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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

7,258 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 250

Missing Bag of Mail Police Investigating

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1943 · page 4

A small bag containing late fee letters for Canberra disappeared in mysterious circumstances at Central Station at 10 o'clock on…

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Crowd Attacks Police Revolvers Drawn in Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1943 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Police drew pistols to quell a brawl in Johnston Street, Collingwood, yesterday afternoon…

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Father of Seven Kicked Wife, Abused Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 February 1943 · page 3

You deserve six months' gaol for knocking your wife down and said kicking her," said Mr. Bliss, S.M., at Paddington Court today…

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Errol Flynn Not Guilty Of Rape Court Crowd Cheers Actor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1943 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sunday.--Film star Errol Flynn was found not guilty yesterday of having raped Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee. When he heard the jury's verdict, he jumped from his chair…

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Soldiers On Theft Charge

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 3

GRAFTON, Tuesday.--Karl Max Bock (21), and George Francis Brudermann (19), two Allied Servicemen, were charged…

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Clues To Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Police Rave traced the movements of Francis John Phelan to within…

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Gaol For Five Petrol Plotters

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 3

"Regardless of the interests of your country, you devised and carried out an ingenious and…

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Put Boot In; Missed Gaol

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 2

Max Arndell Neppen, 21, soldier, was sentenced in the Glebe Court today to three months' imprisonment for having…

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Magistrate's Warning to "Jitneying" Taxi-driver

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 11

BRET PATRICK HALES, taxi-driver, 7 St. Minver Avenue, Cammeray, was warned by the magistrate at the Traffic Court today that he…

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Seven Years for Assault on Boy

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--"The offence of which you have been found guilty is one of extreme gravity and the maximum sentence…

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Six Months Gaol For City Tailor

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 3

Samuel Rosenwax, trading as City Tailors, George-street, Sydney, was today sentenced to six…

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Magistrate Won't Evict Mother of Soldier

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 2

"IN the circumstances--a widow partially dependent on her soldier son and the impossibility of obtaining another residence--I decline…

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Magistrate Won't Evict Mother of Soldier

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 2

"IN the circumstances--a widow partially dependent on her soldier son and the impossibility of obtaining another residence--I decline…

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Taxi-driver Seen Before Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Police have established that Francis John Phelan (32), taxi-driver, who was shot dead on Saturday night, was…

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Taxi-driver Seen Before Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Police have established that Francis John Phelan (32), taxi-driver, who was shot dead on Saturday night, was…

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Taxi-driver Seen Before Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Police have established that Francis John Phelan (32), taxi-driver, who was shot dead on Saturday night, was…

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Women Police As WAAF's "Sisters"

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Service policewomen of the WAAF's would act as unofficial "elder sisters" to service members who were confronted with minor problems in their…

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W.a.a.f. Police

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 8

Girls are being interviewed in Sydney by Flight-Officer Mitchell for admission to the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force as service…

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Hand for Police in Rummy Game

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 6

As a result of a police raid on a King's Cross flat where rummy was being played on November 26 nine well-dressed women, most of them middle-aged, and one man appeared in Central Summons Court today…

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Hand for Police in Rummy Game

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 February 1943 · page 6

As a result of a police raid on a King's Cross flat where rummy was being played on November 26 nine well-dressed women, most of them middle-aged, and one man appeared in Central Summons Court today…

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