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Courts & crime, 1948

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

Gandhi's Murder Sets All of India Aflame Mobs Loot, Kill, Burn

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday.--Assassination of Mahafma Gandhi yesterday has already set India aflame. it stmte of interne mmtmtmn is spreading…

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Gandhi's Murder Sets All of India Aflame Mobs Loot, Kill, Burn

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday.--Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi yesterday has already set India aflame. A state of intense agitation is spreading…

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Gandhi's Murder Sets All of India Aflame Mobs Loot, Kill, Burn

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday.--Assassination of Mahafma Gandhi yesterday has already set India aflame. A state of intense agitation is spreading…

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Gandhi's Murder Sets All of India Aflame Mobs Loot. Kill, Burn

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday.--Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi yesterday has already set India aflame. A state of intense agitation is spreading…

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Gandhi's Murder Sets All of India Aflame Mobs Loot, Kill, Burn

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday. --Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi yesterday has already set India aflame. A state of intense agitation is spreading…

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Gandhi's Murder Sets All of India Aflame Mobs Loot, Kill, Burn

Daily Mirror · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday.--Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi yesterday has already set India aflame. A state of intense agitation is spreading…

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Police Probe Murder of Baby on Railway

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 2

KATOOMBA, Saturday.—A gruesome case of child murder has been revealed following the discovery yesterday of the nude body of a newly-born female baby between railway tracks near Hartley Vale station…

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£800 Theft Charge

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 5

DUBBO, Saturday.—A man, arrested here tonight was charged with having stolen £800 from Andre Balcugh in…

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Assault Counts; Diver Remanded

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 8

JOHN DANIEL ROBERTSON (35), diver, who is said by police to be responsible for a number of attacks on girls in…

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Arrest on £800 Theft Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 2

DUBBO, Sat. -- Late this afternoon, police arrested a man and charged him with having…

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Police hide Gandhi's killer

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 2

NEW DELHI, Sat.--Police have removed Gandhi's assassin, Nathur Ram Vinayak Godse, to a secret place. They feared that…

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Police Close Death Probe

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 3

Detectives investigating the mysterious death of Mrs. Patricia Krause (21). who died from strychnine poisoning in…

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Police in toppers at ballet

The Sun · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 3

Police in tails and silk toppers mixed with the Ballet Rambert first-nighters at the Tivoli…

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Police dogs hunt 4 men

The Sun · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 1

POLICE with dogs are hunting four escapees from the Oberon Prison Farm…

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Police Dogs in Search of Escapees

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 2

Police dogs were sent from Sydney to Oberon last night to assist in tracking down four men…

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Police Story of Big Beer Losses

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 7

DETECTIVE O'NEILL alleged in Central Court on Wednesday that he had seen a party of wharfies quietly drinking someone else's beer on Tuesday night, and among them was James…

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Police Search for Missing War Veteran

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 5

Police are searching for a 54-years-old city bank employee who has been missing since last…

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Police Allege Plumber Posed As Builder

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 23

RONALD PAYNE (67), plumber, was charged at Central Court on Wednesday with having obtained £30 at…

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Court may decide child's parentage

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Mr. and Mrs. W. Morrison, of Kyneton, have been advised to seek a Supreme Court order determining the parentage of a child which they claim is theirs…

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Gandhi's Murder Part of Vast Red Plot Scheme For "Bloodbath"

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1948 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Saturday.—Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi yesterday was part of a Communist wholesale murder plot, designed to plunge India into a bloodbath without parallel in history…

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