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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

1,219 stories in Murray's papers · page 45 of 61

“Admitted stealing £160,000”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 3

PAKERSRURG, (west Virginia) Tues-A 34-year-old bankteller had admitted having: embezzled £160,000 during the last…

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Court move by Tone

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 5

LOS ANGELES, Tues: The film actor Franchot Tone yesterday sought a felony complaint against the actor Tom Neal for the beating…

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Court told of man’s alleged threat to kill girl

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.: The mother, brother, and step-father of Sylvia Holmes, who was strangled Fitzroy in May last year, told the Criminal Court today that had heard the…

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Lavington Man’s the Accidental, Coroner a witness told Albury Coroner’s Court yesterday that the only thing which the thought couped a panel [?] to

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 7

Benjamin Herbert : Harmer of Laving ton, the driver of a panel van in which Ernest Colville Nolan, of…

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Bookmaker faces long gaol term

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 13

NEW YORK, Thurs.: A Brooklyn Grand Jury yesterday indicted the bookmaker Harry Gross on 10 counts of criminal…

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Year's Gaol for Car Thief

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

A man arrested by Hay police for driving under the influence and without a license, was later found to have stolen a car from…

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Wharfie on murder charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A 30-year-old wharf laborer, who was alleged to have been involved in a shooting at St. Kilda on…

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Court to Hold Union Ballot

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY. Thurs: The Industrial Registrar of the Arbitration Court (Mr Taylor) has agreed to conduct a ballot for official positions…

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To probe careers of 70 police officers

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thurs.: New York Police Commissioner George Monaghan today announced that he would investigate the careers of…

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Gaol governor viciously attacked

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.: Darrell John Martin and one of the six prisoners who escaped from Bathurst Gaol last Monday attacked…

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4 years’ gaol for car thefts

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: Kenneth Warren Macklin, 37, of Avalon, was today sentenced in Quarter Sessions to four years’ gaol for car stealing. Macklin, who it was stated…

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No Court on

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 2

Because of the holiday next Monday, there will be no sitting of the Albury Petty Sessions Court. The next court, before Mr…

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Alleged Assault on Toddler

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Sun.: Police last night charged a laborer, of Gordon ave.. Granville, with unlawfully assaulting his three-year-old…

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Police baton football crowd

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police used their batons to force back a surging overflow crowd which pushed open a gate at Melbourne…

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Police seek two missing estate agents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 10

SYDNEY, Sun: Police throughout Australia and New Zealand have been alerted to trace two missing Sydney estate agents…

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Police seek mother of dead twins

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sun: Post-mortem examinations were in made to-day on the bodies of two baby boys found at Victoria Market…

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Police seek aid of gangster’s widow

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 2

SAIGON, Sun.: “Big Joe” Dussoni’s 25-year-old blonde widow was taken straight to police headquarters from a…

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Court’s ruling may break company’s nylon monopoly

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 7

NEW YORK, Sun.: A ruling has been given in a Federal Court here that will break the Du Pont monopoly of nylon unless it is upset on appeal…

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Man on car stealing charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.: Police alleged in Central Police Court today that a salesman stole a car front Macquarie street, Sydney, drove it to…

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Gaoled for assault on little girl

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 1

KATOOMBA, Mon.: Mr. A. E. Stoneham, S.M., in Katoomba Court today sentenced a laborer to six months’ hard…

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