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Courts & crime, 1944

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

Nazis Murder Danish Poet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 6

LONDON, Jan. 6 (A.A.P.).—The murder by Danish Nazis of Kaj Munk, poet and pastor and one of the greatest Scandinavian dramatists, has…

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Service Women May Be Arrested, Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- Under amending regulations issued today, members of the women's Services may be arrested and charged in the same…

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German Workers Sent to Gaol for Absenteeism

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. -- The Essen National Zeitung reports the case of a worker who stayed away from his work in a mine for three months…

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Police Round-up Boy Escapees

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 8

FIVE of seven boys who escaped from the Gosford Farm Home for delinquent children yesterday were rounded up by police last night and…

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Police Conference to Discuss Grievances

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

A CONFERENCE of delegates from the metropolitan branches of the Police Association of N.S.W. will be held In the building of the…

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Police Conference to Discuss Grievances

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

A CONFERENCE of delegates from the metropolitan branches of the Police Association of N.S.W. will be held in the building of the…

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Police Statement on Saint Warden Case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Mystery surrounding the transportation of the racehorse Saint Warden from Melbourne to…

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Black Marketing Charges In Court Transfer of Venue

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

Mr. W. R. Dovey, K.C., who, prosecuting in the Commonwealth Special Court today, in a number of cases in which…

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Black Marketing Charges In Court Transfer of Venue

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

Mr. W. E. Dovey, K.C., who, prosecuting in the CommonWealth Special Court today, in a number of cases in which…

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Black Marketing Charges In Court Transfer of Venue

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

Mr. W. R. Dovey, K.C., who, prosecuting In the Commonwealth Special Court today, in a number of cases in which…

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Black Marketing Charges In Court Transfer of Venue

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

Mr. W. R. Dovey, K.C., who, prosecuting in the Commonwealth Special Court today, in a number of cases in which…

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Roosevelt Gives Four Points for World Peace Police Plan, Oil Access

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- President Roosevelt suggested solutions to important world problems in his report to Congress on lend-lease yesterday. He advocated: Postwar international…

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Loss of a Greek Ship Through Collision Court of Inquiry Findings

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

At a Court of Marine Inquiry held at Melbourne before Judge Stretton, assisted by Captain L. E. D. Moodie-Heddle and Captain F. R. O'Sullevan, assessors, has delivered the following decision relative to the collision between British…

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Theft at American Center

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 10

Leslie lames Rawson Rook. 41, a cleaner was fined £7 in Central Police Court yesterday for stealing a carton of chewing gum, valued at 9/,…

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Woman Charged with Exposure

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--A woman who was said to have bathed with negro soldiers in Ross River failed to appear in court today on a charge of wilful exposure…

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Late News Waning German Morale Doubters Sentenced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 9

LONDON, Jan. 7 (A.A.P.),— "Flagging morale in Germany is 'nipped in the bud' by death sentences, and it is impossible for…

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Absentee Miners Sent To Gaol and Fined

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Saturday. -- Gaol sentences, plus fines, were imposed at Cessnock Police Court today on two absentee miners. Four others were fined. Neville Lightfoot was sen-…

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Soldier-magician Charged Story of a Purple Dress

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 11

Private Burton Trenton Howard, the magician of an Army theatrical company was found not guilty at a Distrrct. Court-martial yesterday on a…

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Police Raid Yard Factory

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 3

More than four tons of sheet metal, which police allege was being used illegally for making buckets, and about 800…

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Big Cartel Alleged British and U.S. Firms Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 10

NEW YORK, Jan.7 (A.A.P.).— The U.S.Department of Justice has filed a civil suit charging Du Pont de Nemours and Co.,…

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