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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Lars Brundahl in Gaol for Four Years; to Pay £5000 Damages Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 1

EX-INTERNEE Lars Gustav Brundahl, who is serving a four-year gaol sentence for conspiring to assault a returned soldier and his wife, was ordered today by a…

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World Of Women First Court Gown For 11 Years

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 7

For the first time in 11 years debutante Court presentation gowns are being made in London. Unfortunately they are not a forerunner of the pre-war traditional Court ceremonial. They have been made for the…

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Police Were Out with “Drag Net”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 2

City police were active over the week-end and, “bagged” 34 men whom they charged with being “under the weather.” The “bag”…

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Police Car and Utility in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Sun.: Four detectives had narrow escapes from injury when a utility truck collided with their patrol car in…

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Gaol Escapees Arrested

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 1

The three Ballarat, goal breakers, James Bretherton, Brain Norris (alias Griffiths), Alexander Kerr (alias Alan Smith) were arrested in…

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Broke Down in Dock—3 Months’ Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 5

A young man broke down and wept in the dock when, police were giving evidence against him at Albury court yesterday…

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Police Warn of Gypsies

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 2

Wodonga police last night issued a warning about a number of gypsies in the vicinity. The gypsies are “blessing” money and one…

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Court Held in Hospital

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon: A youth shot by a policeman on Saturday afternoon was charged with breaking into a factory with intent to steal, at a…

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Albert Park Beach Murder Radio Announcer for Trial Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 4

JOHN BRYAN KERR, 25, radio announcer, was committed for trial by the City Coroner today on a charge of having murdered pretty blonde 20-year-old Elizabeth Maureen Williams…

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Court Dock "Barbaric" Says Judge Berne

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 7

Judge Berne last week described the Criminal Court dock as a "barbaric relic of antiquity, which seems to…

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Second Intent to Murder Charge in “Tommy Gun” Case Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 3

A sensational development in the gun” case occurred today when Frederick William Harrison, 27, and Norman Edwin Bradshaw, 24, the two accused…

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Police Probe Reports of Air Gun running to Indonesia SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 3

WARTIME pilots and former commandos are believed to be operating in a highly-organised and immensely profitable traffic of arms and illegal immigrants between Australia and Indonesia. Headquarters of the smuggling…

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Soldier Gets 20 Years’ Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 1

WETZIAR (Germany), Tues: An American military court today found Private Joseph W. Bailey, 19, guilty of murdering a divinity…

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Items of News Gaol for Begging

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 2

Pleading guilty in Albury Court yesterday to a charge of having begged alms in Dean st. on Monday, Dennis Noonan, 47, of Albury…

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Man Terribly Mutilated; Murder Charge Follows

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.: [?] Kaal Kharlsen, 53, of Gordon House. City, was committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr…

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Police Hunt Robert Brewster

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tues.: All police patrols were alerted to search for Robert Brewster, main Crown witness in an alleged shooting case,…

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Police Talk of Safety on the Roads

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 7

The Victorian Police Safety Squad, consisting of Sen, Constable E. R. Goddard and First Constables T. Erickson and W. Watson, lectured to Wodonga people last evening. The…

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Clerk Not Guilty of Murder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 12

BRISBANE, Wed.: Alan John Cameron, 49, clerk, was found not guilty today of the wilful murder of Walter William Wood,…

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New District Court Judge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wed.: Minister of Justice, Mr Downing, announced today that Mr G. J. O’Sullivan had been appointed a District Court…

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Licensing Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 1

Mr. E. M. Debenham, S.M., presided at the Licensing Court yesterday when an application for alterations and additions to…

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