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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Help in Custody Several Minutes Doctor’s £2000 Writ Against Magistrate

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A doctor issued o Supreme Court writ today claiming £2000 damages from Mr. Morriss, S.M., because the magistrate allegedly ordered him to be held in custody for several minutes at Fitzroy Court…

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First Atomic Murder

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 3

MEXICO CITY, Sun. : A wealthy widow has been accused of history’s first atomic murder, according to…

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Police Not Sim Man Ii Dead

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Sun. : Police today continued their search of the waterfront at Tamarama for the body of Charles Raymond Wren,…

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Police believe fires were deliberately lighted

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Sun.: Fires, which police believe hove been deliberately started, broke out lost night in the South Granville Public School and Granville Baptist Church…

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Gaol for Year for Assault

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 2

A sentence of six months goal on each of two charges of unlawful assault on females was imposed on Gertcho Lungoff, a 49…

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Man charged with theft of £1469

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Russell street detectives late today charged the acting manager of the Morr Meat Company, of Elizabeth street, city, with larceny of £1469 from his employers…

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Man charged with attempted murder of brother

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 10

KATOOMBA, Mon.: A man charged with maliciously wounding with intent to murder his brother was farther remanded in…

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Theft at Mulwala Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 2

When Mr J. W. Trawatha, licensee of the Mulwala Hotel. Mulwala, opened his hotel early yesterday morning he discovered…

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In Albury Court Yesterday Laborer for trial on stealing charge: bail refused

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 9

A 21-year-old Hobart laborer, committed for trial on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing, was refused bail by Mr. Quiggin, S.M., in Albury Police Court yesterday. He is Basil John Mansell,…

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Education Dept. officers charged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.: Two Department of Education officers, suspended after the Vitnell inquiry, today appeared before a public…

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Boy charged with attempt to kill woman

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Mon.: A boy of 13 was charged at Bundaberg Children’s Court today of attempting to unlawfully kill…

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Youth remanded on murder charge

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 11

BRISBANE, Mon.: A 16-year-old youth was remanded for eight days without bail in Monto Children’s Court today…

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P.p. Board Breaches at Jerilderie Court

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 6

At the Jerilderie Court of Petty Sessions last Monday, John Hunter Patterson, Hartwood, Conargo was fined £20, with 12/…

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Manager is charged with theft of £1469

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tues.: John Montgomery, 24, acting manager of the Moor Meat Company’s Elizabeth street shop,…

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Wangaratta News Items Wangaratta, Tues.: Month’s Gaol for Youth

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 14

A Sydney youth, John Robert Thompson, 18, was given a month’s gaol yesterday by Mr. J.C. Bell, S.M. He gave his address as…

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12 German Police to Die

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 2

LONDON, Tues.: The north-west German radio last night reported that 12 members of the East German People’s Police had been…

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Police think gong behind district robberies

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 1

Officer-in-charge of Rutherglen police, Sen. Const. McDonald, said lost night he was sure an organised gong was behind the large number of robberies in the district in recent weeks…

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Police fear that grazier was murdered

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: The body of an elderly grazier was exhumed today at Armidale. Police fear the man might have…

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Police don’t suspect fire-bug started outbreak

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 3

No suspicious circumstances attached to a bush and grass fire in Lamport street, on Monument Hill, yesterday. This was stated last night…

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Remanded on Theft Charges

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Leslie Richard Schreiber (41), gas works employe, of Grey st., St. Kilda, was remanded in the City…

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