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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

6,754 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Gaol Warders Have Turn In Cells

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Tuesday.--Eight traffic constables and 28 prison warders have been detained in Johannesburg under the National…

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Gaol Warders Have Turn In Cells

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Tuesday.--Eight traffic constables and 28 prison warders have been detained in Johannesburg under the National…

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Gaol Warders Have Turn In Cells

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Tuesday.--Eight traffic constables and 28 prison warders have been detained in Johannesburg under the National…

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Charged with Serious Offence Against Girl

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 3

PATRICK GEORGE COLE (53), laborer, was today charged at Central Court with having committed a serious offence against a girl…

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Man And Wife Charged With Starting Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 6

"Whoever did this thing seems to have been a bit of a novice. There was a loud and very dangerous explosion…

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Man And Wife Charged With Starling Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 6

"Whoever did this thing seems to have been a bit of a novice. There was a loud and very dangerous explosion,…

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Man And Wife Charged With Starting Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 6

"Whoever did this thing seems to have been a bit of a novice. There was a loud and very dangerous explosion,…

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Police Round-up Capetown

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 3

Eight traffic police and 29 prison warders have been detained in Johannesburg in a fresh round-up of police alleged…

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Spotter's Theft From City Shop

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 5

Police alleged at Central Court yesterday that when a voluntary roof-spotter went on duty on Monday night, he took his brother-in-law with him,…

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Ex-prisoner's Bouquet for Gaol Governor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 1

A man who had been discharged from Parramatta Gaol that morning called at this office last Friday to tell us what he…

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Granville News "Through Drink" Theft of Bicycle

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 3

Stealing a bicycle in Good Street, Granville, last October, Leslie Colin Hilton rode it homer repainted it, and made certain alteration to it. He used…

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Divorce Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 11

The following decrees nisi have been made by Mr. Justice Herron:— Walter James Monk v Cicely Lilian Monk; [?] May Burke v John Anthony Burke:…

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Police Seeking Youth Missing From Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 4

LLOYD STEVENS (16), of Wellington, New Zealand, after obtaining week-end leave from a ship on December 13,…

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Police Seeking Youth Missing From Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 3

LLOYD STEVENS (16), of Wellington, New Zealand, after obtaining week-end leave from a ship on December 13…

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Census Of Cattle By Special Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 5

Special police were sent to Kempsey on Saturday to take a census of cattle. A systematic survey is in…

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Police Seeking Youth Missing From Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 4

LLOYD STEVENS (16), of Wellington, New Zealand, after obtaining week-end leave from a ship on December 13,…

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Police Seeking Youth Missing From Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 4

LOYD STEVENS (16), of Wellington, New Zealand, after obtaining week-end leave from a ship on December 13…

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Police Seeking Youth Missing From Ship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 4

LLOYD STEVENS (16), of Wellington, New Zealand, after obtaining week-end leave from a ship on December 13,…

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Police Lucky To Escape In Gun Duel

The Sun · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 3

Robert Sidney Jones, escaped gunman, suicided after a vicious 60-second gun battle with police, the City Coroner, Mr. Oram, found to-day…

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Court Martial Demanded Pearl Harbour Finding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 9

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (A.A.P.).— A full Congressional investigation into the Pearl Harbour disaster was to-day demanded in Congress by members of…

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