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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,219 stories in Murray's papers · page 22 of 61

Young woman injured in road crash seeks heavy damages from Government Case Before Supreme Court, Albury

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 6

A head-on collision, in which a 22-year-old motor cyclist was killed, his pillion passenger hurt, and a man and his wife travelling in a baby Austin utility were seriously injured, was the…

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Charged with Slaying Baby

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.: Noel Reginald Hucksteppe, 33, of Terrey Hills, bus driver, was remanded in Manly court today on a charge of…

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“Not enough police at Albury”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police should realise that Albury was almost unpoliced, but that Albury police were doing a,…

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Tennis star committed adultery, husband tells court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 15

ADELAIDE, Wed.: Former Australian junior tennis champion, Max Douglas Newcombe, husband of Nancy Sadie…

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Court to decide validity of S.E.C. restrictions order

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Validity of the electricity regulations, unifier which the State Electricity Commission restricts the use of…

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Man, wife awarded £3250 by juries in Albury Supreme Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 7

Juries in the Albury Supreme Court yesterday awarded a man and his wife a total of £3250 damages against the Government insurance Office of N.S.W…

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Valuations Court

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 May 1951 · page 2

In the report of proceedings at the Pay Valuations Court on Thursday it was inadvertently stated that a witness understood that a property…

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FOOTBALL Police warn fighting players

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 May 1951 · page 11

WANGARATTA, Thurs.: Sgt. C. La Fontaine warned today that police action would be taken if there was a repetition of last Saturday’s…

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Women, Children Were Terrified—court Is Told

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 May 1951 · page 7

A witness told Wodonga Court yesterday that a soldier’s behaviour on the 4.15 p.m. train from Melbourne to Albury on…

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Reduced in Rank for Stealing

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Fri.: A RAAF flight sergeant was found guilty by court martial today of stealing petrol from a Lincoln bomber at…

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Migrant appeals against sentence of 20 years’ gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A Yugoslav migrant who was sent to gaol for 20 years for wounding a Polish migrant with intent to…

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Man sent to gaol for 5 years for beer glass killing

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A 26 year-old laborer was found not guilty of murder by a Criminal Court jury today, but guilty of manslaughter of a young orchardist who died on Whitehorse rd.,…

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Six widows’ claims for £36,000 damages settled out of court

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Six actions in which widows and relatives claimed about £36,000 damages for deaths of six men killed in the Mahia disaster at Victoria Dock in August, 1947, were settled out of the Supreme Court…

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Sunday Shooters Caught by Police

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 2

Shooting on a Sunday is an offence punishable by law. This was discovered yesterday by two young Albury men who went into…

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Newspapers saved police officers’ lives

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 10

SINGAPORE, Sun.: Three British officers saved their lives by throwing newspapers and magazines on to hand…

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Allies’ three pronged assault

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 12

TOKIO, Man.: United Nations’ troops made a three-pronged assault in western Korea today, in an attempt to relieve pressure…

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Terrorists Murder Millionaire

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 10

SINGAPORE, Mon.: Masked Chinese terrorists shot dead Lim Teck Kim, Chinese millionaire and pineapple “canning king,” in…

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Woman of Means-charged with Vagrancy

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Wearing seven diamond rings and a silver fox fur, a woman was today acquitted of a vagrancy charge at…

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Tomorrow’s Court

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 1

It is expected that Mr. Keith M. Smith, S.M., will preside at the Court of Petty Sessions tomorrow…

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"Landholders Cannot Be Expected To Do The Impossible," Says Magistrate

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 1

The Stipendiary Magistrate for the Gundagal District Mr. Wm. Finlay in the Gundagal Court last Tuesday stated that landholders…

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