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Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250

Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Barton.) (Mr. M. C. Moors, Crown Prosecutor.) Labourer Sentenced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 7

Frederick Herbert Collins. 20, labourer, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment on five charges of housebreaking. Judge Barton said that as Collins had not…

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Mystery Of The Week Murder by booby trap Storm in a Village. By Jocelyn Playfair. London: Hodder and Stoughton

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 4

BOOBY-TRAP murders are regrettably rare in modern detective mystery literature…

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Doctor, Barman on Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 March 1941 · page 5

On charges of having murdered a woman, a Macquarie Street doctor and a barman were yesterday remanded at Central Police Court…

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Driven Off Court

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1941 · page 36

Since the early days of Vivian McGrath's appearance in big tennis two-handed experts have cropped up all over Sydney, but none shows more promise than 15-year-old Ian Cathells, who yesterday hit his opponents off the court in…

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"It's Murder," He Said Hollywood (California)

Truth · Sunday 2 March 1941 · page 15

A HAGGARD young man walked steadily into the Glendale police station. He halfdragged an unwilling' girl with…

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Call police to find house

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 March 1941 · page 5

DUBBO, Saturday.--Dubbo detectives were called on yesterday to find a missing three-roomed cottage. The cottage had disappeared from…

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Judge Critical of Police Instruction to Officers

Truth · Sunday 2 March 1941 · page 18

NEVER GIVE a civilian an even break! That appears to be the policy of the Police High Command. The latest revelation of this abominable policy occurred at Wollongong Quarter Sessions last week. It was announced that an…

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Camp Bus Service Court Story Of Bribe To An Officer

Truth · Sunday 2 March 1941 · page 10

ALLEGATIONS that a military transport officer had accepted a bribe of £30, collected from various business people in Liverpool, to restore a bus service from…

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To Evade Censorship Seaman Charged

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 2

Decision was reserved by Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates' Court, Wellington, N.Z., in a case in which rederick Noel Barker…

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Alleged Assault on Girl in Park

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--While crossing Burwood Park on her way to a dance last night an 18-year-old girl is alleged to have been criminally…

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Police Hurt In Brawl

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 2

Two policemen were injured in a street brawl at the Broadway last night. They are Constables White and…

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Yugoslav Court Is Obliged to Us

The Sun · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 3

A request from the District Court of Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, that the "Court of Sidney" hear the evidence of a Yugoslav, living in "Sidney, Marikville," was given effect to by the Prothonotary (Mr. W. H. Hazelton) to-day…

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Police Aid Boys' Club. Carnival at North Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 6

On the North Sydney Oval on Saturday afternoon more than 6,000 people watched a spectacular display by police and members of police boys' clubs, given in aid of…

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Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Studdert.) Mr. R. R. Kidston, Crown Prosecutor. Sentenced for Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 5

John Williams, 26, wharf labourer, was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment with hard labour, on a charge of having assaulted and robbed Douglas William…

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Escapee Sentenced to Two Years' Jail

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 2

William Burney, 24, pleaded guilty yesterday at Quarter Sessions to having escaped from Maitland Jail on November 7…

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Court Gallant

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 9

"NEXT TIME we meet I hope it will be under different circumstances," said Mrs. Margaret Fielding-Jones, prominent Sydney society woman, with a laugh to Constable Claude Plummer outside the Traffic Court yesterday. She…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 10

ACCUSED (in Central Court): I hit him on the spur of the moment. Witness: That's a lie. He…

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Inquiry at Police Station Led to Jail

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 9

Thelma Barton, 25, domestic, was headed for jail, though she did not know it, when she walked into Central Police Station to inquire about a friend. That was on the night of…

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Police Sergeants Jest Takes Serious Turn Orange

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 5

At 1.30 o'clock on the morning of February 14, Constable Hughes told Orange Court today, he and Sergeant Canning saw Hughie Raymond Olliver opening a shed belonging to the Orange Rightway…

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