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Courts & crime, 1946

13,343 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 250

Collingwood Handicap Anastacia, Royal Court Dead-heat In The Rain

The Sun · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 8

In drifting rain on a heavy track Anastacia (5 to 1) made a dead heat with the 7 to 4 favorite, Royal Court, in the Collingwood Handicap for fillies at Randwick today, with Murmur (10 to 1) third…

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Police Trap Aged Rogue Who Ran School For Crooks Months of careful detective work have revealed to startled New York police an amazing "college" for youthful crooks. Run by an aged but impenitent old rascal, the school was making a handsome profit as an academy for criminal apprentices

The World's News · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 4

WHEN Charles Dickens invented a character named Fagin, who taught young boys to steal and bring him their loot, he was merely…

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Snoopers May Seize Sneezers As Public Enemies Soon Establishment of special courts to deal with people who sneeze in public is forecast by this writer. He predicts that offenders will be sentenced to a curative term of imprisonment in a Government-run solarium—that'll fix 'em!

The World's News · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 2

AS the law stands now you can sneeze in public and get away with it. But before long it will be all up with anybody who starts to…

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Ronin Tradition Menaces Pacific Peace In the Sengakuji Shrine in Tokio lie the bodies of the 47 Ronin. Few Europeans have ever heard of them, but to the Japanese their memory is sacred. It was the Ponin who first made a Japanese virtue of vice—a holy cult of treacherous murder. It is their evil shadow that lies menacingly over defeated Japan today

The World's News · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 7

THE Japanese revere the Ronin because they maintained the Samurai tradition of chivalry—that is, they murdered a feudal lord by…

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Hospital Murder

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 34

The day glamorous night club singer Gay Brockway entered Fairhaven Hospital as a patient, the atmosphere became…

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Girl (18) Bound Over for Theft

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 35

Studs and cuff links, allegedly found in her room, led to the appearance of an 18-years-old girl at Parramatta Quarter Sessions last…

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Bringing Up John Sneaking pennies is not stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 40

Young children should be given some experience in handling money by giving them a weekly,…

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Superintendent kills lamb-stealing eagle West Wyalong

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 1

DISTURBED as it was about to attack a lamb between West Wyalong and Ungarie today, a wedge[?]ailed eagle, measuring 6ft. 9in. from wing tip to wing tip was shot by Police Superintendent Howard of…

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Rail strike murders: 4 charged New York

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 3

FOUR guards on a train of the strike-bound Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad today were…

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Woman's body in street Mother, Son Charged Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 3

A woman has bean charged with murder and her son with having been an accessory after the fact,…

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Good odds tempted on Royal Court

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 1

MESSRS George Ryder and A. Dowling, joint-owners of Royal Court doubled their [?]s when bookmakers…

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Nationalists, police, clash 50 Hurt in Egypt Rioting Cairo

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 1

SHOUTING "Down with the British," rioting Egyptian students of the Nationalist Party, fought…

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Trainer Praises Rival Tribute to Royal Court's dead-heat

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 15

Veteran trainer Frank McGrath paid a tribute to Royal Court after that filly had dead-heated with Anastacia, from his own stable, in the Collingwood Handicap at Randwick…

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TODAY... Bob Slessor's A domain orator felt giddy in court

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 24

INTERIOR decorator and Domain orator Percy McDonald, Rochester Street, Homebush, failed in his Supreme Court action this week against three men and a woman, from whom he claimed £400 for alleged…

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real life court dramas His lucky penny saved him from jail

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 25

ALL that young William Reginald Housley had in the world, when he was arrested, was a cotton shirt, a pair of trousers, and a Queen Victoria penny. When he left Central Police…

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Devastating Doings In The Dom Soap Boxers Carry Verbal War Into Court

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 21

SUNDAY...and soap boxes cluttering the worn, ugly patches beneath mighty Moreton Bay figs...Sunday, in the Outer Domain...and the Red Flag flaunted in defiance of the criss-crossed Union Jack!…

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Four Youths Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 4

Four youths, aged from 15 to 19 years, were arrested on Saturday night after a girl had complained to the police that she had been taken to…

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Bellevue Hill Theft Charge

The Sun · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 9

John Bede Arnold, 26, fireman, in Paddington Court today, was remanded on bail to next Monday on two charges…

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Fireman Faces Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 5

A fireman appeared at Paddington Court today charged with having stolen goods from a dwelling…

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Fireman Faces Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 5

A fireman appeared at Paddington Court today charged with having stolen goods from a dwelling…

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