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Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 250

Promise Kept Gaol Wedding

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

GOLDEN (Colorado).-- Harold J. Mikola promised his fiancee, Marion Dawicki, that they would be married soon…

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Evidence In 'Torso' Murder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- The Crown case in the "Torso" murder trial ended yesterday with the…

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Evidence In 'Torso' Murder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- The Crown case in the "Torso" murder trial ended yesterday with the…

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Evidence In 'Torse' Murder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- The Crown case in the "Torso" murder trial ended yesterday with the…

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Public Should Know Facts Of -- Gaol Breaks

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 7

A new phrase has entered the glossary of Australian colloquialisms. It's called "Doing a Darcy Dugan." Punters use it to explain how they got themselves out of bother by backing the winner of the last…

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Court Session's Rider

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 11

Apprentice K. Barratt will replace apprentice C. Jamieson on the fancied Court Session in today's colts and geldings…

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Court Session's Rider

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 11

Apprentice K .Barratt will replace apprentice C. Jamieson on the fancied Court Session in today's colts and geldings…

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Refreshment offer to police alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 10

A policeman said in Redfern Court yesterday that when he was watching the Bourke Bridge Club, Reginald Boom, restaurant proprietor, came out of the club…

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Police Ho Robbers On Aga Khan

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

PARIS, Saturday.--gangsters who stole fortune in jewellery the Aga Khan and his…

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Police in chase at 80 mph

The Sun · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday. Four men were arrested last night after a chase by a police wireless patrol at…

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Police Hold Robbers Of Aga Khan

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

PARIS, Saturday.--Five gangsters who stole a fortune in jewellery from the Aga Khan and his wife…

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Police Hold Robbers Of Aga Khan

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

PARIS, Saturday.--Five gangsters who stole a fortune in jewellery from the Aga Khan and his wife…

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Police Hold Robbers Of Aga Khan

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

PARIS, Saturday.--Five gangsters who stole a fortune in jewellery from the Aga Khan and his wife…

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Police Hold Robbers Of Aga Khan

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

PARIS, Saturday.--Five gangsters who stole a fortune in jewellery from the Aga Khan and his wife…

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Court takes child from mother

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 11

A mother screamed and collapsed when Mr. Debenham, S.M., yesterday ordered that her five-years-old daughter be made a ward of the State…

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Murder in the Family, by James Ronald—Hoddor & Stoughton, London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 7

ONCE upon a time 3/4½ would buy "six foaming glasses and a double whisky" and a middle-class family of seven could live…

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Comic Court Given Double Sprint Task

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Track watchers at Caulfield this morning were amazed when South Australian champion, Comic Court, was given a dual sprinting task…

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PASSPORT to [?] Murder Last instalment of our serial by Neill Graham

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 18

In this last chapter the identity of the blackmailer--and murderer--is revealed in a startling climax . . . . . FOR half an…

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A Rope for Murderers Thirty Citizens In N.S.W Are Market Down For Murder In 1950

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 1

The ghastly murders of the post-war world, following in Australia the same perverted and ugly pattern as those in England and America, make utterly unreal the wishy-washy "reformism" of the Australian Labor Party, which says that the killer…

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'Bought Baby' Charged

Truth · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 5

Patrick Thomas Connelly, the baby bought by Truth for £25 in Melbourne, after it had been hawked for tale in a Melbourne hotel, was this week charged as a neglected child before the Melbourne Children's Court, and…

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