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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,347 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 68

Police fire on, use tear gas on rioting basketball fans

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

MEXICO CITY Sun.: Police fired shots and used tear gas to break up a riot by 14,000 angry spectators who last night attempted to set fire to the municipal auditorium when a basketball…

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Court shorts

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 9

A man charged with drunkenness forfeited his 10/ bail when he did not appear in Albury Court yesterday…

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£10,000 theft of aircraft instruments from Tocumwal alleged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: Two engineers were remanded in Central Police Court today on charges of stealing aircraft instruments worth £13,000…

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Police Station at Darlington Point

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 2

Murrumbidgee Shire Council has been advised by the Premier's Department that tenders have been called for the construction…

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Protest on criticism of police

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY. Mon.: A deputation today protested to the Premier, Mr. Cahill, against Press criticism of the police force…

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Evatt’s court stand criticised

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 10

MELBOURNE. Mon.: The real issue for the Australian people, created by Dr. Evatt’s criticisms. was whether the…

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Man who alleges police bashed him admits to telling lies

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—David Edward Studley-Ruxton 32, who has alleged he was beaten repeatedly and violently by police, today admitted to the Royal Commissioner (Mr Justice Dovey) that he had lied in the witness box. Studley-Ruxton admitted to the judge that he had lied about…

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In Albury Court Yesterday “Could not remember anything of accident”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 9

A young motor cyclist- told Albury court yesterday he remembered nothing of an accident in which he was involved on Christmas Eve. He is Albert L. Pepper, of…

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Man on murder charge “religious crank,” court is told

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 9

BRISBANE, Tues.: A butcher charged with the murder of a married woman was “a religious crank,” and used to read from the Bible to everyone he met, it was stated at the Criminal…

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Boy’s death mystifies police

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 9

SYDNEY, Tues.: Police are mystified over the death yesterday of two-year-old. New Australian boy Andris Tillers,…

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Thought that detectives would “murder him”-Man declares

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.: David Edward Studley-Ruxton (32), told the Royal Commission to-day that he had thought two detectives at Darlinghurst police station “would murder” him…

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Court says £13,000 damages given man “excessive”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 20

MELBOURNE, Tues.: The State Full Court today ordered the retrial of an action last year in which a Hamilton rigger was awarded £13,000 damages by a Supreme Court jury for loss of his…

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No probe into charges of alleged graft in N.S.W. police force

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Government tonight refused to appoint a Royal Commission to probe allegations of graft and corruption in the New South Wales police force…

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Doctor Found Guilty; Sentenced to Death

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: Dr. Alexander de Castro Basto, 56, Macquarie st. eye specialist-, early tonight was sentenced to death after being found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury…

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Men charged with demanding money with menaces from horse trainer

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed.: Two men had forced a well-known Sydney racehorse trainer into a car and had demanded £200 from him, police said in Central Court today…

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Parliament can’t tell Arbitration Court what to do, says P.M.

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Parliament could not lay down principles by which the Arbitration Court and conciliation commissioners were bound, the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) said…

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Peer, two other men sent to gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Thurs.: A peer and two other yesterday after sent to gaol yesterday after they had been found guilty of sex…

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Police seeking missing bricks

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 6

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The ACT police are conducting an extensive investigation into reports of a huge shortage of…

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Father to be sentenced - Boy tells of Stings: Arms were broken

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A Brooklyn father who chastised his son with a heavy stick, strap and bare hands was convicted in the Criminal Court today on a charge of having maliciously inflicted bodily harm on the boy. The jury rejected a lesser verdict open to them that the father…

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Alleged Contempt of Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The State Full Court today reserved decision on a contempt of court charge against the “Daily…

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