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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

11,550 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250

Courts, Shipping, Mails Today's Courts Supreme Court in Divorce

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 11

Before Mr. Acting Justice Markell, No. 1 Court, Darling-hurst.--10. Causes: T. D. Batey v. S. A. Batey; E. G. A…

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Fork and Bottle Assault Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Saturday --Joan Kathleen Nevin (31), of St. Kilda, was charged at the City Court…

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Fork and Bottle Assault Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Saturday--Joan Kathleen Nevin (31), of St. Kilda, was charged at the City Court…

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Fork and Bottle Assault Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Saturday --Joan Kathleen Nevin (31), of St. Kilda, was charged at the City Court…

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Fork and Bottle Assault Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Saturday --Joan Kathleen Nevin (31), of St. Kilda, was charged at the City Court…

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Fork and Bottle Assault Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday--Joan Kathleen Nevin (31), of St. Kilda, was charged at the City Court…

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Fork and Bottle Assault Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Saturday --Joan Kathleen Nevin (31), of St. Kilda, was charged at the City Court…

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Police Harry Safebreakers

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 3

Criminals in half a dozen suburbs were kept on the run last night when members of the CIB…

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Courts, Shipping, Mails Monday's Courts Bankruptcy Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 16

Registrar in Bankruptcy, 7th Floor, Commonwealth Bank Building, 112 Pitt Street, Sydney.--Taxation of costs.--10.30:…

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Deewhy Theft

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 5

Cutting a hole in the wall, thieves stole 16 radios worth £350 from the shop of Sydney Edward Smith in Pacific…

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Police Fire at Car

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Sat.—Police fired a number of shots at a car containing five half-caste aborigines during a…

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A body was needed for a murder

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 11

On Christmas Day, Parisian woodworker Rene Montrenon, gave himself up to the police saying he had murdered a man by…

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"Poison Pen" Letters Told Of A Murder

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 5

Poison pen letters to police, which accused radio racing commentator Ken Howard—"London to a brick"—of the murder of Jewish tailor, Samuel Simon Platt (61), were produced in Central Court on Friday…

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The nations A murder sent dope peddlers underground

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 26

AROUND the bars and dives where London's drug peddlers carried on their furtive trade, there was a lull and silence this week. Red-eyed customers…

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Police fear suicide in baby case

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Police believe a mother may have committed suicide after…

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The court allowed for inflation

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 12

Inflation got legal recognition from Judge Thomas J. Molloy in the Superior Court, Newhaven, Connecticut…

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A raven-haired widow and a blond youth sent threatening letters, say police

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 29

ATTRACTIVE, raven-haired widow Mrs. Vid a Bell Hudson wrote 30 threatening letters to radio announcer Ken Howard so that she could meet him, according to police evidence at Central Court this week. This was one of two cases at the court on…

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Actress' Story Of City Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 3

Sydney actress Betty Leonta Hilton (21), who was granted a decree nisi against Sydney actor and radio announcer Toderick ("Tod") Edmund Hilton (35). told the…

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Actress' Story Of City Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 3

Sydney actress Betty Leonta Hilton (21), who was granted a decree nisi against Sydney actor and radio announcer Toderick ("Tod") Edmund Hilton (35), told the…

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Actress' Story Of City Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 3

Sydney actress Betty Leonta Hilton (21), who was granted a decree nisi against Sydney actor and radio announcer Toderick ("Tod") Edmund Hilton (35), told the…

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