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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

6,591 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 250

Gipsy Girl Fined for Theft of £10

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 2

ALMA STERIO (19), a gipsy girl, was fined £10 at Central Court today for stealing a £10 note from John Walter Shoesmith. Australian…

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Wife Freed. In Murder Trial

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 12

LAUNCESTON, Thursday. -- A trial not often equalled in its length and complexity of detail ended at Launceston today with…

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For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 2

CYRIL NORMAN (right), who was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Constable Eric Bailey, by the…

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For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 2

CYRIL NORMAN (right), who was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Constable Eric Bailey, by the…

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For Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 2

CYRIL NORMAN (right), who was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Constable Eric Bailey, by the…

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Wife Freed In Murder Trial

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 12

LAUNCESTON, Thursday. -- A trial not often equalled in its length and complexity of detail ended at Launcesion today with…

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Wife Freed In Murder Trial

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 12

LAUNCESTON, Thursday. -- A trial not often equalled in its length and complexity of detail ended at Launceston today with…

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Wife Freed in Murder Trial

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 12

LAUNCESTON, Thursday. -- A trial not often equalled in its length and complexity of detail ended at Launceston today with…

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Alleged Murder of U.s. Soldiers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 9

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- Frederick William Everest (34), bread carter, was committed for trial today on a charge of having murdered John…

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Young Soldier on Charge of Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--At the City Watchhouse tonight Norman Ralph Brook, 23, soldier, of Brisbane, was charged with the murder of…

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Police Search for Paintings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 14

No trace has been found of six landscape paintings which are missing from the exhibition of works of Hilda Rix Nicholas…

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Police Search for Paintings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 3

No trace has been found of six landscape paintings which are missing from the exhibition of works of Hilda Rix Nicholas…

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Police 500 Below Strength

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 4

The New South Wales Police Force is about 500 under strength —the lowest on record. Except for the promotion of police…

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Police Search for Paintings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 3

No trace has been found of six landscape paintings which are missing from the exhibition of works of Hilda Rix Nicholas…

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Police Search for Paintings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 3

No trace has been found of six landscape paintings which are missing from the exhibition of works of Hilda Rix Nicholas…

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Sutherland Court House

The Propeller · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 1

Mr. R. R. Downing, Minister of Justice accompanied by Mr. A. J. Williams, M.L.A., and the Under Secretary of the Justice Department (Mr. Nott), recently…

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Police Round Up Schoolboy Gang

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 12

Paddington police yesterday broke up a gang of schoolboys who had been robbing houses in the Eastern Suburbs. Average age of the boys was…

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Court Preferred to Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 4

Metal trades unions, recently the strongest advocates of proposals to drop compulsory arbitration for collective bargaining,…

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Police Must Smash Black Markets, Gangsters!

Tribune · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 8

Gangster shootings, black markets and brothel rackets, which have been allowed to grow to scandalous proportions in Sydney. must be smashed by immediate Government…

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Two Few Police For Crime Wave

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 12

A fear that the New South Wales Police Force may not be strong enough in numbers to deal with an anticipated…

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