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Courts & crime, 1947

13,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 250

Faked Murder "Confessions"

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 14

LOS ANGELES, Thursday.--Although poliice yesterday obtained two "confessions," they later admitted that they were no nearer a solution of the intriguing "Black Dahlia"…

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Robbed Gas Meter: Six Months Gaol

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 2

Theft of pennies from a gas-meter yesterday sent Norman Brown, 53, laborer, to gaol today for six months…

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Acid-throwing Bribe Claim Husband Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 16

A police witness said in the Burwood Magistrate's Court yesterday that Frederick Robert Wood, frenchpolisher, was reported to…

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Inadequate Police Protection

The Biz · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 1

Declaring that Fairfield received only 30 hours per week police supervision, Ald. Wilson made an emphatic protest at last week's meeting of Fairfield…

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Assault Charge Withdrawn Driver And M.L.A.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 5

A charge of having assaulted E. D. Darby, M.L.A., at Manly on January 20, made against Robert James Porter Kemp, a bus driver,…

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Man on Serious Charge. Dies in Gaol Cell

The Propeller · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

A man charged at Kogarah last Saturday with the attempted murder of his wife, collapsed and died in an observation cell at Long Bay Gaol on…

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Woman Who Spied For Germans Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 10

PARIS, Thursday.--Magda Cora Boeuf Fontages, 37-years-old woman who once boasted of a brief romance with Mussolini, has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for spying for the Germans during the Nazi occupation of France…

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Woman Who Spied For Germans Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 10

PARIS, Thursday.--Magda Cora Boeuf Fontages, 37-years-old woman who once boasted of a brief romance with Mussolini, has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for spying for the Germans during the Nazi occupation of France…

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Woman Who Spied For Nazis Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 10

PARIS, Thursday.--Magda Cora Boeuf Fontages, 37-years-old woman who once boasted of a brief romance with Mussolini, has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for spying for the Germans during the Nazi occupation of France…

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Woman Who Spied For Germans Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 10

PARIS, Thursday.--Magda Cora Boeuf Fontages, 37-years-old woman who once boasted of a brief romance with Mussolini, has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for spying for the Germans during the Nazi occupation of France…

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Woman Who Spied For Germans Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 10

PARIS, Thursday.--Magda Cora Boeuf Fontages, 37-years-old woman who once boasted of a brief romance with Mussolini, has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for spying for the Germans during the Nazi occupation of France…

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Murder "For The Fun Of It"

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 12

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--After Harold Cameron, 17, had boasted to other boys that he had "lied an old guy to a tree and…

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Miners Kill 10 Police

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 8

LAPAZ (Bolivia). Wednesday.--At least 10 police were killed and 50 injured when striking tin miners at Potosi dynamited police…

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Police Capture Two Escapees

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 5

Police last night recaptured two Royal Navy escapees in the bush near Muswellbrook. The men are Dennis Poole and…

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Man Shot By Police Dies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A man who was chased and shot by police investigating an alleged attempt to blow the safe…

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Man Dies After Police Shooting

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Walter Allan, 35, of Hardy-street, South Yarra, who was shot by police in Victoria-street…

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Man Shot By Police Dies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A man who was chased and shot by police investigating an alleged attempt to blow the safe…

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Man Shot By Police Dies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A man who was chased and shot by police investigating an alleged attempt to blow the safe…

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Man Shot By Police Dies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A man who was chased and shot by police investigating an alleged attempt to blow the safe…

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Man Shot By Police Dies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A man who was chased and shot by police investigating an alleged attempt to blow the safe…

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