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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,219 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 61

Albury Police Court Yesterday Failed To Give Way

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 11

Mrs. Dorothy Turner Lindsay, Hume st, Wodonga, was fined £3 with 10/ costs when she pleaded guilty to a charge of having failed…

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Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 8

On a charge of being found drunk in Davidson Street, North Deniliquin, on April 1, Archie Oliver Mullins appeared before…

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Five Years’ Gaol for Sex Offence

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.: John William Ashman, wire weaver, was sentenced in Quarter Sessions today to the maximum of five years’…

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Students Still Before Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: Hearing of the charges of manslaughter against five medical students was continued in the City Court today…

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State Court’s Action Against Miners

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The vice-president of the Miners’ Federation (Mr. W. Parkinson) today informed the central executive…

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High Court Upholds Validity of Wool Legislation

The Observer · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 1

Commenting on the High Court decision upholding the validity of the Wool Sales Deduction legislation, Mr. D. C. Moore, one of the plaintiffs and…

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Items of News. Police Auction Sale

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 April 1951 · page 2

Albury police will hold an auction sale of unclaimed property at the police station on Saturday, April 14, at 10 a.m. Among the…

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Death Sentence Stands In Missing Widow Murder Case SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 April 1951 · page 1

Appeal by Lionel Charles Thomas, 44, against his conviction and death sentence for the murder of a missing Blacktown widow, was unanimously dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal today. The widow was Mrs…

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Walla man charged after accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 April 1951 · page 2

A 28-year-old Walla man was charged with negligent driving and driving under the influence of liquor after an…

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Police sergeant’s 2000 mile cycle ride

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 April 1951 · page 1

PERTH, Sun: Police Sergeant Vic. Waltham cycled into Perth at 3 p.m. today after completing the first lap of his Jubilee dispatch…

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Albury Police Court Yesterday Man who asked for “No Hoper’s Chance” sent to gaol at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 10

Brian Alphonsus Nicholson, 33 laborer, and self-styled “broadcaster from Cootamundra,” appealed for a no “hoper’s chance” in Albury court yesterday…

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Bon on police inquiries

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: CIB detectives have discontinued inquiries into the fatal stabbing- of sailor named Newmat Ali, 22,…

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22 Seamen in Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Charged with having wilfully disobeyed the lawful command of the master, with having combined…

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Carried rifle while intoxicated, police allege

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 10

Walter Henry Schaefer, 53 laborer, Parkinson st, was fined £5 when he pleated guilty to a charge of having…

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“Ginger Meggs” to go to High Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Mon.: Notice was filed in the High Court today on behalf of Associated Newspapers Ltd., seeking an early…

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Docks idle while men’s leaders in court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 14

LONDON, Mon.: Eight thousand London dockers stopped work today when seven of their union leaders appeared at the…

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Last of Japs Tried by War Crimes Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 1

LOS NEGROS Monday.—Trials of Japanese war criminals by the Australian War Crimes Court ended to-day. The courts’s final action was to acquit a former Japanese navy seaman of a charge of having murdered an Australian p.o.w at Koepang…

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Extra Gaol Term For Man

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 7

A man who was sentenced to six months’ Imprisonment on Monday for stealing and forging, was given a further three months’…

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Corowa Men Charged Over Wool

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 16

Three Corowa men were charged at Berrigan court yesterday with having had bags of wool in their possession…

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Police seek prison camp escapee

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 19

SYDNEY, Tues.: Police throughout the State have been alerted to watch for a 22-year-old man who escaped this…

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