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Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250

Police Boys' Clubs. Their Influence for Good

The Propeller · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

In three years juvenile crime has been almost halved in the areas in which Police-Citizens Boys' Clubs have been established. About 7,000…

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Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before Mr. Justice Edwards.) Decress Absolute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 6

Decrees absolute were granted in the following cases:—Murray Cleveland Lavender v Elsie Bertha Lavender, Stanley Isaac Barksby v Elizabeth Ann…

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Australians Led Way Into Tobruk Cut Wire For Tanks And Charged Guns Gained Objectives Ahead of Time All Main Defences Fallen; Now Mopping-Up LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

Dramatic stories of Australian valor are coming out of Tobruk, which was entered by Australian troops to-day at mid-day, says a special communique front Cairo. A Reuter's correspondent, who entered Tobruk when the town was filled…

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Receipt Theft, Youth Gaoled

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 5

Colin Edward Coombes, 19, clerk, was sentenced to three months' at the Central Court to-day for having stolen receipts belonging to the…

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£500 Reward for Murder Arrest

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 5

HOBART, Thursday.--State Cabinet decided today-to offer £500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 9

WITNESS, angrily (to solicitor in Central Court): Don't you shout at me!…

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Police Move In Pyjama Girl Case

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 5

The legal argument for the body, of the "Pyjama Girl" advanced another stage yesterday, when the Commissioner of Police (Mr. MacKay) filed an…

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Four for Trial on Theft Charge. 70 m.p.h. Chase Alleged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

Frederick James Anderson, 26, machinist. Allied Gordon Brodie, 25, grocer, Dorothy Thompson, 23, domestic, and Graham Miles Thompson, 22, salesman,…

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Captain's Seventh Court Action Against Neighbor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 7

A bald sea captain yesterday proceeded against his neighbor for the seventh time, on a charge of insulting words. The captain, Percival George…

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Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before Mr. Justice Edwards.) TAYLOR v TAYLOR

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

Jack Stanley Taylor v Joyce Lorraine Taylor. His Honor granted a decree absolute to issue forthwith, with custody of child to the resp[?]…

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Police Wireless

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 2

The Police Department is about to install a new 300 watts radio telephone transmitter at the Bourfce-street headquarters for the purpose…

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Heard in Court

The World's News · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 15

Man: "I knew there was going to be a row when we got indoors, because when we got to the gate my wife said to the woman next door,…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 7

MAGISTRATE (in Central Court): Has this man any previous convictions?…

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Fowls and a Dog Without Food. Owners Fined Heavily. "Deserve Gaol," Says S.M.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 14

A man who neglected to feed fowls over the Christmas holidays and another who neglected to feed a dog were fined heavily by Mr. Arnold, S.M., at the Kogarah Police…

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Agent Assaulted. Two Women Convicted. Collapse in Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 15

Fay Mahoney, 39, and Esther Mahoney, 23, were convicted at Paddington Police Court yesterday on charges of having assaulted William Thomas Franklin, and his wife, Ettie…

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Supreme Court. (Before Mr. Justice Edwards.) Application for Bail

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 10

George Dempsey applied to be released on ball pending his trial at the Quarter Sessions on charges of breaking entering, and stealing. He is now in Long Bay…

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Law Report. Arbitration Court. (Before the Chief Judge, Sir George Beeby.) Ships Carrying Explosives: Variation Op Awards Sought

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 10

This is an application by the maritime unions generally for variation of awards to provide for an increase of a further 10 per cent, on the war bonus allowance…

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Joking Ghost Is Making Boy's Life a Misery a mysterious, unseen knocker has disrupted the home and school life of 11-year-old Loros Elledge. The phenomenon has persisted for six months, and doctors and police are still completely baffled

The World's News · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 5

THREE knocks, "louder than any human fist could make," haunt Loros anywhere, at any time, and in the presence of all…

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Gaol for Shocking Cruelty

Truth · Sunday 26 January 1941 · page 20

DOGS owned by James by Patrick Burke, of Rix's Creek, near Singleton, had to eat other dogs to keep alive…

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Court appeal for Easter holiday

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 January 1941 · page 6

Five unions will jointly approach the State Industrial Commission to have Easter Saturday, April 12, declared a public holiday…

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