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Courts & crime, 1946

13,343 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 250

German Police Armed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 10

LONDON.--German police in the Russian zone of Berlin are to carry arms while on duty, the British News Service in Germany has…

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Woman Held For Murder Of Girl

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 23

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Austrian-born Mrs. Sonja Leggett has been charged with first degree murder, manslaughter and abortion…

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Woman Held For Murder Of Girl

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 23

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Austrian-born Mrs. Sonja Leggett has been charged with first degree murder. manslaughter and abortion…

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Re-trial Ordered for Murder Case

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 3

DUBLIN, Thursday.--The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the conviction and sentence of death passed on Stephen Murphy (30), and…

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Woman Held For Murder Of Girl

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 23

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Austrian-born Mrs. Sonja Leggett has been charged with first degree murder, manslaughter and abortion…

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Kiosk Murder Charge Morris Released On £1,000 Bail

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 5

Douglas Ronald Morris, 26, journalist, employed by the "Daily Mirror," who is on remand charged with the…

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Palestine's Heaviest Expense. Police Top Government Budget

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

Up to the end of the year the Palestine Police comprised 8000 Britons, Jews and Arabs, of whom 400 were British officers and constables, 2550 Arabs and only 650,…

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Biggest, But Tidiest Crowd Packs Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 6

Sixty-four people were fined a total of £8226, with costs of £2716-, in Central Court yesterday for breaches of the city health regulations…

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Cheers And Hoots For Court Verdict

The Sun · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday.--A storm of cheers burst out in Anglesey Court when the jury indicated that Albert Arthur Nettleton (32) would not have to die for the killing of his…

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Law Notices To-day High Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 6

Resistrar.—Chambers.—10.30 Mayne v Public Trustee. BANKRUPTCY COURT. Registrar.—7th Lloor, C'Wealth Bank [?]ldg.,…

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Bail Granted in Kiosk Murder Charge Judge Disapproves Of Inquest Delay

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 11

Douglas Ronald Morris, 26, journalist, who was charged with the murder Of Mrs. Jean Wicks in a York Street tobacca kiosk on January 2, was yesterday granted bail…

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Assizes Jury Verdict Cheered Husband Freed Of Murder Wife Pictured As "Tiresome"

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--There were cheers at Beaumaris (Anglesey) Assizes yesterday when the jury found Arthur Nettleton, former soldier,…

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Assizes Jury Verdict Cheered Husband Freed Of Murder Wife Pictured As "Tiresome"

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--There were cheers at Beaumaris (Anglesey) Assizes yesterday when the jury found Arthur Nettleton, former soldier,…

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Assizes Jury Verdict Cheered Husband Freed Of Murder Wife Pictured As "Tiresome"

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--There were cheers at Beaumaris (Anglesey) Assizes yesterday when the jury found Arthur Nettleton, former soldier,…

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Assizes Jury Verdict Cheered Husband Freed Of Murder Wife Pictured As "Tiresome"

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--There were cheers at Beaumaris (Anglesey) Assizes yesterday when the jury found Arthur Nettleton, former soldier,…

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Assizes Jury Verdict Cheered Husband Freed Of Murder Wife Pictured As "Tiresome"

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--There were cheers at Beaumaris (Anglesey) Assizes yesterday when the jury found Arthur Nettleton, former soldier,…

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Killer Tells Court Of Strange Vows To Wife

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--A man had promised his wife on the Bible to spit in the eye of a former Army colleague who had induced him to join-up, it was stated in an Anglesey (Wales) court yesterday…

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Grim Clashes in Bombay Police Use Rifles And Tear Gas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

BOMBAY, Jan. 23 (A.A.P.).— The police fired on crowds with revolvers and rifles in a series of clashes to-day with demonstrators,…

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Anti-semitic Contract Clause Ruled Out by Canadian Court

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 3

The Supreme Court of Ontario recently declared illegal a land sale contract containing a claus stipulating that the land "was not to be sold to Jews or…

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Illicit Spirits at Mulgoa Two Men Charged, One Fined £25 Ducks That Died From a Food with Molasses

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

WATSON RUSSELL, pleaded guilty, at Penrith Police Court on 17th inst., to a charge of having illicit spirits on premises at…

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