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Courts & crime, 1945

6,591 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Assault on Officer

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

PETITION to Acting Governor-General for a review of the sentences imposed by court martial on four soldiers serving…

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Gaol For Army Man

The Sun · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

An Army court-martial found Private Roy Arthur Delaney, AIF, 24. guilty of having forged and uttered a…

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Soviet's Big Assault In Budapest

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--The Russians launched their final assault against the German garrison in…

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Brutal Germans Murder Priests

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 5

ROME, Saturday.--The Bishop of Arezzo describes in II Populo a number of German acts of sacrilege committed in his…

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6- Charged for Chair for Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON.--Two airmen, stranded in Bedford, were charged by a landlady 6s each to sit in a chair for the night…

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6- Charged for Chair for Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 4

LONDON.--Two airmen, stranded m Bedford, were charged by a landlady 6s each to sit in a chair for the night…

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Soldier Denies Murder Of Wife

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 16

BRISBANE, Friday.--An Australian soldier was committed for trial today on a charge of having murdered his wife…

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Police Seek to Identify Body

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

Police are trying,to establish the identity of a man whose body was recovered from the harbour, off Cremorne wharf, on Thursday. The body…

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Police Request in Shop Killing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 5

Detailed inquiries are still being made by detectives searching for the unknown killer of Maurice Joseph Hannigan, 68, of Bellevue Avenue…

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Heath Ends Gun Battle With Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 1

THE BODY of Stephen Cunningham (24), being carried to an ambulance in Pitt Sreet, Redfern, this morning…

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Death Ends Gun Battle With Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 1

THE BODY of Stephen Cunningham (23), being carried to an ambulance in Pitt Sreet, Redfern, this morning…

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Death Ends Gun Battle With Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 1

THE BODY of Stephen Cunningham (23), being carried to an ambulance in Pitt Sreet, Redfern, this morning…

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Death Ends Gun Battle With Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 1

THE BODY of Stephen ' Cunningham (23), being carried to an ambulance in Pitt Sreet, Redfern, this morning…

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Gun Duel-- 2 Police Shot, Man Suicide

The Sun · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

In a dramatic gun duel at Redfern [?] early toddy between police and [?] years-old Stephen Henry Cunningh[?] a 'wanted' man:--…

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Gun Battle in Redfern Besieged Gunman Suicides Two Police in Hospital

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

A MAN is dead and a police sergean is dying in hospital after an hour- long dramatic gun battle at Redfern in which 20 shots were fired this morning…

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Gun Battle in Redfern Gunman Suicides After Siege Two Police Shot by Wanted Man

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

BELIEVED by police to be an a.w.l. soldier, a 24-years-old man committed suicide after a prolonged gun battle with police at Redfern this morning. Two polioemen-one critically injured--are in hospital…

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Gun Battle in Redfern Gunman Suicides After Siege Two Police Shot by Wanted Man

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

BIELIEVED by police to be an a.w.l. soldier, a 23-years- old man committed suicide after a prolonged gun battle with police at Redfern this morning. Two policemen-one critically injured-are in hospital…

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Gun Battle in Redfern Gunman Suicides After Siege Two Police Shot by Wanted Man

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

BELIEVED by police to be on a.w.I. soldier, a 24-years-old man committed suicide after a prolonged gun battle with police at Redfern this morning Two policemen-one critically injured--are in hospital…

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Gun Battle in Redfern Gunman Suicides After Siege Two Police Shot by Wanted Man

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

BELIEVED by poiice to be an a.w.l. soldier, a 23-years- old man committed suicide after a prolonged gun battle with police at Redfern this morning. Two policemen--one critically injured--are in hospital…

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Man Charged with N.s.w. Commando's Murder After 12 Months' Inquiry

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 31

NEARLY twelve months ago, Phillip John Beattie, a young Commando, of Campsie, New South Wales, was on his way to a South Australian military camp in the early hours of the morning after having…

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