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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 250

Filipino at 12 to 1 beats Comic Court

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Dashing' to the front soon after entering the straight. Filipino (121) scored a thrilling win in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley today…

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Son-in-law Charged With Murder

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 1

ADELAIDE," Saturday. —Herbert Ernest Hall, 66, managing director, was found murdered at…

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Six Men Charged After Darlinghurst Brawl

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 4

Six arrests were made after a man suffered injuries necessitating hospital treatment and others suffered cuts and bruises in a free-for-all involving about 30 men on a vacant allotment in Oxford…

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Villagers Attack Police Station

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 3

CALCUTTA, Jan. 28 (A.A.P.).—Two thousand Communist-led villagers, armed with spears, bows, and arrows,…

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Murder Hunt Is On Again From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 28.—In fashionable London clubs and shady black-market haunts, in country towns of England and back streets of Paris, the police to-day began inquiries to reopen the case of Stanley Setty. Senior detectives and lawyers…

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Court Petition Follows M.P.'s Election

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 5

Henry William Crittenden, a Lane Cove publicist, last week challenged, in the High Court, the validity of the election of…

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Bodgey Boys of King's Cross Are Under Police Spotlight

The Sun · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 39

POLICE are investigating the strangely dressed adolescents who frequent King's Cross milk bars and city fun arcades. They are known as "bodgeys." They chew (and blow) gum constantly and speak with a strong…

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It Wasn't a Fight—it Was Murder! The Stribling v. Palmer Fiasco

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 16

IT was on the chilly night of July 4, 1932, at Sydney Stadium that Australia's gay but reckless cavalier of the show game, Hugh D. Mclntosh, having skyrocketed to fame on the back of his boxing enterprise, nose-dived in failure at a single stroke with his…

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Baby Born to Girl, 14; Storeman Before Court

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 7

THE birth of a 71b. 6oz. baby boy in the Crown St. Women's Hospital to a 14-years-old girl last December, led to the appearance at Redfern Court this week of a 47-years-old storeman, Francis Hogan, of 30 Ann St., Surry Hills, who…

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Filipino's Lucky Valley Win Comic Court Good Thing Down

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1950 · page 21

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Punters accustomed to seeing South Australian star Comic Court win first up when produced in Melbourne were shocked when…

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£145,000 Gem Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 4

NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.).--Thieves early today stole jewellery and other valuables worth 325,000 dollars (£A.145,000) from an apartment house in the heart of New York…

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Seventh arrest in jewel theft

The Sun · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

MARSEILLES, Monday. -- Police investigating the theft of £200,000 worth of jewels from the Aga Khan last…

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Fowlyard murder charge

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 9

ADELAIDE, Sun. -- Police today charged a man with having murdered his…

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Pay Clerk Found £3000 Theft Easy

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 11

LONDON.--Hugh Vernon Nelson, a 67-years-old War Department pay clerk, told the West London court that, because the accounts of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, were never audited, he found it simple…

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Pay Clerk Found £3000 Theft Easy

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 11

LONDON.--Hugh Vernon Nelson, a 67-years-old War Department pay clerk, told the West London court that, because the accounts of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, were never audited, he found it simple…

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Pay Clerk Found £3000 Theft Easy

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON.--Hugh Vernon Nelson, a 67-years-old War Department pay clerk, told the West London court that, because the accounts of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, were never audited, he found it simple…

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500,000-Dollar Theft In N.Y.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK Jan. 29 (A.A.P.). —Jewellery and other valuables worth about 325,000 dollars were stolen from an apartment house…

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Terrorists Murder 20 in Malaya

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Monday.--Six special constables and four estate workers were killed yesterday when…

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Terrorists Murder 20 in Malaya

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 14

SINGAPORE, Monday.--Six special constables and four estate workers were killed yesterday when…

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Terrorists Murder 20 in Malaya

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Monday.-- Six special constables and four estate workers were killed yesterday when…

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