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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

13,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 250

Big Police Hunt For Escapee

The Sun · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 1

Police at Parramatta are redoubling their efforts to locate a mental home escapee, who is…

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Police, Dogs Hunt Armed Man

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 5

Police are using dogs in a search for a man who twice wounded a woman in a house at…

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Sunday Pay Rate Claim for Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --Claims for double time for Sunday work, which have been the subject of much negotiation…

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Sunday Pay Rate Claim for Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Claims for double time for Sunday work, which have been the subject of much negotiation…

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Police Fear Man Sought For Shooting Mas Gun

The Sun · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 3

Police fear that a man wanted for the shooting of a woman at Granville yesterday is still armed with a small black pistol. They have Intensified their" search for the man aged about…

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Dr. Alleges Attempt to Fake Suicides Brown Committed On Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 9

BRISBANE, Friday.--A Government pathologist said in Brisbane Police Court today that he believed a singularly unconvincing attempt had been made to create the impression that…

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Police Dog in Hunt Man Sought In Shooting Case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 1

Detectives yesterday afternoon used the police dog, Souri, in an effort to pick up the trail of a man who is…

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A.C.T.U. May Ban Court Hearing

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Friday.--If the Arbitration Court insists on hearing the basic wage and 40-hour cases together, the A.C.T.U. will refuse to attend the…

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40 Police Search for Wanted Man Alleged Shooting Of Woman Dog Picked Up Trail, Lost It

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

AN elderly man, who allegedly twice shot a woman at Granville late yesterday afternoon, is believed to be still armed and hiding in the district…

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40 Police Search for Wanted Man Alleged Shooting Of Woman Dog Picked Up Trail, Lost It

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

AN elderly mm, who allegedly twice shot a woman at Granville late yesterday afternoon, is believed to be still armed and hiding in the district…

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40 Police Search for Wanted Man Alleged Shooting Of Woman Dog Picked Up Trail, Lost It

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

AN elderly man, who allegedly twice shot a woman at Granville late yesterday afternoon, is believed to he still armed and hiding in the district…

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40 Police Search for Wanted Man Alleged Shooting Of Woman Dog Picked Up Trail, Lost It

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

AN elderly man, who allegedly twice shot a woman at Granville late yesterday afternoon, is believed to be still armed and hiding in the district…

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"Evidence Up Sleeve" Criticised £2000 Stealing Charge Fails

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 43

CRITICISM of police methods in presenting evidence at a lower court hearing was voiced by Judge Nield at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions last Friday when attractive, twice-divorced Edna Elizabeth Sykes…

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Police Seek Race Crooks

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 3

Thirty-four detectives were on duty at Randwick Racecourse yesterday, looking for undesirables who batten on the…

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Police trail man with gun

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 11

SEARCH for an armed man who is said to have shot Mrs. Lilian Maude Lauret, 43, at…

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Girl On Ship, Say Police

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 26

A 21-YEARS-OLD white girl spent several nights living with the colored crew of a ship lying at Darling…

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Old Couple Involved in Court Drama

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 23

AN extraordinary story was told in the District Court last week when Isabel de Fraine (64), widow, Audley St., Petersham, claimed from Edgar Raymond Randall (62), Austral St., Malabar, the sum of £81 12s, which she alleged he owed her for wages…

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Mob Menaces Police at Petersham Five Men Arrested

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 1

A MENACING crowd threatened to attack police who had arrested five men outside the Petersham Inn Hotel, Petersham, yesterday, but was…

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Faces Murder Charge Victim of Foul Crime Accountant Committed To Stand Trial

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 28

ALLEGATIONS that Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown (49), accountant, was very jealous of pretty 19-years-old brunette, Bronia Mary Armstrong, stenographer, whose partly-clad body was found in a room at…

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Arbitration Court Hearings May Stop Labor Hold-ups

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 10

Leading trade union officials said last night that Arbitration Court hearings tomorrow might prevent extension of industrial unrest in Australia…

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