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Courts & crime, 1945

6,591 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250

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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Manacled Soldier at Court-martial

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 3

Handcuffed and under double escort, Pte. Albert Matthew Raynor (21), A.I.F., pleaded not guilty to six charges before a court-martial in Sydney today. HE was Charged with having been…

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Manacled Soldier at Court-martial

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 3

Handcuffed and under double escort, Pte. Albert Matthew Raynor (21), A.I.F., pleaded not guilty to six charges before a court-martial in Sydney today. HE was charged with having been…

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Manacled Soldier at Court-martial

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 3

Handcuffed and under double escort, Pte. Albert Matthew Raynor (21), A.I.F., pleaded not guilty to six charges before a court-martial in Sydney today. HE was charged with having been…

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Manacled Solider at Court-martial

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 3

Handcuffed and under double escort, Pte. Albert Matthew Raynor (21), A.I.F., pleaded not guilty to six charges before a court-martial in Sydney today. HE was charged with having been…

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Dog Club Fails in Court Case

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 8

NEW YORK. -- The American Kennel Club, which in the thirty-six years since it was founded has compiled the pedi…

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Dog Club Fails in Court Case

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 8

NEW YORK. -- The American Kennel Club, which in the thirty six years since it was founded has compiled the…

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Paris Car Racket Wholesale Thefts Special Police Baffled

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 4

PARIS, Saturday. -- In the past four months Of 1944 more than 5000 cars, including lorries and jeeps, were…

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Twins Stole Show in Police Search for Stolen Goods

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Three detectives searching a North Melbourne house for stolen goods found twin baby girls aged four months. As the parents of the babies…

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Police Probe Doping Complaint Dog Near Collapse After Race Defeat

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 20

Wolloingong police are investigating a complaint that the greyhound Audrey Kent was "got at" at the Wollongong dog meeting on February 3…

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Police Drive on Illegal Betting Man Fined £170 After Street Raid

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 4

A special force of defectives has been assigned to wipe out black-market betting, a high police officer said last night. The ring in control of this betting would be…

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Four Charged with Murder of Racketeer

Truth · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 29

SHOOTING of Donald Day, notorious underworld character and racketeer, at a house in Surry Hills on January 29,…

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£30,000 Mystery Diamond Theft Haifa

The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 2

Uncut diamonds, valued at £30,000 sterling, disappeared en route by air between South Africa and Palestine…

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Letters Police Rabbitos

Truth · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 29

I agree that more police are needed to control the present outbreak of crime. I suggest that there should be a…

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Nazi terror chief tried by Allied court Leader of "Murder Commando Unit" caught at Aachen

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Sat. -- One of Hitler's most ruthless storm-troopers has been captured by the Allied Military Government in Germany. He is Otto Meyer, 46, a millionaire…

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Villagers Terrified by Savage Murder London

The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 1

RESIDENTS of a Warwickshire district, are sleeping behind barred doors since a gardener's body was found with a garden fork embedded in it. The gardener Charles Walton,…

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Nazi Murder Gang; Allied Trial Story London

The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 2

REVELATIONS of a murder gang of Nazis in the Aachen district of Germany are coming from witnesses at the trial which opened yesterday before an American court, of one of the…

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Jury makes street light test of murder defence

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sat. -- A man was found not guilty of murder last night after the jury had seen, by lamplight, the locality where another man had been shot. The man acquitted is…

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Boy bandit gets face slapped; woman in cafe checks theft MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 3

FLOURISHING a revolver, a boy of 13 in short pants tried to held up a cafe proprietress today. The proprietress, Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, of the Strand Cafe,…

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Man with Long Court List

Truth · Sunday 18 February 1945 · page 12

THE former asylum attendant sentenced by Judge Barton was Leonard Athol Howard (42), who pleaded guilty to four…

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