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Courts & crime, 1946

13,343 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250

Hostility to British Motive In Murder Of Egyptian Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 7.—Anti-British feeling is believed to have been behind, the murder, in Cairo on Saturday of Amin Osman Pasha,…

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Crisis Developing in Police Force Flood Of Resignations Discontent Over Seniority Issue

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

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

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Arrest in Kiosk Murder Case Reporter Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

A 26-year-old newspaper reporter was charged last night with the murder of Mrs. Jean…

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Strange Dunkirk Story Corporal Charged With Murder "Mercy" Injection for Wounded Officer

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

A strange story, containing all the elements of a fictitious mystery yarn, was told in Birmingham Magistrates' Court…

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Troops End Gaol Riot

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

ROME, Wednesday.--The police were obliged to call out troops to quell a riot in Marassi Prison, Genoa, yesterday When the prison was…

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Troops End Gaol Riot

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 8

ROME, Wednesday.--The police were obliged to call out troops to quell a riot in Marassi Prison, Genoa, yesterday. When the prison was…

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Troops End Gaol Riot

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 8

ROME, Wednesday.--The police were obliged to call out troops tb quell a riot in Marassi Prison, Genoa, yesterday When the prison was…

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Troops End Gaol Riot

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

ROME, Wednesday.--The police were obliged to call out troops to quell a riot in Marassi Prison, Genoa, yesterday. When, the prison was…

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Troops End Gaol Riot

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 8

ROME, Wednesday.--The police were obliged to call out troops to quell a riot in Marassi Prison, Genoa, yesterday. When the prison was…

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Thieved On Day Freed From Gaol

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

On the day he was released from Long Bay gaol after serving two years, a man robbed the private rooms of a Redfern…

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Butcher's Knife For Baby; Father Charged

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

On a charge of haying attempted to murder his six-months-old son, Barry Thomas Jones, by the use of a butcher s knife, Charles Alfred Jones, 24, laborer, was committed for trial from Parramatta Court yesterday…

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Four Warders Sacked From Long Bay Gaol

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

Four warders at Long Bay Penitentiary have been dismissed during the last six months for serious offences, involving, in two cases, trafficking between prisoners and persons outside. Some of the officers concerned…

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Late News Mass Murder Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 8 (A.A.P.).— Austrian State Police have arrested a doctor and eight nurses of a mental home on the outskirts of Vienna on a…

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Man Arrested on Kiosk Murder Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

A man was charged last night with having murdered Mrs. Jean Wicks, 45, of Macleay Street, Potts Point, whose body was found in her tobacco kiosk in York Street, Sydney, last Wednesday…

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Innocence Plea -- Journalist Faces Murder Charge

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

"The accused maintains his innocence and there is no likelihood of him making away," said Mr. H. J. Price, solicitor, at Central Court today, seeking the release of Douglas Ronald Morris, 26, journalist, charged with the…

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Dissatisfied Police Plan Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 4

A mass meeting of police mhy he held in Sydney soon to direct public attention to their claims for an increase in pay of 1/11 a day,…

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Conditions, Wages Main Police Grouch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

Dissatisfaction with wages and conditions rather than with methods of promotion was the real reason why men were…

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Conditions, Wages Main Police Grouch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

Dissatisfaction with wages and conditions rather than with methods of promotion was the real reason why men were…

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Ex-Soldiers As Special Police

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

More than 200 applications have been received by the Police Department from disabled servicemen desirous of joining the…

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Conditions, Wages Main Police Grouch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

Dissatisfaction with wages and conditions rather than with methods of promotion was the real reason why men were…

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