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Courts & crime, 1952

11,550 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 250

Dogs run wild. kill sheep 12 Shot by Police

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 February 1952 · page 12

Domestic dogs, running wild in the Castle Hill district, about 20 miles from Sydney, have killed 40 sheep in the last two…

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Police arrest man at races Story of £300 "GRAB"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 February 1952 · page 7

A bookmaker's clerk at Rosehill races yesterday caught a man who, he alleged, had…

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Gravediggers' grim evidence "Hamlet" scenes in French court

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 February 1952 · page 13

PARIS, Sat.--Four gravediggers today gave a grim recital of how they dug up the remains of eleven people alleged to have been poisoned by a French widow…

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Court Shots In Legal Fight To Extradite Stocks

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1952 · page 32

Police fired the first shots in their legal battle to bring playboy John Lloyd Stocks back from America to answer charges involving £4945 when evidence alleging that Stocks…

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Mr. Smith Goes To Moscow Police Spies Follow Visitors To Russia Part 3 Of A Series

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 24 February 1952 · page 7

Police keep a careful check on all visitors to Russia. John Smith, of the London hanking firm of Coutts and Co., found that he was followed wherever he…

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Paris Police Station Theft

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 7

PARIS (AP.). --Jean Sabatier (35) was charged with stealing a sealed packet containing jewellery…

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Paris Police Station Theft

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 7

PARIS (A.P.). --Jean Sabatier (35) was charged with stealing a sealed packet containing jewellery…

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Alleged Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 3

An invalid pensioner aged 24 was arrested by Detectives Shaw and Hale at Dulwich Hill yesterday on charges of…

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Gaol Escape

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 14

MEXICO CITY. --Fifteen prisohers dug a hole in a wall and escaped from' a Tijuana prison, Mexico…

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Theft Alleged From Bookmaker

The Sun · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 5

At Parramatta Court today Harold Angus Byrnes, 40, laborer, Walker St., Waterloo,…

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Alleged Theft From Bookie

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

Mr. Brown, S.M., at Parramatta Court this morning remanded a 40-years-old laborer to…

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Motor Cyclist Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

Walter Leslie Johnson (42), Epsom Rd., Moore- bank, was sentenced at Parramatta Court today…

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Motor Cyclist Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

Walter Leslie Johnson (42), Epsom Rd. Moore- bank, was sentenced at Parramatta Court today…

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Mater Cyclist Sent To Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

Walter Leslie Johnson (42),.Epsom Rd., Moore- bank, was sentenced at Parramatta Court today…

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Killara Murder Inquiry In. U.S.

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

The Sydney C.I.B. has asked the F.B.I, in America to help trace, the murderer of Mrs. Leopoldine Hacker, of Killara. C.I.B. Chief (Supt…

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Killara Murder Inquiry In U.S.

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

The Sydney C.I.B. has asked the F.B.L in America to help trace the murderer of Mrs. Leopoldine Hacker, of Killara. C.I.B Chief (Supt…

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Rating, Police in Struggle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 3

Police were involved in a fierce struggle with a Naval rating in the Sydney Domain yesterday…

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Tokyo Police Use Tear Gas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 3

TOKYO, Feb. 24 (A.A.P.-Reuter). — Two thousand police in Tokyo last night used fire hoses and…

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Witness Collapses in Court

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

James Waters Smith, Surada Ave., Lane Cove, chief messenger to the Minister for Housing,…

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Witness Collapses in Court

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 4

James Waters Smith, Surada Ave., Lane Cove, chief messenger to the Minister for Housing,…

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