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Courts & crime, 1948

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250

Police identify "dope gang" girl

The Sun · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 2

Identity of a "mystery" girl who appeared before Mr. Debenham, SM, Parramatta Children's Court on January 9, was disclosed today when she was charged at Parramatta Police Station with…

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N.T. Plane Mystery Police Watch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 1

DARWIN, Friday.— Unidentified planes have been using a deserted R.A.A.F. strip at…

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Mystery of the Week Addled murder Murder Lays a Golden Egg, by Erie Traviss Hull. London: John West house

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 11

IT is bad enough, as I have often sourly observed, when even a woman crashes the…

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Court to Probe Somaliland Riot

The Sun · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--Reinforcements have been sent to Mogadishu (Somaliland), and a court set up to…

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17 Rumanians to Face Army Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 2

BUCHAREST, Saturday. -- Seventeen former members ol the Rumanian National Peasant Party will face a…

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17 Rumanians to Face Army Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 2

BUCHAREST, Saturday. -- Seventeen former members ol the Rumanian National | Peasant Party will Jace a…

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Law Notices for Monday Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 4

Mr. G. A. Findlay, Conciliation Commissioner.—No. 4 Conference Room.— 2.15 p.m.: F[?]lt Hatters' Union and N.S.W. Chamber of Manufactures, re…

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Court Told Of Park Assault

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 8

AFTER proceeding to a spot in Prince Alfred Park, where he heard female screams, early on December 18, he was attacked by two…

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Court Sequel to Gaol Break

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 23

THE Returned Soldiers League was anxious that medical treatment be provided for…

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Announcer On Ear-biting Assault Count

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 30

DURING a fight in Usher's Hotel on January 9 a man who allegedly claimed to be a commando had his…

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Man Charged with Killing His Mother

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 6

AT Redfern Court on Monday, William James Marshall (23), no occupation, was charged with having murdered his mother, Agnes Bridget Marshall (59), Eveleigh St., Redfern, on January 10…

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Charged with Two Slayings, Woman Admits

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 22

CONTESTING an application to have her ejected from premises at 18 Brougham St., King's Cross, Mrs. Iris Eileen Furlong admitted, during cross-examination, at Central Summons Court on…

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5 Years' Gaol For Man Who Duped Women

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 31

LONDON, Saturday.—A man who has spent 26 years in gaol since 1919 pleaded guilty at the Old…

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Police Still Seek 'Houdini'

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 22

SYDNEY' police are still investigating the amazing disappearance of Malcolm Charles ("Houdini") Boyle (26), who vanished from the steamer Bernard…

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Police charge girl after dope story

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 28

A girl who claimed in a Children's Court on January 9 that she was 15 and had been…

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Police Allege Woman Killed Many Children

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 5

TOKIO, Saturday. — A woman arrested by Japanese police is alleged to have turned a maternity…

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Youth Hurt, Police Seek Driver of Car

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Saturday — Police are hunting for a motorist who knocked a 19-years-old youth from his bike in Puckle…

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Police Still S Earch for Mystery M Inister

Truth · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 10

SYDNEY police admit they are endeavoring to loc[?] Parkins, the globe-trotting Church of England sought by Scotland Yard and police of Scotland for to answer a charge of bigamy…

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Police believe sex maniac is modern Jekyll and Hyde

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 5

POLICE, believe the Easter Suburbs sex maniac has a split personality--living normally by day, changing into a vicious attacker at night. Convinced that the attacker is a local…

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Hundreds of police in wide search for sex maniac

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 January 1948 · page 1

More than 200 uniformed and plain-clothes police, aided by civilians, searched the Coogee-Randwick-Maroubra district last night for a sex maniac…

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