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Courts & crime, 1948

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250

Charged with Murder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 3

Charged with having murdered his wife, Edith May Kitching, at Lilyfield yesterday, Reginald James…

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Ex-P.O.W. charged with wife murder

The Sun · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

Reginald James Kitching, 27, baker was charged lit Central Court today with having murdered his wife Edith May Kitching, 26, cit Lilyfield last night. Police alleged that…

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Man on Wife Murder Charge Baker Refused Bail By Magistrate Allegation of Shooting

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

CHARGED with having murdered his wife, Edith May Kitching, at Lily-field yesterday, Reginald James Kitching (27), baker, was refused bail at…

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Girl injured, man charged

The Sun · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

Police arrested a man at North Sydney early today and charged him with failing to stop after an accident,…

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Gaol Term For Drug Addict

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 10

A young man whom police described as a benzedrine addict, was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for…

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Police Recover Stolen Watches

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 6

Bondi police have recovered a number of men's wrist watches stolen from Bondi Beach during the past…

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Say Police Insult Pickets at Hotel

Tribune · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 6

Pickets outside the General Gordon Hotel, Sydenham, allege that high police officers have “intimidated grossly insulted” them. BUT the pickets take this police…

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Court Intervenes In Strike By Boilermakers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 9

The Arbitration Court intervened yesterday in a strike at Commonwealth Engineering Co. Ltd., Granville…

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Woman Found Fatally Shot Man Held On Murder Charge Neighbors' Discovery

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

ABOUT two hours after the finding of a 26 - years - old woman fatally wounded in the grounds of a Lilyfield residential last night, police charged a…

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Tattling to Run in Underwood Cup Thompson - Skip Court Dorahbo Ride for G. MOORE

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 12

ALTHOUGH no rider has yet been engaged for Skip Court, a popular pick in the Second Six Mixed Stakes at Canterbury this afternoon, there is every likelihood of J…

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Tattling to Run in Underwood Cup Thompson -Skip Court Dorahbo Ride for G. MOORE

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 12

ALTHOUGH no rider has yet been engaged for Skip Court, a popular pick in the Second Six Mixed Stakes at Canterbury this afternoon, there is every likelihood of J…

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Month's Gaol For Vagrant

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 6

A MAN whom police described as a drug addict and who was alleged to have had a bottle of…

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Seven Police Patrol Cars in Chase Fugitive Caught, Charged Wounded Man in Hospital

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 3

With a seriously injured and bleeding man propped up beside the driver a car, reported stolen, was chased by seven police patrol cars through streets in Petersham,…

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Remanded On Charge Of Murder

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 6

THE fatal stabbing of Arthur Edgar Wall (26) in a brawl at King's Cross on Monday night had two…

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Gaol-breaker 'Pain in Neck' to Army Men

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 23

DETECTIVE-SERGEANT N. W. SABINE, C.I.B., told Mr. V. J. Brady, R.S,L, solicitor, on Friday at the Quarter Sessions that gaol-breaker Crofton Edward Barnes, whose…

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Wide Police Hunt For Gaolbreaker

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Saturday. — Armed police from all over the South Island of New Zealand…

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Stole "For Husband" Police Allege

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 7

A WOMAN formerly employed by the Taxation Department had admitted she took money which was the property of the Commonwealth…

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Baker Faces Murder Count Found Dead] at Lilyfield

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 5

Reginald James Kitching (27) baker had shot his wife dead at Lilyfield on Friday night, police…

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Man Had Axe, Policeman Tells Court

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 23

POLICE - CONSTABLE WILLIAM FREDERICK JENKINS, of Mona Vale, told Manly Court on…

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Nurse's Court Story of Fight with Man

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 8

A GRAPHIC story of an attack in the night, during which she alleged she had struggled with a man who had thrown her to the ground in a Randwick lane, torn her clothes and finally kicked her in…

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