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Courts & crime, 1954

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Police scrutinised the guests

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 9

ENTEBBE (Uganda), Thurs.: Security police carefully scrutinised every guest when Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of…

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Court of Petty Sessions

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 1

At the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. A. S. McDonald; S.M., Norman Burtlett, Charles Parker, Leslie Wullace…

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Solicitors Must Explain to Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Two solicitors, whose names were not disclosed, were today ordered by the Supreme Court…

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Corowa Court Fines for traffic offences

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 6

Charles D. Jackson, of Russell st., Howlong, was fined £5 with 12/ costs in Corona Court yesterday on a charge oh having…

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Charged with theft of house

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A 45-year-old chef was charged today with the larceny of a house in Ringwood…

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Solicitor Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 15

SYDNEY, Fri., A Sydney solicitor whose officers were largely due to carelessness and not necessarily dishonestly, was…

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Woman on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Fri.: A married woman was committed for trial by the City Coroner today on a change of murdering her de facto…

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Appeared in court on crutches

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A double bigamist was released in the Criminal Court today on a £10 two-year good behaviour bond…

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Man in Crashed Car Charged

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

A 32-year-old Wodonga laborer who allegedly took a car from West Albury on Saturday night crashed it a few minutes later while driving it away. He has been charged with three offences and will…

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Soviet secret police “demoralised”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Sun.: The recent defections of so many agents of the soviet secret police operating in foreign…

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Police seek car driver MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

Police arc seeking the driver of a car which knocked down and fatally injured Mrs. Mary Ellen Richards, 69 of Dynon road…

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Woodcarter on assault charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 8

An Albury woodcarter, charged with assaulting a New Australian, was remanded to Friday, May 7, on £10 bail…

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Fortnight’s Gaol for Vagrant

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 1

Russell Joseph Pocock, 34, of North Reserve was convicted on a vagrancy charge at Deniliquin Court on Friday. He was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. K. M. McMahon J. P…

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Darlington Point Police Station

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 3

Carrathool Shire Council will not take any further definite steps to prevent the moving of the Darlington Point police…

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Didn’t obey police signal

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 8

James Nichols, of Crisp st., was fined £1 with 7/ costs for failing to obey a police signal while driving in Olive st. on a…

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Police interested in child’s death

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 14

LAUNCESTON, Mon.: Launceston detectives are investigating the death today of a child whose body bore extensive marks…

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In Albury Court Yesterday: Butcher’s Denial on Car’s Speed

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 9

Former Albury butcher, Leo Francis Dawsan, denied in Albury Court yesterday that he had driven his ear from How…

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In Albury Court Yesterday : S.M. look the joy out of man’s joy-ride!

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 8

A short “joy ride” a Wodonga man had in another man’s car on Saturday night proved extremely “sorrowful” for him when he appeared in Albury court yesterday…

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Four Reds Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 7

SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.: Four Communist Party workers today received sentences ranging from one to three years’ imprisonment…

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Three Months’ Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 2

In Rutherglen Court yesterday Mr Bell. SM. sentenced James Brian Smith, Abbotsford street, North Melbourne, to three months’…

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