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Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 250

Justice Was Murdered When an Angry Mob Slew a Noble Judge The Murder Of Lord Kilwarden

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 17

THE razor-keen pike rose and fell, cutting again into the vitals of the prostrate judge, dragged from his coach and lying prone in a welter or blood in the midst of the howling mob. At each blow, the milling, shrieking crowd gave tongue to shouts and imprecations that…

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Justice Was Murdered When an Angry Mob Slew a Noble Judge The Murder Of Lord Kilwarden

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 17

THE razor-keen pike rose and fell, cutting again into the vitals of the prostrate judge, dragged from his coach and lying prone in ia welter of blood in the midst of the howling mob. At each blow, the milling, shrieking crowd gave tongue to shouts and imprecations that…

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Justice Was Murdered When an Angry Mob Slew a Noble Judge The Murder Of Lord Kilwarden

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 17

THE razor-keen pike rose and fell, cutting again into the vitals of the prostrate judge, dragged from his coach and lying prone in a welter of blood in the midst of the howling mob. At each blow, the milling, shrieking crowd gave tongue to shouts and imprecations that…

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Justice Was Murdered When an Angry Mob Slew a Noble Judge The Murder Of Lord Kilwarden

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 17

THE razor-keen pike rose and fell, cutting again into the vitals of the prostrate judge, dragged from his coach and lying prone in a welter of blood in the midst of the howling mob. At each blow, the milling, shrieking crowd gave tongue to shouts and imprecations that…

Continued on Trove, page 17 →

Justice Was Murdered When an Angry Mob Slew a Noble Judge The murder of Lord Kilwarden

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 17

THE razor-keen pike rose and fell, cutting again into the vitals of the prostrate judge, dragged from his coach and lying prone in a welter of blood in the midst of the howling mob. At each blow, the milling, shrieking crowd gave tongue to shouts and imprecations that…

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Law Courts Reports Supreme Court Divorce (Before Mr. Acting Justice Toose)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 14

Decrees nisi: W. J. Miller v E. M. Miller, N. F. S. Dillon v A. H. Dillon, F. M. Seymore v S. O. Seymore, D. H. Curry v V. I. Curry,…

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Penrith Court (Before Mr. A. E. Stonham, S.M.) Monday, January 9

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 7

Arthur F. Baff was fined £20, costs 10/-, on a charge of operating a motor lorry at Penrith, on September 3, as a public motor vehicle, such being an…

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Murder Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday.— John Bryan Kerr, 24, radio announcer, of Washington Street, Toorak, was remanded for the…

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Gaol for baths thief

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 8

A youth who stole from clothing in Rushcutters Bay Baths while an 11-year-old accomplice kept watch, was…

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Boxer charged at Paddington

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 9

At Paddington court today Hanley James Tilden, 21, boxer, of Erskineville Road, Erskineville, and Keith Ian…

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Man Sent Back, to Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

A man released from gaol on licence a week ago, apeared in Newtown Court today on five charges…

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Man Sent Back to Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

A man released from gaol on licence a week ago, apeared in Newtown Court today on five charges…

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Man Sent Back to Gaol

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

A man released from gaol on licence a week ago, apeared in Newtown Court today on five charges…

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18 months gaol, fines for car escapade

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

A young man who posed as a taxi driver had used a stolen car and driven passengers while under the influence of liquor, police said at Newtown Court today…

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T.b Prisoner Freed for Operation--then Gaol

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

A TB patient, refused bail on a robbery charge, was ordered by Mr. Justice Herron today to be released from Long Bay Gaol for an operation and then returned to the gaol…

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New Judge Named For Murder Trial

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Friday.-- Because of the sudden illness of Mr. Justice Lewis, who has been hearing a charge of murder against company director Brian Donald Home; a new Judge had to he appointed yesterday…

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New Judge Named For Murder Trial

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Friday.-- Because of the sudden illness of Mr. Justice Lewis, who has been hearing a charge of murder against company director Brian Donald Hume, a new judge had to be appointed yesterday…

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"Torso" Murder Judge 111: New Trial Opens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 19 (A.A.P.). —Twenty witnesses who gave evidence yesterday in the "torso" murder case at the…

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Police Support Of Man Fails

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

Despite a recommendation by two policemen, Mr. Hook, S.M., at the Traffic Court today refused to grant a taxi drivers' licence to Frederick Lyall Donaldson, charge hand, of 81 Rickard Ay., Bondi…

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Man 68 Murderer Of Murder of Granddaughter's Playmate

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

LOS ANGELES, Friday.-- Kind-faced Fred Stroble (68) was convicted yesterday of the murder of Linda Joyce Glucoft (6), his granddaughter's playmate. Stroble had signed a…

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