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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 250

Penrith Court (Before Mr. MacAuley, S.M.) Tuesday, January 31 Drunken Driving Cases

Nepean Times · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 6

Wilfred Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of riding a motor cycle in High Street, Penrith, while he was under the influence of intoxicating liquor…

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Law Court Reports Quarter Sessions Before Judge Redshaw Mr. T. G. Parsonage, Crown Prosecutor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 7

William Percy Wagg was acquitted of a charge of larceny. BEFORE JUDGE BERNE Mr. R. R. Kidston, Crown…

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Laundryman on stealing charge

The Sun · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 10

Wallace Henry, St. Clair Field, 44, laundry delivery man, of Enmore Road, Marrickville, was committed for…

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Men Guilty of Assault

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 3

Two men were convicted Of assaulting a married woman on November 22 last in the Quarter…

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Men Guilty of Assault

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 3

Two men were convicted of assaulting a married woman on November 22 last in the Quarter…

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Big Guam Theft Clue Here

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 11

BATHURST, Thurs. -- Detectives have traced to Bathurst a tractor which was among more than…

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Prominent Boxers on Assault Count

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE. Friday--Two prominent Victorian boxers welterweight Sel Hamilton (25) and light-heavyweight Jack…

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Prominent Boxers on Assault Count

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE. Friday--Two prominent Victorian boxers welterweight Sel Hamilton (25) and light-heavyweight Jack…

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Police Service

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 19

OMAHA (Nebraska).--A distraught man rushed into the Detective Bureau in Omaha and reported that thieves had…

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Police Service

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 19

OMAHA (Nebraska).--A distraught man rushed into the Detective Bureau in Omaha and reported that thieves had…

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Sheep Stealing on Increase in Western Areas

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 13

CHEEP stealing has become so bad west of Quirindi that the local branch, of tho Graziers' Association will ask the…

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'Gladiator trials for murder

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Capital punishment makes a murder trial "a…

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Murder trial for laborer

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 16

The Parramatta Coroner (Mr. J. E. Gibson) yesterday committed Norman Craig, 44, laborer, for trial…

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Seven Pianos in Murder Case

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 4

TOLEDO (Ohio). -- John Harding (67) was a mild-mannered, sociable little man, and his neighbors in Toledo were…

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Seven Pianos in Murder Case

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 4

TOLEDO (Ohio). -- John Harding (67) was a mild-mannered, sociable little man, and his neighbors in Toledo were…

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Israel’s Police

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 9

LONDON. Mr. Yeheskel Sahar, 42-year-old Inspector-General of the Israel Police Force, is now in London to study Scotland Yard’s…

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Monks, Nun, Nurse In Court

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 6

FRANKFURT.--Tales of neglect, hunger and sexual perversion at a home for epileptic children at…

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Monks, Nun, Nurse In Court

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 6

FRANKFURT.--Tales of neglect, hunger and sexual perversion at a home for epileptic children at…

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Kogarah Court of Petty Sessions Pipes

The St George Call · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 12

Lack of building materials trotted out by politician. Government, of come) as excuses and no doubt with reason, for not doing those…

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Dope Ring Swoop By Police In U.S.

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 6

NEW YORK, Friday.--Thirty-one alleged members of an international dope ring were indicted yesterday on charges of smuggling narcotics into the United States . They are suspected also of…

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