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Courts & crime, 1949

11,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

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 5

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

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Armed Theft Charge

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 5

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

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Theft Of £1066 Admitted

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

Blaming betting for his lapse, James Smith (29), paymaster - sergeant of Moorebank military camp,…

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Theft Of £1066 Admitted

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

Blaming betting for his lapse, James Smith (29), paymaster- sergeant of Moorebank military camp,…

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4 months gaol, shooting sequel

The Sun · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

Leslie Charles Reiffel, 51, painter and docker, of Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, was sentenced in Central…

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Labor Charged With Hypocrisy In Indies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 5

Communist led unions and the Australian Government were both ranged on the side of the stooges of Japan who were now the leaders of the Indonesian Republican forces, Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.H.R., said today…

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Labor Charged With Hypocrisy In Indies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 5

Communist-led unions and the Australian Government were both ranged on the side of the stooges of Japan who were now the leaders of the Indonesian Republican forces, Mr. W.M. Hughes, M.H.R., said today…

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Labor Charged With Hypocrisy In Indies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 5

Communist-led unions and the Australian Government were both ranged on the side of the stooges of Japan who were now the leaders of the Indonesian Republican forces, Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.H.R., said today…

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Charge of Murder Against Youth

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--A 17- years-old youth, Charles Michael O'Donovan, of Enfield, London, has been charged with…

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Charge of Murder Against Youth

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--A 17- years-old youth, Charles. Michael O'Donovan, of Enfield, London, has been charged with…

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Charge of Murder Against Youth

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--A 17-years-old youth, Charles Michael O'Donovan, of Enfield, London, has been charged with…

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Police Women To Wed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

SMILING PICTURE of two Sydney policewomen taken today, when they announced their engagements to two policemen. Policewoman Amy Millgate (left) became engaged to Const. Bruce Taylor, and Yvonne Robertson to…

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Police Women To Wed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

SMILING PICTURE of two Sydney policewomen taken today, when they announced their engagements to two policemen. Policewoman Amy Millgate (left) became engaged to Const. Bruce Taylor, and Yvonne Robertson to…

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No houses for police

The Sun · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. --Shortage of recruits for London police is partly due to the housing shortage…

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Police Women To Wed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

SMILING PICTURE of two Sydney policewomen taken (today, when they announced their engagements to two policemen. Policewoman Amy Millgate (left) became engaged to Const. Bruce Taylor, and Yvonne Robertson to…

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Police Women To Wed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

SMILING PICTURE of two Sydney policewomen taken today, when they announced their engagements to two policemen. Policewoman Amy' Mill gate (left) became engaged to Const. Bruce Taylor, and Yvonne Robertson to…

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Japanese Police 'Army Nucleus'

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

TOKIO, Wed. (A.A.P.).--The Soviet Union today accused the United States of making the Japanese police force the nucleus of a new Japanese army…

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U.S. Singer Charged After Might Club Kitchen Brawl

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Thursday.-- The negro night club singer Billie Holliday, who is also a star of Carnegie Hall concerts, was yesterday charged with assault, after she had allegedly thrown china at a New Year's Eve hall ACCORDING to police,…

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