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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

11,550 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Open-and-shut Gaol Cell Case

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 4

BARBIE (Ontario) (A.P.). -- Police arrested Pte Thomas Bright (17) on "suspicion of stealing a…

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Police Find Missing Truck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Police today found a stolen truck loaded with £500 worth of stolen scrap…

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Police Probe Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 5

The C.I.B. has been called in to investigate an attempt to set fire to the Canberra Private Hotel…

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Police Find Missing Trucks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Police today found a stolen truck loaded with £500 worth of stolen scrap…

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Police Probe Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 5

The C.I.B. has been called in to investigate an attempt to set fire to the Canberra Private Hotel…

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Police Find Missing Truck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Sat. --Police today found a stolen truck loaded with- £500 worth of stolen scrap…

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Police Probe Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 8

The C.I.B. has been called in to investigate an attempt to set fire to the Canberra Private Hotel,…

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Police Probe Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 3

The C.I.B. has been called in to investigate an attempt to set fire to the Canberra Private Hotel,…

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Police Probe Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 5

The C.I.B. has been called in to investigate an attempt to set fire to the Canberra Private Hotel,…

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Police Probe Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 5

The C.I.B. has been called in to investigate an attempt to set fire to the Canberra Private Hotel,…

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Police Probe Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 5

The C.I.B. has been called In to investigate an attempt to set fire to the' Canberra Private Hotel,…

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U.K. Actor In Court Scene

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturdpv (U.P.). -- British actor John Buckmaster yesterday wrecked the…

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Iron Union Control New Court Move

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 7

Mr. Justice Kirby, in Chambers yesterday, granted a rule nisi calling on 17 members of the Federated…

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True Crime the Signal-box Murder [?] The woman's lonely vigil in the signal box was interrupted by a knock at the door

The World's News · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 26

CAN a man who is generally regarded as an ordinary, decent family man become a loathsome beast for just 15 minutes and then…

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Spies in Space Famous German scientist forecasts that secret "rocket police" will be able to spy on the earth from man-made moons

The World's News · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 15

DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN, famous German rocket expert, has been scaring the world with forecasts of "rocket police."…

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Police seek boy in Vic. double murder

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sat.—N.S.W. police have been alerted to watch all border highways for a 15-years-old boy driving a utility truck following the discovery of a double murder at a farm at Nullawil today…

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Paratroop Assault In Malaya

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 10 February 1952 · page 6

SINGAPORE, Feb. 9 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—A force or 57 British paratroops today jumped into a remote…

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Man Charged After Fire

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1952 · page 7

POLICE yesterday charged a 56-year- old laborer with having started a St. Ives,…

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Dual Murder on Farm Widespread police search for youth MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1952 · page 7

A WEALTHY grazier and his aunt Were ...found shot dead at Nullawil, near Wycheprof, 200 miles north-west of Melbourne, today…

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Trunk Slayer Back In Gaol

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1952 · page 3

PHOENIX (Arizona), Saturday.— "I am back," said the trunk murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd, meekly surrendering to the State Asylum authorities and…

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