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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Fatal Shooting After Kiss Alleged Man On Murder Charge Police Story of Struggle

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 5

A POSTMAN was alleged at Central Court today to have fatally shot a man whose-wife he had been found kissing…

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Fatal Shooting After Kiss Alleged Man On Murder Charge Police Story of Struggle

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 5

A POSTMAN was alleged at Central Court today to have fatally shot a man whose wife he had been found kissing…

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Fatal Shooting After Kiss Alleged Man On Murder Charge Police Story of Struggle

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 5

A POSTMAN was alleged at Central Court today to have fatally shot a man whose wife he had been found kissing…

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Gaol Term For Hostess Of Parties

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 3

BAY CITY (Michigan), Friday.—Widowed mother of five children, Frances Peyck (23), admitted in…

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Gaol Term For Hostess Of Parties

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 3

BAY CITY (Michigan), Friday.—Widowed mother of five children, Frances Peyck (23), admitted in…

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Police Seize Explosives

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.—For Hie second time in a week, New Jersey police have seized a vast quantity of explosives. AT a farm near Wall…

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Police Seme Explosives

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.—For the second time in a week, New Jersey police have seized a vast quantity of explosives. AT a farm near Wall…

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Police Seize Explosives

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.—For the second time in a week, New Jersey police have seized a vast quantity of explosives. AT a farm near Wall…

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Police Seize Explosives

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.—For the second time in a week, New Jersey police have seized a vast quantify of explosives. AT a farm near Wall…

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Police Cyclist in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 9

A police motor cyclist was injured yesterday when his cycle collided with a motor lorry at the corner of Moore…

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Speed in Court

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 8

When Mr. Acting-Justice Rainbow began divorce hearings this week, he averaged fine minutes a case. Today…

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Wrestling, Police Boys Club, Woolloomooloo

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

(New Year’s Night). Not only was it raining, but it was very sticky and the Gym was crowded to overflowing…

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Indian Sees Police H.q

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 7

INDIAN Test cricketer C. R. Rangachari, an inspector in the Madras police force, visited Russell Street police station, Melbourne's police headquarters, yesterday. He expressed interest in Australia's latest methods of…

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Four Police Needed to Lift Woman

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 2

So heavy was a woman arrested on Central Railway Station on December 18 that four policemen…

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Four Police Needed to Lift Woman

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 2

So heavy was a woman arrested on Central Railway Station on December 18 that four policemen…

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Police moved fat woman by trolley

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 3

Four constables failed to lift a woman arrested at Central railway station, it took six to put her in a cell, and 12 failed to control her after she had been fined in Central Court today…

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Felted shot after kiss, Court told

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 5

A country postman charged with murder had been caught kissing the victim's wife, the police prosecutor said in Central Court today. While husband and wife…

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Chase in city ; 2 charged

The Sun · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 2

Alertness of a probationary constable put on end to a night jaunt by two men in a stolen car,…

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Postman Remanded On Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 6

A postman fired a pea-rifle "from the hip" and killed a man who caught him kissing the man's wife, police alleged in Central Court yesterday…

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Police Seize Explosives

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday.-- Three traitor, trucks loaded with 138,000lb. of explosives six times more…

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