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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250

New Fiction Murder a la Carte

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 6

"Murder Comes to Dinner," by Robert Fleming.—Bodley Head. "Mother Finds a Body," by Gypsy Rose Lee.—Bodley Head…

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Woman Confesses 13-Year-old Murder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 7

CHICAGO, Saturday.--Mrs. Pauline Kretchmer has voluntarily told police how, 13 years ago, she killed her husband, Joseph, pushing him…

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Woman Confesses 13-Year-old Murder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 5

CHICAGO, Saturday.--Mrs. Pauline Kretchmer has voluntarily told police how, 13 years ago, she killed her husband, Joseph, pushing him…

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Vic. Police Search for Horse Floats

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 12

GEELONG, Saturday.--Following on action taken in the Saint Warden case, police and transport authorities have been…

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Buyers Rusk Luxuries at Police Sale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

BIDDING was keen at the police sales, Central Police Station, City, today when tins of salmon and other lost property were offered for if sale. Eager buyers (above), money in hand, call their offers as tins of salmon are auctioned, while (right) Mrs. Whitby, who has been…

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10 Years for Firing at Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 4

Described by Judge Holt as a "daring and desperate gunman," Raymond Cedric Wiseman, 26, laborer, of Paddington, was sentenced to 10 years' jail at the…

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Vic. Police Search for Horse Floats

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 10

GEELONG, Saturday.--Following on action taken in the Saint Warden case, police and transport authorities have been…

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Buyers Rush Luxuries at Police Sale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

BIDDING was keen at the police sales, Central Police Station, City, today when tins of salmon and other lost property were offered for sale. Eager buyer's (above), money in hand, call their offers as tins of salmon are auctioned, while (right) Mrs. Whitby, who has been…

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Buyers Rush Luxuries at Police Sale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

BIDDING was keen at the police sales, Central Police Station, City, today when tins of salmon and other lost property were offered for sale. Eager buyers (above), money in hand, call their offers as tins of salmon are auctioned, while (right) Mrs. Whitby, who has been…

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Buyers Rush Luxuries at Police Sale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

BIDDING was keen at the police sales, Central Police Station, City, today when tins of salmon and other lost property were offered for sale. Eager buyers (above), money in hand, call their offers as tins of salmon are auctioned, while (right) Mrs. Whitby, who has been…

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83 Miners In Court Hearing

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Saturday.-- Eighty-three employees of Aberdare Extended colliery appeared at a special sitting of…

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83 Miners In Court Hearing

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Saturday.-- Eighty-three employees of Aberdare Extended colliery appeared at a special sitting of…

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"Fair Go" Cry at Auction by Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

An auction sale of tinned goods and household articles in the yard at Central Police Station this morning was one of the rowdiest ever held and bidders complained bitterly at the way at was handled…

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"Fair Go" Cry at Auction by Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

An auction sale of tinned goods and household articles in the yard at Central Police Station this morning was one of the rowdiest ever held and bidders complained bitterly at the way it was handled…

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"Fair Go" Cry at Auction by Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

An auction sale of tinned goods and household articles in the yard at Central Police Station this morning was one of the rowdiest ever held and bidders complained bitterly at the way it was handled…

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"Fair Go" Cry at Auction by Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 3

An auction sale of tinned goods and household articles in the yard at Central Police Station this morning was one of the rowdiest ever held and bidders complained bitterly at the way it was handled…

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Court Fines Twelve Miners for Absenteeism

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1944 · page 5

PORTLAND, Friday.--Twelve coalminers were fined £2, with £5 costs, before a special night court for having absented themselves from work on January 5. The miners are employed at…

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Fascist Trend in America Charged

Truth · Sunday 6 February 1944 · page 12

NEW YORK, Saturday.—"A psychological atmosphere in which Fascism flourishes is beginning to make itself evident in the United…

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Street Battle After £10,000 Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 6 February 1944 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sat.--Six masked men, two armed with machine-guns, seized a £10,000 payroll outside a war factory on Lower Westside…

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May cool off fire fools in gaol cells

The Sun · Sunday 6 February 1944 · page 2

POLICE will press for severe penalties for breaches of the law controlling fires, at Chief…

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