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Courts & crime, 1950

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For Trial on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 11

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The City Coroner (Mr Bott) today committed for trial William Noel Carlwright, 40, of Buckingham st…

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For Trial on Wife Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 19

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.: In the Coroner’s Court today, HAROLD STEPHEN DEVEREAUX, 29, wood machinist, of Stockton,…

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Police Baton Anti- Red Bill Opponents

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Thurs.: Police last night used batons to disperse a crowd of about 500, mostly colored men and…

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Corowa Taxi-driver in Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 13

A charge of having driven a motor car in a dangerous manner, against Mervyn Howard and Chapman, taxi driver, of…

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Six in Court Following Uproar At P.M’s Meeting

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Five men and a woman appeared in the Central Police Court today on charges of having behaved…

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5 Years’ Gaol For Shooting

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.: A tram conductor who fired shots into the body of a fellow employe outside Waverley depot…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 23

MELBOURNE, Fri: Morris Sutton Ramsden Brewer, 23, of Asling st, Brighton, who is charged with the murder of Carmen Walters, 19,…

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Jap Reds’ Court Action Fails

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 19

TOKIO, Fri.: A Tokio District Court today rejected an application by the Japan Communist Party for a writ restraining the…

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P.M.G. Again Repeats P.O. is Not a Police Department!

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 12

CANBERRA, Fri: The Post Office had not set out on a campaign to suppress illegal betting activities, the Postmaster-General (Mr…

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In Albury Court Yesterday Drunken Driving Alleged; Albury Magistrate Fines Melbourne Man £10

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 10

“Offences of this nature are particularly prevalent in this district. I have had as many as six cases of this kind before me in a week,” Mr. Quiggan, SM, observed in Albury Court yesterday when he declined to apply the provisions of Section 556 (a) to a case in which a…

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Two Years' Imprisonment on Stealing Charge

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 3

Donald Norman and Kym Murray were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour when found guilty of a…

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Gaoled for 4 Years for Stealing £8000

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 12

ADELAIDE, Monday : Four years’ imprisonment was imposed on William Edward Mackay, 45, who pleaded guilty to the theft…

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Licensing Court

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 1

Mr. K. M. Smith, S. M., presided at the Licensing Court yesterday when licences for hotels and for wine and spirit…

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Police Search for Homicidal Maniac

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.: Police are searching for a homicidal maniac, whom they believe sent a homemade time bomb through the post…

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Deniliquin Court House Where Polling Took Place

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 1

Mr. Lou Sheehan, secretary of the M. E. C. Labour Party, stands in the centre of gateway ready to hand out How to Vote cards…

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For Trial on Baby Murder Charge Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 4

The Liverpool Coroner (Mr R. A. Kersley) today committed for trial REGINALD JOHN LYNCH, 23, laborer, of Fairfield on a charge of murdering a 22 months of old baby girl…

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Hotel Explosion Aftermath Police Seek Four Men

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues: A group of men at least four seen using pneumatic drill and a compressor in Monaghan Place at the rear of…

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Man on Murder Charge Denies Ever Knowing Dead Woman SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 3

A business agent charged with the murder of a young woman who died after an illegal operation denied today that he ever knew the dead woman. The agent, CYRIL…

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Mother Charged with Murder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 1

TOWNSVILLE, Wed.: When a 24-year-old woman told her husband early this morning that she had taken their 12-days-old…

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Escapee From Gaol Escort Arrested

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 12

After an intense search in which a police dragnet had been extended throughout southern NSW, the prisoner who escaped from a gaol escort at West Wyalong on Tuesday was…

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