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Courts & crime, 1945

6,591 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 250

Players Admit Bribe to Throw Game U.S.A. Basketball Scandal Police Charge Alleged Fixers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 20

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Prime sports scandal of the day is the admission by five Brooklyn College basketball players that they had…

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Players Admit Bribe to Throw Game U.S.A. Basketball Scandal Police Charge Alleged Fixers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 20

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Prime sports scandal of the day is the admission by five Brooklyn College basketball players that they had…

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Players Admit Bribe to Throw Game U.S.A. Basketball Scandal Police Charge Alleged Fixers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 20

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Prime sports scandal of the day is the admission by five Brooklyn College basketball players that they had…

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Players Admit Bribe to Throw Game U.S.A. Basketball Scandal Police Charge Alleged Fixers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 20

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Prime sports scandal of the day is the admission by five Brooklyn College basketball players that they had…

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Is There A Crime Wave In Sydney? Statistics And Police Answer The Question by a Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 2

Although it is obvious that Sydney has made a bad start in 1945 so far as major crimes are concerned, even the recent epidemic of shooting cannot detract from the claim by the police that the metropolitan area has been relatively…

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Police Probe Murder of Liquor Smuggler

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 9

MONTREAL, Thursday.--Police believe that there was a double-barrelled motive for the murder of Louis Wernick (42), racketeer and booze and dope smuggler. A SNOW-SHOVELLER scooped out…

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Police Probe Murder of Liquor Smuggler

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 9

MONTREAL, Thursday.--Police believe that there was a double-barrelled motive for the murder of Louis Wernick (42), racketeer and booze and dope smuggler. A SNOW-SHOVELLER scooped out…

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Police Probe Murder of Liquor Smuggler

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 9

MONTREAL, Thursday.--Police believe that there was a double-barrelled motive for the murder of Louis Wernick (42), racketeer and booze and dope smuggler. A SNOW-SHOVELLER scooped out…

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Police Probe Murder of Liquor Smuggler

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 9

MONTREAL, Thursday.--Police believe that there was a double-barrelled motive for the murder of Louis Wernick (42), [?]racketeer and booze and dope smuggler. SNOW-SHOVELLER scooped out…

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Chemist Shop Theft

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

MONEY and goods valued at £93 were stolen from the chemist shop of Rely's Pty. Ltd., in Oxford St., Darlinghurst, yesterday, by…

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Chemist Shop Theft

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

MONEY and goods valued at £93 were stolen from the chemist shop of Rely's Pty. Ltd., in Oxford St., Darlinghurst, yesterday, by…

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Chemist Shop Theft

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

MONEY and goods valued at £93 were stolen from the chemist shop of Rely's Pty. Ltd., in Oxford St., Darlinghurst, yesterday, by…

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1- Deposit Checks Theft of Glasses

The Sun · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

By requiring all customers to deposit 1s on the glass before being served with a drink, the licensee of the Newport Hotel has cut glass losses to a minimum. The licensee, Mr. L. Edye, said…

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Murder of Dope Dealer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

MONTREAL, Thursday. -- Police believe that there was a double-barrelled motive for the murder of Louis Wernick (42),…

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Murder of Dope Dealer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

MONTREAL, Thursday. --Police believe that there was a double-barrelled motive for the murder of Louis Wernick (42),…

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Murder of Dope Dealer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

MONTREAL, Thursday. -- Police believe that there was a double-barrelled motive for the murder of Louis Wernick (42),…

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Inquiry To-day Into Gaol Cell Shooting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

An inquiry into the shooting of Clifford Tasman Thompson in his cell at Long Bay Gaol on Monday will begin this morning…

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Fines for Lighting Fires Racecourse Shareholder Charged

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 1

SEVERAL Cases dealing with the lighting of fires came before Mr. R. Solling, P.M., at Penrith Police Court on Thursday…

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Young Mother on Trial for Murder

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 14

LAUNGESTON, Thursday.--Mrs. Ivy May Stokes (22), mother of three children, the eldest of whom is aged four, is being fried in Launceston on a charge of having murdered her…

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Young Mother on Trial for Murder

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 14

LAUNCESTON, Thursday.--Mrs. Ivy May Stokes (22), mother of three children, the eldest of whom is aged four, is being tried in Launceston on a charge of having murdered her…

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