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Courts & crime, 1947

13,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Tragic Story in Coroner's Court Father Kills Son, Hangs Himself "Accident" Plea in Last Letter

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 9

A MAN who murdered his son, then committed suicide, left a note asking that his wife, who was in Gladesville Mental Asylum, be told that they died in a car accident…

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Tragic Story in Coroner's Court Father Kills Son, Hangs Himself "Accident" Plea in Last Letter

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 9

A MAN who murdered his son, then committed suicide, left a note asking that his wife, who was in Gladesville Mental Asylum, be told that they died in a car accident…

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Gaol For Assault On Constable

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

"Assaults on police will not be tolerated while I am on the Bench," Mr. Collins, SM, said in…

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Murder Intent Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

Harry Brownlow (54), retired, appeared at Central Court today on a charge of having feloniously administered poison to…

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Murder Intent Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

Harry Brownlow (54), retired, appeared at Central Court today on a charge of having feloniously to…

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Murder Intent Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

Harry Brownlow (54), retired, appeared at Central Court today on a charge of having feloniously administered poison to…

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Murder Intent Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

Harry Browniow (54), retired, appeared at Central Court today on a charge of having feloniously administered poison to…

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Murder Intent Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

Harry Brownlow (54), retired, appeared at Central Court today on a charge of having feloniously administered poison to…

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Murder Intent Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

Harry Brownlow (54), retired, appeared at Central Court today on a charge of having feloniously administered poison to…

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Plot Against Suez Canal; Man Charged

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 4

PARTS, Saturday. -- The French Military Tribunal has sent a commission of inquiry to England to interrogate a German national who has…

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Plot Against Suez Canal; Man Charged

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 4

PARIS, Saturday. -- The French Military Tribunal has sent a commission of inquiry to England to interrogate a German national who has…

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Plot Against Suez Canal; Man Charged

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 4

PARIS, Saturday. -- The French A Military Tribunal has sent a commission of inquiry to England to interrogate a German national who has…

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Plot Against Suez Canal; Man Charged

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 4

PARIS, Saturday. -- The French Military Tribunal has sent a commission of inquiry to England to Interrogate a German national who has…

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Plot Against Suez Canal; Man Charged

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 4

PARIS, Saturday. -- The French Military Tribunal has sent a commission of inquiry to England to interrogate a German national who has…

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Former Minister On Murder Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 3 (A.A.P.).— Thomas John Ley, company director and former New South Wales Minister of Justice, John William…

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Police "Chain" Saves Soldier

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Pour wireless-patrol police saved a soldier from drowning in the Yarra early today when they…

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Police Search for Four Men

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

Police are searching for four soldiers who were in a Jeep Which, allegedly, knocked down and injured an elderly tramways…

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Police Say Poison Given In Brandy

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

A man gave a woman brandy containing strychnine at Rose Bay yesterday, police alleged at Central Police Court today. Harry Brownlow, 54, was…

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Police Suspect A Perfect Murder Her Body Was Packed in the Honeymoon [?]Uggage Police of three countries are puzzled by a crime which shrieks "murder" but one which is likely to remain unsolved for all time. Police files in Washington, London and Belgrade have pictures of the suspected victim; in a police storeroom is the trunk which once contained her honeymoon clothes but later probably contained her bloodstained body; in America's Sing Sing Gaol is the man who probably committed the perfect crime, and by that means saved himself from the noose or the electric chair

The World's News · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

THE baffling mystery has become known, as the "Honeymoon Trunk Case," because investigators believe that clever, wealthy Agnes…

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Meat Cases in Court Two Butchers Convicted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 5

The prices wholesale butchers had to pay for beef had hardly ever been less than the prices they were entitled to charge retailers for…

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