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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 250

Man Tells of Assault From His Deathbed

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 21

FROM his deathbed in a private room in the cancer section of Liverpool Hospital last Tuesday, a…

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Police Seek Sex Maniac

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 2

Randwick detectives were rushed to High St., Randwick, last night, shortly after a distressed…

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Police Seeking Missing Cleric

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 2

Sydney detectives still are unable to trace the whereabouts of Rev. Robert Michael Parkins, the Church of England…

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Last Tribute To Police Chief

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 27

[?]NDREDS of wreaths and floral tributes were piled high on the hearse and four waggons for the funeral…

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Police Search for Missing Woman

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 2

Police are searching for a 50-years-old woman who has been missing from her Oatley home since midnight Friday…

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Police Claim Man Attacked 3 Women

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 6

ALL eyes turned on thickset, brown-eyed John Daniel Robertson (35), diver, when he appeared at Central Court on Friday on three charges of having assaulted women in…

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Crowds at funeral of Police Chief

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 6

Thousands of people yesterday lined city and suburban streets for the…

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Police Probe Into Strychnine Death Hospital Mystery

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 1

Police have intensified their inquiries into the death of Mrs. Patricia Krause (21), who died from strychnine poisoning in Gunnedah Hospital soon after the birth of her third child…

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Row Led to Man's Death, Court Told

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 6

IT was alleged at Gosford Coroner's Court on Thursday that William Joseph Realph (41), fisherman, of Hardy's Bay, 16 miles south of Gosford, had lost his life in a shooting affray which followed a quarrel…

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Police chief's last plea to courts was "get tough"

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 2

NSW Police Commissioner since 1935, William John MacKay collapsed at 8 pm on Thursday and died in an hour. Five hours earlier, in an interview, with "The…

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real life court dramas For one of his women--death

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 17

IT seemed an anti-climax. There was Mrs. Rosalind Corfield politely asking for a divorce from Arthur Winsmore Seaton Corfield…

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Farm Hand for Trial on Murder Charge Burning Of Wyalong Golf Clubhouse "Wanted to Get Even" Allegation

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 2

WEST WYALONG, Saturday.—The fire which destroyed West Wyalong golf clubhouse incinerating Hugh McKnight (72), was caused maliciously, the Coroner (Mr. Kaye)…

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Speculation on New Chief of Police Changes In Force Probable Death Ends a Vivid Career

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 5

Following the sudden death on Thursday night of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. J., MacKay (62), speculation is rife as to his successor…

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"Dirty Liar," Shouts Minister Minister At Court IN N.G. Timber Lease Case Facing Charges

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1948 · page 8

HEATED exchanges between Mr. Simon Isaacs and the Minister for External Territories (Mr. Ward) during which the Minister several times shouted…

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Girlassaulted; Twins Charged

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Twin brothers, aged 18, were charged at Melbourne City Court today with criminally assaulting a 21-years-old nurse, who was driven away in…

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Girl Assaulted; Twins Charged

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Twin brothers, aged 18, were charged at Melbourne City Court today with criminally assaulting a 21-years-old nurse, who was driven away in…

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Girl Assaulted; Twins Charged

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Twin brothers, aged 18, were charged at Melbourne City Court today with criminally assaulting a 21-years-old nurse, who was driven away in…

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Girl Assaulted; Twins Charged

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Twin brothers, aged 18, were charged at Melbourne City Court today with criminally assaulting a 21-years-old nurse, who was driven away in…

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Girl Assaulted; Twins Charged

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Twin brothers, aged 18, were charged at Melbourne City Court today with criminally assaulting a 21-years-old nurse, who was driven away in…

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Police Raid Camp After Trudge of Five Miles Son charged with murdering mother

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 3

Raiding a secluded, but well-known hikers' camp five miles from Waterfall today, detectives arrested George Paul Bechtold, 21, and charged him with the murder of Mrs…

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