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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

13,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 250

Gaol Over Petrol Tickets

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 11

A man who was estimated to have obtained more than 30,000 petrol tickets from the Liquid Fuel Board by false pretences…

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Gaol Over Petrol Tickets

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 2

A man who was estimated to have obtained more than 30,000 petrol tickets from the Liquid Fuel Board by false pretences…

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Gaol Over Petrol Tickets

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 11

A man who was estimated to have obtained more than 30,000 petrol tickets from the Liquid Fuel Board by false pretences…

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Accountant on Theft Charge £7,184 Allegedly Unaccounted For Receipt False, Claim Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

IT was alleged at Central Court today that an accountant obtained £7184 17s from a client by telling him he owed that amount in taxation, whereas the total owing was about £3000…

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Accountant on Theft Charge £7,184 Allegedly Unaccounted For Receipt False, Claim Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

IT was alleged at Central Court today that an accountant obtained £7184 17s from a client by telling him he owed that amount in taxation, whereas the total owing was about £3000…

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Boy Absconder Sent to Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 8

Leslie George Mayor (16), absconder from Gosford Farm Home, was sentenced to 18 months' gaol by Judge Barton…

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Man Sentenced for Assaulting Girl 12

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

"I have absolute abhorrence for a man who criminally assaults a girl of 12 years," said Judge Shortland, when imposing a sentence of nine months gaol on a quarter-caste aborigine at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…

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Man Sentenced for Assaulting Girl 12

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

"I have absolute abhorrence for a man who criminally assaults a girl of 12 years," said Judge Shortland, when imposing a sentence of nine months gaol on a quarter-caste aborigine at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…

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Man Sentenced for Assaulting Girl 12

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

"I have absolute abhorrence for a man who criminally assaults a girl of 12 years," said Judge Shortland, when imposing a sentence of nine months gaol on a Quarter-caste aborigine at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…

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Man Sentenced for Assaulting Girl 12

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

"I have absolute abhorrence for a man who criminally assaults a girl of 12 years," said Judge Shortland, when imposing a sentence of nine months gaol on a quarter-caste aborigine at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…

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Man Sentenced for Assaulting Girl 12

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 8

"I have absolute abhorrence for a man who criminally assaults a girl of 12 years," said Judge Shortland, when imposing a sentence of nine months gaol on a quarter-caste aborigine at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…

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Man Sentenced for Assaulting Girl 12

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 3

"I have absolute abhorrence for a man who criminally assaults a girl of 12 years," said Judge Shortland, when imposing a sentence of nine months gaol on a quarter-caste aborigine at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…

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Accountant on Theft Charge Police Claim £7,184 Unaccounted For Alleged Forgery of Income Tax Department Certificate

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

IT was alleged at Central Court today that an accountant obtained £718417- from a client by telling him he owed that amount in taxation, whereas the total owing was about £3000. The court was told that £1 17s was paid to the department and that the…

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Accountant on Theft Charge Police Claim £7,184 Unaccounted For Alleged Forgery of Income Tax Department Certificate

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

IT was alleged at Central Court today that an accountant obtained £718417- from a client by telling him he owed that amount in taxation, whereas the total owing was about £3000. The court was told that £1 17s was paid to the department, and that the…

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Accountant on Theft Charge Police Claim £7,184 Unaccounted For Alleged Forgery of Income Tax Department Certificate

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

IT was alleged at Central Court today that an accountant obtained £718417- from a client by telling him he owed that amount in taxation, whereas the total owing was about £3000. The court was told that £1 17s was paid to the departments and that the…

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Accountant on Theft Charge Police Claim £7,184 Unaccounted For Alleged Forgery of Income Tax Department Certificate

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

IT was alleged at Central Court today that an accountant obtained £718417- from a client by telling him he owed that amount in taxation,whereas the total owing was about £3000. The court was told that £1 17s was paid to the department, and that the…

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Boy Pleads Guilty To Nine Theft Charaes

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 7

William Blair Jackson (16) pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to nine charges of breaking, entering and…

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Boy Pleads Guilty To Nine Theft Charges

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 7

William Blair Jackson (16) pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to nine charges of breaking, entering and…

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Boy Pleads Guilty To Nine Theft Charqes

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 7

William Blair Jackson (16) pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions today to nine charges of breaking, entering and…

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Counsel Attacks Gaol Authorities Stir At Hearing Of Murder Charge Death of 19 Years-old Girl in Brisbane Office

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday. -- Serious allegations against certain Brisbane gaol authorities were made when Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown (49), accountant, appeared today on a charge of murder…

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