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Courts & crime, 1947

13,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 250

Wife Charged with Stabbing Her Husband

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 9

A WOMAN stabbed her husband with a knife at Newtown last night, it was alleged by the Police Prosecutor at Newtown Court today…

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Wife Charged with Stabbing Her Husband

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 9

A WOMAN stabbed her husband with a knife at Newtown last night, it was alleged by the Police Prosecutor at Newtown Court today…

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Wife Charged with Stabbing Her Husband

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 9

A WOMAN stabbed her husband with a knife at Newtown last night, it was alleged by the Police Prosecutor at Newtown Court today…

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Wife Charged with Stabbing Her Husband

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 9

A WOMAN stabbed her husband with a knife at Newtown last night, it was alleged by the Police Prosecutor at Newtown Court today…

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U.k. Soldier Hanged for Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

BERLIN, Jan. 23 (A.A.P.).—Driver F. J. Upson, a member of the Royal Army Service Corps in Germany, was hanged yesterday, for the murder of…

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Murder of Aboriginal Arnhem Land Drama

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3

DARWIN, Thursday.— The cold-blooded murder of art aboriginal and the stabbing of another have…

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Bengal Police Terror Grows

Tribune · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

BOMBAY. — Raids on Communist Party offices in New Delhi and Bombay and a new dictatorial regime in Bengal follow a steadily-increasing…

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Suicide In Court

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5

JERUSALEM. Friday. -- An Arab gunman, Mohammed Mograbi, committed suicide in the dock when a British military…

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Court Case Over Child

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

A sergeant stationed at Victoria Barracks complained in Central Court today that his sister-in-law and her husband…

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Police Fire 7 Times On Rioters

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--Police fired seven times on rioters yesterday in an attempt…

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Man Slashed Youth's Face, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7

A MAN alleged by police at Redfern Court today of a youth with a sharp instrument, inflicting a wound necessitating 14 stitches, denied that he even…

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Man Slashed Youth's Face, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7

A MAN alleged by police at Redfern Court today to have slashed the face of a youth with a sharp instrument, inflicting a wound necessitating 14 stitches, denied that he even…

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Police Check On City Bar Hours

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

Police are cracking down on city hotels for after-hour trading, and prosecutions are likely. A special squad is visiting…

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The Ways Of Poland's Secret Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

CLOSE to the British Embassy in Warsnw is a large white block of flats. The windows are barred and there are several sentries on the…

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Man Slashed Youth's Face, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7

A MAN alleged by police at Red fern Court today to have slashed the face of a youth with a sharp instrument, inflicting a wound necessitating 14 stitches, denied that he even…

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Man Slashed Youth's Face, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7

A MAN alleged by police at Redfern Court today to have slashed the face of a youth With a sharp instrument, inflicting a wound necessitating 14 stitches, denied that he even…

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Man Slashed Youth's Face, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7

A MAN alleged by police at Redfern Court today to have slashed the face of a youth with a sharp instrument, inflicting a wound necessitating 14 stitches, denied that he even…

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Man Slashed Youth's Face, Police Allege

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7

A MAN alleged by police at Redfern Court today to have slashed the face of a youth with a sharp instrument, inflicting a wound necessitating 14 stitches, denied that he even…

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Police Arrest Man on Shooting Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4

Police went to Vaucluse last night when a shot was fired outside a block of flats in Coolong Road. They arrested a man and charged…

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Father Charged with Shooting Son Remand For Vaucluse Man Allegations of Evening Quarrel

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5

ALLEGED by police to have shot his son following an altercation at his home last night, Robert John Henry Ward (47) was remanded until February 17 by Mr. Cookson,…

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