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Courts & crime, 1944

7,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 76 of 250

Actress Sobs As Letter to Chaplin Read in Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 March 1944 · page 5

LOS ANGELES, Saturday.--Joan Barry, 24-years-old actress, burst into a torrent of tears in a packed courtroom yesterday when counsel for Charles Chaplin confronted her with what he described as a "farewell letter" to Chaplin in which she renounced her screen career and said she was going back to New York…

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Actress Sobs As Letter to Chaplin Read in Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 March 1944 · page 5

LOS ANGELES, Saturday.--Joan Barry, 24-years-old actress, burst into a torrent of tears in a packed courtroom yesterday when counsel for Charles Chaplin confronted her with what he described as a "farewell letter" to Chaplin in which she renounced her screen career and said she was going back to New York…

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Actress Sobs As Letter to Chaplin Read in Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 March 1944 · page 5

LOS ANGELES, Saturday.--Joan Barry, 24-years-old actress, burst into a torrent of tears in a packed courtroom yesterday when counsel for Charles Chaplin confronted her with what he described as a "farewell letter" to Chaplin in which she renounced her screen career and said she was going back to New York…

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A little burglary A Dr. Fordney Minute Mystery

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 27

Problem from the casebook of Dr. Fordney, criminologist. It takes but ONE MINUTE to…

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With singer before murder

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sat.--Wayne Lonergan allegedly told police he had spent the night before his wife was murdered with a…

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A magistrate found a mo in motive

The Sun · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 4

A personal crusade agains moustaches by New York magistrate Joseph de Andrea was we under way this week…

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Police seek light uniform

The Sun · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 5

COMPELLED by regulations to wear heavyweight blue serge all the year round, NSW police…

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Police carnival raises £3000

The Sun · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 3

Nearly £3000 was raised by the police carnival at Moorefield racecourse yesterday in aid of the St…

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Woman Decoy For Thugs Police Allege

Truth · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 22

A 30-years-old blonde woman, it was alleged at Central Court on Friday, had lured American servicemen to…

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Police Allege Man's Eye Was Gouged Out

Truth · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 21

WHEN Alan Kenneth Caban (25), loader, Ernest Molloy (20), laborer, and Keith Kenneth Keillor (26), laborer, were charged at…

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Woman and Mercer Court Suggestion Of Flat 'Love Nest'

Truth · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 11

A VEHEMENT denial that her flat was a love nest, maintained for her by her employer, Mr. F. J. Palmer, well-known Sydney business man, was given in the Central Summons Court on Monday, by Miss…

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Evidence on Pyjama Girl's Identity Conflicts Police Say Dead Woman Is Mrs. Linda Agostini

Truth · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 14

LINDA PLATT (Mrs. Antonio Agostini) claimed by police to be the Pyjama Girl, had brown eyes, not blue as are those of the body in the formalin bath.... A few weeks after the body was found,…

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Joan Barry Describes Life With Chaplin, Weeps As Letter Is Read To Court

Truth · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 17

LOS ANGELES, Saturday.—In Los Angeles it is billed as drama but could be called bedroom farce, starring the pie-slinging comedian Charlie Chaplin and his former red-headed protege, Joan Barry. But this personal appearance feature under the uninspiring title "Mann Act—United States v. Chaplin,"…

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Four court cases grip world interest Chaplin slumps in gloom as 24-years-old Joan Barry unfolds her sordid story Los Angeles

The Sun · Sunday 26 March 1944 · page 2

CHARLES CHAPLIN whose crazy humor once rocked the world, sat slumped in his seat in Los Angeles court yesterday--No. 16617 on the US criminal charge sheet and accused of white slavery…

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Sentenced for Conspiracy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 6

LONDON. March 26 (A.A.P.).— James Baker Scott, 32, whom police stated was the son of a well-known Australian racing trainer, was…

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Grazier Fined for Stealing

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 3

GLEN INNES, Monday.-- Edward John Clifford, grazier, of Land's End, Emmaville, Justice of the Peace, vice-president…

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Murder Victim's Fortune

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 3

CHICAGO, Monday.--Mrs. Williams, murdered in the Drake Hotel, by a mysterious woman who has not been traced, left 400,000 dollars…

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Murder Victim's Fortune

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 7

CHICAGO, Monday.--Mrs. Williams, murdered in the Drake Hotel, by a mysterious woman who has not been traced, left 400,000 dollars…

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Murder Victim's Fortune

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 3

CHICAGO, Monday.--Mrs. Williams, murdered in the Drake Hotel, by a mysterious woman who has not been traced, left 400,000 dollars…

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Provocation for Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1944 · page 6

KNOXVILLE (Tennessee). March 26 (A.A.P.).—Judge Kelly dismissed a murder charge against a paratrooper, George Inzer who was…

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