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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

12,389 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

Police guard doors as Rossellini visits Bergman ROME

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 2

TWO armed policemen are guarding the entrance to film star Ingrid Berg mam's luxurious suite in the Villa Margherita clinic…

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Atom scientist charged with spying for Russia U.S. fears H-bomb secret lost WASHINGTON

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 52

G-MAN chief J. Edgar Hoover told US Senators yesterday British scientist Klaus Fuchs, charged with having passed atomic secrets to Russia, also knew…

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St. Razzle May Visit Sydney; Comic Court rider jeered

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 32

ST. RAZZLE, who defeated Comic Court and Carbon Copy in the C. F. Orr Stakes at Moonee Valley yesterday, might be brought to Sydney this autumn…

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A Frenchman mused in the court of the illustrious unknown TIME

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 39

Sadly the little man ran his eye over the cluttered warehouse yard. "The court," he sighed, waving a hand, "of the illustrious unknown." Sylva Poullin, official of the…

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St. Razzle Had the Laugh Odds-on Comic Court Takes Count

Truth · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 21

MELBOURNE, Saturday. — St. Razzle was responsible for the first of the season's W.F.A. boilovers at Moonee. Valley today by downing…

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Assault Alleged

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 2

Norman Allan Bartholomew, 25, laborer, of Parr Parade, Dee Why, was remanded at North Sydney…

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Artist on theft charge

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 9

MAITLAND, Monday. -- Roy Reynolds, 42, artist, was remanded today to Kogarah Court on a charge of having,…

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Mine Job "Like Gaol'

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 4

An official of the Miners' Federation said today he had refused an offer of a job as a…

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Mine Job 'Like Gaol'

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 4

An official of the Miners' Federation said today he had refused an offer of a job as a…

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Mine Job 'Like Gaol'

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 4

An official of the Miners' Federation said today he had refused an offer of a job as a…

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Solicitor on bail, sailed for America, police tell court

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 3

A solicitor on £40 bail to appear at Paddington Court today on a charge of soliciting for an immoral purpose in Bondi Beach dressing shed sailed for America 11 days ago…

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Child, 10, screen for theft

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 3

A Maltest woman migrant, recently arrived in Australia, was warned in Central Court today that her 10-year-old…

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Double Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 1

Kevin John Irwin (left), who is charged with the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Dart (49) and her daughter, Dorothy Jean Dart (20), whose bodies were found in their home at Garrong Rd., Lakemba…

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"No Danger" of Gaol Escape

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 8

Suggestion in a Sunday paper that a gaol break at Long Bay was imminent, was too ridiculous for words, the Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) said today…

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Stop Press Murder Inquest

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 20

John Edward Irwin, foreman Garrong Rd., Lakemba father of Kevin John Irvin who is charged with the murder of Mrs and Miss…

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Stop Press Murder Inquest

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 20

John Edward Irwin, forem[?]n Garrong Rd., Lakemba father of Kevin John Irvin who is charged with the murder of Mrs and Miss…

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Inquest on Victims Of MURDER

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 3

A doctor today told the Campsie Coroner (Mr. E. J. Gibson) of shocking head injuries…

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Police Search for Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 4

Sydney police have found no trace of the 14-years-old son of a war widow who has been…

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Police warning: "guard payrolls!"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 5

Sydney police have advised firms with big payrolls to double their payroll guards and make sure that each man has a reliable pistol, and knows how to use it…

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Grim Police Fine in Suicide Probe

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 12

NEW YORK, Monday.--The slashed and beater bodies of three women, all clad in night clothes were discovered yesterday by Tampa (Florida) police Police came across the bodies…

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