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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,219 stories in Murray's papers · page 33 of 61

Woman Dead :Man Charged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: Detectives tonight arrested and charged a man with manslaughter, following the death of Mrs Alice…

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“Ill Do It Again,” Man Tells Police Gaol for Attempted Suicide

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 1

Found with a slashed wrist [?] a blood-saturated hotel bed[?] with a blood-stained razor [?] lying on the bed, Stewart…

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Man on Cheque Charge Discharged by Magistrate

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 11

Vernon Arthur McCrory, who was charged with obtaining £3 from the secretary of Mote’s Ltd. on January 12 by means of false pretences, was discharged by Mr. Denton, S.M., in Albury Police Court yesterday…

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Ring-in of clog alleged: three men charged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 16

SYDNEY Mon.: Three men appeared at the Central Police Count today in answer to charges of conspiring to defraud the Gootormundra Courting Club and other persons by the alleged ringing in of a greyhound…

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"HOT-PLATING" Man Fined at Tumut Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 1

At the Tumut Police Court on Wednesday, Colin Lesile Johnson was charged with operating a vehicles for fire such vehicle not be…

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Women threaten to storm gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 6

SEROWE (Bechuanaland), Tues.: Several hundred angry women of the Bamangwa[?]e tribe threaten to storm the Serowe…

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Migrant on murder charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 18

ADELAIDE, Tues.: Alexander Orlovs, a 33-year-old Latvian, today appeared at Millicent Court on a charge of murdering…

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Man freed after 2 years in gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: Two years after he was convicted and sentences to four years’ gaol a man had his conviction set aside by…

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Lad to be sentenced for killing 4-year-old boy

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tues.: A Criminal Court jury today found a 16-year-old laborer guilty of the manslaughter of a four-year-old boy at Footscray on April 16 last. The jury accepted a…

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Dog allegedly reported “dead” brought into court

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: Cowra bookmaker, James Edmund John Kiely, in the Central Police Court today identified a greyhound as Manfred Lass, whose death had been officially reported to the National Coursing Association…

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Back to gaol

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wed.: Frederick Vanderbilt field, so-called “financial angel” of leftist causes, was ordered back to gaol yesterday…

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Murder-Suicide suspected

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 15

ADELAIDE, Wed.: Police believe a fanner strangled his wife and then shot himself on their property near Burra at the…

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Constable Charged with Killing Father

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.; A young police constable was tonight arrested and charged with the murder of his 49-year-old father at Sydenham on June 2. The constable was dismissed from the police force…

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Czech on murder charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 15

KANDOS, Wed.: A 20-years-old old Czech was charged in Kandos court today with the murder of Gladys Mines and…

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Farmer Barged with Double Murder at Casino

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 15

CASINO, Wed.: William Abbot, 29, married, a farmer, of Busby’s Flat, near Wyan, was charged tonight with the murder…

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Woman loses suit against police constable

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 15

SYDNEY, Wed: Supreme Court jury today dismissed a suit for heavy damages by Dulcie Beatrice Solberg,…

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Alleges Assault in Lane

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 8

Norman R. Bowen, of Macaulay st., who was charged in Albury Court yesterday with assaulting Ernest Arthur Kellar,…

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Gaol and fine for watersiders’ head

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: General secretary of the Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation, James Healy, was today, in the Special Federal Court, sentenced to six weeks’ hard labor and also fined £100…

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Five top officers to die for theft

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 5

TAEGU Thurs.: A Military Court today sentenced five top-ranking officers of the South Kor[?]an National Defence Corps to…

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Printer to Stay in Gaol 7 Days

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The publisher of a pamphlet which suggested a “fair deal” for Frank J. Hardy, author of “Power…

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