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Courts & crime, 1942

6,754 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Italian Charged With Attack On Woman

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 2

Frank Raganezi, Italian market gardener, was charged at Parramatta Court today with having attacked Rita Agnes Shaw, wife of a Water Board inspector, causing her grievous harm…

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Police Promised Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 10

"No doubt, the police have some reasons for complaint, and I will see that an improvement is made," said the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley,…

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Bare "Comforts" for Police

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 4

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) examines the straw mattress supplied to the police reserves billeted in a disused garage at North Sydney. The men say they do not rest well on the straw. Some throw the maitresses off the…

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Silence In Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 7

CONSTABLE LANE, police prosecutor (to defendant in Central Court). Was the taxi-driver angry? Defendant: Angry? If I had been…

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Wanted to Give Good Wedding Present Reason for Stealing Salad Bowl

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 1

So that she could give as good a wedding present as that given by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Isabella Mary Roweles (28) stole…

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Chief Secretary Sees Police Posts

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 5

CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. Baddeley) inspecting bedding and living facilities for members of…

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Police Can't Rest on Palliasses

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 4

Two lines of feet, complete with toes of assorted shapes, greeted the Chief Secretary (Mr…

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Gypsy Woman Got Haul, Police Told

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 3

Fortune-telling proved costly for an Auburn business woman last week. After a visit by a young…

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Police Seek Owner of Gold Wrist Watch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 4

DETECTIVE SINCLAIR, of Darlinghurst has recovered a man's gold wrist watch inscribed "To John from Laura" and a blue-grey coat…

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Police Seek Owner of Gold Wrist Watch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 5

DETECTIVE SINCLAIR, of Darlinghurst has recovered a man's gold wrist watch inscribed "To John from Laura" and a blue-grey coat…

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Police Seek Owner of Gold Wrist Watch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 4

DETECTIVE SINCLAIR, of Darlinghurst has recovered a man's gold wrist watch inscribed "To John from Laura" and a blue grey coat…

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Police Seek Owner of Gold Wrist Watch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 4

DETECTIVE SINCLAIR, of Darlinghurst has recovered a man's gold wrist watch inscribed "To John from Laura" and a blue-grey coat…

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Police Called in to Quell Riots Industrial School Girls "Play Up"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 1

Twice within the last three weeks police have been called in to quell riots in the Girls' Industrial School at Parramatta…

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Take Over Airplane Plant, Strikers Ask Seek Govt. Control As Court Advice Rejected

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 4

Strikers at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory have telegraphed the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, and Minister for Aircraft Production, Senator Cameron, asking the Government to take over the factory and run it…

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Assault on Child Alleged

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 7

Norman Macryannis. 36, cellarman, of Campsie Hotel, was charged before Mr. Hawkins, S.M., in Campsie Court to-day…

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Betty Grable's Murder Hunt

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 6

WE are to have Betty Grable as leading lady in what 20th Century Fox chiefs describe as a "thrilling, spine-freezing…

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Police Station for Fairfield?

The Biz · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 3

Although no official information has been released yet, it is widely circulated through the district that the police station now stationed at Smithfield will be…

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Lover of Poetry Shocked Police

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 7

"I AM a lover of poetry and philosophy and a descendant of the first Australian poet and am incapable of using those terrible words."…

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Lover of Poetry Shocked Police

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 7

"I AM a lover of poetry and philosophy and a descendant of the first Australian poet and am incapable of using those terrible words."…

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City Police Build Air Raid Shelter

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 7

DESCRIBED BY BUILDING AUTHORITIES as one of the best of its kind in Sydney, an air raid shelter capable of holding 500 people in an emergency is nearing completion at police headquarters. Building is being supervised by Inspector Norman James, Chief…

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