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Courts & crime, 1945

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

Police Drive on Sydney Vice "Cleanest City of Size"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 5

Sydney to-day is freer from vice and illegal gambling than any other city of its size in the world, the chief of the Sydney Police Vice Squad, Inspector Thomspos, said yesterday…

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Detective Waited At Gaol Gates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Detective Davidson returned to-day with a man arrested on his release from a Sydney prison,…

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3 Months' Jail for Bier Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 4

William John Gilchrist, 32, wharf-laborer, was sentenced to three months' jail at Central Court yesterday for stealing one…

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An Air Police Force

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 7

WHEN the League pf Nations was planned in 1913 France fought hard to bolster it with an international armed…

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Captain in Court Over Proposal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 6

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Proposal of marriage to a member of the A.A.M.W.S. by a married Army captain resulted in the…

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Officer Poses As Single "Engagement" Leads To Court-martial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday.—Captain G. F. Butler, A.I.F., married, told a general court-martial in Cairns to-day that he did not think…

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Policeman Charged With Stealing

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 16

PATROLLING City Rd. on the night of December 27, Police-Sergeant Jack Edwin Gribble and Constable Rupert Kenneth Alexander Bodel chanced upon the slumped form of Thomas Baker, a sailor in the Royal Navy, in a sitting…

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Man Remanded on Murder Charge

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 12

CHARGED with having murdered Edward Frederick Weyman early on New Year's Day, John Frederick Hayes (31), wharflaborer,…

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Letters Police Rodeo

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 27

I wish to commend Truth for the humane stand it took over the disgraceful Police Rodeo last weekend. What a…

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Police Chief Shot Dead

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 21

NEW YORK, Saturday—Albany's chief of Police, William Fitzpatrick, was shot dead in his office today following an…

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30- GIFT Gaol visitor pays £10 fine BATHURST

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 3

A MAN who visited a prisoner in Bathurst Gaol and gave him 30- in notes for Christmas was fined £10 for…

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Magistrate Alters Grave Charge; Echo of Shooting at 2Ky Auditorium

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 11

CHARGED originally with having shot at Kelvin Hargraves Smith with intent to murder him at 2KY Auditorium on the evening of October 29, Mervyn Fletcher…

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Magistrate Cuts Flat Rent by £14/14/-: Warns That Board Will Exercise Powers

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 9

BRUSHING aside legal objections, Mr. Bliss, S.M., in the Fair Rents Court at Paddington last week acted on his own volition to reduce the weekly rental of a flat at 123 Ocean St.,…

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Police chief murdered in own office New York

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 1

ALBANY police chief William Fitzpatrick (50) was murdered in his office today…

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Police Officers Will Be Prosecuted R.S.P.C.A. Sequel to Rodeo

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 20

POLICE OFFICERS are to be prosecuted by the R.S.P.C.A. for the alleged cruelty which occurred last Saturday at the Police Boys' Club rodeo. It is anticipated that summonses will be issued on Tuesday…

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Assault 'Victim' Best Off

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 3

Two men charged at Parramatta Court today with assault on another each displayed two black eyes…

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Terrific Assault on Luzon Gulf Japs Await Landing

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 1

A huge American convoy has moved into Lingayen Gulf, 120 miles north of Manila (Philippines), apparently intending to land, Tokio radio said today. Seventy U.S. warships are bombarding coastal…

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More Police Needed To End Pillage

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 3

Last year was the worst in history for pillage from ships and railways, authorities consider…

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Woman Injured with Knife Court Told

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 5

CHARGED with occasioning actual bodily harm to his sister-in-law, Mary Jones, Walter Leslie Johnson: (35) was remanded on £100 bail until…

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Dragged By Nose, Wife Tells Court

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 3

A woman said at North Sydney Court today that her husband had dragged her around the house by the nose, given her a terrible beating and torn all the clothes from her…

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