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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Heavy Fines for Assaulting Police

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 9

Two men who assaulted Constable Elliot at Albury on July 7 were fined £15 each and were warned by the SM at…

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In Albury Police Court Yesterday Albury Woman Alleges That Lessee Knocks Her About on Her Own Farm

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 9

A 61-year-old spinster told the Tenancy Court at Albury yesterday that a lessee who was working her form, of Barnawartha often become violent, and it was necessary for her to obtain other accommodation. The spinster, Miss Elsa…

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Howlong Farmer Sues Superintendent of Police £229 DAMAGES

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 1

In the District Court at Corowa yesterday, before His Honour Judge Lamaro Frederick Oswald Weule, farmer of…

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Sequel to a Collision on Howlong Road Police Officer to Pay Howlong Farmer £239 Damages

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 10

After a retirement of eight minutes, a Corowa District Court jury yesterday awarded a Howlong farmer £239/3/9 damages against a former Wagga police superintendent. The farmer, FREDERICK OSWALD WEULE, claimed £400 damages…

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Teacher on Assault Charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tues.: [?] two detectives were interviewing him, the headmaster of Belmont Public School received a…

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Assault on Elderly Widow

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 6

“Drink might be a good servant at times, but it certainly is a bad master.” This remark was made by…

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Charged with Misappropriating £3000

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 4

WAGGA, Tues.: Former company director, Herbert George Foy, 44, was alleged at Wagga Court today to have misappropriated…

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Light Sentences for Murder of Our Airmen

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 1

LOS NEGROS, Tues.: Three Japanese were today sentenced to gaol terms ranging from two to eight years for the…

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Court’s Decision on S.w. Africa

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 19

THE HAGUE, Tues-: The International Court today decided by eight votes to six that the United Charter does not impose…

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Man “Cleared Out” with Friend’s Wife, Court Is Told

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 7

A Happy Valley man had “cleared out” in the early hours of the morning with his friend’s wife, Judge Lamaro was told in the Albury District Court yesterday…

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Beechworth Gaol Escapee Gets Twelve Months

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 10

James Henrys Pattison, 23 appeared at Beechworth Court yesterday charged with escaping from Beechworth Reformatory…

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Migrant, Called “Menace,” Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Thurs: Following a fracas at Brooklyn migrant camp, in which New Australians were concerned, on July 8, one…

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Wife on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs. : A 42-year-old woman was charged with the murder of her husband in the City…

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Arrests Foil Big Murder Plot

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 1

SAIGON, Thursday : Vietnamese police, almost in the heart of Saigon, yesterday swooped on an assault, unit of…

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Court’s Ruling on Basic Wage

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The Full Arbitration Court today released its interpretation of Section 25 of the Conciliation and…

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Albury Divorce Court Application Threatened to Cut Wife’s Throat

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 10

Because she feared her husband would carry out threats to toll her, a woman who was married at the age of 15 years yesterday told Judge Lamaro in Albury District Court that she…

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Youth on Bank Theft Remanded

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 35

SYDNEY, Friday : Neville Roger Manson (21), of Bronte road, Bondi, who grabbed £1000 in notes from the counter of the…

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An Angler “Ends Up” in Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Fri.: An English migrant who stole 15/ worth of explosives from the R.A.A.F. stores depot, Tottenham, to go…

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Police Farewell Fellow Officers

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 35

A pleasant evening was held Thursday night when district police and members of the Court House staff met to bid farewell…

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Teacher’s Sixth Day in Court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 39

NEWCASTLE, Friday: Cyril Clifford Jopling told Newcastle Children’s Court today that a detective had told him after…

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