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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

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

Colonel Cashiered For Payroll Theft

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 7

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

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Colonel Cashiered For Payroll Theft

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 7

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

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Threats, Assault at Gunman's Funeral

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

MENACED by several of the mourners who attended, Press photographers were prevented from taking pictures of the funeral today of…

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Threats, Assault at Gunman's Funeral

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

MENACED by several of the mourners who attended, Press photographers were prevented from taking pictures of the funeral today of…

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Threats, Assault at Gunman's Funeral

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

MENACED by several of the mourners who attended, Press photographers were prevented from taking pictures of the funeral today of…

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Gaol Sentence for Assaulting Soldier

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 4

"ALL-- in uniform should be thrown into the harbor," Patrick Gorman (54) allegedly said to a member of the A.I.F. just before he assaulted…

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Gaol Sentence for Assaulting Soldier

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 4

"ALL-- in uniform should be thrown into the harbor," Patrick Gorman (54) allegedly said to a member of the A.I.F. just before he assaulted…

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Gaol Sentence for Assaulting Soldier

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 4

"ALL-- in uniform should be thrown into the harbor," Patrick Gorman (54) allegedly said to a member of the A.I.F. just before he assaulted…

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Boy Charged, Fire in School

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A 15-year-old boy was charged with arson today following a fire in the Kangaroo Point School…

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Assault at Hospital. Inmate Fined £5

The Biz · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 3

Henry Oakley pleaded guilty, at Llverpool Police Court on December 29, to having assaulted John Harrington, an attendant of Ltverpool state Hospital…

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Assault at Hotel Two Men Fined

The Biz · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 5

Alexander Anderson and Joseph P Shann appeared at Liverpool Police Court on Monday, charged with having assaulted Gavino Pircuda at the hotel at…

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Gaol for Britain's First Conchie Girl

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.-- Britain's first woman conscientious objector has been imprisoned. The girl refused to pay a fine for…

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Gaol for Britain's First Conchie Girl

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.-- Britain's first woman conscientious objector has been imprisoned. The girl refused to pay a fine for…

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Nine Months' Gaol. Stole Lady's Handbag

The Biz · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 3

At Liverpool Police Court on December 29, Harold Reginald Shaw was charged with having stolen'a lady's handbag, containing £4/2/- and rosary beads, of a…

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Man to Stand Murder Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 5

Conald Donald Pagett, 47, linesman, of Epping, was committed for trial yesterday by the City Coroner (Mr. Oram) on a charge of having murdered Mrs…

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Police Withdraw Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 6

Stephen Lanstell, 37, labourer, who had been charged with having feloniously wounded Joseph Manning with intent to murder him, was discharged…

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Silence In Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 7

WITNESS (in Divorce Court): My husband said it was very miserable in the country, as it had been raining for two months…

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Rarities In Divorce Court

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 2

Among petitions dismissed by Mr. Justice Edwards in the Divorce Court yesterday, was one in which…

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Pagett for Trial Murder Finding in A.P.C. Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 7

Conald Donald Pagett, 47, of Epping, was committed for trial yesterday on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Vera Doris Watt,…

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Harbouring Charges Four Men and Two Women in Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 11

Bruce Anthony Cairo Donniston, salesman, 26; Arthur Crowe, labourer, 27; Edward Grace, labourer, 27; Phillip Douglas…

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