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Courts & crime, 1950

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Sees These Police As Threat to Peace

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 2

BERLIN, Mon.: The East German police was a “very live threat to the peace of the world,” the United States High…

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£70 in Fines; Gaol, Too, for Not Attending Court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tues.: For non attendance in a case a Point Lonsdale garage proprietor was fined a total of £70 in the Geelong…

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Man with 15 “Priors” Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tues.: When he appeared for sentence before Judge Moore in General Sessions this afternoon on charges of…

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Doctor and Man Charged

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 12

SYDNEY, Tues.: George Stanley Thompson, 68. a Macquarie st. specialist, was charged at the Central Police Court today…

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Murder of Girl Police Still Searching for Tall, Thin, Fair Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 1

Homicide detectives investigating the murder of pretty 19-year-old railway porteress Carmen Walters, of Glen cairn Avenue, East Brighton, are still hunting for a tall, thin, fair man who…

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Migrant on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday : Scottish migrant, James Fisher, aged 48, moulder, of 124 Palmer street. East Sydney, was charged at…

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Police Raid Union Offices

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 16

NAIROBI, Tues.: Kenya police raided the offices of the East African Trade Union Congress, removed all documents, and…

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Man on Murder Charge Sent to Asylum

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tues: A jury in the Criminal Court today after a three minutes’ retirement, found a man not guilty on the grounds of…

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Woman Acquitted of Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 May 1950 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wed.: Mrs. Anna Matilda Hoff, 57, was today acquitted of having murdered an unnamed female…

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Police Auction Sale

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 May 1950 · page 2

Albury police will conduct an auction sale of unclaimed property at the police station at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 27…

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Commonwealth Conference Police Guards for Delegates Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 May 1950 · page 1

Special police precautions have been taken to prevent a repetition of last night’s demonstration by Communists against delegates to the British Commonwealth conference…

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Mathoura Man on Three Charges Assault Police: Indecent Language

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 1

Following an altercation with police at Mathoura on March 10, Daniel Bright, of Mathoura, appeared at the Court of Petty…

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Three Months for Hotel Theft

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 1

At the Albury Police Court on Monday, Alexander Thomas Young, of Mt. Beauty was sentenced to three months [?] by Mr. Smith,…

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Gaol Would Stop Drunken Driving, Judge Declares

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 3

Gaol sentences would cure the popular pastime of driving under the influence of liquor. judge Berne said in the Appeals Cort on…

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Clerk on Charge of Murder Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 1

A 23-year-old clerk was charged in the City Court today with having murdered Carmen Walters…

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A.C.T.U. Criticises Court Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 10

A recommendation submitted by the interstate executive to the A.C.T.U. Congress today expressed…

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Intent to Murder Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 May 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.: Mr. Denton, S.M., remanded Horace Edward Richards, 54, in the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of…

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Little Girl Figures in Poignant Court Scene Singapore

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 May 1950 · page 3

There was tense drama, poignancy and pathos in Singapore Supreme Court today. A 13-year-old Dutch girl, Bertha De Hartogh, was crying, faced with a complete break with her past. Brought up for the post…

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Two New Australians Charged

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 May 1950 · page 2

Two young New Australians were charged by Wodonga police yesterday with larceny of parts from disused Army tanks parked…

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Wife Murder Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 May 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Francis Gordon Millar, 27. was arrested by homicide detectives today and charged with the…

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