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Courts & crime, 1946

13,343 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250

Two Men Escape From Police Van

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 18

Two men made a daring escape from a police prisoner van between Campsie and Burwood yesterday. The men removed a wire grille…

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Police Aid Sought For Hotel; Black Ban Fails

The Sun · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 3

When some customers of the Bexley Hotel threatened last night to impose a ban from opening time (11.30) today the manager (Mr. "Snowy" Justice)…

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Unions To Ask Court For 40 Hrs

The Sun · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 3

Unions are expected to join almost immediately in an application to the Federal Arbitration Court for a…

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Fresh Violence in Bombay Police Fire On Mobs Looting Shops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 3

BOMBAY, January 25 (A.A.P,).—In fresh outbursts of violence here to-day, crowds smashed their way into a number of shops, looted the stocks and threw heavy…

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U.S. Strike Violence Police Use Tear Gas Attacks on Picket Line

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday. - - Fifth day of the great steel strike yesterday was marked by violence at Lockland, Ohio, Pittsburg and in New York…

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Wave Of Fear Ends As Police Smash Arsenic, Inc. With the last fiendish member of the murderous gang known as Arsenic, Incorporated, behind bars, a city can breathe freely once more. For eight years they plied their nefarious trade of "black magic" and murder in peaceful Philadelphia—killing at least 100 innocent people in their insatiable greed for money

The World's News · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 4

THE days of the devil's brew in. Philadelphia are over and the last chapter is about to be written in a nefarious money-making…

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Wife Charged With Murder

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 19

Coroner A. G. Chiplin, at an inquest in Newcastle last week, found that Arthur McCluskey Gourley (55), Dyke End employee, died from the effect of a knife wound, a puncture in the left…

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Police Campaign Against Hotels

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 28

N.S.W. Licensing Police propose immediately to compel hotelkeepers to provide accommodation and meals for the, public! The new Metropolitan Licensing (Inspector…

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Police clash with pickets

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sat. -- In four clashes with police today, several Western Union strikers were injured and 10 arrested…

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Police Watch On Road-Hogs

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 28

Special, squads of traffic police will be on duty tomorrow to keep a check on traffic offenders, particularly road-hogs…

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Police boys find an "angel"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 41

The boys of the Woolloomooloo Police-Citizens' Boys' Club call Mrs. Sylvia Chase their "Angel Without Wings."…

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Police chase hotel pickets away

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 48

Police chased away several pickets who tried to impose a "black" ban on the Hotel Bexley, Bexley, yesterday. The men were chased after they had refused to obey…

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Parking police on duty

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 7

On Tuesday 50 special parking police will be on duty in the city. They will be 50 of the 100…

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Police warning of forged £5 notes

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 1

A warning that counterfeit £5 notes are being passed was issued by the police last night. Yesterday a man was told when…

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Police Story of Claim by Alleged Bigamist

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 19

A MAN who was committed from Manly Court last Wednesday for trial on a charge of bigamy, was alleged to have told the police that the woman concerned in the charge was a relative of Viscountess…

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Police fire on crowds in Bombay BOMBAY

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 5

CROWDS which were looting grain stores and shops and starling bonfires in the city were fired on…

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Alleged Stories to Police Repudiated by Two Girls

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 20

DURING the hearing of charges at Central Court last Thursday, two young women repudiated statements…

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Police Women Swoop Upon Girls In London's West End

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 27

LONDON, Saturday.—Women police last night made a surprise swoop on women and girls in the Marble Arch—Edgeware Road district. hundreds being Questioned. "Concentrate on girls and women…

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real life court dramas She spat in the constable's face

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 27

Connie Lawson, 33, gasped a ladylike "Oh!" and shuddered a little, when she was shown a written copy of…

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40-Hour Week Evatt told them to go to Court

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 January 1946 · page 22

Federal Attorney-General Doc Evatt was "with" the A.C.T.U. in its demand for a 40-hour week…

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