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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250

New High Court judge named

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Fri.--The Government has decided to appoint Mr. justice…

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Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and carbine rifles, squads of C.I.B. defectives last night made lightning raids on the underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

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Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and 30 m.m. carbine rifles, squads of C.I.B. defectives last night made lightning raids on the underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

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Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and carbine rifles, squads off C.I.B. defectives last night made lightning raids on the underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

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Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and carbine rifles, squads of C.I.B. defectives last night made lightning raids on the underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

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Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and carbine rifles, squads of C.I.B. detectives last night made lightning raids on the underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and carbine rifles, squads of C.I.B. detectives last night made lightning raids on the Underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and carbine rifles, squads of C.I.B. defectives last night made lightning raids on the underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Armed Police Comb City for Payroll Bandits

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 2

Armed with sub-machine guns and 30 m.m. carbine rifles, squads of C.I.B. defectives last night made lightning raids on the underworld in their intensive search for two bandits…

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Car Hits Woman, Then Crashes Into Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 1

A car, after colliding with a woman, swerved, into a Far-western Division police wireless car on…

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Now They'll Know Why They're In Gaol! Thief Catching Modern Style

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 13

In Long Bay and other New South Wales gaols are a score or more burglars who are still trying to puzzle out how they came to be caught so quickly. Some of them had "cased"'shops and factories for days before…

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Law Notices for Monday Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 7

Registrar.—112 Pitt Street.—1030. —Examination under Section 68: Thomas Rossiter Aires Forwood. SUPREME COURT…

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Dugan, Mears dock hold-up men, claim police

The Sun · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 3

Detectives are convinced that gaol escapees Darcy Ezekiel Dugan and William Mears are two of the three armed men who attempted an armed payroll robbery at…

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Police Armed With Tommy-guns In Hunt For Bandits

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 1

Police armed with sub-machine guns are searching for the two armed masked bandits and their two accomplices who tried yesterday to steal a £12,000 payroll at Mort's Dock, Balmain…

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Harbor Searched for Bandits Police with drawn guns board launch

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 5

Detectives with drawn revolvers boarded a launch at Snail's Bay yesterday afternoon in their search for the two masked bandits who attempted to steal the Mort's Dock payroll yesterday…

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Gaol Treatment for Pub Pervert

Truth · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 11

IN spite of a plea for leniency by the man's mother, Mr. Soiling, S.M., in Paddington Court on…

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Gas Mask Murder Next

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 23

Roger Stradbroke couldn't possible have foreseen the appalling consequences of the way he treated Connie Parsons…

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Night Court Erratic

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 32

Night Court, due to greenness, raced erratically and hung out practically throughout the Two-Year-Old Maiden…

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SM's Rebuke Of Police Official

Truth · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 8

The manner in which a statement was said to have been taken by a police superintendent from a 35-years-old actor charged with having driven while under the influence of liquor, was strongly criticised…

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Tommy-gun police wade rivers in bandit search

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 6

Thirty detectives armed with sub-machine guns and carbines raided boatsheds, homes, and deserted cabins along the Parramatta River late yesterday, when the hunt for the Mort's Dock bandits took a new turn…

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