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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

11,370 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Woman Faces Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat. --A grey-haired woman sat moaning in the dock in the City…

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Woman Faces Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat. --A grey-haired woman sat moaning in the dock in the City…

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Woman Faces Murder Charge

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat. --A grey-haired woman sat moaning in the dock in the City…

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Bail For Youth On Murder Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 5

A youth charged with murder of his father was granted £500 bail by Mr. Justice Richardson in…

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Police search for basher

The Sun · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 2

Police are searching for a man who last night brutally bashed and robbed a watchman at a…

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Police Fight Bank Robbers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 5

LEGHORN, Fri. -- In a gun battle last night, Italian police killed a bank robber, wounded a second…

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The Survivors Had Been 19 Days in an Open Boat When Crew killed and ate cabfn boy No one knew whether they could be charged with murder until the case went before England's Lord Chief Justice

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 12

THE yacht, Mignonette, sank so fast in a South Atlantic gale on July 5, 1884, that the crew had only five minutes to take to the long…

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Govt. Awaits Ruling Court Move On Unionism Law

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 4

State Ministerial sources said last night that the Government is not likely to take action to tighten up exemption provisions of the compulsory unionism law…

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Army Of Police In Vigil To Guard Negroes Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, January 8. —A small army of Chicago police is conducting one of the most remarkable…

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Hoad blasted off court as U.S. star wins title

The Sun · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Saturday.--American Tony Trabert today avenged his Davis Cup defeat by sweeping Lew Hoad off the court in the South Australian singles final. Trabert's power game overwhelmed…

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Innocent men have been hanged A mother and two sons were executed for the murder of a rent-collector. Three years later the "dead man" reappeared

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 34

"EVER since John Christie confessed that he strangled Mrs. Evans, wife of Timothy Evans who was hanged three years ago for the…

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Magistrate 'disgusted'

Truth · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 50

Mr. Soiling, S.M., who rebuked Barry over the photographs. "They are disgusting," the…

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Mattock As Murder Tool

Truth · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 1

HARRISVILLE (West Virginia). Sat. (U.P.). — Harmon Isner (42), oil-worker, hacked his wife…

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Widow On Murder Charge

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A 56-year-old widow sat moaning in the dock to-day when…

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Millionaire Beat Ex-wife Gaol For Sugar Daddy

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday (A.A.P.).— Sugar millionaire Adolph Spreckels has…

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Fiancee, 56, on Charge of Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Police today charged a 56-year-old widow, with the murder of her hotel-proprietor fiance, aged 60…

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Gable In Court

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday (A.A.P.).—The Superior Court at Tucson (Arizona) yesterday ordered Clark…

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Six Men in Gaol to Uphold a Strange Religion

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 5

NEW YORK, Saturday.—Six men of a strange religious sect went to gaol at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this week, after a long battle with the law about the age at…

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Police chief urges bet shops

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 January 1954 · page 12

LONDON, Sat.--London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Nott-Bower advocates…

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