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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,347 stories in Murray's papers · page 32 of 68

Man who gouged out victim’s eye is sent to gaol for five years

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 48-year-old man who gouged a Tasmanian’s eye with a broken wine bottle was sent to prison for five years in Quarter Sessions today. He was Frederick…

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“Not a Tough Guy—just a Pathetic Boy” Youth gaoled on breaking, entering, stealing charges

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 10

Describing him as a “pathetic boy,” Judge Brennan, in Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday, sentenced an 18-year-old Sydney youth to three years’ gaol on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing, and six months’ gaol on several other charges…

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Former Holbrook farmer sentenced: will appeal

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 5

A 53-year-old former Holbrook farmer was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for causing grievous bodily harm to an elderly man by Judge Brennan in Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday…

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In Albury District Court Yesterday Punches Fly in Jindera Hotel During Argument Over Cricket £225 Damages for Albury Man

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 5

Behavior of the farmer president of the Jindera Cricket Club when he was involved in an argument with another man had been “high handed, contemptible and cowardly,” Judge Brennan said in Albury District Court yesterday…

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Youths on Theft Charge

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 2

Late Friday night. Sydney police arrested two Victoria youths, aged 16 and 17, and charged them with the theft of four electric…

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Five Reds Sent to Gaol

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 5

NEW YORK, Sun. : Four American Communists were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and a fifth was given a three-year…

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Reds Threaten Police

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 1

BERLIN, Sun.: Five armed policemen from Communist East Berlin entered West Berlin today and put up posters…

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“Knows” Police Secrets

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 5

GEORGETOWN (British Gul[?] San. : Police have obtained a summons against Mrs Janet Jagan, secretary of the…

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Police seek father, two children

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Son.: Police throughout Australia hive been [?]ssued with the description of [?]-year-old New Zealand…

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“Campers” to Face Court

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 2

Six men will appear in Wodonga court today on charges of being drunk and disorderly. Police day they were found camped…

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Preferred Gaol to Outside World

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 14

LAUNCESTON. Mon.: A married woman today elected to go to gaol for three months as she considered she would receive…

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Six Men in Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2

In Wodonga Court yesterday six NSW men, charged with being drunk and disorderly, were remanded to June 10. The men were…

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Paper Outlines Attitude Against Violence; Not the Police Force

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.: The “Daily Telegraph” had been carrying on a campaign against violence, not the police force, the paper's acting editor, James Kingston Watson, told the Studley-Ruxton…

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In Albury Court Yesterday Negligent driving: man fined: cyclist’s death

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 9

Raymond Charles Widdison, convicted on a negligent driving charge in Albury Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, was fined £8 by Mr. McDonald, old, S.M…

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Argument over politics leads to gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: An argument about Russian politics led to a Russian migrant being sentenced by the City Court…

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Armed Police After Thieves

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tues. : Fifty armed detectives today searched the Waterford district, 25 miles south of Brisbane, for…

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Japan on the way back to “Police State”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 9

TOKIO, Tues.: The Upper House of the Japanese Diet today passed the controversial Police Centralisation Bill which reverses American occupation policy allowing local bodies to control their own police forces and restores…

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Trials of Mounted Police

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 15

The trials of a small patrol of mounted police during a murder bunt for an aborigine in north-west Australia were…

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Tallangatta Court Hotel licensee, two men fined

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 16

Licensee of Granya Hotel and two men were fined a total of £17, as a result of a visit to the hotel by Tallangatta police on…

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Fined for assault on girl

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 8

A 31-year-old man, who plead. guilty in Wodonga Court yesterday to unlawfully assault. a schoolgirl on a Wodonga…

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