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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

13,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 250

Lift victim's court remand meant liberty -- and death

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 1

Twenty-five-year-old Canadian seaman William Johnson, who was crushed to death in a George Street lift-well on Friday, was the only fireman on the British freighter Empire Prospect at liberty that night. The nine other firemen on…

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...real life court dramas a Bcof sergeant got surprising news

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 29

IN August, 1946, Sergeant Reginald Berkley Officer, with the BCOF in Japan, got a letter from his wife telling him his half-brother had come to stay at his Cabramatta home…

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Gaol for Rail Truck Theft

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 3

"The losses suffered by the Railway Department through pillage of goods in transit are enormous," said Departmental…

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Gaol for Rail Truck Theft

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 3

"The losses suffered by the Railway Department through pillage of goods in transit are enormous," said Departmental…

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Gaol for Rail Truck Theft

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 3

"The losses suffered by the Railway Department through pillage of goods in transit are enormous." said Departmental…

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Gaol for Rail Truck Theft

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 3

"The losses suffered by the Railway Department through pillage of goods in transit are enormous," said Departmental…

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Case Dismissed By Magistrate

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 2

Mr. Soiling. SM, today dismissed a charge against Joseph Patrick Malouf, Bronte-road, Waverley, of having stolen goods in…

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Gaol On Bribery Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A Melbourne butcher was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having bribed a…

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Gaol On Bribery Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A Melbourne butcher was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having bribed a…

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Gaol On Bribery Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A Melbourne butcher was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having bribed a…

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Gaol Git Bribery Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A Melbourne butcher was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having bribed a…

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Gaol for Rail Truck Jheft

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 3

"The losses suffered by the Railway Department through pillage of goods in transit are enormous." said Departmental…

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3 Months Gaol For Butcher

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Sentencing a whole sale butcher to three months imprisonment on a charge of…

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Man Again Sent to Gaol for Indecency

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

A MAN who was recently released from gaol after serving a sentence for indecency was gaoled for six months at Parramatta Court today…

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Man Again Sent to Gaol for Indecency

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

A MAN who was recently released from gaol after serving a sentence for indecency was gaoled for six months at Parramatta Court today…

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Germans Charged With Profiting By War Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 1

NUREMBERG, February 9 (A.A.P.).—The United States yesterday formally indicted Friedrich Flick, Otto Steinbrinck,…

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Police Make 509 Weekend Arrests

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 5

Police arrested 509 persons during the weekend in the metropolitan area. More than 80 per cent. of those arrested were charged with drunkenness,…

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Men Hit by Police Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Two men were injured, one seriously, by a police wireless patrol car in Yarra Park early to-day…

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Gangsters Murder and Pillage in Ruined German City

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 9

BERLIN, Monday.--Ruined Mannheim (in the US zone of Germany) has been turned into a city of terror by international gangsters, whose recent operations have included murder, smuggling, sex crimes and gang-fights on a scale…

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Films Women Liked Novelist With Flair For Murder

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 6

Showing at the. Empire this week is a thriller film which makes, unusual use of the suicide note technique to hide murder. "Danger Signal" (Empire). --Zachary Scott is a novelist with…

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