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Courts & crime, 1949

11,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 250

Actor Scrubs Floor of Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 2

HOLLYWOOD, Friday. -- Film star Robert Mitchum scrubbed the gaolhouse floor, yesterday instead of making love to glamorous actress Jane Greer before the studio cameras…

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Actor Scrubs Floor of Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 2

HOLLYWOOD, Friday.-- Film sta Robert Mitchum scrubbed the gaolhouse floo yesterday instead of making love to glamorous actress Jane Greer before the studio cameras…

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Actor Scrubs Floor of Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 2

HOLLYWOOD, Friday. -- Film star Robert Mitchum scrubbed the gaolhouse floor yesterday instead of making love to glamorous actress Jane Greer before the studio cameras…

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Ritual Murder Slander Revived in Germany

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 11

HAMBURG (J.W.N.).—AS an indication of the extent to which the poisonous anti-Semitic agitation in Germany has reached, can…

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London Police Carry Lamps

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 3

LONDON.--Mounted police in London are now appearing with small electric lamps strapped to their ankles above the…

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Chief of Police 'Fanatic'

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 5

PERTH, Thurs. -- The Western Australian Commissioner of Police (Mr. John Doyle) was a…

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Suicide in Police Cell

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 9

PARKES, Thurs.--A man killed himself in a police cell today immediately after being sentenced for assaulting his wife…

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Police aid for aged voters

The Sun · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 9

BELFAST, Friday.-- Police took stretcher cases, blind and crippled people, and those aged…

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Protest Over Court Action

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 3

TOWNSVILE, Friday. --Wharf laborers refused to work between 10.30 am. and noon today as a protest against one…

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Protest Over Court Action

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 3

TOWNSVILE, Friday.--Wharf laborers refused to work between 10.30 am. and noon today as a, protest against one…

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Man Commits Suicide In Police Cell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

PARKES Thursday.— George Arthur Rutter, 43, committed suicide in a police cell to-day soon after he had…

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Cardinal trial 'rigged' Court experts say

The Sun · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Friday,--Two official handwriting experts of the Budapest court which tried Cardinal Mindszenty have fled from Hungary to US headquarters at Salzburg (Austria). They say the trial was "rigged."…

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Court Reserves Decision. On Baby Case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday. —The State Full Court to-day reserved its decision m the appeal in the "whose baby"…

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Law Court Reports Bankruptcy Court (Before Mr. Justice Clyne. Mr. St. Jaques for the Official Receiver.) Hearing of Creditors' Petitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 7

Re John Esmond Brien; ex parle Thomas Dixon Pty. Lia. Order for sequestration made. Mr. R. M. Slonham, by Messrs…

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Theft From Eye Patient

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Fri. -- While a woman eye patient was temporarily blind at Royal Adelaide…

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2 Charged with Conspiracy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 4

Lars Gustav Brundahl and Neil Geoffrey Salmon, 26, were r[?]nanded at Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions yesterday on…

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Mitchum to stay in gaol

The Sun · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 2

HOLLYWOOD, Friday.--A judge today refuse d[?]o release actor Robert Mitchum from gaol temporarily to finish the…

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Parking Offender Goes to Gaol Again

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

TYPEWRITER salesman Arthur Wilson (32), Bland St., Ashfield, has again gone to gaol to "cut out" parking fines…

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Parking Offender Goes to Gaol Again

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

TYPEWRITER salesman Arthur Wilson (32), Bland St., Ashfield, has again gone to gaol to "cut out" parking fines…

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Parking Offender Goes to Gaol Again

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

TYPEWRITER salesman Arthur Wilson Bland St., Ashfield has again gone to gaol to out [?] parking fines…

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