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Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Police Raid Witnesses' Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday. -- Plainclothes and uniform police conducted simultaneous raids late this afternoon on the homes of Jehovah's…

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Dragged After Car: Murder Allegation Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 5

Native witnesses alleged in Alice Springs Court today that two white men had tied a native to the back of their car with wire and dragged him until he died. The white men, Herbert James…

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Atrocity Murder Alleged. Aboriginal Victim. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 9

Herber James Kitto, owner of Mount Cavanagh Station, Northen Territory, and Patrick De[?]onlay, overseer of his South Australian property at Sundown Well appeared…

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Big Police Crew in Eights

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 40

Averaging 13st. 41b., the Police crew will have a big weight advantage over its opponents in the open eights at…

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Police Abandon Search for Man

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 1

Police have given up hope of finding alive Henry Joseph Chapman, 63, tick inspector, who has been missing in dense scrub near Nimbin since…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 14

WITNESS (at Central Court): I heard a loud puffing sound. Three minutes later a policeman…

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Ex-policemen Face Court Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 18

Two former members of the Victorian Police Force appeared at the City Court to-day on a total of 17 charges of larceny. One was also…

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Jehovah's Witnesses. Police Raids in Western Towns. BATHURST

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 9

Police in several western towns have seized large quantities of literature and gramophone records belonging to Jehovah s Witnesses…

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Wait for Arbitration Court Delays in Award Irk Unions

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 5

"There is a lot of palaver from Federal Ministers about speeding up the arbitration machinery but whenever I…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 6

The following decrees were made absolute: Sylvia May Bradburne v Walter Thomas Bradburne; Gladuys Ann McCullagh (falsely called Gladys Ann…

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Law Report. Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before the Chief Judge, Sir George Beeby.) Carriage of Explosives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 6

The hearing was continued of an application by maritime unions for a variation of maritime awards to provide wage increases additional to those already…

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"Technical Assault" Provoked, Court Finds

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 7

A woman alleged in Campsie Court yesterday that an Italian woman had spat in her face and shouted "Heil Hitler." The woman, Mrs. Doris Marion…

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Two Men Charged with Murder. Aboriginal's Death. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 9

The coroner at Alice Springs, Mr. V. G. Carrington, found to-day that Herbert James Kitto, pastoralist and Patrick Deconlay murdered the aboriginal Lullikicki or "Lolly…

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Two on Native Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- Herbert James Kitto, owner of Mt. Kavanagh Station, Northern Territory, and Patrick D. Conlay, overseer of Kitto's…

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"Murder Inc." Victim Feared New York

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 2

Men working a steam-shovel on the bank of the Passaic River, at Lyndhurst. New Jersey, uncovered a graveyard, in which, it is alleged, one and…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 9

WITNESS (in Central Court): On the Sunday my pal said he couldn't come out because he didn't…

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Industrial Disputes Court Not Yet in Top Gear' Canberra

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1941 · page 5

"Obviously the arbitration machinery is not yet in top gear," said the Deputy Leader of the…

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Brother Charged Nyah West

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1941 · page 7

The grim circumstances of the killing of Violet Woodier, 13, in a lonely deserted farmhouse in the Mallee were…

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Restore Nutriment to White Bread -- Gluten Stealing Must Stop

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 February 1941 · page 5

HIGH incidence of malnutrition in industrial suburbs throughout Australia is caused to a large extent by the fact that the major item of food in such areas--white bread-- contains almost no nutriment. NUTRIMENT is stolen from…

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Police Warn of Tricksters

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1941 · page 7

Police warn housewives against three tricksters who are operating in the city and suburbs. One man has been offering to include…

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