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Courts & crime, 1945

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Warwick Fairfax Ordered Back to Wife by Court

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

Claiming that her husband, Warwick Oswald Fairfax (42), principal proprietor of the Sydney Morning Herald, had left her without reason, Marcie Elizabeth (Betty)…

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Warwick Fairfax Ordered Back to Wife by Court

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

Claiming that her husband, Warwick Oswald Fairfax (42), principal proprietor of the Sydney Morning Herald, left her without reason, Marcie Elizabeth (Betty) Fairfax today in the Divorce Court obtained a decree from Mr. Justice Edwards ordering him to return to her…

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Warwick Fairfax Ordered Back to Wife by Court

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

Claiming that her husband, Warwick Oswald Fairfax (42), principal proprietor of the Sydney Morning Herald, left her without reason, Marcie Elizabeth (Betty) Fairfax today in the Divorce Court obtained a decree from Mr. Justice Edwards ordering him to return to her…

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Warwick Fairfax Ordered Back to Wife by Court

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

Claiming that her husband, Warwick Oswald Fairfax (42), principal proprietor of the Sydney Morning Herald, left her without reason, Marcie Elizabeth (Betty) Fairfax today in the Divorce Court obtained a decree from Mr. Justice Edwards ordering him to return to her…

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Lunch-hour Theft From Jeweller's

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 16

Thieves forced the front door of a jeweller's shop in George Street, City, yesterday, during the lunch hour, and stole 18 diamond rings and three…

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Man Faces Charge of Jewel Theft

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

CHARGED with having stolen 18 diamond rings and three watches, valued at £300, from a jeweller's shop at 781 George St., yesterday…

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Man Faces Charge of Jewel Theft

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

CHARGED with having stolen 18 diamond rings and three watches, valued at £300, from a jeweller's shop at 781 George St., yesterday,…

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Man Faces Charge of Jewel Theft

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

CHARGED with having stolen 18 diamond rings and three watches, valued at £300, from a jeweller's shop at 781 George St., yesterday,…

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Man Faces Charge of Jewel Theft

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

CHARGED with having stolen 18 diamond rings and three watches, valued at £300, from a jeweller's shop at 781 George St., yesterday,…

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Gaol for Posing As Blind Soldier

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday. -- Sympathy of the public for blinded servicemen was callously exploited by a man whose counsel…

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Gaol for Posing As Blind Soldier

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 12

LONDON, Saturday. -- Sympathy of the public for blinded servicemen was callously exploited by a man whose counsel…

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Gaol for Posing As Blind Soldier

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday. -- Sympathy of the public for blinded servicemen was callously exploited by a man whose counsel…

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Not Guilty of Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Friday.—Harold Percival Stitt, 32, labourer, of Eden Road, Adelaide, was found not guilty in the Adelaide Criminal Court to-day of…

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Plea of Guilty of Murder Permitted

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 15

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--For the first time in New Zealand a man charged with murder yesterday was permitted to plead guilty…

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Police Can't Do Anything

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

FREE go that blackmarketers are getting in country districts is shown by the experience of a woman-shopper, who writes to "Smith's" from a south-western town in NSW. BECAUSE of the holidays, she…

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German Prisoners Challenge Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 12

OTTAWA, Saturday.--Alberta Supreme Court will decide the right of civil courts to try German war prisoners for offences committed in…

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Women's Wages Before Court

The Sun · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Whether women's wages in some vital Industries are unreasonably low compared with the…

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PUNCH K.O's Mancaught by Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

With one punch Detective Adrian Button knocked out an intruder disturbed about 8.30 last night in the home…

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PUNCH K.O's Mancaught by Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

With one punch Detective Adrian Button knocked out an intruder disturbed about 8.30 last night in the home…

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PUNCH K.O's Mancaught by Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

With one punch Detective Adrian Button knocked out an intruder disturbed about 8.30 last night in the home…

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