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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Some Night Clubs Are "Dens." Police Would Close Seven. Wider Powers Wanted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 16

Police admit there is some justification for the complaints made at the united Australia Party convention that there are night clubs in Sydney which…

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£2400 theft alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 5

A Queensland miner last night told police that he had been robbed of £2400 by a girl in a house at Paddington…

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Cruelty to Koalas Charged

Truth · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 21

CONTROVERSY between the Koala Club of Australia, National Park Trust, and the Chief Secretary's Department…

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Scion Of Social Folk Goes to Court De Kantzow's Plea

Truth · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 17

"I'M AFRAID there's a good deal in this case I'm not being told," remarked Mr. Justice Bonney in the Divorce Court last week, granting Herbert Alfred de Kantzow, R.A.A.F. trainee, scion of the wealthy…

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Theft of 27 £100 Notes

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 2

Detectives are still seeking two girls who are believed to have stolen £2700 from a wealthy visitor from Queensland…

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Gaol Escapee Was Worried Bathurst

The Sun · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 3

Robert Joseph McKenna, 19, pleaded guilty at the Bathurst Police Court to-day to having escaped from Bathurst Gaol on Friday last. He was…

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Chase for Harbour "Pirates." Police Catch Five Boys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 5

With towels and bathing costumes wrapped round their heads five small "pirates" in a rowing boat were chased about the harbour in a police launch by…

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Murder of Chicago Editor. Offered Help to Nazis. CHICAGO, April 20. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 9

Police report having found among the papers of John Arena, newspaper editor, who was murdered by gunmen in Chicago last week, a copy of a letter Arena sent in 1939…

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Daw Report. Causes in No. 2 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Owen and a jury.) Tramway Employee's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 6

The Jury found in favour of the plaintiff in the action brought by Margaret Evans, of The Boulevard, Strathfield, against Thomas Joseph Hartigan and…

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Police Suspect Murder in Hut

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 2

Police suspect that Harry Henness, 65, invalid pensioner, whose body was found yesterday in a hut at an unemployed camp near Chullora, was…

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Cuts Penalty for Army Theft

The Sun · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 5

Judge Hill, in the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court to-day, condemned the pilfering of Army stores while the people "were struggling under a…

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Six Men Charged With Conspiracy

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 3

Allegations that six Sydney men had conducted "an ingenious series of swindles, by means of which £200,000 had been collected from the public,"…

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Victimised in Police, Man Says

The Sun · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 8

An ex-constable, giving evidence in the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court today, said that he had been…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 10

MR. S. ISAACS, barrister (in Central Criminal Court): Was that something you had forgotten?…

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U.S. Sailors Surrender to Police. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 10

Two missing American sailors, Seaman Albert F. Hudson, 18, and Yeoman Joseph E. Olsen, 21, for whom police have been searching for nearly three weeks, have surrendered to…

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As Police Pass, Wounded Man Staggers Into Street MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 5

As two constables were passing a house in Port Melbourne on Saturday, Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese laborer, staggered out of the front door, bleeding from wounds and seriously burned, and collapsed…

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Army Bread. Allegations by Inspector. Soldier Witnesses at Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 6

Allegations that Crown witnesses talked to counsel for the defence outside the Glebe Court on June 25, 1940, before the…

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Law Report. High Court. (Before the Acting Chief Justice, Sir George Rich, Mr. Justice Starke, Mr. Justice McTiernan, and Mr. Justice Williams.) Bankruptcy Court Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 4

Joseph Lionel Herbert v The King. This appeal was dismissed by the High Court. It was an appeal from a conviction…

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Charged with Murder by Causing Explosion London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 3

A Sydney youth is charged in London with murder and theft and with having maliciously caused an explosion with Army property. He is Raymond Howard Bury,…

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Audacious Theft

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 3

A particularly audacious theft was committed last week. Mr. F. Buckley, the Girraween postmaster and store-keeper, was the victim. Mr. Buckley…

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