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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

11,550 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

Police Claim House Petrol Explosion Followed Dispute 2 Men Burnt to Death in Blast

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Fri.--Two men died after they had been literally skinned as flames seared their bodies in a petrol explosion at a house in Swan Hill last night…

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Method in Theft

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 9

CHICAGO (D.M.W.S.). -- Eight crooks kept the radio of their stolen car tuned in to police…

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Method in Theft

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 9

CHICAGO (D.M.W.S.). -- Eight crooks kept the radio of their stolen car tuned in to police…

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42 Men Charged

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Vice Squad police under Sgts. Walden and Freeman arrested 42 men in Harris St., Paddington, late last…

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42 Men Charged in Night Raid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Vice Squad police under Sgts. Walden and Freeman arrested 42 men in Harris St., Paddington, late last…

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42 Men Charged in Night Raid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Vice Squad police under Sgts. Walden and Freeman arrested 42 men in Harris St., Paddington, late last…

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42 Men Charged in Night Raid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Vice Squad police under Sgts. Walden and Freeman arrested 42 men in Harris St.. Paddington, late last…

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42 Men Charged in Night Raid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Vice Squad police under Sgts. Walden and Freeman arrested 42 men in Harris St., Paddington. late last…

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42 Men Charged in Night Raid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Vice Squad police under Sgts. Walden and Freeman arrested 42 men in Harris St., Paddington, late last…

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42 Men Charged in Night Raid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 2

Vice Squad police under Sgts. Walden and Freeman arrested 42 men in Harris St., Paddington, late last…

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Man Serving Long Sentence Breaks From Gaol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 1

Harold Madden, 22, who was serving a 10-year sentence for attempted rape, escaped from Berrima Gaol yesterday afternoon…

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Police search for missing man

The Sun · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-- A large party of police and volunteers today continued the search…

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Late News Phone: M2406 Cricketer on Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 20

COLOMBO, Fri.--Cables between All-Ceylon Test cricketer Mahadeva Sathasivam and a Dutch girl in London, Yvonne…

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Markets inquiry by police Report to Chief

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 4

C.I.B. detectives yesterday began to investigate an allegation that the City Markets were "the Happy hunting ground of…

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Courts, Shipping, Mails Monday's Courts Supreme Court Divorce

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 14

Mr. Acting-justice Markell, No. 1 Court, Darlinghurst.--10.15: J. Cahill v. G. L. Cahill; D. A. Taplin v. B. L. Taplin;…

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Clue of the Pea-green Cycle True Crime Was the death of Bella Wright murder or an accident?

The World's News · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 6

SOME say that the case of Bella Wright is perhaps the strangest mystery in the records of criminal investigation…

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Gaol For Blacking Her Eyes

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1952 · page 6

"You are an arrant coward. You probably wouldn't hit a man," declared Mr. Soiling, S.M.,…

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Four strokes for stealing the chaplain's bathroom soap

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1952 · page 11

The 3ft long, 716in thick cane used in State institutions throughout Britain should be supplanted by a longer, thinner, more painful one, a committee of six reported to Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell…

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"Santa" Climbed Over the Wall Into Gaol

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1952 · page 27

"FATHER CHRISTMAS" visited the gloomy precincts of Pentridge Gaol, Melbourne, early on Boxing Day trying to scatter some happiness among…

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Police take escapee at gun-point

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1952 · page 7

POLICE recaptured a teenage youth yesterday several hours after he escaped from Bondi police station. He surrendered at…

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