were…

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Women Sentenced

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 3

Mrs. Lilian Cowen (42), of parker street, Williamstown, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy in the…

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Mathoura News Unlawful Assault

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 4

As a result of the assault Constable Fleischer was in hospital where he may remain for several days as the extent…

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Six Months’ Gaol Stole Cad and Man’s Trousers

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 7

A silly notion won for Oscar Anderson (54), cook, address unknown, six months’ hard labor when he was charged before Mr…

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Solicitor in Court; £12,714 Mentioned in Charges

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: James Michael Kelly (50), solicitor, of Helena st., Auburn, appeared in the Central Police Court today on charges of…

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