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Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 250

Bath Salts Case. Full Court's View. No Warning Necessary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 17

In a judgment delivered in the Full Court yesterday, the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, held that persons who supply foodstuffs and articles of…

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District Court. (Before Judge Holt and jury.) Verdict for £157

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 9

The jury gave a verdict of £157/0/6 to Miss Edith Crew, of Station Street, Newtown, who sued Mrs. R. A. MacGregor, of Coorawong Road, Mosman, to…

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Causes in No. 3 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Owen and a jury.) Claim Against Doctor Fails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 9

The jury returned a verdict for the defendant in the case in which Walter James Murray, carrier, of Tarcutta, sued Dr. N. F. Benjamin, of Wagga, for…

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Boy, 17, charged with manslaughter

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 6

A 17-year-old boy was charged in Central Police Court yesterday with manslaughter and negligent driving. Police allege that the boy, Edward…

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Man Charged As Spy In Indies BATAVIA

The Sun · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 1

"Mr. A.B." was arrested by a Batavian Intelligence officer and charged with espionage on behalf of the enemy…

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Defeatist Papers Puzzle Police

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Police say that Maurice Stanley de Saxe, 49, is distributing defeatist literature from Royal Park Mental Receiving Hospital…

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Murder Alleged; Semi-nude Woman Found Dying

Truth · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 17

ALLEGED to have murdered Marjory Livingston Horton, 49-years-old wife of Captain Mervyn Wilmot Horton, of The Terrace, Wellington, Leonard Neiling, 29, laborer and brushmaker, was charged in the…

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Is It Murder? Body Found Dubbo

Truth · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 16

IT is feared that an A.I.F. corporal, whose body was recovered from the Macquarie River this afternoon, may have…

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Engineering Unions Disagree; Dispute May Go To Court

The Sun · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 5

"THE Federal Council of the Australasian Society of Engineers intends to hold a special meeting to consider…

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Big City Hotels Charged

The Sun · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 3

Charged with breaches of the Liquor Act, the licensees of three large city hotels were ordered to-day to enter into…

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Members of Sect for Gaol

The Sun · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 3

The appeals of four members of the now illegal Jehovah's Witnesses against it sentence of six months…

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Soldier Charged. False Medical History Alleged. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 6

The first case of its kind to be heard in Western Australia came up in Perth Police Court yesterday, when Patrick John Dillon Craig, a soldier, was charged…

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Police Believe Soldier Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 7

DUBBO, Sunday.--Police believe that Corporal William Henry Marcroft, 24, of Gunnedah, whose body was found in the Macquarie River, three miles from…

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Said Police 'Framed' Him

The Sun · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 2

"Why should police go to all the trouble of actually 'planting' evidence on an accused in a police cell if they were conspiring to bring a…

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Attended Court with Bibles

The Sun · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 3

Two young men who refused to take the oath of enlistment were sentenced by Mr. Hardwick, S.M., at Parramatta Court to-day, to six…

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Woman's Throat Gashed. Police Told of Quarrel in Flat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 10

Bessie Pa[?]ling, 36, a dressmaker, of West Street, North Sydney, was admitted to the Mater Mise[?]cordlae Hospital last night with a severe gash in her throat…

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Escape From Lock-up. Police Hunt for Man at Quirindi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 9

A man whose fingerprints were being taken at Quirindi police station yesterday, broke away from a constable and escaped…

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Coercion to Join Union Alleged. A.S.E. May Go to Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 11

Officials of the Australasian Society of Engineers announced in the weekend that a special meeting of the union would be held soon to decide whether…

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Sentenced for Shop Theft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 5

Arthur Walker, 33, pensioner, who had pleaded not guilty yesterday in the Central Police Court, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr…

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Theft of Army Sheets. N.C.O. Sentenced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 5

Allan Clifford Desreaux. 29. taxi-driver, who pleaded guilty to the theft of 60 single-bed sheets, valued at £12/5/, the property of the Commonwealth, of…

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