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Courts & crime, 1945

6,591 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

Italian Police Root Gang of 400 Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--After a 24-hour battle, Italian police, supported by tanks and infantry, have rounded up a gang of 400 thugs on the outskirts of Rome. A FORCE of 800 men comprising…

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Italian Police Rout Gang of 400 Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--After a 24-hour battle, Italian police, supported by tanks and infantry, have rounded up a gang of 400 thugs on the outskirts of Rome. A FORCE of 800 men comprising machine-guns and electrical…

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Italian Police Rout Gang of 400 Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--After a 24-hour battle, Italian police, supported by tanks and infantry, have rounded up a gang of 400 thugs on the outskirts of Rome. A FORCE of 800 men comprising…

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Italian Police Rout Gang of 400 Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--After a 24-hour battle, Italian police, supported by tanks and infantry, have rounded up a gang of 400 thugs on the outskirts of Rome. A FORCE of 800 men comprising…

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Italian Police Root Gang of 400 Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--After a 24-hour battle, Italian police, supported by tanks and infantry, have rounded up a gang of 400 thugs on the outskirts of Rome. A FORCE of 800 men comprising…

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Italian Police Rout Gang of 400 Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--After a 24-hour battle, Italian police, supported by tanks and infantry, have rounded up a gang of 400 thugs on the outskirts of Rome. A FORCE of 800 men comprising machine-guns and electrical…

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Sinatra Fans Kicked, Punched Police Stop Ugly Brawl Outside Empire Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 5

Members of the Frank Sinatra Fans' Club were kicked and punched outside the Empire Theatre, City, last night. Police protected girls in bobby socks and…

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5- "corkage" still charged

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 4

Last night I went to a Sydney night club to see whether the management was observing the maximum fixed price…

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Big Theft of Car Tyres

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 23

SENTENCING one man to 12 months' gaol and two others to six months on charges of stealing tyres and inner tubes from…

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Criminal Assault on Army Girl

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 20

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—While a dance was in progress at Broadmeadows last night a young A.W.A.S. was attacked near the hall…

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Chinese acquitted of murder

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Sat. -- Two Chinese charged with the murder of a third Chinese were acquitted in the Criminal Court today…

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Girl for Trial on Charge of Theft

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 11

EVELYN BENSON (22), domestic, was committed for trial from Central Court last week on a charge of having stolen £188 from Bert C…

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Burwood Police Raid

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 21

FOLLOWING a raid by members of the Vice Squad on a shop in Burwood, yesterday, 90 men were arrested and charged with illegal…

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Attack on police; boy escapes

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 3

ATTACKED by two men, one of whom wielded a walking slick, a policeman was injured severely…

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Soldier denies strip-teaser's murder version LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 5

AN American paratrooper on trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of a taxi driver, said he told a strip-dancer friend he was a Chicago gunman "just for a build-up."…

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Two Chinese Not Guilty of Murder Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 5

TWO Chinese, charged here with murder of a third Chinese at Port Adelaide about September 5. were acquitted…

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Rome police find huge tyre hoard

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sat. -- Rome police have found a car park packed with motor cars and containing a huge stock of tyres…

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Two Accused Fight Against Murder Blame Cleft Chin Crime Brings Dramatic Climax

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 20

LONDON, Saturday.—Already unique because for the first time in ten years it brought together in the dock of the Old Bailey a man and woman, jointly charged with murder, the Jones-Hulten trial was…

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Charged With Stealing £121

The Sun · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 3

Albert George Strudwick, 43, described on the sheet as a police constable, was charged at Central Court today with having at…

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Police Seize 'Riddle' Letter About Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Police have taken possession of a letter received by the Courier-Mail today, purporting to refer to the murder of Lieut. Allen C. Middleton, of the U.S. Army, who was shot in a Brisbane lavatory on January 11…

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