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Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

Police Broke Up Sunday "School"

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 3

When a "heading-'em school" broke up in Little Riley-street at noon yesterday, on the approach of police, George Notaries, 64, grocer…

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Police Discount News Of Forbes

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 7

Sydney detectives discount a report that Woolcott Forbes, the missing Australian financier, has been seen in England wearing A.R.P. uniform…

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Alster Condemned Prize Court Action

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 2

During a recent sitting of British Law Courts, the Admiralty Division (in prize) condemned as lawful prize, the German steamer…

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Urges Court Order Before Rent Raised

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--"House owners should have to get permission from a court or a Federal authority before they can Increase rents," the…

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Clothing Found on Beach. Police Search for Boy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 9

Sergeant Hill And Constable Keenan searched the vicinity of the shark-proof enclosure at Coogee last niaht when a lad brought a bundle of clothing, which he had…

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Hospital Inmate Slashed. Police Overpower Man With Razor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 11

An inmate of Lidcombe State Hospital was badly slashed with a razor on Saturday[?] Several other people were threatened before [?] man alleged to have used the razor was…

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Woman's Body in Ravine. Blue Mountains Mystery. Police Suspicious

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 11

The body of an unidentified woman, wedged between a tree and a cleft of rock 40 feet beldw Khyber Pass, nine miles from Wentworth…

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Police Probe Mystery Of Missing Machine-guns New York

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 3

A case containing 10 sub-machine-guns consigned to Britain mysteriously disappeared from the closely guarded Cunard Shipping Company pier in New York. Sections of the case have been recovered from the Hudson…

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Apple and Pear Board. Growers Will Fight in High Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 11

The validity of the methods adopted by the Apple and Pear Board will be tested in the High Court. This announcement was made last night by…

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Police in Gun Fight. Four Men Wounded., Rifle and Pistol. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 9

In a shooting affray at Fitzroy ear this morning, three constables and civilian were wounded. The mele began after a wireless patrol…

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District Court. (Before Judge Hill and jury.) Claim Against A.J.C.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 5

Ruby Milicent Morse, school teacher, of Macleay Street, Potts Point, sued George Main, chairman of the committee, as the nominal defendant, and the…

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Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before Judge in Divorce, Mr. Justice Bonney.) COPPING v COPPING

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 5

Stanley Charles Copping v Edith Copping (formerly Bell). Marriage, June, 1934, at Glebe, Church of England rites. Issue, desertion. Petition dismissed…

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Theft in Cathedral As Constable Looked on

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 6

A man who look an old woman's handhag while sitting next to her in St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday night was arrested as he left the building. Constable O'Donnell had…

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Police Raid Hotel Bars

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 7

Simultaneous raids on three big city hotels on January 24 brought to the Licensing Court yesterday 23 people charged…

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Police Check Army Boots

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 3

Detectives and Commonwealth inspectors to-day continued the examination of thousands of pairs of military boots at Sydney Army Ordnance…

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Police Seize Boots And Soles

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 1

Police yesterday seized a number of military boots, the feather of which, it is alleged, had been condemned by Commonwealth examiners before they were made. The police also took…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 7

MR. SCOBIE, S.M. (at Newtown Court, to man charged with having stolen bottle of whisky from…

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Police Order Shocks Judge Wollongong

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Judge Nield expressed surprise over the latest instruction to the police regarding motor-drivers charged with…

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Police Raids on Big Hotels. Customers Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 8

Twenty-four men were fined by the Chief Licensing Magistrate, Mr. Laidlaw, yesterday as a result of police visits to Usher's, the Carlton, and…

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Coalfields Feud Aired In Court CESSNOCK

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 5

Another chapter of the longstanding feud between the Fishburns and the Reibels, of Cessnock, was disclosed in…

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