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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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In Yackandandah Court Man on pistol charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 April 1953 · page 10

In Yachandandah court on Tuesday a 22 years old man was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment on charges of carrying an…

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Serial Story Alias Basil Willing a thrilling adventure in multiple murder

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1953 · page 4

BASIL nodded, "Probably. She told me my voice was different tonight. Afterward she looked quite ill with shock when a…

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Two Half-castes on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 12

PERTH, Sun.: Joseph Patrick McIntosh (23) and Alan Martin Slater (19), half-caste farm laborers, were charged at…

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26 Terrorists on Murder Count Killing of Woman

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 4

NAIROBI, Sun.: Twenty-six Kikuyu tribesmen were charged yesterday at a specially convened night court with the murder of a Kikuyu woman during the Mau Mau massacre in the uplands district nine days ago…

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Car driver charged after man’s death

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Mon.: In the Morphettvale police court today Albert George Coughtrey. 62, amusement of Glenelg was…

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Man leaves hospital and is charged with murder

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tues. : Thirty-two-year-old Lionel Richard Lee was charged at the city watch-house this afternoon with the murder of Betty Iva Leighton Jones, 28, in a street at South Melbourne on March 3…

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Company on stealing charge

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 10

WINGHAM, Tues.: Wingham Rural Co-operative Society Ltd. was today charged at a Wingham Court with having stolen 69761b of…

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“Tokio Rose” must stay in gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Tues.: The United States Supreme Court yesterday again refused to hear an appeal by “Tokio Rose” the…

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Police Probe Fire at Guest House

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tues.: Police are investigating a fire which burned down a guest house in Upper Burragorang on Sunday morning…

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Police Interested in Move to Compile ‘Social Register’

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Tues.; Police ore seeking a 30-year-old American whom they wish to question as a result of intensive inquiries into offers to include leading families proposed “Social Register” at a cost of 10 guineas…

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Charged with 1951 murder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: CIB detectives tonight charged a 22-year-old laborer with the murder, on October 15, 1951,…

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Police search for missing boy

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 April 1953 · page 11

ADELAIDE. Wed.: Police are searching for John Edward Aonayne. 9 years, son of Mrs. Thelma Ronayne. widow, of West…

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Albert Court Couldn’t find work men sent to gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 9

Previously charged with vagrancy and released provided he found employment, a man was sentenced to 21 days’…

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Mau leaders sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 3

KAPENGURIA (Kenya), Thurs.: Jomo “Burning Spear” Kenyatta, alleged to be the master-mind of the dreaded Mau Mau terrorist…

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Sultan sent to gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 16

DJAKARTA (Indonesia), Thurs.: Sultan hamid of West Borneo has been sentenced by the Supreme Court to 10…

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Boys Allegedly Murder Baby

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 12

LAC DE FLAMBEAU (Wis.), Thurs.: Two Indian boys were yesterday charged with murdering Charmaine Ann Christensen, aged…

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Albury Police Court Yesterday “Board acted a little too hastily over rabbits”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 8

Anthony Hordern, the owner of “Wingadal,” Bowna, was charged in Albury Police Court yesterday by Albury Pastures Protection Board with failing to destroy rabbits on the property between October 15, 1951, and…

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Police allege confession

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 22-year-old mechanic had written a confession to the killing of a tailor in a Castlercagh st…

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Man is charged with abduction of boy

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Russell st. police late this afternoon charged a 38-year-old Adelaide truck driver with abducting…

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Police Probe Into Doping

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs. : Two C.I.B. detectives were directed by the Chief of the CI.B. (Supt. Ramus) today to investigate the doping of Doncaster Handicap winner Tarien, at Randwick…

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