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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

12,710 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Plagiarism, Like Murder, Will Out

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 11

PURLOINING IDEAS AS expressed in literary form and passing them off as original work is far more likely to break than make reputations. But it made—for a time—a career for…

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Police car rammed

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sat.--A police car overturned at 75 miles an hour while chasing a stolen sedan…

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Bus Driver Drunk, Say Police

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 3

The police yesterday arrested the driver of a Government bus and charged him at…

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Woman in the Case Murder at the Savoy

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 31

WHEN Marshall Hall defended Madame Fahmy…

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Police Think Man Trailed Girl Victim

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 4

Detectives investigating the murder of 21-year-old Shirley Butler, of Euroka Street, Waverton, now believe she was followed by a man when she left a tram…

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Police car crashes at 85 mph MELBOURNE, Sat

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 1

A POLICE car overturned and a policeman was injured during an 85 mph…

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Male Perverts Outnumbering Street Women On Police Charge Sheets, Says Vice Squad Officer Sex Crime Increase; Police Warn Parents

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 9

Crime statistics for dedd-and-gone 1952, at present being compiled by the Police Department, are expected to provide many shocks. The most startling re-…

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A Crime Probe Uncovered A Nation's Stickiest Mess Rackets... Bribery... Sabotage... Murder!

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 13

Respectable citizens of the United States, happy in the belief that big-time racketeering in their country was a thing of the past—a horrible but long-turned page in American history—have suffered a succession of violent…

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Man Battered to Death by Former Mate, Police Say

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Saturday. —A former room-mate was battered to death in a hut at Camp Pell emergency housing settlement by a 30-years-old mechanic in the early hours…

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Court Shorts She Was a Bride at 15

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 31

A shy bride was Pamela Mae Johnstone back in 1945. The reason for her shyness was that she was only 15 years. The girl married 27-years-old Arthur Robert…

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Cliques Form at the Palace Court squabbles over Queen's life

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 40

LONDON, Sat.--Clashes between new and old Court circles over Queen Elizabeth's private and public life are becoming an embarrassing prelude to the Coronation year. Well-informed…

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Real Life Court Dramas Two flats not enough for him, director says

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 29

WEALTHY company director, grazier and studmaster Maurice Victorian Point was ordered in Paddington Court on Friday to leave his…

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Study Overseas Urged Police Are Fighting Crime With Inferior Equipment —Commissioner Delaney More Men Needed

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 4 January 1953 · page 4

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. C. J. Delaney, said yesterday that N.S.W. police were fighting crime with inferior scientific…

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New Police Plea In Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 5

Detectives searching for the murderer of 21year-old Shirley Butler near her home in Euroka…

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Police, Court Congratulate Blind Publican

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

A blind publican, Mr. John William Wall, was congratulated by police and the Chairman of the…

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Police, Court Congratulate Blind Publican

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

A blind publican, Mr. John William Wall, was congratulated by police and the Chairman of the…

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Police Story of Cosh Attack Man, Woman Face Charge Of Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

One of two men assaulted in premises in Wyargine St., Balmoral, last night, had been struck with a cosh, police said in Central…

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Police Flying Tackle at Races, Court Told

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

A man had snatched £700 from a bookmaker's bag at Harold Park on December 20, and had been halted by a constable using a flying tackle, Glebe Court was told today…

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Police Story of Cosh Attack Man, Woman Face Charge Of Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

One of two men assaulted in premises in Wyargine St., Balmoral, last night, had been struck with a cosh, police said in Central…

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Police Story of Cosh Attack Man, Woman Face Charge Of Assault

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

One of two men assaulted in premises in Wyargine St., Balmoral, last night, had been struck with a cosh, police said in Central…

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