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Courts & crime, 1950

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Dugan Sends Third Message To Mirror Defiant Taunt Given Sydney Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

Another impudent and defiant Setter has been received by the Daily Mirror from Darcy Dugan, who, with fellow criminal William Mears, escaped from a Central Police Court cell on December 15…

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Dugan Sends Third Message To Mirror Defiant Taunt Given Sydney Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

Another impudent and defiant Setter has been received by the Daily Mirror from Darcy Dugan, who, with fellow criminal William Mears, escaped from a Central Police Court cell on December 15…

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Dugan Sends Third Message To Mirror Defiant Taunt Given Sydney Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

Another impudent and defiant Better has been received by the Daily Mirror from Darcy Dugan, who, with fellow-criminal William Mears, escaped from a Central Police Court cell on December 15…

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Dugan Sends Third Message To Mirror Defiant Taunt Given Sydney Police

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

Another impudent and defiant letter has been received fey the Daily Mirror from Darcy Dugan, who, with fellow criminal William Mears, escaped from a Central Police Court cell on December 15…

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Big Search for Vic. Prison Escapees 100 Police Join Hunt For Desperate Men

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Every available policeman within a 100 mile radius of Melbourne is searching for three desperate convicts who fought their way out of Ballarat Gaol on Saturday evening…

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Big Search for Vic. Prison Escapees 100 Police Join Hunt For Desperate Men

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Every available policeman within a 100-mile radius of Melbourne is searching for three desperate convicts who, fought their way out of Ballarat Gaol on Saturday evening…

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MELBOURNE, Monday-- In the Practice court Mr. Justice Barry ordered that Blem Pty, Ltd. be liquidated because it could not World in Danger, Einstein Warns Threatened By H-Bomb

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Professor Albert Einstein said, yesterday that the hysterical race between the United States and Russia to produce a hydrogen bomb threatened lo poison the atmosphere and annihilate Bite from the earth…

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Theft of Guns Police Are Concerned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 3

The police were gravely concerned at the theft of five Austen guns and one Bren gun from Arncliffe…

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Theft of Jewellery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 5

Thieves last night stole jewellery and other goods of a total value of £160 belonging to Joyce Isabel Slater and…

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Theft of Jewellery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 4

Thieves last night stole jewellery and other goods of a total value of £160 belonging to Joyce Isabel Slater and…

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Theft of Jewellery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 5

Thieves last, night stole Jewellery and other goods of a total value of £160 belonging to Joyce Isabel Slater and…

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Theft of Jewellery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 5

Thieves last night stole jewellery and other goods of a total value of £160 belonging to Joyce Isabel Slater and…

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Theft of Jewellery

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 4

Thieves last night stole jewellery and other goods of a total value of £160 belonging to Joyce Isabel Slater and…

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Heavy Police Guard Dugan And Mears In Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 2

Darcy Ezekiel Dugan (29), filer, and William Cecil Mears (27), laborer, Who were captured by police in a house in Alexander Street, Collaroy at gunpoint…

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Heavy Police Guard Dugan And Mears In Court

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 2

Darcy Ezekiel Dugan (29)f tiler, William Cecil Mears (27), laborer, who were, captured by police m a bowse in Alexander Street, Collaroy of gunpoint…

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2 Face Garage Theft Charges

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 5

Two men were charged in Paddington Court today with having broken into a garage in Curiewis…

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Acquitted Of Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Charles Connolly (26) yesterday was found pot, guilty of the murder of…

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Acquitted Of Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Charles Connolly (26) yesterday was found hot guilty of the murder of…

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John Agar in Gaol Cell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 13 (A.A.P.). — Handsome John Agar, former husband of Shirley Temple, pounded at the…

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Charged with Intent to Kill

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Bail was refused Frederick William Harrison when he appeared on remand in the City…

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