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Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 250

Police Check On Poker Machines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 4

Secretaries and managers of city and suburban clubs were questioned by police yesterday about the use of fruit or poker machines. Chief of the C.I.B. (Supt. W…

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Police surround house, make arrest

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 6

Three car loads of police early today surrounded a shop in Oxford Street, Woollahra, and arrested a 31-year-old…

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Police Check On Club Machines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 4

Police visited a number of clubs in the city and suburbs yesterday and questioned secretaries and managers about the…

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Comic Court to Run

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 27

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Comic Court is now a certain starter in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on…

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Comic Court to Run

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 27

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Comic Court is now a certain starter in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on…

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Comic Court to Run

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 27

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Comic Court is now a certain starter in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 10

Decrcess nisi: F.P. Macauley v A. Macauley; E. M. Pearce v E. F. Pearce; J. W. Daniel v M. M. J. Daniel; C. E. O'Rourke v J. E…

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Police Re-open Mystery of Missing Man

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Geelong detectives have re-opened investations into the disappearance two years ago of a man a few days before he won a…

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Court Told Of Car Radio Gang

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 3

Two radio sets, stolen by a gang of car radio thieves in Sydney, had been disposed of O interstate transport carriers, a police itness said in Redfern Court today…

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Court Told Of Car Radio Gang

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 3

Two radio sets, stolen by a gang of car radio thieves in Sydney, had been disposed of to interstate transport carriers, a police witness said in Redfern Court today…

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Court Told Of Car Radio Gang

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 3

Two radio sets, stolen by a gang of car radio thieves in Sydney, had been disposed of to interstate transport carriers, a police witness said in Redfern Court today…

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Story in court of struggle and shot

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 12

A detective said in Manly Court today a nightwatchman told him he shot a car thief on November 11 because he was getting the worst of a struggle with him. Police charged the…

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Rats' £3000 Jewel Theft

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 5

An amazing discovery was made by detectives who rushed fro a beautiful borne in Vaucluse Rd„ Vaucluse, today, when a woman reported the theft of £3000 worth of jewellery…

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Detective guilty of assault

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tues.--The Police Discipline Board to-day found Defective…

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Policeman Dismissed for Assault

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday..-- Def. Lyle William Minns (29), of Hamilton, was sacked from the…

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Policeman Dismissed for Assault

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday..-- Det. Lyle William Minns (29), of Hamilton, was sacked from the…

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£3000 Theft of Jewels by Rats

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 9

An amazing discovery was made by detectives who rushed to a beautiful home in Vaucluse Rd., Vaucluse, today, when a woman reported the theft of £3000 worth of jewellery…

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£3000 Theft of Jewels by Rats

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 9

An amazing discovery was made by detectives who rushed to a beautiful home in Vaucluse Rd., Vaucluse, today, when a woman reported the theft of £3000 worth of jewellery…

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£3000 Theft of Jewels by Rats

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 9

An amazing discovery was made by detectives who rushed to a beautiful home in Vaucluse Rd., Vaucluse, today, when a woman reported the theft of £3000 worth of jewellery…

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Taunt Led to Murder

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 11

SOUTH BEND (Indiana).-- A woman told the court that she had shot her husband dead…

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