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Courts & crime, 1949

11,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 250

Gaol For Motorist

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 2

Henry Russell Elliott (56), pawnbroker, Elizabeth St., City, living at Nelson St., Annandale…

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Gaol For Motorist

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 2

Henry Russell Elliott (56), pawnbroker, Elizabeth St., City, living at Nelson St., Annandale…

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Gaol for Postman

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 6

A former Coogee postman, Charles Oliver McAuley was sentenced to six months' gaol with hard…

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Post Office Theft Boy's Admission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 5

GOSFORD, Sunday.—An eight-year-old boy had admitted stealing £361 from Hardy's Bay Post-office, police…

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Archbishop Protests "Stop Assault On Christianity"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Feb. 13 (A.A.P.). —"It is time that a stop was put to this Communist-organised assault on Christianity,"…

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Boy, 8, Admits £361 Post Office Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 7

GOSFORD, Sun. -- Police Sergeant E. A. Albury, of Gosford, today found £36116½, stolen from Hardy's Bay Post Office on Thursday. The money disappeared between 1.15 and 1.45 p.m…

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Police Find Man's Body

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 3

Liverpool police last night found the body of a man who had been missing from a shooting party since yesterday…

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Police Quell Ship Riot

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 6

PARIS, Monday.--Sixty armed security guards rushed aboard the liner Samaria at Le Havre…

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Police Quell Ship Riot

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 6

PARIS, Monday.--Sixty armed security guards rushed aboard the liner Samaria at Le Havre…

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Police Quell Ship Riot

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 1

PARIS, Monday.--Sixty armed security guards rushed aboard the liner Samaria at Le Havre…

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Police Find Leper Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 7

Police last night found the 19-years-old aborigine girl leper who escaped on Friday night from the lazaret at…

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Police Quell Ship Riot

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 6

PARIS, Monday.--Sixty armed security guards rushed aboard the liner Samaria at Le Havre…

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Police Boys Make an Arrest

The Sun · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 2

Boys from the Woolloomooloo Police Boys Club arrested a man who made approaches to a six-year-old girl in a…

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Police Find Escaped Girl Leper

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 1

A police sergeant last Dight found an escaped quarter- caste aboriginal…

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Path of Police Rescue Party

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 1

Golden Moon Bluff, with dotted line showing the path along which Sean John Ryan's rescuers carried him on Sunday. The arrow at top points to a cave behind the bluff near a creek where Ryan spent Saturday night. The bottom arrow shows the point at which Ryan was picked up by car and taken to Burragorang Police Station. The…

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Hard Court Titles for Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 7

This year's Australian hardcourt tennis championships will be held in New South Wales…

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Doctor's Fortune Gone--bankruptcy Court Told

The Sun · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 2

Dr. William Barber Thompson, who owed about £84,000 to the Taxation Department when made bankrupt in 1944, had paid "the whole of his private fortune" to…

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Postie fell into trap, Court told

The Sun · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 7

A "trap" had been set by postal detectives, following complaints about the disappearance of articles at Coogee, the Crown declared in Quarter Sessions today…

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Military Court Frees Greek Union Leader

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 4

ATHENS, Monday. -- Tony Ambatielos, a Greek trade union leader, has been acquitted by a military court on…

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Military Court Frees Greek Union Leader

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 4

ATHENS, Monday. -- Tony Ambatielos, a Greek trade union leader, has been acquitted by a military court on…

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