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Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

Request for More Police Superintendent Visits Coun

The Biz · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1

Superintendent J. Qulnn, At headquarters, accompanied by Sergeant Turnhull [?], and Sgt, Burton (l[?]verpool), attended Fairfield Council meetttig…

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Ill-treatment of Children Cases to Be Heard in Open Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4

The State Cabinet has decided that cases in which persons are charged with violence to children should oe heard in open court…

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Kogarah Police Court. Thursday, 18/1/44. (Mr. Goldle, S.M.)

The St George Call · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2

DRIVING UNDER INFLUENCE. Ernest John Peterson, Como resident, had been taken Into custody by Constable Evans on a charge of driving his…

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Chinaman in Court Arouses Sympathy

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Peter Sing, Chinese fruiterer, of Balgowlah, found sympathy, understanding and justice tempered with mercy at Manly Court yesterday. FIRST Mrs. Elsie Orem and Mrs…

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Open Court for Cruelty Cases

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 5

ELABORATING today on the Premier's announcement that the law is to be amended to provide to the hearing in open court of charges…

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Chinaman in Court Arouses Sympathy

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Peter Sing, Chinese fruiterer, of Balgowlah, found sympathy, understanding and justice tempered with mercy at Manly Court yesterday. FIRST Mrs. Elsie Orem and Mrs…

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Chinaman in Court Arouses Sympathy

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Peter Sing, Chinese fruiterer, of Balgowlah, found sympathy, understanding and justice tempered with mercy at Manly Court yesterday. FIRST Mrs. Elsie Orem and Mrs…

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Open Court for Cruelty Cases

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 5

ELABORATING today on the Premier's announcement that the law is to be amended to provide for the hearing in open court of charges…

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Chinaman in Court Arouses Sympathy

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Peter Sing, Chinese fruiterer, of Balgowlah, found sympathy, understanding and justice tempered with mercy at, Manly Court yesterday. FIRST Mrs. Elsie Orem and Mrs…

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Chinaman in Court Arouses Sympathy

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Peter Sing, Chinese fruiterer, of Baigowlah, found sympathy, understanding and justice tempered with mercy at Manly Court yesterday. FIRST Mrs. Elsie Orem and Mrs…

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Court Ban On Hotel Licensee

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Representation should be made to the A.J.C. to prevent hotelkeepers obtaining bookmakers' licences, Mr. Scobie, S.M., said yesterday at the Licensing Court. "An hotelkeeper's job is a…

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Open Court for Cruelty Cases

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 5

ELABORATING today on the Premier's announcement that the law is to be amended to provide to the hearing in open court of charges…

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Murder Overdue

The World's News · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 10

IT was the sort of morning that you dream about; so warm and still that the thoughts of war—and murder — seemed incredibly far…

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Death, Ruin, in Wake of Pacific Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 3

WOUNDED JAPANESE receiving blood plasma injection, given by U.S. medical officers after the capture of Tarawa (Gilbert Islands).--U.S. Marine Corps picture. U.S. SOLDIERS search for snipers who shot dead two of…

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Court Costs of £10,000 Woman Wins Case Against Doctor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 11

Total costs of an action by Mrs. Stella Hocking, of Quirindi, against Dr. George Bell, of Macquarie Street, amount to about…

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Move to Prevent Tie-up of Trams, Buses Meeting Tuesday Called By Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 7

Compulsory conferences to discuss threatened hold-ups of New South Wales transport will be held on Tuesday. Other developments yesterday in industrial…

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American Soldier on Murder Charge

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1944 · page 14

HIS nose covered in plaster, some of which also adorned his left temple, with the right side of his face and his neck badly swollen and discolored, an American soldier, Fontaine B. Williams (26), was in the police court dock during the week…

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Magistrate Says Husband Fled From Wife To Avoid Quarrel

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1944 · page 10

WILLIAM HOOPER is a man of direct action, who, in the heat of the brawl, will take on all-comers, according to the story his wife told against him at Paddington Court last Tuesday. Wife Alice Gertrude's…

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Boy Alleged To Have Made Plot To Murder Whole Family

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1944 · page 28

AN amazing plan— involving the murder of three people — which a youth of 15 allegedly endeavored to put into effect in an attempt to secure a…

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Acquitted by Court Martial Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1944 · page 5

A district court-martial today found Sgt. W. A. Blake not guilty on a charge of having, at Warwick detention barracks,…

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