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Courts & crime, 1946

13,343 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Police Harass Cheap Fruit Sellers

Tribune · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

STREET barrow men selling cheap fruit to the Sydney public last week were forced by the police to keep continually moving. The men…

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Police Confident Of Kiosk Arrest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4

Detectives are still confident that they will solve the York Street kiosk murder. The victim was Mrs. Jean Wicks,…

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Hard Swim to Evade Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Monday.—A youth whom the police wanted to question swam 100 yards fully clothed across the Macleay River and back…

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Court Judgment Exposes Press

Tribune · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 8

Unwittingly, the NSW Industrial Commission, in its judgment reinstating Ironworkers' Union delegate, Donald Parker, at the BHP subsidiary, Australian Iron and Steel, exposed the corrupt and biassed reporting of the anti-BHP strike in the…

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Police Find Body Of Lost Stockman

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 7

Police, who had searched desert country for a 60-year-old stockman, found his body in a gully late yesterday afternoon…

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Police Discover Head Of Kidnapped Child

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday. -- The severed head of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan was found in a drainage catch-basin near her father's home in Chicago after a hue and cry had been raised over her kidnapping…

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Youth Swims River To Escape Police

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Monday.--A youth today twice swam a river 100 yards wide in an effort to avoid police. When a constable sought to Question…

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Cruelty Charged Against 8th Div. Officers P.O.W's Offer To Give Evidence

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 9

BRISBANE, Monday.--Ill-treatment by their own officers while in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps was alleged fast night by nine members of the Eighth Division…

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18 In Court Following City March

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Seventeen men and a woman were charged in Central Court today with offensive behavior in connection with a…

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18 In Court Following City March

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Seventeen men and a woman were charged in Central Court today with offensive behavior in connection with a…

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18 In Court Following City March

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Seventeen men and a woman were charged in Central Court today with offensive behavior in connection with a…

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Police Story of 70 M.p.h. Chase

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Detective-Sergeant Jack said at Newtown Court today that police chased a man on a motor cycle for five miles at 70 m.p.h…

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Police Story of 70 M.p.h. Chase

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Detective-Sergeant Jack said at Newtown Court today that police chased a man on a motor cycle for five miles at 70 m.p.h…

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Landlady(70) Asks Court To Evict Girl

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 6

A 70-years-old landlady told North Sydney Court today that a tenant, when asked to pay for excess gas, called her a…

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Landlady (70) Asks Court To Evict Girl

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 6

A 70-years-old landlady told North Sydney Court today that a tenant, when asked to pay for excess gas, called her a…

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Landlady (70) Asks Court To Evict Girl

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 6

A 70-years-old landlady told North Sydney Court today that a tenant, when asked to pay for excess gas, called her a…

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Discontent in Police Force Many Men Resign Promotion 'Too Slow'

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4

A CRISIS has developed in the N.S.W. Police Force following numerous resignations during the past few months…

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Discontent in Police Force Many Men Resign Promotion 'Too Slow'

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4

A CRISIS has developed in the N.S.W. Police Force following numerous resignations during the past few months…

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Discontent in Police Force Many Men Resign Promotion 'Too Slow'

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4

A CRISIS has developed in the N.S.W. Police Force following numerous resignations during the past few months…

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Discontent in Police Force Many Men Resign Promotion 'Too Slow'

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4

A CRISES has developed in the N.S.W. Police Force following numerous resignations during the past few months…

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