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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

6,754 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Six Charged With Harboring Gunman

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 7

Four men and two women stood in Central Police Court today to answer charges of having harbored Robert Sidney Jones (36), notorious gaol-breaker who shot himself dead in a gun battle with the police in a house in Elswick Street…

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Posed As Navy Officer "Arch Scoundrel" Sentenced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 15

Described by Mr. Arnold, S.M., as "an arch scoundrel," Alan Ian Ward Hunt, 40, engineer, was sentenced to 12 months'…

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Protest by Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 13

The New South Wales Police Association decided yesterday to ask the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, to meet its executive…

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Police Defy Their Chief

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 6

The executive of the New South Wales Police Association yesterday defied an instruction of the Commissioner of Police (Mr. MacKay) forbidding…

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K.c. Questions Police Methods

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 5

The long time taken by police in questioning Coland Donald Pagett was a "very serious matter, and should be investigated," Mr. Hardwick, K.C. for…

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Police Say "Crock" Did Fifty

The Sun · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 3

Declaring that the car he was driving could not have done 50 miles an hour, as alleged by the police. William Berry, of…

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Poor Wages, Conditions, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 6

In an effort to clear up certain anomalies and to draw up a schedule for increased wages, members of the N.S.W. Police…

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Poor Wages, Conditions, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 3

In an effort to clear up certain anomalies and to draw up a schedule for increased wages, members of the N.S.W. Police…

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Poor Wages, Conditions, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 6

In an effort to clear up certain anomalies and to draw up a schedule for increased wages, members of the N.S.W. Police…

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Poor Wages, Conditions, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 6

In an effort to clear up certain anomalies and to draw up a schedule for increased wages, members of the N.S.W. Police…

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Police to Enforce Noisy Cycle Ban

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 5

WARNING that action would be taken against motor cyclists with noisy exhausts was issued today by the Minister for Transport…

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Police to Enforce Noisy Cycle Ban

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 5

WARNING that action would be taken against motor cyclists with noisy exhausts was issued today by the Minister for Transport…

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Criminal Shot Dead Gun Battle With Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 11

Robert Sidney Jones, 36, who escaped from Maitland Gaol on November 7, 1940, was shot dead early to-day after a furious…

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Police Seek Friend of Critically-hurt Man

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 7

REGENT STREET police would like the man who took Bede Mc- Carney (29), of Arundel Street, Forest Lodge, to Royal Prince Alfred on Monday, December 29, to…

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Rumanian Found Drowned Police Save Body From Shark

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 15

Christo Joanades, 44, a Rumanian, either fell or jumped from the rocks into the sea at Clovelly yesterday, and was…

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News and Notes of 2Gb a Court Room Drama

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 8

Stage history was made some years back by the production of "The Trial of Mary Dugan". This realistic drama of the court room created, as few…

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Gunman Escapee Suicides After Fierce Battle Cornered By Police At Birthday Party; Long Manhunt Ends

The Sun · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 3

True to his oft-repeated vow that he would never be captured alive, Robert Sidney' Jones, 36, desperate gunman and gaol escapee, died by his own hand early to-day, after a dramatic gun-battle with police…

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Alleged Assault by Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

THREE A.I.F. men, Francis Leslie Kelly (30), Edward Saunders (33), and James Carey (32), were committed for trial from Central…

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Alleged Assault by Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

THREE A.I.F. men, Francis Leslie Kelly (30), Edward Saunders (33), and James Carey (32), were committed for trial from Central…

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Colonel Cashiered For Payroll Theft

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.-- Colonel R. G. Henessy, D.S.O., M.C., has been cashiered by a court-martial in South Wales after the notorious "payrool…

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