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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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“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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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