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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

13,343 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250

Man Hunt by Police Attack On Child Reported

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 3

Police and detectives are making a wide search for a man who is reported to have criminally assaulted a nine-year-old girl at…

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Hanlon's Lost Parrots Mighty job for Police Squad

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 5

ON Saturday, December 29, I got a shock when three big, important-looking men Entered my yard, and told me they…

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Court Smiles This is what husbands said

The World's News · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 14

Every wife seen, to have a skeleton in the cupboard, that of the man she ought to have married. If my wife were the Chancellor…

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Trapped Boy in Lift Baffles police, firemen, peace officers

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 8

ON Friday, December 28, seven firemen, three policemen, and three Commonwealth peace officers, spent…

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Nursery Handicap Royal Court Scrapes Home: Gold Taj Fails

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 8

Looking a comfortable winner after turning tor home, Royal Court (7 to 4) had to be ridden right out by A. Mulley to win the Nursery Handicap in a tense finish af Randwick this afternoon…

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Mystery of the Week You'll die laughing Nice Day for a Murder, by Victor Gunn. London: Collins

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 15

THERE is scant opportunity and less justification for practical joking in the austere and exact science of…

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Police Hunting for Girl's Attacker 1000 Soldiers Paraded At Army Camp Man Believed to Have Left Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

POLICE, soldiers and civilians are searching for the man who criminally assaulted a nine-years-old girl at Boronia, near Gladesville, yesterday…

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Police Hunting for Girl's Attacker 1000 Soldiers Paraded At Army Camp Man Believed to Have Left Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

POLICE, soldiers and civilians are searching for the man who criminally assaulted a nine-years-old girl at Boronia, near Gladesville, yesterday…

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Police Hunting for Girl's Attacker 1000 Soldiers Paraded At Army Camp Man Believed to Have Left Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

POLICE, soldiers and civilians searching for the man who criminally assaulted a nine-years-old girl at Boronia, near Gladesville, yesterday…

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Police Hunting for Girl's Attacker 1000 Soldiers Paraded At Army Camp Man Believed to Have Left Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

POLICE, soldiers and civilians are searching for the man who criminally assaulted a nine-years-old girl at Boronia, near Gladesville, yesterday…

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Police Hunting for Girl's Attacker 1000 Soldiers Paraded At Army Camp Man Believed to Have Left Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

MORE than 1000 soldiers, stationed at North Ryde vehicle park and Meadowbank camp, were paraded today for inspection by police…

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Police Hunting for Girl's Attacker 1000 Soldiers Paraded At Army Camp Man Believed to Have Left Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 2

MORE than 1000 soldiers, stationed at North Ryde vehicle park and Meadowbank camp, were paraded today for inspection by police…

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Shop Filth Amazes Magistrate

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 16

CONDITIONS in the grocery shop of Everson Cameron, 192 Old Canterbury Rd., Summer Hill, provoked caustic…

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Fined For Stealing Baby-Bonus Cheque

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 14

CASTIGATING a woman thief who had offered 10s a week as…

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Striking troops to be charged

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Sat. -- Western Australian soldiers who twice this week refused to make the journey from Port Pirie to…

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13 A.i.f. Men Charged

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 24

ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Disciplinary actions has been taken against 13 W.A. members of the A.I.F., who, it is said, refused to…

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Gaol term follows air crash HONOLULU

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 6

A CIVILIAN employee at Hickham Field, Honolulu, has been sentenced to six months gaol and fined 2000…

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Journalist On Charge Of Murder

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 13

WEARING a brown double-breasted suit and brown tie, Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, appeared before Mr…

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No tenants for a murder house

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 3

In Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, 1600 had applied for council houses, but in Scunthorpe's Ravendale-street stood an empty…

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BOOKS The murder setting was unusual

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 5

Two mystery stories, one by a former Australian woman journalist, are selected for review this week…

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