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Courts & crime, 1948

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Women Police In Uniform

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

THREE POLICEWOMEN in Victoria show their new unit forms for the first time as they step out from Russell St. headquarters, Melbourne. This photo was taken yesterday…

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Women Police In Uniform

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

THREE POLICEWOMEN in Victoria show their new uniforms for the first time as they step out from Russell St. headquarters, Melbourne. This photo was taken yesterday…

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Police Cyclist in Collision

The Biz · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

A police motor cyclist was injured last Thursday when his cycle collided with a motor lorry at the corner of Moore and Northumberland Streets, Liverpool. He…

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Police Raid Two-up Schools

The Biz · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 5

Members of Sydney Police Vice Squad raided two two-up schools on Sunday afternoon and arrested 31 men. The men were charged with playing…

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Civil Servant Before Court

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 2

Denis Wetheriff (53), civil servant, was charged at Central Court today with having driven his car negligently in…

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Civil Servant Before Court

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 2

Denis Wetheriff (53), civil servant, was charged at Central Court today with having driven his car negligently in…

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Soviet Police Methods Exposed by Woman

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 1

PARIS.—Madame Bovard, guardian of the Church of Notre Dame of France in Leningrad, former Russian capital, has just returned to France after having been arrested by the Soviet authorities and subjected to…

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New Step by Banks in Court

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Another move in the legal battle to determine, whether the…

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Plane Pilots Help Police Find Body In Swamp

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 7

BEGA, Wednesday.--Following directions from aeroplane pilots, police today found the body of a man in Yarranung Swamp, two and a half miles from Bega…

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Dora Sentenced

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 9

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Assault on Jews by Arabs

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Friday. -- Arab reinforcements have poured into the battle area 20 miles to the south of…

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Assault on Jews by Arabs

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Friday.-- Arab reinforcements have poured into the battle area 20 miles to the south of…

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False Claim for Drought Relief Farmer Sentenced

The Land · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 10

AT Balranald Court of Petty Sessions last month, Angus Graham McLennan, of Swan Hill, who pleaded guilty before Mr. E. J. Etherton,…

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Police -- 1948 Style

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 5

VICTORIAN POLICEWOMEN, dressed in uniform for the first time, had their initial night patrol through Melbourne last night…

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