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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

6,591 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Husband Charged After Drama with Pistol 'Queer Turns'

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 9

LOADING bullets into a revolver and then pointing the weapon at his wife and one of his two children, a County Council driver said to them, "There is one…

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"No Privilege for Police"

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 23

POLICE officials are not entitled to any more consideration than civilians in tenancy cases," said Mr. H. L. Sargeson, S.M., at North…

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Underworld Figure Dies: Four Now Facing Murder Charge

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 13

CHARGED with feloniously and maliciously murdering Donald Day, underworld figure known as "Donald the Duck," whose bullet-riddled body was found in a house in Surry Hills one morning last…

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Amazing Charge Of Double Murder Carter's Alleged Story of Fears of Poisoning

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 31

"THE Yanks have been after me for a long time. They tried to poison me." That' was the amazing explanation allegedly given by Frederick William Everest, 34-years-old bread carter, when asked why he had shot American Chief Petty Officer John Daniel McCollum in…

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Authorities fear a new racket Police Check on 'Housie'

The Sun · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 8

GAMING POLICE will take prompt action to suppress distribution of cash prizes to winners in…

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TODAY: Court Dramas Accountant was chased at Roseville

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 19

Accountant James Green, 38, must be of good behavior for a year, or forfeit a £20 bond…

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Court Sets Man Free After Night Club Brawl

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 16

SEQUEL to a brawl at Romano's on the night of December 23, George Edger (26), clerk, was freed at Central Court last week on a…

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German prisoners file past Belgian field of death, scene of Nazi murder of Americans

The Sun · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 2

As a column of Nazi prisoners marches past a field at Five Corners, near Malmedy, in Belgium, American soldiers in the field are uncovering the bodies of other Americans murdered after they had surrendered to the Germans on December 17…

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TODAY: Court Dramas New South Wales Nick was known only by Nickname

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 February 1945 · page 18

"Nick's" identity was to be kept a dark secret. Mrs. Gwenith Elsie Stuart -- according to a letter she allegedly wrote --…

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33 Charged After Police Raid

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 4

Police who raided an alleged baccarat school over a shirt factory in Verona Street, Paddington, early yesterday morning, arrested 33, including six…

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Gaol Preferred to Fine

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

WHEN William Newman, 36 Buch nell St., Newtown, was fined £3 16s at Newtown Court today on charges of setting up stands at…

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Shooting in Gaol Probed

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 5

The departmental inquiry into the methods employed to smuggle into Long Bay Gaol a revolver with which Clifford…

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Gaol Preferred to Fine

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 4

WHEN William Newman, 36 Bucknell St., Newtown, was fined £3 16s at Newtown Court today on charges of setting up stands at…

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Gaol Preferred to Fine

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 4

WHEN William Newman, 36 Bucknell St., Newtown, was fined £3 16s at Newtown Court today on charges of setting up stands at…

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Gaol Preferred to Fine

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

WHEN William Newman, 36 Buchnell St., Newtown, was fined £3 16s at Newtown Court today on charges of setting up stands, at…

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Shooting In Gaol Probed

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 5

The departmental inquiry into the methods employed to smuggle into Long Bay Gaol a revolver with which Clifford…

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Gaol Preferred to Fine

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 4

WHEN William Newman, 36 Bucknell St.. Newtown, was fined £3 16s at Newtown Court today on charges of setting up stands at…

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Gaol Preferred to Fine

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 4

WHEN William Newman, 36 Bucknell St., Newtown, was fined £3 16s at Newtown Court today on charges, of setting un stands at…

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Gaol for Fraud Over Woman's Ad. for Husband

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 11

A SEAMAN who, police said, posed as a second officer in the Merchant Navy when he answered a Sydney Morning Herald advertisement by a young woman for a husband, was…

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Gaol for Fraud Over Woman's Ad. for Husband

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 11

A SEAMAN who, police said, posed as a second officer in the Merchant Navy when he answered a Sydney Morning Herald advertisement by a young woman for a husband, was…

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