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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

Three on cafe assault charge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 4

Three men charged with an assault in a Chinese cafe appeared yesterday in Central Court in torn and bloodstained…

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Clergyman friend of murder victims

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 6

The clergyman who yesterday conducted the burial service of Mrs. Dorothy Dart and her daughter, Dorothy Jean, christened the girl 20 years ago…

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Dugan Report Hoaxes Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

Led by Def.- Sgts. E. Barnes and G. Hamilton, two carloads of armed detectives dashed to a house in Paddington this morning and made a thorough search of the…

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Dugan Report Hoaxes Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

Led by Det.-Sgfs. E. Barnes and C. Hamilton, two carloads of armed detectives dashed to a house Paddington this morning and made a thorough search of the…

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Dugan Report Hoaxes Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

Led by Det.-Sgts. E. Barnes and C Hamilton, two carloads of armed detective dashed to a house in Paddington this morning and made a thorough search of the…

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Skip Court Easy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 9

SKIP COURT is to run in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick. The Carrington Stakes winner strode over three…

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Skip Court Easy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 9

SKIP COURT is to run in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick. The Carrington Stakes winner strode over three…

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Skip Court Easy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 9

SKIP COURT is to run in the Challenge Stakes at Rand- wick. The Carrington Stakes winner strode over three…

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Skip Court Easy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 9

SKIP COURT is to run in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick. The Carrington Stakes winner strode over three…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Skip Court Easy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 9

SKIP COURT is to run in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick. The Carrington Stakes winner strode over three…

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Skip Court Easy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 12

SKIP COURT is to run in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick. The Carrington Stakes winner strode over three…

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Man on Murder Charge Arrest outside theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 6

Kevin John Irwin, 23, moulder, of Garrong Rd., Lakemba, was yesterday…

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Joy Rider Picked on Police Bike

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

A young man who attempted to ride off with a policeman's motor cycle in William St. yesterday was…

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Police Use Flying Fox to Rescue Man

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 5

Blue Mountains police last night used a flying-fox fo haul an injured man to the top of a cliff. The rescued man is…

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Law Notices for Monday Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 9

Registrar in Bankruptcy.—112 Pitt Street.—10.30.—Examination under Section 68; Thomas Rossiter Ayres Forwood, SUPREME COURT…

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Police take up carpets in Dugan, Mears hunt

The Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

A false report that escaped convicts Dugan and Mears were hiding under a house in Paddington caused police to take up the carpets in search of a trapdoor…

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Woman wounded in gun duel with police sergeant

The Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

PERTH, Saturday.--A police sergeant wounded a quarter-caste native woman last night when she aimed a double-barrel shotgun at him…

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Court Request For Operation To Alter Man

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- A request for an operation on a criminal's brain to change his personality was made to the London Sessions yesterday…

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Stop Press Phone: M2406 Risky Jump in Bid to Escape Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 32

Early this morning a 17-years-old youth risked a 40ft drop to jump an 8ft gap while trying to escape from police at Newtown…

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Gaol Terms Imposed On Perverts

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 10

Another crop of perverts was dealt with in Sydney police courts this week…

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