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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

11,550 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 250

Spade Attack: Court Story

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Mon.--A soldier battered an elderly Malvern woman with a spade, attempted to throttle her, then criminally assaulted her at her home last Friday, a…

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Witness Collapses in Court

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

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

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Spade Attack: Court Story

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Mon.--A soldier battered an elderly Malvern woman with a spade, attempted to throttle her, then criminally assaulted her at her home last Friday, a…

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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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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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Grim tale of mass murder, French widow's trial

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 8

PARIS, Sun.--Not since Dr. Marcel Petiot, who was guillotined in 1946 for murdering 63…

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Pension awards, move in court

The Sun · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE; Monday.--Right of the Arbitration Court to make…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight, armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).-- Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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8 Convicts Break Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK. Tues. (B.U.P.).--Eight armed convicts escaped yesterday from the prison…

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Exhumation Of Murder Victim

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- A police report seeking the exhumation of the body of George Thomas Edwards…

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Exhumation Of Murder Victim

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- A police report seeking the exhumation of the body of George Thomas Edwards…

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Exhumation Of Murder Victim

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- A police report seeking the exhumation of the body of Georee Thomas Edwards…

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Ex-mayor Charged with Taxi Fraud

The Sun · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 12

Former Mayor of Waterloo Thomas Richard Pracey was alleged to have pretended that he could get a man two taxi plates and two cars,…

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