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Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 74 of 250

Police Probe Camp Death

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 2

Clad in pyjamas and dressing grown, the body of Private N. W. Murdoch (26), A.I.F., was found at the bottom of the…

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154 Police Joining Air Force

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 4

To-morrow 154 young members of the New South Wales Police Force will be sworn in as members of the R.A.A.F. after they…

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Mrs. Forbes Leaves Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 7

Mrs. John Woolcott Forbes in her car outside the Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, yesterday, after her husband had been sentenced to imprisonment for five years…

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Women Police On V.D.Check

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 5

COWRA, Thursday. --In future persons allegedly suffering from V.D. will be visited by women police and handed an…

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Women Police On V.D.Check

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 5

COWRA, Thursday. -- In future persons allegedly suffering from V.D. will be visited by women police and handed an…

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Women Police On V.D.Check

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 5

COWRA, Thursday. --In future persons allegedly suffering from V.D. will be visited by women police and handed an…

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Women Police On V.D. Check

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 5

COWRA, Thursday. -- In future persons allegedly suffering from V.D. will be visited by women police and handed an…

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Loyalty Pact Made In Court Cell

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 9

Mrs. Eunice Forbes said yesterday she and her husband had made a pact in a court cell after he had been sentenced. "We swore to each other that we would remain courageous and…

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Army Salvage Officer Before Court-Martial On Two Charge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 8

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HERBERT CAMPBELL SNELL, A.I.F., an Army Director of Salvage pleaded not guilty today when charged before a general court-martial with making a false statement and borrowing money from a civilian whom he had met only in his official capacity…

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Forbes Convicted: 5 Years' Jail Accuses Judge of Bias; Juror Tells Court of Man's £200 Bribe Offer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 9

John Woolcott Forbes, 41, company manager and financier, was yesterday sentenced to five years' jail by Mr. Justice Street in the Central Criminal Court. The jury had found him guilty of having forged £42,000 worth of…

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Kogarah Police Court. Adulterated Mile Charges

The St George Call · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

Leonard Craythorne was present to say that he was technicatly guilty of selling milik 7.4 p.c. below standard Defendant explained that on 3rd February at his…

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Lieut.-colonel Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 9

Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Campbell Snell, Director of Salvage, L.H.Q., pleaded not guilty at a general court-martial yesterday to a chaige of…

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Theft From Art Gallery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 6

NEW YORK. March 23 (A.A.P.).— A small fourteenth century painting of Saint Thomas, attributed to Simone Martini, valued at between 3,000 and…

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Gaol for Petrol Ticket Offence

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- Norman Thomas Brown, middle-aged Cessneck taxi proprietor, was fined £50 and sentenced to six months' gaol by Mr…

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Parents Face Gaol Term for Neglect

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.--Before they left home to spend 12 hours at movie theatres, Frank Jara and his wife tied their two children, aged two…

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Parents Face Gaol Term for Neglect

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.--Before they left home to spend 12 hours at movie theatres, Frank Jara and his wife tied their two children, aged two…

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Candlestick As Murder Weapon

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Aircraftman Wayne Lonergan, 26, broke a brass candlestick on his wife's head…

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V.C. for Army Sergeant Cliff Assault at Satelberg

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Sergeant Thomas Currie Derrick, D.C.M., of North Adelaide,…

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Russians Ready for Final Assault on Nikolaev Drive Across Bessarabia

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Friday. -- Strong Soviet forces, under General Malinovsky, are hammering at the gates of Nikolaev, important seaport in…

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Russians Ready for Final Assault on Nikolaev Drive Across Bessarabia

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Friday. -- Strong Soviet forces, under General Malinovsky, are hammering at the gates of Nikolaev, important seaport in…

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