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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

11,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250

Remanded On Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 3

A young laborer, alleged by police to have "been caught in the act," appeared at Central Court…

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Remanded On Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 3

A young laborer, alleged by police to have "been caught in the act'," appeared at Central Court…

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Remanded On Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 3

A young laborer, alleged by police to have "been caught in the act," appeared at Central Court…

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Police in Tight Squeeze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 2

Two policemen, each weighing about 14 stone and six feet tall, squeezed through a hole 20 inches…

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Police In Tight Squeeze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 2

Two policemen, each weighing about 14 stone and six feet tall, squeezed through a hole 20 inches…

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Police close on armed bandit

The Sun · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.-- Detectives are closing in on an armed bandit, who held up three taxi-drivers at…

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Police Intensify Hunt For Nazi

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 4

Security police have intensified their search for Ludwig Hails Schmidt, 46, a German internee who escaped from a…

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Police Bashers Rouse Union Ire

Tribune · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 7

TOWNSVILLE. —Allegation that three members of the Townsville police abused Punched, and kicked six…

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Police Say Missing Man In Vic

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 4

Police yesterday located in Victoria a New South Wales businessman who…

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Silent Witnesses Used By The Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 7

UNDER the polished microscopes of police laboratory experts in Sydney, many "silent witnesses" to crime give their…

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Fallon Silent on Court Job

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- A published report that the State Cabinet will appoint Mr. C. G. Fallon, State secretary…

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Fallon Silent on Court Job

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- A published report that the State Cabinet will appoint Mr. C. G. Fallon, State secretary…

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Fallon Silent on Court Job

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- A published report that the State Cabinet will appoint Mr. C. G. Fallon. State secretary…

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Police Hunt for Armed Bandit Taxi-men Robbed At Gun-point Lost Pistol in Tussle

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- Defectives in five patrol cars are scouring the suburbs of Toowong and Auchenflower for an armed bandit who, at revolver…

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Two Charged With Rape

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 23 January 1949 · page 3

Two men were arrested in Balmain last night and charged with rape. The alleged victim, a married…

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Men Freed In Assault Case

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1949 · page 34

NEWTOWN taxi driver, Jack Louden McGraw, who said he had assisted Joe Hall, Hockey Bennell…

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Police Seek Missing People

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1949 · page 6

Police in two States are seeking these two missing persons: At left is Leslie Royal…

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Ex-Owner Tells Court He's Had Racing

Truth · Sunday 23 January 1949 · page 35

FORMER owner of the racehorse Frontal Attack, George Frank, of Moreton Ave., Kingsgrove, has now…

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Most Bushfires Are Caused By Carelessness Those Who Start T[?] [?] Murder by Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 23 January 1949 · page 6

ILLUSTRATED BY CLEM SEALE AUSTRALIA suffers from some of the worst bushfires in the…

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Defence Sets Poser For Court Our Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 23 January 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, January 22.— If the Communist defendants in the conspiracy trial successfully challenge the New York jury…

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