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Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

Police Prepare Cases Against City Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 7

Police have prepared at least 30 cases against publicans for having failed to keep bar doors open between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. These cases are in addition to…

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Man Found Dead In Police Cell

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2

A man who was arrested on a charge of drunkenness at 4 a.m. yesterday was found dead in a cell at Darlinghurst…

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Man Found Dead In Police Cell

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2

A man who was arrested on a charge of drunkenness at 4 a.m. yesterday was found dead in a cell at Darlinghurst…

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German Suicides After Questioning by Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 6

PHILADELPHIA, Monday.--A week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Gustav Spahn, a German, about his "suspicious…

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German Suicides After Questioning by Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 6

PHILADELPHIA, Monday.--A week A after the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Gustav Spahn, a German, about his "suspicious…

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Body Near Line Ends Police Hunt

The Sun · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 3

Searching for a man alleged to have slashed his wrists in King-street city, early yesterday…

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Police Take Names of Hotel Drinkers Eleven Arrested In Street After Raid

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 7

Police yesterday resided a hotel in Camden and took the names of people drinking in a bar. Ten men and a women were later arrested in the street…

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Fireman Gaoled for Theft

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 2

RICHARD CROOK (46), fireman, was sentenced at Central Court today to three months' gaol for stealing seven tins of whitebait from the…

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Vickie Given Gaol Teaser

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Strip teaser Vickie Welles has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of…

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Vickie Given Gaol Teaser

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Strip teaser Vickie Welles has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of…

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50 Hotel Keepers Charged

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 7

More than 50 prosecutions of hotelkeepers for not opening between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. in accordance with…

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50 Hotel Keepers Charged

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 7

More than 50 prosecutions of hotelkeepers for not opening between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. in accordance with…

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Charged More to Strangers

The Sun · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 5

For unlawfully raffling tobacco and cigarette papers in the saloon bar of the Australian Hotel, Broadway, on December…

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9 Months' Gaol For Publican

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 3

Charles Waterhouse (29), described as manager of the Imperial Hotel, North Sydney, was sentenced to a, total of nine…

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Stop Press Gaol on Liquor Charges

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 12

Charles Waterhouse was sentenced by Mr. Atkinson S.M., to six months gaol on the charge of to three months gaol on the charge…

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Intent to Murder Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 7

A soldier has been arrested by the Tenterfield police on a charge of having shot Francis Andrew Stafford with intent to murder…

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Arabs Battle with Police

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).--Martial law was declared in Rabat (French Morocco) on Saturday, after a battle between Arab rioters and French…

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Police Drag Bay For Two Boys

The Sun · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 2

Although no boys have been reported missing, offcially police continued dragging Botany Bay with grappling irons this…

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Police Still Drag for Boys in Bay

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

POLICE are still dragging for the bodies of two boys reported drowned when their skiff overturned in Botany Bay late yesterday…

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Police Still Drag for Boys in Bay

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

"POLICE are still dragging for the A bodies of two boys reported drowned when their skiff overturned in Botany Bay late yesterday…

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