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Courts & crime, 1949

11,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Hiker Trapped in Wild Ranges Rescuers Stopped By Exhaustion Grim Ordeal for Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 2

A HELICOPTER may be employed to transport Sean John Ryan, (56) University lecturer, from the wild ranges the Nattai section of Burragarang…

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Randwick Going Will Be on Soft Side Joy Court to Start in Collingwood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 12

RANDWICK track received a soaking when the storm broke yesterday afternoon but a strong wind through the night helped to dry the surface. However with steady rain during…

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Randwick Going Will Be on Soft Side Joy Court to Start in Collingwood

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 12

RANDWICK track received a soaking when the storm broke yesterday afternoon but a strong wind through the night helped to dry the surface. However with steady rain during…

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Law Courts Reports Supreme Court Causes Before Mr. Justice Herron James v Coombes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 12

In this case, the plaintiff sued for damages for negligence arising out of a motor-car accident. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff…

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DEBENHAM -- The human ALBUM side of a magistrate Magistrates don't merely sit in courtrooms and hear cases. They play an intimate and little known part in the lives of many people -- especially the poor. This article tells you about it

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 12

ARTHUR EDMUND DEBENHAM, Stipendiary Magistrate at Liverpool Court, whose scorching description last November of conditions at Hargrave Park Housing…

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Assault After Raid Alleged

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 39

A WOMAN claimed at Hornsby Court this week that while she and a man were deciding the destiny of some Christmas roosters at a house in Evelyn Avenue, Turramurra, on December 8, four…

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Indecent Assault on Child Alleged

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 10

A 31-YEARS-OLD unmarried mother, who pleaded guilty to having indecently assaulted her 11-years-old-son at Hargrave Park, was committed for trial at Liverpool Court on Wednesday by Mr…

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Murder Suspected in Grim Bush Mystery

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 52

Members of Sydney's Russian community are convinced that 53-years-old Michael Goreloff, a White Russian, was murdered. They hold this belief in spite of an open finding by the City Coroner last week, and the view of some police…

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Actress stabbed in murder rehearsal ADELAIDE

The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE actress Margaret Reid was accidentally stabbed in the back during a rehearsal of a murder drama at the Majestic Theatre yesterday. Another actress, Maria…

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Judge Dishes Out Stiff Gaol Terms Bashers Get A Lesson

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 10

Twice in the past 10 days Judge Holden has served notice to the underworld that crimes of violence will continue to be met by stiff gaol terms. In this period five vicious hoodlums have been "put away" to serve prison sentences ranging from 10 to 16 years. Public reaction to Judge Holden's salutary blitz…

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Cabarets Raided Police Arrest Three

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 4

Police squads from 21 Division raided three Sydney night clubs early yesterday morning…

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Lars Brundahl Before Court

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 10

Lars Gustav Brundahl and Neil Geoffrey Salmon (26), boxer, known as Robert Peters, were remanded at Darlinghurst…

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Jealous Husband Belted Man, Wife in Street Wife Tells of Assault

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 40

THE degree of force used by Maurice Baptist Schoer on his wife after he saw her talking to a man in East Sydney on January 18 was in dispute at Central Court…

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Threw Punch At Chief Of Police

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday.—A man swung a punch at the Queensland Commissioner of Police (Mr. C. J…

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Man Posed As Doctor, Police Say

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 10

A MAN who was said to have duped many shopkeepers by posing as a doctor with a stethoscope in his…

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Man attacks police chief BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 48

A man walked up to Police Commissioner C. J. Carroll at Doomben racecourse today and swung a…

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Police say husband helped leper escape

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 48

Police have not found a 19-year-old aborigine girl leper who escaped on Friday night from the lazaret at Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay…

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Murderer's Son's Plea To Bankruptcy Court

Truth · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 40

KEITH EDWARD VERNON LEY, son of the former N.S.W. Minister of Justice, Thomas John Ley, who was found guilty in London in 1946 of the famous "Chalkpit Murder," failed to appear in the Bankruptcy Court on Thursday to defend a petition for the sequestration of his…

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Court may test O'Keefe order

The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 48

THE High Court, it is expected, will be asked to decide the validity of the deportation order…

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O'keefes to Go to Court

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Mr. John O'Keefe said to-night that any move by the Minister for Immigration, Mr. Calwell, to…

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