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Courts & crime, 1949

11,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Fine for Theft of Petrol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 6

Robert John Draper, 24, electrician, of Kingsford, was fined £15 in Central Court yesterday for having stolen four gallons of…

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Month's gaol for punching barmaid

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

Albert Wong, 30 a Chinese who served- for five years with the AIF, was gaoled for one month in Central Court today…

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Three Years' Gaol For Modern Fagin

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 12

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Former Army captain Clifford Andrew, a modern Fagin to the boys of the Shute Forest Approved School in Hampshire, was sentenced yesterday to three years' gaol on charges…

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Three Years' Gaol For Modern Fagin

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 12

LONDON, Wednesday.--Former Army captain Clifford Andrew, a modern Fagin to the boys of the Shute Forest Approved School in Hampshire, was sentenced yesterday to three years' gaol on charges…

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Murder Confession By Elderly Bride

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- A frail 60-years-old bride, Mrs. Hattie Peterson, is being held by police following her alleged confession that she slit her husband's throat…

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Murder Confession By Elderly Bride

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--A frail 60-years-old bride, Mrs. Hattie Peterson, is being held by police following her alleged confession that she slit her husband's throat…

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Police Guard at Hospital

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

Police allege that a sailor, who claimed early today to have been bashed, received his injuries in a crash on a stolen motor cycle. THE sailor, aged 19, is in St…

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Police Guard Man injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 8

POLICE allege that a sailor, who claimed early today to have been bashed, received his injuries in a crash on a stolen motor cycle. THE sailor, aged 19, is in St…

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Police Guard Man Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 8

POLICE allege that a sailor, who claimed early today to have been bashed, received his injuries in a crash on a stolen motor cycle. THE sailor, aged 19, is in St…

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Police Guard Man injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 8

POLICE allege that a sailor, who claimed early today to have been bashed, received his injuries in a crash on a stolen motor cycle. THE sailor, aged 19, is in St…

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Police Guard Man Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 8

POLICE allege that a sailor, who claimed early today to hare been bashed, received his injuries in a crash on a stolen motor cycle. THE sailor, aged 19, is in St…

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Police Guard Man Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 8

POLICE allege that a sailor, who claimed early today to have been bashed, received his injuries in a crash on a stolen motor cycle. THE sailor, aged 19, is in St…

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Apples Led Star To Divorce Court

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 12

LOS ANGELES, Wednesday.--A difference of three apples won Liem Deyers, a Dutch film actress, a divorce from her third husband, Irvine Rubin, a furrier…

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Court Ban on Communist Newspaper “Indefensible” Perth.—

Tribune · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

Action of Arbitration Court president Dunphy in barring from his court reporters from the Communist newspaper Workers’ Star was “entirely indefensible and could be challenged in law.”…

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Court Attacks Sisters' 'Rent-chiselling' Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—Two sisters, with a capital of more than a million dollars, yesterday each received sentences of…

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Priests Sentenced

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 3

PRAGUE.—The Rev. Sebastian Sabol, described as a leading figure in the Eastern Rite Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia…

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Armed Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

PERCY JAMES CAMPBELL (26) and Phillip Michael John Ryan (21), laborers, were remanded at Central Court…

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Theft From Shop

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 16

A THIEF last night entered a chemist shop at the corner of Bridge and Ross Sts., Glebe, and stole £3 from the…

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Theft From Shop

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 16

A THIEF last night entered a chemist shop at the corner of Bridge and Ross Sts., Glebe, and stole £3 from the…

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Armed Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

PERCY JAMES CAMPBELL (26) and Phillip Michael John Ryai) (21), laborers, were remanded at Central Court…

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