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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

11,126 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Man Charged with Arson

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 2

Norman John Williams (50), laborer, of King St., Newtown was charged at central Court today with assaulting his wife…

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Man Charged with Arson

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 2

Norman John Williams (50 laborer, of King St., Newtown was charged at Central Court today with assaulting his wife…

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Man Charged with Arson

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 2

Police at Newtown last night charged a 50-years-old man with arson after a fire had broken out in a residence over…

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Police Search for Escapee

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 2

Balmain police are still searching for an inmate who walked out of Broughton Hall, Leichhardt, yesterday…

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Police seek Vic. escapees

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 5

Sydney detectives are checking incoming planes and trains for two Victorian jail escapees. Victorian police told New…

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Comic Court's Five

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 12

Comic Court (K. May) and Comedy Prince (T. Watson) both looked well as they galloped at Flemington this…

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Comic Court's Five

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 12

Comic Court (K. May) and Comedy Prince (T. Watson) both looked well as they galloped at Flemington this…

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Comic Court's Five

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 12

Comic Court (K. May) and Comedy Prince (T. Watson) both looked well as they galloped at Flemington this…

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King's Cross Hotel Court Grants Licence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 12

The Full Bench of the Licensing Court yesterday granted an application for conditional removal of the…

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Law Notices for Monday Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 5

Mr. Justice Clyne, 112 Pitt Street.— 10.30; Creditor's Petition: Re Bernard Michael Munzenberger, No. P179/50, ex parte William Smith. Re Gordon…

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True Crime Murder in a raccoon coat The housebreaker had an appreciation for the finer things of life

The World's News · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 6

WHILE other young Americans were rushing to enlist in 1917, single Harry Manster was going right on with his regular work of…

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Trainer Charged at Sea Ruffle Appeal

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 20

There was a dramatic twist in the Sea Ruffle doping appeal on Thursday of last week when the A.J.C. committee decided to charge T. Hall, trainer of the filly, with negligence…

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Visit To Court

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 35

On March 5 next, William John Hall (above), a carrier by occupation, will appear before the Licsnsing Court…

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The magistrate freed a park Peeping Tom Today's London Office

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 34

No legal punishment could be inflicted on Peeping Toms in parks, a London magistrate…

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Mother, Son Both Killers Indian Dies After Sad Gaol Scene

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday.—An Indian mother, shackled to a husky matron, made a tearful…

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Police Assistance on the Ice

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 6

TWO police constables carne gallantly to the aid of Miss Monica Bowd as she set out to skate across the frozen surface of Bury Fen, near Earifh, England…

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Why Is This Man Out Of Gaol, Mr. Dowing? Baffling Act Of Clemency

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 1

Arthur Wellington Price, a man with a long police record, today roams the streets of Sydney as free as the breeze…

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Agricultural Court at Royal Sydney Show

Vil'na Dumka = Free Thought · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 4

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The Nations An experienced cop was clumsy on a murder case

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 34

IT was odd how clumsy a first-rate State highway cop could be when it came to investigating a murder. The thin body of 20-year-old Margaret…

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Cassidy's Court Broadside in Brewers' Fight Licence Case

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 10

A bitter war now going on between a brewing David and a brewing Goliath—British Brewery and Tooth's—reached what might be described as a hectic stage in the Licensing…

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