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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

1,141 stories in Murray's papers · page 29 of 58

Police-red Provide Lively Interlude

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.: Police provided a lively lunch-hour interlude today when they dragged from a wall at the…

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Police Search for Two Men, and a Woman

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tues.: Police are searching for two men and a woman who escaped after abandoning: a car stolen on Sunday…

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United States Charged with “Direct Acts of Aggression” Russia Reacts Sharply to Latest Moves in Korea London

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 3

Russia’s senior Deputy Foreign (Mr. Andrei Gromyko) to-day asserted that the United States was being pushed step by step towards open war…

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Elderly Man Ok Theft Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 15

WAGGA, Wed: Police today arrested a 61-year-old man and charged him on three counts involving goods stolen from Hardy’s…

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For Trial on Sugar- Bag Stealing Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Wed: Three men were committed for trial when they appeared before Mr Horan, SM, in North Melbourne Court…

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Found Guilty of Common Assault Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 5

A 42- year-old laborer and his two sons, alleged by two policemen to have used an axe in an attack against them in a Collingwood lane on November 5 last, were found guilty in…

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Married Man on Theft Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 8

An alleged deficiency of £1000 was mentioned in Albury Court yesterday by the prosecutor (Sgt. Lithgow) when…

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Young Expectant Mother Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A 20 year-old girl has been sent to Pentridge Gaol for six months although she is expecting a child,…

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In Albury Police Court Yesterday Used Employer’s Car without Consent; Culcairn Man Fined £25

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 8

Francis Daniel O’Brien, 21, of Culcairn, was fined £25 in default 50 days’ imprisonment, in Albury Court yesterday for having used a motor vehicle on June 28 without the consent of the owner, Peter Bertram Seaton…

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Migrant Stabs Himself at Police Station

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 33-year-old Hungarian migrant, Hungarian migrant, who stabbed himself in Central Police Station last night is in Sydney Hospital…

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Grazier Before Court This Morning

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 8

Holbrook grazier, John Nigel Ross, was remanded in Albury Court until this morning on a charge of having on June 9 driven…

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All-night Vigil by Police at Albury Hospital

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 14

Wodonga police last night kept an all-night vigil at the bedside of a 30-year-old Serbian migrant who was found…

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Celebration Went on Too Long. Court Told

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 1

A hotel licensee and 16 men carried their last Anzac Day celebrations beyond official licensing hours and were caught by police…

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Wife Charged at Husband’s Bedside

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 1

GRIFFITH, Fri.: Kathleen Rose Grando, 30. was charged at her husband’s bedside at Griffith Public Hospital…

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Three Escapees Each Given 31 Years’ Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 17

SYDNEY, Fri.: Three prisoners who escaped from the Berrima gaol on May 28 were each sentenced to 3½ years’ imprisonment…

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Armed Posse Hunting Gaol Escapee

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 2

Twenty armed warders and police are continuing their search, in rugged country for a convict who hacked his way…

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Reds and Police Clash

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Sunday : Reds and police clashed in Oxford st, Darlinghurst, yesterday. Communists were active in the…

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Motor Cycle Theft Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 2

Albury detectives and Wodonga police yesterday arrested a 21 year old man and charged him with the theft of a motor cycle…

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Detectives Inquire Into Theft on Liner

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: A special squad of detectives boarded the liner Orion when she berthed at Port Melbourne today, to…

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Beechworth Gaol Escapee Captured Near Kilmore

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 4

Manhunt for a convict who escaped from Beechworth Reformatory Prison early Friday morning, came to a sudden end yesterday morning, when he was captured at pistol point by…

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