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Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 250

Forbes' Ex-secretary Tells of Letter "You Will Get Shock" Court Evidence of Gordon Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 4

"YOU will get a shock when you receive this letter . . . . I have to make too many payments too quickly. . . what with debts and my wife's illness I am in a rotten mental state…

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Murder of 25 WOMEN Police Seek Parisian Doctor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 6

LONDON, March 13 (A.A.P.).— Police in Paris have found evidence that 25 women were murdered in a house owned by a…

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Gaol "Depression" Ends

The Sun · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 3

Financial emergency cuts, imposed on most NSW citizens during the 1931 depression, were removed in State prisons last year. Prisoners are allowed to earn a few shillings a week, and the…

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Bag-Snatching, Youth Charged

The Sun · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 3

Following a number of recent bag-snatching cases in the North Sydney district, the chief of the CIB (Superintendent Wickham)…

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Deckhand Fined for Bar Assault

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 5

CYRIL RAYMOND STANTON, 8 Carlotta Street, Artarmon, Manly ferry deckhand, was fined £2, with 12s court costs and £4 5s 6d…

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Deckhand Fined for Bar Assault

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 5

CYRIL RAYMOND STANTON, 8 Carlotta Street, Artarmon. Manly ferry deckhand, was fined £2,. with 12s court costs and £4 5s 6d…

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Boy's Life Sentence On Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 9

Lester John Turner, 15, cowhand, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Central Criminal Court yesterday. He was found guilty of having…

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Life Sentence for Boy Murder of Grazier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 6

Lester John Turner, 15½, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Gordon Miles Archibald, grazier,…

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Decrease In Court Cases

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 5

There were 135,503 court cases last year, a decrease of 19,028(, said the Commissioner of Police (Mr. MacKay) in his annual…

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Lindrums Issue a Court Challenge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 2

Filthy liquors had percolated through the floor of a night club or cabaret conducted for American officers and had damaged billiard tables in Lindrums' saloon, 236 Pitt Street City, the Equity Court was told today. '…

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Lindrums Issue a Court Challenge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 2

Filthy liquors had percolated through the floor of a night club or cabaret conducted for American officers and had damaged billiard tables in Lindrums' saloon, 236 Pitt Street, City, the Equity Court was told today…

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Lindrums Issue a Court Challenge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 2

Filthy liquors had percolated through the floor of a night club or cabaret conducted for American officers and had damaged billiard tables in Lind rums' saloon, 236 Pitt Street, City, the Equity Court was told today…

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Lindrums Issue a Court Challenge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 2

Filthy liquors had percolated through the floor of a night club or cabaret conducted for American officers and had damaged billiard tables in Lindrums' saloon, 236 Pitt Street, City, the Equity Court was told today…

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Woman Sent to Gaol for Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 5

KATHLEEN FOSTER (39), a married woman, was sentenced at Central Court today to six months' gaol for stealing a wallet containing…

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Woman Sent to Gaol for Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 5

KATHLEEN POSTER (39), a married woman, was sentenced at Central Court today to six months' gaol for stealing a wallet containing…

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Woman Sent to Gaol for Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 5

KATHLEEN FOSTER (39), a married woman, was sentenced at Central Court today to six months gaol for stealing a wallet containing…

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Man Accused of Murder Collapses in Court

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 7

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Arthur Sugars (30), returned soldier, woodcutter, charged with the murder of Louisa Ellen Muller (17), of Lawnton, near Brisbane, on November 3 collapsed in the dock today…

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Fined for Theft

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 1

Charged with having stolen two motor tyres, the property of Le Torneau Pty. Ltd., at Rydalmere on February 18, Edward Alfred Forman…

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£86,250 Theft by Employee Alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Ralph Wilby, 39, has been charged with the theft of £86,250 from the department store company which employed…

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Police Promotions

The Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 5

Promotion of five police officers was approved by the Executive Council today. They are Inspectors R. H. Blackley…

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