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Courts & crime, 1948

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 250

Assault in City Armed Men

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 1

Two men armed with a revolver battered Harry Solomon, 66, wholesale dealer in wireless…

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2 Gunmen Pose As Police

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 1

Two armed men held up a radio dealer at Paddington last night…

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Court at Hospital Bedside

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

From his hospital bed at Liverpool Thorvald Sivertsen (69) told, a specially convened Court of Petty…

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Court at Hospital Bedside

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

From his hospital bed at Liverpool Thorvald Sivertsen (69) told a specially convened Court of Petty…

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Court Told of Wife's Deceit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

Co-respondent in a divorce suit before Mr. Acting-Justice Markell in the Divorce Court today said that the woman with whom he lived told him that her husband was not the father of her eldest son,…

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Court Told of Wife's Deceit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

Co-respondent in a divorce suit before Mr. Acting-Justice Markell in the Divorce Court today said that the woman with whom he lived told him that her husband was not the father of her eldest son,…

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Court Told of Wife's Deceit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

Co-respondent in a divorce suit before Mr. Acting-Justice Markell in the Divorce Court today said that the woman with whom he lived told him that her husband was not the father of her eldest son,…

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Court Told of Wife's Deceit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

Co-respondent in a divorce suit before Mr. Acting-Justice Markell in the Divorce Court today said, that the woman with whom he lived told him that her husband was not the father of her eldest son…

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British-albanian Dispute for Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The British claim for full compensation and an apology from Albania for mining two…

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British-albanian Dispute for Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The British claim for full compensation and an apology from Albania for mining two…

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Court Told of Wife's Deceit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

Co-respondent in a divorce suit before Mr. Acting-Justice Marked in the Divorce Court today said that the woman with whom he lived told him that her husband was not the father of her eldest son…

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Police Claim Driver Left Men on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

A man who allegedly knocked two men down at a Woollahra tram-stop last year, and then drove on,…

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Police Claim Driver Left Men on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

A man who allegedly knocked two men down at a Woollahra tram-stop last year, and then drove on,…

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Police Claim Driver Left Men on Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

A man who allegedly knocked two men down at a Woollahra tram-stop last year, and then drove on,…

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Hold-up Men Said They Were Police

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 5

Posing as police, two armed men assaulted a radio dealer in his rooms at Paddington last night. DURING a struggle with the men, the radio dealer, Harry…

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Singapore Now A "Police" Base By a Special Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

Singapore's naval base at Seletar, £26,000,000 worth of steel, concrete and machinery, has been almost restored. It is at 80 or 90 per cent, of pre-war capacity…

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Court Threat to Union Award Delay If Coalfields Men Stop Work

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 7

Mr. F. Gallagher yesterday threatened suspension of a new award for three months if enginedrivers employed on N.S.W. coalfields held…

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Women traffic cops finding their feet Point Duty at Edgecliff New Test for Girl Police

The Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 3

After point duty in New South Head-road, Edgecliff, today, Sydney's first two uniformed policewomen, Amy Millgate and Gladys Johnson, said they felt they were "fast getting…

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Mother Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Alleged to have strangled her six months' old baby at a lonely farmhouse near Kimba yesterday,…

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Gloves Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 3

HAROLD VICTOR BAY (53), storekeeper, of Kent St., City, was remanded to February 17, on £100 bail at Central…

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