“Accused not in house at time of shooting” Alibi defence to murder charge
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 November 1951 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Tues.: A 30-year-old stevedore, Ernest Alfred Martin, told the Criminal Court today that he was at a friend’s North Fitzroy home the night he allegedly shot dead former…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol for former policeman
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY, Wed.: A farmer policeman who fatally shot his father was sentenced to two years’ gaol at Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Found not guilty of boxer’s murder
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Soon after a married couple supported his alibi and Dulcie Markham, who was wounded in the shooting, gave evidence from a stretcher, Ernest Alfred Martin, 30, was tonight found not guilty by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Today’s Court List
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 2
Included in the cases for hearing at today’s Albury court will be charges of stealing against three men who recently broke into an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Slapped wife in court — gaoled
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 8
BRISBANE, Wed.: A Polish migrant was sent to gaol for contempt today after he had slapped his wife’s face in court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gaol Escapees to Be Sentenced
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 10
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Six men who escaped from Bathurst Gaol on September 24 appeared in Quarter Sessions today and were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sheep Stealing
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 2
Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. Keith Smith, at Griffith Court on Monday, conditionally discharged a 20-year-old labourer who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prelate to Leave Gaol
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 5
NEW YORK, Thurs.: The Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia will soon he released from prison, according to Cyrus L…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Escapee Writes to Newspaper!
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 7
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A letter received by a newspaper today from a person claiming to be gaol escapee Maxwell Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder trial witness arrested
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: After having given evidence in the Supreme Court yesterday where the trial of Ernest Alfred James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albury Police Court Yesterday Three men arrested at gunpoint for trial
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 6
Three men who were arrested at gunpoint in an Albury home on the night of November 13 were committed for trial by Mr. Blackmore, S.M., at Albury Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Farm Hands on Murder Charge
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 12
PERTH, Thursday: Arrest at Quairading early today by the police of two half-caste natives on a charge of wilful murder…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hillston Wants More Police
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 2
At its meeting on Monday, Carrathool Shire Council decided to place before the Shires' Association reasons why additional police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man sent to gaol thinks he is a kleptomaniac
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 6
The S.M. was asked by a man sentenced to six months’ imprisonment if he could obtain medical attention, as he thought himself to be a kleptomaniac. Sydney Robert Moon,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police hurt in anti-German outburst
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 3
PARIS, Thurs.: Fifteen policemen were injured yesterday in scuffles with demonstrators who paraded the streets of Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wodonga claims settled out of court
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 1
Claims arising out of a fatal accident near Chiltern on July 16, 1949, involving members of the Wodonga…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge on People Who Move in “Queer Circles” Man acquitted on charge of murder
Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 12
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A Criminal Court jury today found Charles Henry Mills, 29, not guilty of having murdered 23-year-old ex-boxer, Gavan Walsh, whose death was described by the Crown as a “gangster…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gooled for stockings theft
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 November 1951 · page 10
SYDNEY, Fri.: John Carlyle Brown, 43. laborer, of no fixed abode was sentenced to six months’ gaol at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Escapees each given five years’ gaol
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 November 1951 · page 7
SYDNEY, Fri.: Six prisoners who escaped from Bathurst Gaol on September 24 alter assaulting the warders were each sentenced to five years’ penal servitude in Quarter Sessions today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To be sentenced for 22 year-old bigamy
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 November 1951 · page 10
BRISBANE, Fri.: A man plead guilty in the police court today to having committed bigamy 22 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →