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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Alleged Assault Upon Young Nurse

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Two of three youths charged with criminally assaulting a young nurse, whom they…

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Alleged Assault Upon Young Nurse

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Two of three youths charged with criminally assaulting a young nurse, whom they…

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New Gaol's Holiday Camp Touch

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

LONDON.--Inmates describe England's new women's prison--it has no iron bars-- at Askham…

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4 months' gaol for idle youth

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 3

Sentencing John Nagle, 19, laborer, to four months' gaol, Mr. McElroy, SM, said in Central Court today that the…

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Son On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

Detectives who have been investigating the murder of an elderly woman in her cottage in…

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Double Murder After Dancing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 25 (A.A.P.).— A former pilot in the Royal N.Z. Air Force, Ronald Ernest Brain, and Robert Robinson, of Dublin,…

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Son On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

Detectives who have been investigating the murder of an elderly woman in her cottage in…

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Son On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

Detectives who have been investigating the murder of an elderly woman in her cottage in…

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Son On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

Detectives who have been investigating the murder of an elderly woman in her cottage in…

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Son On Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

Detectives who have been investigating the murder of an elderly woman in her cottage in…

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Police Seek Car Driver

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 5

Detectives McDowell and Bell would like to communicate with the driver of a car which knocked down and injured William Bond,…

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Police "Torture" of Lads Alleged

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Use of torture by police to extract confessions from two 18-year-old twins charged with rape was alleged by…

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Roof-top Hunt Police Arrest Man

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 4

An automatic burglar alarm called police to dry cleaning works in Glenmore Road, Paddington, at 3 a.m…

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Late Mr. Mackay Police Chief's Funeral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 4

Mounted police led a long cortege at the funeral of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. J. MacKay,…

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Wide Search for Woman's Murderer Battered Body In Cottage Police Visit Youth Camps

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Mrs. Maud Bechtold (50) are conducting a State-wide search tor a young man…

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Wide Police Search for Young Man Sequel To Death Of Woman Grim Find in Locked House

Daily Mirror · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Mrs. Maud Bechtold (50) are conducting a State-wide search for a young man…

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Son Charged With Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 7
Also in Daily Mirror

Police investigating the death of Mrs. Maude Bechtold, of Ferris Lane, Annandale, yesterday…

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Gaol for Girl

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 6

A 17-year-old- girl, inmate of the Parramatta Girls" Industrial School, was sentenced to two months' gaol by Mr…

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Soncharged with Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 3

George Paul Beclitold (21), railway employee, appeared at Central Court today on a charge of…

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