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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

11,370 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 250

Contempt of Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 3

Following the death of a man allegedly arising from an incident in…

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Contempt of Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 3

Following the death off a man allegedly arising from an incident in…

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Contempt of Court

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 3

Following the death of a man allegedly arising from an incident in…

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Police in Chase After Bus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 1

Twenty frightened passengers scrambled from a Government doubledecker bus late last…

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Death at party Accused in Court

The Sun · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 1

A man charged with manslaughter had admitted striking another man who…

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Caveman Killer True Crime Story When police arrested Johnson in his primitive bush hideout, he bared his teeth in a mad grin of hate

The World's News · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 6

THERE was a great deal of wild talk flying around on September 12, 1930, in Bulkeley Valley, which is not far from Houston in British…

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£450 Theft From Hotel

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 4

BRISBANE, Sat.—Police in Southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales have been alerted to…

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Woman's Story of Assault

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 43

HOBART, Saturday. — After an improper suggestion allegedly made to a…

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6 Months Gaol for Joy-rider

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 47

A New Australian who went joy-riding in a jeep was sent to gaol for six months and fined a total…

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The city of graft and murder

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 1

Truth next week will present the first instalment of a new serial—"The Shame…

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Physician, wife on charge of murder

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 41

DANIA (Florida), Saturday.—Ageing Baltimore physician Francis Fielding-Reid and his bosomy wife Frances yesterday faced second degree murder charges after a sordid night-long drunken party on a yacht, during which a man was allegedly struck over the head with…

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Police Find Stripped Car

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 9

Police yesterday found a stolen new Holden car, stripped of half the engine, hub caps, radio, spare wheel,…

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Wife's nude pictures led to man's murder

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 5

NEW YORK, Sat.--A wealthy physician showed nude pictures of his wife to a guest at a wild Christmas Eve party, then killed the guest for making love to the wife. A retired doctor,…

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Pole popped with shots, say police

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 43

A young Pole, charged at Central Court on Wednesday with having fired shots in a Woolloomooloo street the night before, said from the dock: "Two men wouldn't give me…

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Police Ready For Duel With Gunman

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Detectives raiding houses in search of a notorious gang leader have been granted special permission to carry…

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Woman Stabbed 20 Times Court Told

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 20

A FIRM "no" uttered in a Melbourne dance hall one night last month proved costly for quietly spoken, blonde 30-year-old Mrs. Dawn Marie Hewat, according to to evidence in South Melbourne Court this week…

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Old Days In Court Hard Clerk Tells

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 11

The oldest Clerk of Petty Sessions in N.S.W., Mr. Fred Willis Stevenson, has been a student for 56 years of the State's changing face of justice…

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Real Life Court Dramas Doctor, stockbroker dispute tenancy

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 20

ON Christmas Eve Dr. Francis Felix Rundle arrived at his consulting room at suite 17, Dorchester House, Macquarie Street, City, and found that his name had been removed from the building directory and his nameplate…

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Melbourne's armed gangsters are thumbing their noses at the police

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Trigger-happy gunmen of Melbourne's underworld are thumbing their noses at the Victorian police force. In a four-month…

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Man in the Public Eye Patrician of the Centre Court

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 3 January 1954 · page 16

DURING the excitement over the selection of the Australian doubles team for the Davis Cup challenge round,…

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