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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

11,126 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 250

Presenting Real Life Jewellery worth £15,000 sparkled in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 February 1951 · page 40

WHILE £15,000 worth of jewellery sparkled and glistened on counsel's table in the Sydney Coroner's Court police witnesses alleged this week that a man had ransacked a sleeping woman's flat for two hours to steal it…

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Court Told Of £30,000 Mansion Wife's alimony claim on nightclub man

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1951 · page 8

Night club operator, Eric Moritz Woods (51), who was divorced last March because of his…

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Court Acts As Coalminers Get Ready for Strikes Will Sit Here On

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 4 February 1951 · page 1

The Commonwealth Arbitration Court will sit in Sydney on Thursday morning to hear an application for contempt of Court…

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State Election Sequel Court Inquiry This Month By "The Sunday Herald's" Legal Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 4 February 1951 · page 2

According to the current Law Lists, the Court of Disputed Returns will resume its sitting in Sydney this month to find out whether there were any irregularities in the voting in Darlinghurst in the last State elections…

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Part I of a two-part story of love and jealousy—and a strange murder attempt The Face of Helen

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1951 · page 14

MR. SATTERTHWAITE was at the opera and sat alone in his big…

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Held Prisoner in Flat for 22 Hours, Woman Claims Amazing Court Tale of Cyanide Drink Offer; Pensioner for Trial

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1951 · page 35

A woman said to have been held prisoner in a flat at gunpoint for 22 hours ... an alleged threat to make her drink cyanide or take the "dirty way out" by shooting . . . discovery of two large excavated rooms under an elderly man's flat . . . alleged talk of there being a…

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Actor Denies Stealing Baby

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 16

NEW YORK; Monday.--Film actor Robert Newton, yesterday denied his sick wife's charges that he…

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Actor Denies Stealing Baby

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 16

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Film actor Robert Newton yesterday denied his sick wife's charges that he…

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Actor Denies Stealing Baby

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 16

NEW YORK Monday.-- Film actor Robert Newton yesterday dented his sick wife's charges that he…

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Actor Denies Stealing Baby

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 16

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Film actor Robert Newton yesterday denied his sick wife's charges that he…

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Actor Denies Stealing Baby

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 16

NEW YORK, Monday.-- Film actor Robert Newton yesterday denied his sick wife's charges that he…

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Laborer Gaoled for Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 14

Albert Leary (25), laborer, Barcom Ave., Darlinghurst, was sentenced to three, months' gaol at Padding ton Court…

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Laborer Gaoled for Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 14

Albert Leary (25), laborer, Barcom Ave., Darlinghursty was sentenced to three months' gaol at Paddington Court…

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Laborer Gaoled for Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 14

Albert Leary (25), laborer, Barcom Ave., Darlingnilrst, was sentenced to three months' gaol at Paddington Court…

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Man Charged with Arson

The Sun · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

A man was remanded on £200 bail at Campsie Court today when charged with breaking into a dwelling at…

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Man Charged with Rape

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

Detectives from Goulburn yesterday arrested a 37-year-old labourer from Dalton, near Gunning, on a charge of rape…

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S.M's Warning Over Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 2

"Police will be protected by the courts 'from this type of hoodlum -- gaol is the deterrent." said Mr…

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Man Charged with Posing As Doctor

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

Police alleged in Manly Court today that a deregistered dentist had been practising as a…

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Man Charged with Posing As Doctor

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

Police alleged in Manly Court today that a de- registered dentist had been practising as a…

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Man Charged with Posing As Doctor

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

Police alleged in Manly Court today that a de registered dentist had been practising as a…

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