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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

1,347 stories in Murray's papers · page 34 of 68

Man Charged with Attempting to Break and Enter

The Pastoral Times · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 5

Donald Reed, single £5 recently employed at Wers[?] Saw Mill and now in Deriliourn Lockup was recently allowed bait at…

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Woman faces 50 year gaol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 June 1954 · page 24

WASHINGTON', Fri.: A Federal jury yesterday acquitted [?] Lebron of “intent to kit when she shot up the House…

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Tennis court stir

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 June 1954 · page 3

LONDON'. Fri.: The Australian tennis players Mervyn Rose and Neale Fraser were called “pigs” by the umpire after…

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Court Abolishes Wage Increase Granted Clerks

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 June 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Clerks employed by oil and shipping companies today lost marginal increases granted them last August, but stayed by the Arbitration Court order last October,…

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Albury police to use motor cycles in safety drive

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 June 1954 · page 9

Within the next week, Albury police will hove four motor cycle patrols in full-time service to detect traffic offenders. Stating this yesterday,…

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Police Call in All Pistols After Murder

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY, Sun.: Police have called in oil licensed .32 calibre pistols in the eastern suburbs area. They made this move following the death or…

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Gaol now for two-up players

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sun.: From now on, anyone caught playing two-up will risk being sent to gaol. This is teh effect of a change in police…

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Father on Charge of Murder

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 15

PERTH. Sun,: The sequel to the death of an eight-month-old infanton in Fremantle Hospital on April 22 came today with the…

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Airways Accountant Charged with Stealing £44,000

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 3

PERTH, Mon.; “I have been a fool and taken money—about £17,000.” Australian National Airway’ chief accountant, Frank Pascoe, of Melbourne, said the company’s former Perth accountant, Redmond Hurley O’Dwyer, 37 years, told him this at a hospital bedside interview…

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French assault Reds’ stronghold

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

NEW YORK. Mon.: Hundreds of French troops made an amphibious assault on an island in the Red River, 15 miles west of…

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Albury Police Court Yesterday Policeman says man swallowed evidence

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 8

A 98-year-old pensioner, arrested and charged with S.P. betting, had swallowed a piece of paper on which bets were written, Mr. McDonald, S.M., was told in Albury Court yesterday…

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Assault on Little Girl Alleged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Mon. : Police tonight charged a msn with allegedly indecently assaulting a five-year-old girl. The man charged…

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River murder alleged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Mon.: A youth was charged at the City Watchhouse this afternoon with the murder of a man…

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Child murder alleged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The man charged with having murdered six-year-old Pamela Dale Walton had joined in the search for…

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Pensioner Fined £10 —Theft

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 8

An Albury old are pensioner was warned by Mr McDonald. SM. that [?] pension might cease if he continued to act as…

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Police Say Little Girl Abducted

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

This little six-year-old girl was taken from an apartment house in St. Hilda, Melbourne, on Wednesday, and was found at Sydney Central railway station on Friday. The girl, Margaret Irene Jones, was with a young woman, who was…

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Ex-minister Heads New Licensing Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon. : Members of Victoria’s new Licensing Court were appointed by State Cabinet today…

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Court fold of models’ amazing experiences

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: Three young Sydney models had been ravished and subjected to unrestrained eroticism by a 26-year-old commercial artist, it was alleged in Central Criminal Court today…

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Police hope for early lead on identity of estate agent’s killer

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY, Mon.; Death of Bondi estate agent Layton Smith in St. Vincent’s Hospital yesterday might mean that vital evidence to the identity of his killer will now be revealed…

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Alleged Admission of Theft

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 9

PERTH, Tues.: “I did steal the money—in each case the money taken was invested on horse-racing.”…

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