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Courts & crime, 1946

13,343 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250

Caldwell Court Martial

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

PROMINENT figures at the court-martial of Group Captain C R. "Killer" Caldwell, D.F.C. and Bar, and Polish Cross of…

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Caldwell Court Martial

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

PROMINENT figures at the court-martial of Group Captain C. R. "Killer" Caldwell, D.F.C. and Bar, and Polish Cross of…

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Caldwell Court Martial

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

PROMINENT figures at the court-martial of Group Captain C.R. "Killer" Caldwell, D.F.C. and Bar, and Polish Cross of…

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Police Seek Dead Man's Relatives

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 7

Clarence Street police are anxious to contact relatives or friends of William James Dempsey. 50, who died yesterday in Sydney…

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Police Are Baffled In Kiosk Case

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

Police are baffled in their hunt for the murderer of Mrs. Jean Wicks, battered and strangled, in her York-street kiosk on…

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Girl Gave Police Lively Run-around

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- On the way to St. Kilda police station early on December 29, Roma Power, 20, led two uniformed policemen a "merry dance," according to evidence in court today, when…

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Glamor Girls Not Wanted As Police

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday. -- Scotland Yard, which has opened a nationwide recruiting campaign for women police, says "no…

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Murder Victim Bookmaker, Gambler Believed Strangled While Settling Bets

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 5

Police allege that Mrs. Jean Wicks, who was murdered on Wednesday, was a big starting-price bookmaker and was connected with a big baccarat school. They believe she was murdered while she was settling…

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Robbery Theory in Murder Mystery Victim's S.P. Interests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

Robbery is believed by the police to have been the motive for the murder of Mrs. Jean Wicks, 45, of Macleay Street, Potts Point, whose body was found in…

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Court Martial To Begin Today

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 5

Court-martial of Group Captain Clive ("Killer") Caldwell will begin at 10 a.m. today at Bradfield Park Air Station…

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Court At Morotai Was Dissolved

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

These charges came before a field general court martial at Morotai. Caldwell was arraigned and…

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Decisions by Court on Strike

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 5

The State Industrial Commission yesterday made two important decisions on the steel strike which led to the gas and…

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Jewish Deportations Unlawful Declares Court

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Wed. (JT[?] lestine reveals that considera[?] were employed last week in th[?] of 55 Jewish detainees from t[?]…

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Arbitration, "Court-martial of Industry"

Tribune · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

“Court-Martial of Industry” was how the NSW Labor Council, the ALP Executive and the Federal Parliamentary Labor party once describe the system of compulsory…

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Court Orders Valveman to Be Reinstated

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission yesterday ordered Australian Iron and Steel, Port Kembla, to reinstate Donald Parker, a dismissed valveman…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, January 4, 1946 Court Rebuffs Ironworkers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

In separate findings yesterday the Industrial Commission ordered the reinstatement of D. Parker, whose dismissal for refusal of duty led to the…

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Harvesting Award Again Before Court Union's case in Respect of Hay. Oats, Barley and Rye

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3

BEFORE Judge Kelly, in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Melbourne, lengthy argument was heard in the matter of an application by Mr. G. H. Buckland, on behalf of the A.W.U., for the lifting of…

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Not Baffled Over Murder Say Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 3

Suggestions that the police were baffled over the murder of Mrs. Jean Wicks, were unfair, the chief of the C.I.B. (Superintendent James) said today…

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Not Baffled Over Murder Say Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 3

Suggestions that the police were baffled over the murder of Mrs. Jean Wicks, were unfair, th chief of the C.I.B. (Superintendent James) said today…

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Not Baffled Over Murder Say Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 3

Suggestions that the police were baffled over the murder of Mrs. Jean Wicks, were unfair, the chief of the C.I.B. (Superintendent James) said today…

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