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Courts & crime, 1949

11,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 250

Building Fraud Attack Minister Criticises Magistrate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

The Minister for Building Materials, Mr. W. E. Dickson, last night said he had written to the Premier "requesting the fullest possible inquiry" into the statements made by Mr. A. J. Bryant, S.M.,…

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Police Hunt for Man

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

Police questioned more than 100 people yesterday in their efforts to find the man who raped a 23-year-old woman at…

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Police resume search for body

The Sun · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

Police today resumed the search for the body of a man, which was reported late yesterday to be floating near…

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Why Did These Youths Murder? Harvey-bugg, Le Gallien and Turner

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 18

THE old year went out in a blaze of juvenile criminality. In Sydney, during early…

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Wide Police Search For Girl's Attacker Check on 100 Phone Messages

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

Police yesterday checked mare than 100 telephone calls from people claiming to have seen a man answering the description of the man who…

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Fifty New Year Revel Casualties Ambulance, Fire Brigade Kept Busy Police Report Orderly Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

CENTRAL District Ambulance attended more than 50 "celebration", casualties following last night's New Year revels…

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Fifty New Year Revel Casualties Ambulance, Fire Brigade Kept Busy Police Report Orderly Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

CENTRAL District Ambulance attended more than 50 ''celebration" casualties following last night's New Year revels…

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Fifty New Year Revel Casualties Ambulance, Fire Brigade Kept Busy Police Report Orderly Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

CENTRAL District Ambulance attended more than 50 "celebration" casualties following last night's New Year revels…

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Fifty New Year Revel Casualties Ambulance, Fire Brigade Kept Busy Police Report Orderly Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

CENTRAL District Ambulance attended more than 50 "celebration" casualties following last night's New Year revels…

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Fifty New Year Revel Casualties Ambulance, Fire Brigade Kept Busy Police Report Orderly Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

CENTRAL District Ambulance attended more than 50 "celebration" casualties following last night's New Year revels…

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Fifty New Year Revel Casualties Ambulance, Fire Brigade Kept Busy Police Report Orderly Night

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

CENTRAL District Ambulance attended more than 50 "celebration" casualties following last night's New Year revels…

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Police Safe Theft Report

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 4

A report concerning the theft of £2240 from the police station safe at Liverpool has been sent to…

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Employer's gift to girl assault victim

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 3

Employer of Bertha Maud Hartley, 23, who was criminally assaulted, robbed and knifed in a sandpit near her home last Wednesday night, gave her £10 yesterday and promised to make up her wages until she was fit to return…

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"No Case" Query On Murder Film

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—After his acquittal on a charge of attempting to murder his wife Arthur James Colyer left Tonbridge Court on Friday arm in arm with her…

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Embalmed man is suspected victim of murder

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 28

THE embalmed body of a man has been kept in the Adelaide City Morgue for a month in an attempt to establish its identity. Police believe the man, whose body was found on December…

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Looting of dead pilots: police clue

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 1

Police have traced watches belonging to two airmen whose robbed bodies were found in a crashed, plane near Canberra on November 10…

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Police Worried by Big Increase in Drug Deaths Sleeping Pills Proved Fatal for 21 in 1948

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 11

SLEEPING pills killed 21 people in Sydney during 1948 and unless the dangerous upward trend in hypnotic drug addiction is checked sharply the death-roll may be greater this year. The slayer in every case last year was that harmless looking little white "barb" tablet so freely prescribed by doctors for cases of insomnia and neurosis that it has become the…

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Police Suspect Mystery Poisoner

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sun.--Police believe that a mystery poisoner has deliberately tried…

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Man charged with murder

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 7

BEGA, Tuesday.-- Charged with having murdered Cyrus Mason Williams, 53, plumber, at Bega, on Christmas Day,…

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Alleged Theft at Suburban Station

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

PETER FRANCIS SUTER (18), laborer, was charged at Campsie Court today with having on December 31 broken…

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