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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

Boxing Wild Finish to Contest Police in Ring

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 7

The Miller-Johns contest, at the Rushcutter Bay Stadium on Saturday night, ended in disturbances in the ring and in the…

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Forbes on Trial for Forgery Objection To Charge Is Over-Ruled Wife Present in Court at Opening

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 2

AFTER many delays and a vast amount of publicity, John Woolcott Forbes, middle-aged financier and spectacular sportsman, appeared in the Central Criminal Court at Darlinghurst today…

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Forbes on Trial for Forgery Objection To Charge Is Over-Ruled Wife Present in Court at Opening

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 2

AFTER many delays and a vast amount of publicity, John Woolcott Forbes, middle-aged financier and spectacular sportsman, appeared in the Central Criminal Court at Darlinghurst…

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Forbes on Trial for Forgery Objection To Charge Is Over-Ruled Wife Present in Court at Opening

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 2

AFTER many delays and a vast amount of publicity, John Woolcott Forbes, middle-aged financier and spectacular sportsman, appeared in the Central Criminal Court at Darlinghurst…

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Forbes on Trial for Forgery Objection To Charge Is Over-Ruled Wife Present in Court at Opening

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 2

AFTER many delays and a vast amount of publicity, John Woolcott Forbes, middle-aged financier and spectacular sportsman, appeared in the Central Criminal Court at Darlinghurst today…

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Identification of "Pyjama Girl" Italian Husband Charged With Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 7

The identity of the Albury "pyjama girl" was established in the week-end. Her former husband has been arrested and charged with murder. She was Mrs. Linda Agostini (formerly Platt),…

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Theft From Serviceman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 2

MARY BOURKE (43), was sentenced at Central Court today to three months' gaol for stealing £5 from John Beldon Hill, an…

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Theft From Serviceman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 2

MARY BOURKE (43), was sentenced at Central Court today to three months' gaol for stealing £5 from John Beldon Hill, an…

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Theft From Serviceman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 2

MARY BOURKE (43), was sentenced at Central Court today to three months' gaol for stealing £[?] from John Beldon Hill, an…

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£400 Theft Reported

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

Theft of £400 from the flat of Joseph Leo Stevens, AJC Pando[?]k bookmaker, in Nelson-street Woollahra, was reported…

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Soldier Escapees Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 7

A meeting held by soldiers at Miranda military detention camp just before a number escaped on February 14 was like a stop-work…

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Husband Charged with "Pyjama Girl" Murder Body Identified As Ex-Usherette At City Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 8

The Albury "Pyjama Girl" was identified on Saturday, nine and a half years after the discovery of her partly-burned body in a culvert near Albury…

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Man Charged with Killing Albury Pyjama Girl Tense Scene In Crowded Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

THE public portion of Melbourne City Court was crowded this morning when Antonio Agostini (41) appeared on a charge of murdering Linda Agostini, alleged to be the Albury Pyjama…

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Man Charged with Killing Albury Pyjama Girl Tense Scene In Crowded Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Charged with having murdered Linda Agostini, believed by the police to be the Albury Pyjama Girl, at Swanston Street, Carlton, on or about August 26, 1934…

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Man Charged with Killing Albury Pyjama Girl Tense Scene In Crowded Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

THE public portion of Melbourne City Court was crowded this morning when Antonio Agostini (41) appeared on a charge of murdering Linda Agostini, alleged to be the Albury Pyjama…

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Man Charged with Killing Albury Pyjama Girl Tense Scene In Crowded Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

THE public portion of Melbourne City Court was crowded this morning when Antonio Agostini (41) appeared on a charge of murdering Linda Agostini, alleged to be the Albury Pyjama…

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Man Charged with Killing Albury Pyjama Girl Tense Scene In Crowded Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

THE public portion of Melbourne City Court was crowded this morning when Antonio Agostini (41) appeared on a charge of murdering Linda Agostini, alleged to be the Albury Pyjama…

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Theft Of 500 Watches Alleged

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 3

William Norman Bennett (40), wharflaborer, was charged at Central Court today with having stolen 500 watches, of the value…

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Judge on "Worst Case of Assault"

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 2

DUBBO, Tuesday. -- "This is one of the worst cases of assault that I have ever had to deal with." said Judge Shortland at…

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Judge on "Worst Case of Assault"

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 2

DUBBO, Tuesday. -- "This is one of the worst cases of assault that I have ever had to deal with," said Judge Shortland at…

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