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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

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Court ruling favors A.W.U. member

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: Thomas Heslop, a member of the Australian Workers’ Union, was granted a rule nisi in the Arbitration Court…

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In Albury Court Yesterday False pretences charge against Albury man dismissed

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 8

A charge of false pretences against an Albury man was dismissed by Mr. Quiggin, S.M., of Albury Court yesterday when defendant claimed insufficient evidence had been offered by the police…

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Police Constable Dismissed

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tues: Constable Alton Mailey Rowe, 23, of the Police Gaming Branch, was dismissed from the force by the…

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Girls, Men Charged with Assault

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.: Two young girls and two men at Central Court today were charged with assaulting and robbing John…

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Stealing Charge Dismissed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 4

A charge of stealing against Maxwell Everitt was dismissed by Mr. Keith Smith, S.M., in the Hay Court of Petty Sessions on…

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Albury Court Migrant fined

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 10

In ex-parte hearings three men were fined for breathes of the traffic regulations by Mr Quiggin, SM, at Albury Court…

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P.P. Board Wants Court Test of New Act "No Help from Politicians for Greater Production"

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

THE Hay Pastures Protection Board has asked the P.P. Boards' Council of Advice to canvass the possibility of testing the validity of a recent amendment to the Pastures Protection Act…

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“Assault story pack of lies”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A Christmas Eve assault on an elderly Chinese cafe proprietor cost cook, William Morris, 39, of Orr…

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Frederick McDermott Cleared Of Lavers’ Murder Released From Long Bay Yesterday

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: Frederick Lincoln McDermott was cleared today of the murder of William Henry Levers, for which he had been serving a life sentence, and was released from…

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Murder of missionary

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 10

CHICO (CaI.), Sun.: His body pierced by four Indian arrows, a 33-year-old missionary, David Yarwood, was last month found…

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Aborigines Too Fast for Police

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Polite unsuccessfully chased four aborigines in a stolen car through rough country at the back of Mildura. At…

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Police Inspector’s Daughter Married

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 January 1952 · page 1

Ivory Chantilly lace fashioned the trained wedding gown worn by Joan, younger daughter of Inspector A. W. Wright and Mrs…

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Police called to control sale crowd

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 January 1952 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Police were called this morning to control women at a bargain sale at a Swanston street shoe store…

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Youth shot dead at Corryong Tried to run down police constable

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 January 1952 · page 1

A young laborer was [?] shot by a police constable he attempted to run down in a stolen car in Hansen street, Corryong, in the early hours of yesterday morning…

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Youth, Sister Charged at Corryong

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

An 18-year-old laborer and his 17-year-old sister, passengers in the car in which Robert William Beecham was…

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Ship’s captain arrested for murder

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tues.: Captain Franklin B. Weaver, master of the Isbran[?]sen Line freighter Flying Trader, a sister-ship of…

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Egyptian Crisis Police throw gas bombs

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 3

CAIRO, Tues.: Police fired in the air and threw tear gas bombs to dispose a big crowd of demonstrating secondary school students…

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Laborer Changed with Assault

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 January 1952 · page 2

A 20-year-old Bandiana laborer was yesterday charged with assaulting a young Albury girl near the North Albury dance hall early…

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“Death Sign” by Woman in Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 January 1952 · page 11

BRISBANE, Wed.: The “death sign”—the drawing of a finger across the throat—was given by a woman who refused to give…

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Charged with murder of his wife

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 1

PERTH, Thurs.: Vineenso Salmeri, 58, Forest road, Palmyra, near Fremantle, was charged by Fremantle police…

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