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Courts & crime, 1954

11,370 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Fire Ordeal Alleged by Witness in Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NAIROBI, Fri.--Two police reservists had ordered him to be held over a charcoal fire, an elderly native said in court yesterday. The witness, a…

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Crooks gather for Royal visit Police put on "alert"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 3

Criminals from other states are crowding into Sydney for the Royal visit. Detectives of the Consorting…

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Courts, Ships, Weather Monday's Courts Federal Supreme Court Bankruptcy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 29

First floor, Phillip House, 119 Phillip Street. Before Registrar. -- 10.30. -- Examination under Section 68: Re Charles Norman…

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Killed Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled…

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Killed Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled…

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Killer Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled…

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Killer Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 5

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled…

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Killer Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled…

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Girl Tells Police of Dance Hall Argument Lovers in tiff before car plunge

The Sun · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 1

Detectives are still undecided if a young man was in a car which plunged 100ft over a cliff at Tamarama early yesterday…

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Killer Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled…

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Killed Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive, seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural that one of its narrow, cobbled…

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Pinpricks Are Passports to Manhattan Heroin 'Paradise' Police smash U. S. dope rings

The Sun · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.-- In a series of lightning raids early today police shattered two large dope rings in Manhattan and…

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Killer Turned Interpreter to Trick Police Who Hunted Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural…

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Killer Turned Interpret Trick Police Who Hunte Ter to Id Him Escape of Antonio Szczepanek

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, is an attractive seaport that was old in the days of the American Revolution. Once an important shipbuilding centre, it is natural…

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A true crime story Murder with Honor He killed a man for the oldest reason in the world — but a sympathetic jury acquitted him

The World's News · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 6

THOUGH it occurred nearly 100 years ago, the killing of Philip Barton Key, a distinguished Washington lawyer, in broad daylight in…

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The Sydney Morning herald Saturday, January 23, 1954 the Arbitration Court and the A.C.T.U.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 2

Arbitration, in the eyes of the Australian Council of Trades Unions, appears to have merit only so long as…

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Remanded on Stealing Charge

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1954 · page 9

A man at Central Court yesterday was refused bail and remanded until tomorrow on a charge of stealing…

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£1,250 Theft Charge

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 24 January 1954 · page 3

Bert Collins Locke, 36, cleaner, of no fixed place of abode, in Central Court of Petty Sessions yesterday was…

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Negro's Note An "Assault"

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 24 January 1954 · page 5

NEW YORK, Saturday (A.A.P.).— Henry Robinson, a 24-year-old Negro yesterday received a suspended six months' sentence for assault because he wrote a note to…

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Atom Murder Charge

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 24 January 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday (A.A.P.). —A wealthy widow was accused yesterday of history's first atomic murder, United Press reports from Mexico City…

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