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Courts & crime, 1945

6,591 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 250

Police Shelter for Servicemen

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

CITY police last night gave shelter to 33 British shore-based personnel, who could not find other accommodation…

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Police Constable Shoots Family

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday. -- A police constable at Carlisle, Constable James Telford (44), returning home from night duty, shot his wife and…

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Police Shelter for Servicemen

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 14

CITY police last night gave shelter to 33 British shore-based personnel, who could not find other accommodation…

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Police Constable Shoots Family

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday. -- A police constable at Carlisle, Constable James Telford (44), returning home from night duty, shot his wife and…

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Police Shelter for Servicemen

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 14

CITY police last night gave shelter to 33 British shore-based personnel, who could not find other accommodation…

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Police Not Agreeable To Insults

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 10

Yesterday's Daily Telegraph quiz: Do you think the old English custom of…

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Shearers Ordered Back By Court

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 18

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The Industrial Court today ruled that Queensland shearers were participating in an…

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Doctor's Appeal To Full Court

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

Dr. Augustine Joseph Fitzgerald, of Macquarie-street, appealed to the State Full Court today against his conviction ond…

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British Sailors Sleep In Police Station Cells

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

Scores of British sailors slept in city and suburban police stations last night. They were accommodated in empty cells. Many of them told…

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Shot When Asleep Man Tells Court

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

After he had been shot while sleeping in an East Sydney house he awoke to hear a male voice say, "You have been asking for this for a long time, Charlie, and now you're…

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Court Case Likely On Dog Dispute

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 20

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- Newcastle Jockey Club and the News. castle Bookmakers' Association figure in a district court litigation…

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Dog Dispute May Go to Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 20

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A dispute between northern bookmakers and the Newcastle Jockey Club may be decided by the court…

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Shot When Asleep Man Tells Court

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

After he had been shot while sleeping in an East Sydney house he awoke to hear a male voice say, "You have been asking for this for a long time, Charlie, and now you're…

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Court Told of Danger of Waterfront Trouble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The dispute between the Ship Joiners' Society and the Building Workers' Industrial Union was likely to affect work on the waterfront, Judge Kelly was told in the…

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Kogarah Police Court. Head Chopping

The St George Call · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

Wives are not these days so helpless and unacquainted with household and backyard Implements as In good Victoria’s era. The common axe figures as…

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Year Gaol For Receiver

The Sun · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

"For some time past quantities of goods have been stolen from the Army and Air Force and this is just another…

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Doctor and Woman Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 4

Henry Harold Crowe, 52, medical practitioner, and Elsie Mabel Gertrude Elm, 46, domestic duties, were charged in Central Police Court yesterday with…

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Stole £4889, 2 Years Gaol

The Sun · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

A man who stole £4889 from his employer and spent it in betting was sentenced by Judge Barton at the Quarter Sessions…

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Year in Gaol for Receiving

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 5

A man who received five Army refrigerators destined for use in the battle areas for preserving blood banks was…

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Year in Gaol for Receiving

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 5

A man who received five Army refrigerators destined for use in the battle areas for preserving blood banks was…

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