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Courts & crime, 1952

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Court action against Sands is adjourned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 February 1952 · page 19

SYDNEY, Fri.: An Equity Court application by boxing manager Thomas Maguire for an injunction to restrain Empire middleweight…

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Albury police arrest man in a city office

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 February 1952 · page 1

Smart work by police at Albury late last night led to the arrest of a man while he was allegedly ransacking the…

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Grim Exhibits in Court at Woman’s Trial

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 February 1952 · page 17

PO[?]ERS (France), Friday: Grey-haired 56 year old Marie Besnard faced a packed court-room across [?]ottles of beetle…

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Attempted Murder Charge Mossgiel Postmaster Before Court

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 2

In the Ivanhoe Court of Petty Sessions to-day, Allan George Malcolm Thompson, 24 year old Postmaster at Mossgiel, was remanded to Broken Hill Court on March 18, on a charge of attempted murder…

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In Albury Court Yesterday Man from Sydney sent for trial: night break alleged by police

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 8

A man had broken into on Albury garage and implements agency on February 22 because he thought he might find “a few bob,” Mr Quiggin, S.M., vets told in Albury Court yesterday…

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Court move to bar Reds using union money for carnival

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: Mr Justice Kirby in Chambers today issued on order nisi to restrain three Communist officials of the Seamen’s Union from giving union funds to the Youth Carnival for…

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Convicts break gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 February 1952 · page 4

QUINCY (Illinois), Tues.: Eight prisoners overpowered a guard, stole a machine-gun and two bullet-proof vests and escaped…

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Jury Acquits Crippled Man of Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 February 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.: The fatal shooting of one of three crippled brothers on their farm ct Bet Bet, near Maryborough, on January 23, resulted in a Criminal Court jury today finding Kenneth John Stevens, 28, a…

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Court rules ironworkers’ conference was valid

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 February 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tues.: The Full Arbitration Court today ruled that the conference which appointed Laurence Short national secretary of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association was valid…

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Arrested by Albury Police Elderly Woman to Face Charge of Lighting Fire

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 February 1952 · page 5

A 75-year-old woman was arrested yesterday and charged with allegedly lighting a fire on Crown land at Happy Valley. Police and a detective…

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Charged with Manslaughter

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 13

BROKEN HILL, Wed: A 41-year-old man was charged tonight with the manslaughter of Lillian Lorraine Aitkenhead, 17, whose…

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“Inside Story” Broke into gaol

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wed.: In General Sessions today Harold James Sheehan, 27, a laborer, told “the inside story” of how…

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Sold £1000 stolen car for £400, police allege

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 9

SYDNEY, Wed.: An American ex-serviceman had stolen a motor car valued at £1000 from Yellow Cabs, of Australia Ltd. and sold…

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10 years’ gaol for sex crime

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Sentencing a 26-year-old bus conductor to 10 years’ gaol in Quarter Sessions today, Judge Berne…

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Painter on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thurs.: In the Central Police Court today, Joe Chit[?] 52, p[?]inter and docker, of Bourke st, East Sydney, was remanded…

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Court echo of lost plane mystery

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 2

LONDON, Thurs.: The wife of the pilot of an aeroplane which mysteriously vanished in 1948 on the first leg of a flight to…

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No union funds for Red youth carnival until court decides

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Hearing of an application for an order restraining three officials of the S[?]men’s Union from donating money from union funds to the Sydney “Youth Carnival for Peace end Friendship” was…

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Theft from railways alleged

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY. Fri.: Richard Raymond Griffin. 27, laborer. of David st, Forest Lodge and Ronald Moore, 26, laborer, of Wardell…

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Murder of nurse is alleged

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 14

PARIS. Fri: The French police last night alleged that a 25-year-old French decorator and painter, Jean Ligerl, had…

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Midnight Arrest by Albury Police

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 1

Smart work by Albury police late last night resulted in the arrest of two men wanted for allegedly breaking into premises…

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