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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Defendant Must Appear in Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 9

Mr. Blackmore, SM, in Albury Court yesterday, refused to accept the appearance of a solicitor for a man who had…

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“Shot Himself Whilst Police Looked On”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY. Mon. : A man had shot himself In a shed while police were forcing the door, acting City Coroner McDonald…

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Man’s choice of cafe near the police station had an unhappy sequel for him

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 9

A man who was later charged with driving under the influence had been unlucky enough to select a cafe opposite the police station at which to buy his supper, Albury Court was told yesterday…

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In Albury Court Yesterday Man with wife, eight children fails to get back his home

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 9

An application by a man with a wife and eight children for possession of a home in David street was refused by Mr. Blackmore, S.M., at the conclusion of the hearing in Albury Court…

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Ambulance Had Police Escort

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 2

On Saturday evening. Yarrawonga District Ambulance was escorted through Melbourne peak-hour traffic at high speed to the…

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Court Procedure Simplified

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: Amendments to the Evidence Act to simplify court proceedings were passed by State Cabinet today…

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Shot taxi-driver dies: migrant on murder count

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, Tues.: A 24-year-old Bulgarian, Slavi Radeff, was charged at Orange police court today with the murder of Claude Donald Slattery, 34, taxi driver, who died in Orange…

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Red secret police officer brought to United States

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Tues.: The Senate internal security sub-committee announced today that a Soviet secret police officer, who abandoned an assassination plot and surrendered to the…

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Women crowd into court when inquiry is continued

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 7

LAUNCESTON, Tues.: Many women crowd- p Launceston court today when the inquiry into the death of Noelen Gower, 5½ year, was resumed…

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Albury Supreme Court: Damages claim settled: Lengthy hearing averted

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 15

Claims for damages, which had been anticipated to take more than a fortnight to hear, were settled on undisclosed terms before yesterday’s Albury Supreme Court opened…

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Car driver to be sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wed.: Judge Lloyd today remanded for sentence a 47-year-old textile mechanic convicted on a charge of…

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Man on £25,000 Theft Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 1

PERTH, Wed.: Redmond Hurley O’Dwyer, the Perth accountant of Australian National Airways, was charged in the police…

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Attacked Court

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 3

“But when the court postponed its decision on margins, Dr. Evatt attacked the court,” he said “In fact he even went so far as…

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Supreme Court Jurors

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 2

Supreme Court jurors summoned for service on May 17 and 20 will not be required because of certain developments in the…

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Woman may have been killer in flat murder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.: Scotland Yard detectives believe that 64-year-old Mrs. Violet McGrath—mother-in-law of film star Michael Rennie— may have been strangled by a woman…

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Court Adjourned Through Judge’s Illness

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 2

Because of a sudden illness His Honor Mr Justice McClemens was unable to hear cases listed before Albury Supreme Court…

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Police witness alleges “indirect threats” made to him

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 20

SYDNEY, Wed.: A witness told the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission today that he believed David Edward Studley-Ruxton had arranged to have anybody who assisted police in the commission “bashed-up.” The witness, Graeme William Charles Gairdner, R.A.A.F. dental…

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Albury Supreme Court Wagga woman’s divorce action

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 4

A woman told Albury Supreme Court yesterday that her husband left to go shearing in Queensland in 1946 and did not…

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Police allege that child was pegged to clothesline and then thrashed

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 20

HOBART, Wed.: Charges of cruelty were preferred against a married couple in the Glenorchy Police Court today for allegedly having wilfully ill-treated their three-year-old son…

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Mossadegh to Stay in Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 5

TEHERAN, Thurs.: The Persian Army Court of Appeal tonight upheld held the sentence of three years’ solitary confinement imposed on…

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