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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

1,355 stories in Murray's papers · page 27 of 68

Detectives probing murder of girl lay three charges against Polish migrant

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 June 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: Detectives investigating the murder of Shirley Butler today arrested a 27-year-old Polish migrant at Rockdale. They charged the migrant…

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Migrant remanded on assault charges: murder of girl mentioned in court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wed.: A Polish migrant in court today had been identified as a man seen hurrying along a Waverton street about the time Shirley Butler died on a nearby allotment, Central Court was told today…

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Theft of £120

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 2

Nearly £ 120 in money and several cheques was stolen from the safe of Albury Tyre Service, Kiewa street, during fee weekend…

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Full Court to decide on wages-hours case dilemma

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE; Wed.: The Full High Court, will give its decision tomorrow on whether the Arbitration Court should be ordered to…

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Greyhound Racing Control Board can’t “warn off” any person: court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 15

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Greyhound Racing Control Board had no power under its rules to “warn off” any person, Chief Justice, Hon. K, W. Street, said in the Full Supreme Court today. The court quashed the…

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Indefinite Gaol Term for Father Failed to bring young “missing” son to court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Richard Basil Scudds was today gaoled indefinitely for contempt of court in failing to comply with a court order to deliver his five-year-old son to his wife, Florence Scudds,…

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Painter Sent to Gaol for 12 Months

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 9

Judge Brennan told a 56-year-old painter that he was “looking, for trouble” when he slept in the same bed with a 15-year-old…

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Monkey figures in “cold, deliberate” zoo murder

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY Thurs,: Sir Edward Hallstrom revealed today that two “murders” were recently committed at Taronga Pork Zoo, Sydney. Sir Edward is chairman…

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Father of nine on wife murder charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thurs. : A 49-years old father of of nine children in Central Criminal Court today pleaded not guilty to having…

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“Wanted Police to Get Him”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 9

A New Australian told Albury Police Court yesterday he took a pullover from a local store because he wanted police to…

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Had Betting Slips, Court Told

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 9

A man sitting in a car in Clare street, Albury, had slips showing bets between £100 and 3/, and was the third agent acting for a…

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In Albury Quarter Session Yesterday Albury youth sent to gaol for 18 months

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 9

A 19-year-old youth, charged on four counts of breaking, entering end stealing, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment by Judge Brennan in Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday…

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Serial Story Alias Basil Willing a thrilling adventure in multiple murder

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 4

THE STORY: Jack Duggan, a private detective who had been using Basil Willing's name, is murdered and Miss…

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High Court Rules That Hours-wages Case Can Go on

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thurs. : The wages-hours case could lawfully proceed before the Arbitration Court whether or not Mr. Justice Foster returned to the Bench, the Full High Court…

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Judge’s whipping hint to migrants: four to be sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 16

SYDNEY, Fri.: Persons who assaulted women in Australia were liable to be whipped, Judge Curlewis told a 22-year-old Czechoslovakian migrant in Quarter Sessions today…

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Woman given £20,000 verdict for loss of arm charged with conspiracy

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 24

LITHGOW, Fri.; Police ore still preparing their case against a woman and a man who have been charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice, if was stated today…

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Court move on price of beer

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Because of not haying fixed a higher price for beer, Carlton and United Breweries Ltd. will take legal…

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Albury District Court “Two good friends” sue each other

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 22

At the conclusion of the hearing of cross actions by an Albury plumber and police constable in Albury District Court yesterday, Judge Brennan said : “It is unfortunate that a difference of opinion between two men,…

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Tenderer’s police record was never inquired into, says Education officer

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: The officer -in-charge of the property department of the Education Department, George Thomas Nicholls, today told a Public Service Board inquiry into the department’s administration it was not the practice to inquire into the police record of tenderers, nor was at usual to carry out any bankruptcy or company research…

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Girl’s Murder Police Appeal to Taxi Men

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: A senior C.I.B. detective yesterday appealed to Sydney taxi-drivers to assist investigations into the…

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