Planes Belong to Red China, Court Holds
HONG KONG, Mon.: In a reserved judgment today, the Chief Justice (Six Gerard Howe) ruled that the American-registered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Courts & crime, 1951
1,219 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 61
District Court Judge Dead Judge Lamaro Dies at Hay
District circuit Judge, Joseph Lamaro, died at the Hay District Hospital at 12.30 p.m. to-day, He was 56 years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →21 Get Life for Murder
SAN JUAN, Tues.: Twenty-one Puertorican Nationalists were sentenced to imprisonment for life yesterday for the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Man Charged with Murder of Girl
TAREE, Wed.: A man charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, will now face a more serious charge following the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bail for men on theft charge
MELBOURNE, Wed: Solicitor for two men charged in the City Court today with having stolen about £2250 from Standard Cars…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Police to Take Palm Prints
Police will be authorised to take palm print of an arrested person, as well as finger prints, under legislation approved on Monday by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Handwriting evidence in court
BRISBANE, Wed.: Using photographic enlargements of Bernard Joseph Maguire’s writing and the writing on ballot…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Court orders seaman’s release
SYDNEY, Wed.: Beresford Augustus Fraser, 42, Jamaican seaman, who had been imprisoned as a prohibited immigrant,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Father’s conviction for the alleged murder of his baby daughter quashed
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Conviction for murder and sentence of death passed on 32-year-old chef, Kevin James Miller, on March 16 last for the alleged murder of his year-old daughter. Hazel, was quashed by the Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Assault on Unionist Brings Gaol Sentence
AUCKLAND, Thurs.: For assaulting a member of the “new” waterfront union outside the Auckland town hall on February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Intent alleged
SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 30-year-old woman was committed for trial at the Central police court today on a charge of having shot at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£12 Fine for Stealing Rifle
âIf it were not for drink I would not have stolen the rifle,â Donald James Howie stated at the Court of Petty Sessions on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensing Court
Mr. K. M. Smith, S.M., presided at the licensing Court on Wednesday when an application from Austin Yeats Ellerman to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Migrant Hangs Himself in Gaol
SYDNEY, Fri.: A Long Bay gaol warder found a New Australian hanged in his cell today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police disperse watersiders Wellington (N.z.). Fri
Police broke up a demonstration of 200 members of the deregistered Waterside Workers’ Union at Dunedin this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“We Have Fired First Shot Into Reds’ Camp,” Minister Declares Police Swoop on Union Offices of Wharfies, Seamen
SYDNEY, Fri.: “We have today fired the first shot into the camp of the Communists,” the Postmaster-General (Mr Anthony) told the annual conference of the NSW Country Party today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No abduction police say
MELBOURNE, Sun.: Homicide detectives investigating the alleged abduction of a young woman from a telephone booth in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Oil Dispute for Court
LONDON, Sun.: The British Government and the £500 million Anglo-Iranian Oil Company yesterday took simultaneous but separate action in The Hague to place the Persian oil dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol for Strike Assault
AUCKLAND, Mon.: On charges of assaulting and intimidating R. S. Belsham, former president of the new Auckland Waterfront…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Albury Police Court Yesterday Woomargama man freed on car stealing charge
“I feel that no jury would convict in this case,” said Mr Avery, S. M., at the Albury court yesterday, when he discharge Edward Compton, of Woomargama, on a charge of stealing a motor car from Peter Bertram…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →