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Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 250

Police Search For Schoolboy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 7

Police are conducting a State-wide search for Maxwell Bowen, 12, who disappeared from his home in Sydney Street. Willoughby, on Monday…

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Court Rejects God As Witness

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 7

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Hudson County Orphan Court has rejected the "will" of Dr. John Lay Hunt, of Bayonne, who died on Janu…

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Court Rejects God As Witness

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 5

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Hudson County Orphan Court has rejected the "will" of Dr. John Lay Hunt, of Bayonne, who died on…

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Court Rejects God As Witness

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 7

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Hudson County Orphan Court has rejected the "will" of Dr. John Lay Hunt, of Bayonne, who died on…

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Court Rejects God As Witness

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 5

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Hudson County Orphan Court has rejected the "will" of Dr. John Lay Hunt, of Bayonne, who died on January…

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Nazi War Plants Battered in Great New Attack 6th Day Of Vast Assault

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- Roaring out from bases in Britain and Italy, American bombers yesterday made a smashing two-way attack on Europe…

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Nazi War Plants Battered in Great New Attack 6th Day Of Vast Assault

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- Roaring out from bases in Britain and Italy, American bombers yesterday made a smashing two-way attack on Europe…

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Nazi War Plants Battered in Great New Attack 6th Day Of Vast Assault

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON,Saturday -- Roaring out from bases in Britain and Italy, American bombers yesterday made a smashing two-way attack on Europe…

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Nazi War Plants Battered in Great New Attack 6th Day Of Vast Assault

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- Roaring out from bases in Britain and Italy, American bombers yesterday made a smashing two-way attack on Europe…

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Police Paper Tells Girls "How to Get Your Man"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

NEW YORK, Friday.--For the first time in its 14 years' existence the official New York Police Magazine has a women's page…

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City Wine Saloon Shooting Civilian Detained By Police Fijian Rushed to Hospital

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

A FIJIAN seaman was shot in the right side following an affray which involved more than 20 persons, including colored men, in an Elizabeth…

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City Wine Saloon Shooting Civilian Detained By Police Fijian Rushed to Hospital

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

A FIJIAN seaman is in the Sydney Hospital with a bullet wound in his chest following an affray in a city wine saloon this afternoon…

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City Wine Saloon Shooting Civilian Detained By Police Fijian Rushed to Hospital

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

A FIJIAN seaman is in the Sydney Hospital with a bullet wound in his chest following an affray in a city wine saloon this afternoon…

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Murder without a motive

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 23

THE self-betrayal of your criminal is the sybtle theme of Patrick Hamilton's "Rope," at the Minerva…

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Police war on gambling; big bribes offered

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 7

ENORMOUS bribes offered to police officers, secret meeting places, and ingenious systems of alarm signals have all failed to establish chemin-de-fer on a safe basis in Sydney…

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Man Charged Over City Shooting Fijian with Bullet in Chest May Not Live

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 18

A MAN was charged at Darlinghurst Police Station last night with maliciously wounding, following the shooting of a Fijian merchant seaman in a melee between white and colored men at a wine saloon in…

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Police Baffled by Park Murder

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

After 19 days investigation of the Centennial Park murder the chief of the C.I.B. (Superintendent Keogh) today admitted that the police are baffled as to the identity of the killer…

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Work Not Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 6

CERTAIN men are being put in prison for refusing to take the oath (termed conscientious objectors). This seems nothing short of a farce…

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Work Not Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 6

CERTAIN men are being put in prison for refusing to take the oath (termed conscientious objectors). This seems nothing short of a farce…

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Work Not Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 6

CERTAIN men are being put in prison for refusing to take the oath (termed conscientious objectors). This seems nothing short of a farce…

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