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Courts & crime, 1941

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Police Exhibit May Earn £2000

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1941 · page 9

The New South Wales Police Museum at the Show Is expected to earn £2000 for the Police Boys' Club. The Police Commissioner (Mr. Men…

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"House Full" at Show Police Control Crowds

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1941 · page 9

The "House Full" sign was shown outside every stand at the Royal Empire Show yesterday…

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Law Report. Arbitration Court. (Before Judge O'Mara.) Electrical Trades

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 April 1941 · page 8

His Honor made an interim award for certain employees in the electrical trades section of the metal trades in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and…

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Causes in No. 2 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Harren and jury.) Verdict for Waterside Worker

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 April 1941 · page 8

Michael Joseph Ashkar, waterside [?]rker, of Morris Street, Summer Hill, ued the Australasian Steam Navigation co., Ltd., to recover damages for…

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Police seek pay increase

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 April 1941 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Many Victorian police may resign if they don't get pay increases…

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Butcher will dress formally for court

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 April 1941 · page 2

Alfred Lewis Shalvey, butcher, of Broadway, will wear his father's morning suit when he next appears in the Traffic Court. Mr. Bliss, S.M., ordered…

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Gun-crazed Killers Cause Riot in Court New York

Truth · Sunday 13 April 1941 · page 15

TWO gun-crazee killers who allegedly slew two men and wounded two others in a Fifth Avenue pun duel in January, caused…

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Police Forged Note Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 2

Race and Show officials and Sydney shopkeepers have been warned by the police to watch for counterfeit £5 notes. Detectives arrested a man in the city…

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Strike Meeting As Court Sits

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 7

While their, leaders are attending a compulsory conference before Mr. Justice Cantor tomorrow, Mortlake and Oyster Cove gasworkers will meet to…

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Taxi-man Stunned Assailant. Report to Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 9

William Deacon, taxi-driver, of Park Road, Auburn, reported to the police on Saturday night that when a man attacked him in his cab he retaliated…

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Balkans Battle Gains New Fury. Blitzkrieg Methods By Both Armies. Allies Await Main Assault. Germans Claim Belgrade Is Occupied. (From Our Own Correspondent and A.a.p.) London, April 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 7

The Battle of the Balkans has developed a new ferocity with both sides using fast-moving columns, supported by dive. bombers and fighters. Both German and Allied casualties ate believed to be…

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False Claim in References; 3 Months' Gaol

The Sun · Tuesday 15 April 1941 · page 3

Leslie William Harvey, 53, engineer, was sentenced to three months at Central Court to-day for having, at Lawson on December 9, 1940,…

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Police Practise Shooting Criminals

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 April 1941 · page 3

TOLEDO (O.), March 30.--Toledo policemen are developing keen marksmanship at a newly constructed pistol range at Bayview Park, near the mouth…

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Police Stop Games of Chance. Ban Later Removed. GOSFORD

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1941 · page 11

Police from Newcastle stopped several games of chance which were being played during a surf carnival held at Terrigal to-day, to raise money for the purchase of an Army…

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Girl, 17, Internally Injured By Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A girl, 17, was dragged to a vacant allotment at Flemington and criminally assaulted last night…

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Pickpocket Gets 12 MONTHS. Theft of an Envelope

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 5

Described as a very well-known pickpocket by the police, who said that he was also known for other offences in this and other States,…

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Not Working for Police

The Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 3

Appealing against a conviction and sentence of 14 days' hard labor for vagrancy, Vera Louise Helen Reichell (36) told Judge Hill, in the Quarter…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 10

WITNESS (in Coroner's Court): I saw the diseased come out from the hotel…

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Army Bread Inquiry. Two Anonymous Letters Read. Dictation in Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 6

Two anonymous letters relating to breaches of the statutory hours for baking, which had been addressed in the first instance to…

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Police Court

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 April 1941 · page 3

The following cases we re dealt with by Mr J. B. Scobie, P.M., at Penrith Police Court on Thursday; No Ticket…

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