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Courts & crime, 1943

7,258 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250

Petrol Tickets Sold with Car. Say Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 3

THEY are partners in a car sales department, and there is no doubt that when they sell cars they supply petrol ration tickets." said…

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Protection to Police Force Offered, Says Commissioner

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 3

Replying to the statement of the Director-General of Manpower (Mr. Wurth) that the Commissioner of Police (Mr. MacKay) had asked that the police force be declared d protected industry, Mr. MacKay said yesterday that protection had been offered to him before he made his written application…

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Police Chiefs Stand "No Interference" by Man-power

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 8

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. MacKay, said yesterday that he could not allow any authority to interfere with the discipline…

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The Benevolent Burglary Complete Short Story

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 1

The Saint, one of the most remarkable characters in modern fiction, the "Robin Hood" who rights wrongs and disposes "justice" by methods all his own, makes his first appearance in "The Sunday Sun" in this…

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Alleged Theft of Army Petrol

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 18

DETECTIVES from Parramatta and Granville yesterday arrested two men who are alleged to have been receiving large quantities of petrol…

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Airman on Charge of Murder

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Arrested at an Air Force station in N.S.W., where he was cook at the officers' mess,…

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Airman arrested on murder charge

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- Kevin Evans, 21, airman from an R.A.A.F. camp in New South Wales, was charged with murder at the City Watch House late today…

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Dispute on police manpower

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 4

Deputy - Director of Manpower Bellemore and Police Commissioner MacKay yesterday made…

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Manorial Murder (A Dr. Fordney Minute Mystery)

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 20

Problem from the casebook of Dr. Fordney, criminologist. It takes ONE MINUTE to read, and every fact and the ONE, SINGLE clue leading to the one possible solution are here: --…

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Gaol Togs For Birthday Suit: Benzedrine-Taking Movie Star's Big Day

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 22

Move actress Frances Farmer certainly crowded 24 hours of inglorious strife into her Hollywood day, culminating in a sentence which will confine her…

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Bellemore Criticises Police Chief MacKay

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 7

Police Commissioner MacKay's challenging of National Security Regulations affecting his…

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Police Seeking Soldier After Attack on Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- A girl aged 19, alleged to have been attacked by an Allied soldier, was found wandering in an hysterical condition near Exhibition Gardens, Carlton, at 1.30 a.m. today…

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Eight Killed In Carolina Feud Over Calf Murder New York

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 1

WHEN Dave Timmerman's mule kicked Wallace Logue's calf to death back in 1940 it started a feud that killed eight people. Three of them, one was plump…

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Court told a of giggles of party

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 24

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. -- A blonde singer said at the Errol Flynn trial yesterday that she heard a…

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"Indian Love Calls" Echo In Divorce Court Tale of Writer Who Wandered

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 20

IT all happened in the land of curry and rice ...curry so hot that the uninitiated jib at swallowing it, but no hotter than the amours of a much-travelled Australian journalist,…

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M.P.s Break Up Reunion Bashed With Batons, Court-Martial Told

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1943 · page 14

ALLEGATIONS that they were kicked, punched, hit with batons and otherwise maltreated in Gestapo style by military police, were made by three brothers, all members of the fighting forces, at a court-martial at Victoria Barracks during the week. The disclosures were made by Staff-Sgt. Rex Rowell, A.I.F., and L.A.C. John Rowell, R.A.A.F., who gave evidence at the trial…

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Girls Charged With Vagrancy

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 2

At Central Court today, six girls aged 19 to 25 were charged with vagrancy. Five were allowed bail at £5 and remanded…

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Girls Charged With Vagrancy

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 2

At Central Court today, six girls aged 19 to 25 were charged with vagrancy. Five were allowed bail at £5 and remanded…

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Girls Charged With Vagrancy

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 2

At Central Court today, six girls aged 19 to 25 were charged, with vagrancy. Five were allowed bail at £5 and remanded…

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Control of Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 4

The Man-power authorities have overstepped all proper bounds in their intervention into the affairs of the State, police…

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