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Courts & crime, 1941

6,510 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 250

Police Libel Case: Witness Tells Court of Four- Inquiries

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 5

Giving evidence for Inspector Keogh in a claim for damages against him for alleged libel at the Supreme Court, Sergeant…

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Liability of £49. Advertising Agent Sentenced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 6

In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Lukin, Benjamin Lewis Abrahams, advertising agent, of River Street, Bellevue Hill, was sentenced to…

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Magistrate's Son in A.i.f. Missing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 9

When Mr. Sheridan, S.M., was about to hear a case at Parramatta Court yesterday, to received word that his son, who is with the A.I.F. abroad, was missing…

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Search For Father In Triple Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 27

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Edith Webb (30), her son,Clarence (6), and daughter,Judith (seven months), were…

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Search For Father In Triple Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 27

NEW YORK, Tuesday-- Edith Webb (30), her son, Clarence (6), and daughter, Judith (seven months) were…

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Search For Father In Triple Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 27

NEW YORK, Tuesday.-- Edith Webb (30), her son,Clarence (6), and daughter,Judith (seven months), were…

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Police Allege Man Assaulted

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 4

Police alleged in Parramatta Court yesterday that after James Thomas Beade Doyle, 18, of Wallgrove Military Camp, had assaulted a man on…

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"Half Court Oaths, Perjury"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 5

"Fifty per cent, of all oaths taken in Sydney courts are perjuries. I have been told this on the highest authority," said…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 10

POLICE PROSECUTOR, Sergeant Moulden, to soldier (in Paddington Court): You just drove away to the country…

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Missing Man Reported Seen: New Police Hunt

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 7

Vanishing from Brooklyn, Hawkesbury River, an May 10, a man was seen at Manly the following day. Since then there has been no…

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State Jurisdiction. Supreme Court. Term List

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 4

In the Bonco Court.—At 10 a.m.—For judgment; Ex parte Gobbert, re Wilkes and another. CAUSES LIST. No. 1 Causes.—Notice to jurors: The jurors…

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Informant to Rivals. Bread Inquiry. Military Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 5

Giving evidence yesterday at the Royal Commission on Army bread contracts, Clarence Arthur White, a director of Gartrell…

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Supreme Court. Causes in No. [?] COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Owen and jury.) McMAHON v Commissioner for Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 4

Francis Bede McMahon, 48, manager for the Texas Oil Company on the South Coast and Mayor of North Illawarra, claimed substantial damages from the…

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Land Appeal Court. (Before Mr. Justice Roper.) Diversion of Macquarie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 4

Macquarie Alluvials, Ltd., appealed against a majority decision of the Land Court, sitting at Wellington, against an application by the company for diversion…

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Gaol For Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 9

FRANCIS JAMES SMITH (33), laborer, of Albion Street, City, was sentenced to three months hard labor at Central Police Court today for…

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Gaol For Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 9

FRANCIS JAMES SMITH (33), laborer, of Albion Street, City, was sentenced to three months' hard labor ah Central Police Court today for…

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Gaol For Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 9

FRANCIS JAMES SMITH (33), laborer, of Albion Street, City, was sentenced to three months' hard labor at Central Police Court today for…

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Gaol For Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 9

FRANCIS JAMES SMITH (33), laborer, of Albion Streets City, was sentenced to three months' hard labor at Central Police Court today for…

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Theft Hampers Defence Work

The Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 8

Stating that he viewed very seriously anything tending to hold up war work, Mr. Atkinson. S.M., at the Central Court to-day, sentenced…

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Fascists Murder U.S. Publisher

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 2

JOHN F. ARENA (top picture), publisher of La Tribuna, an anti-Fascist Italian newspaper in Chicago, U.S., was killed by two men on April 15. Police described his murderers as imported gangsters. Arena had given information, to the Dies Committee about the supposed activities of the…

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