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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 250

Causes in No. 2 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Herron and juries.) Verdict for £250

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 3

A verdict for the plaintiff for £250 was given in the action by Robert Gotnall, who sued Melville Challes Nott Under-Secrctary of the Department of…

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Axe Death Charged As Murder Newcastle

The Sun · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 3

Roger Gordon Trimmer, 25, laborer, charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at the Newcastle Police…

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4000 Extra Police

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 10

Four thousand auxiliary police have been recruited and trained in New South Wales…

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Warsaw Jewish Police Force

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 9

LONDON, Jan. 18th. The special Jew ish Police Force which has been formed in the Warsaw Ghetto under Nazi super vision is 1,000 strong, says the “Jewish…

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The Court Silence in

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 11

POLICE Prosecutor (to witness, in Campsie Court): Did your brother sleep very well after he took the mixture?…

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Dock Case; Holt in Court

The Sun · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 5

Giving evidence in the Cockatoo Dock cranedrivers' case at the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, the…

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State House. Reserve Police Force. Labour Criticism

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 10

The creation of a reserve police force to be used in emergency is proposed in the Police Reserve Bill which was before the Legislative Assembly…

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Many Police on Duty. Reservists Help. Constable Loses Pistol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 11

To control the crowds 700 police in uniform and plain clothes from the depot and suburban stations were on duty in the city. They were helped…

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Central Criminal Court. (Before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Mr. T. S. Crawford, Crown Prosecutor. Capital Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 4

August Otto Seidel, 30, a leading seaman in the Royal Australian Navy, was found not guilty of a charge of rape on Mrs. Gloria Alice Curran on January 1,…

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Charged With Axe-Murder NEWCASTLE

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 2

Roger Gordon Trimmer, 25, laborer, was charged at Newcastle Police Court today with having murdered his wife,…

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Acquitted Of Stealing Liquor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 7

Albert Ronald Brown, 26, taxi-driver, was acquitted yesterday of having stolen 260 bottles of whisky, 38 of gin, and two of beer, from the home of Mrs…

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Murder Charge. Woman Found Dead. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 17

Police found Mrs. Frances Trimmer, 20, dead in bed at a house in Chinchen Street, Islington, at 4 a.m. to-day. Her head had been battered…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 9

CONSTABLE (in Traffic Court): Is the defendant in Court? Mr. Falkingham,…

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Sydney Says the Patriots in Bathurst Gaol Toast of the WEEK

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 10

DINKUM FELLOW-AUSTRALIANS, --In Bathurst Gaol, N.S.W., we may not broach a keg; but let us drink deep from tea-cups, to those…

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Court to Decide on Bus Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.).--The Manhattan bus strike will be submitted to arbitration and the buses will operate on Saturday, the Mayor of New York…

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Court Intervenes in Railway Dispute. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 15

The threatened dislocation of South Australian railway services has been temporarily averted by the intervention of the Federal Arbitration Court…

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Supreme Court. Causes in No. 1 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Owen and jury.) Verdict for £1750

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 9

The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £1750 in the action by Richard George Freeman against Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. Pty., Ltd., to recover…

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U.s. Navy and N.s.w. Police Still Strangers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 5

Although hundreds of visiting American sailors again roamed the city streets yesterday, none found themselves in trouble with our police. To assist any visiting sailors…

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Mystery of the Week Hints On Disguising Murder the Man in the Moonlight. By Helen McCloy. London: Hamish. Hamilton

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 6

IT will be generally agreed, I make no doubt, that the earnest young murderer's greatest…

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Law Report. Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before Judge Piper.) Volunteer Marine Employees. Union Seeks Preference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 9

The Marine Cooks, Bakers, and Butchers' Union of Australasia applied to the Court for a variation of the award to provide for preference of employment…

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