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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1955

281 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 15

Dairy Co-op. On Stealing Charge

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 1

At Sydney Quarter Sessions this week the Wingham Co-operative Dairy Society Ltd., was charged with stealing butterfat From the N.S.W. Milk Board…

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Onus On Farmer: Court Rules On Hopper Control

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 1

A land holder has a legal duty to destroy grasshoppers on his property, even if he has not been called upon to do so by a P.P. Board…

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Burglary Can Be a Dignified Business

The World's News · Saturday 19 February 1955 · page 41

ADVICE to beginners on the art of burglary has been given in Paris by a gentlemanly expert known as The Baron…

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Ellery Queen's Crime File Why Do Men Murder?

The World's News · Saturday 19 February 1955 · page 18

DOROTHY was murdered on August 20, 1952, and in the first six months of that year in the United States there had been one crime of…

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Guildford Fatality Merrylands Milk Vendor Charged

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 2

Last Friday an elderly man was kneeled down by a truck and fatally injured at Guildford victim. Francis Lachlan Buggy (65)…

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Prefers Gaol To Paying Fine

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1955 · page 3

BATHURST.— A landholder in the Bathurst district has stated he would rather go to gaol than pay the fine for the alleged non-suppression of…

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Co-op. Acquitted On Stealing Charge

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1955 · page 3

In Quarter Sessions in Sydney last week the Wingham Rural Co-operative Society was acquitted on a charge of stealing butterfat from the N.S.W. Milk Board…

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East Berlin Court Sentences Nazi War Criminal to Death

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 February 1955 · page 5

Berlin. — The death penalty has been imposed by a German court in the Soviet sector of this city on Karl…

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An Inspector Price Story Too Much DETAIL Joey, always the smart schemer, had answers for all the police questions

The World's News · Saturday 26 February 1955 · page 34

IT was a luxury car; it would have cost all of £3000. It drew admiring and envious glances from most of…

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Ellery Queen's Crime File Murder in Lovers Lane Pretty, but quiet-living. How could such a girl come to be found naked, in a ditch miles from home, victim of a strangler?

The World's News · Saturday 26 February 1955 · page 27

ONE doesn't hear much of Canadian crime except the picturesque ones involving a bearded scoundrel mushing his way over the…

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Merryland Robbery Man Charged

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 2 March 1955 · page 1

A man from Merrylands Housing Settlement has been charged with the recent robbery at Fawbert's Sports Store. Merrylands…

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Ellery Queen's Crime File An 18-year-old Coriya girl, one of the nine "love slaves" told police that she was approached in a bazaar by a "holy man" who lured her away to an isolated spot, forcibly took her to the monastery. The Love Slaves of Orissa A master of mystery fiction writes the fantastic but true story of life in a primitive Indian sanctuary

The World's News · Saturday 5 March 1955 · page 27

THIS sensational story has come out of India recently. It is a story of crime and sex so fantastic that, were it not vouched for by…

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Tough Police Smashed a Squads City's Gangs The gangsters of Sheffield called Sir Percy Sillitoe, Britain's "toughest cop". In this article the man who later became head of Britain's Secret Service, tells how he trained his men to smash the hoodlums

The World's News · Saturday 12 March 1955 · page 26

BEFORE I took over as head of MI5, one of my first police jobs was at Sheffield. When I began there as chief constable the city…

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Three years for Kenya murder

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 4

MURDERERS and torturers who work for the British imperialists in Kenya get a different treatment from Africans allegedly guilty…

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Police Warning on Parking

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 19

Large numbers of drivers of motor vehicles patronising hotels during the extended hours are…

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Us Court Rejects Affidavit

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 4

NEW YORK: The United States Supreme Court has refused to take account of affidavits swearing that false…

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Ancient court of chivalry sits again A dispute over armorial bearings is first case in two centuries

The World's News · Saturday 19 March 1955 · page 8

GREAT Britain's Court of Chivalry is about to take on its first dispute over armorial bearings—in this case a coat-of-arms—in 219 years…

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Court application seen as challenge to Lloyd Ross

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1955 · page 9

Lloyd Ross' grip on the ARU is seen as being challenged aga in an application to the Arbitration Court to restrain certain people from holding themselves up as officials of the NSW Branch of the union…

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Constable's Killers Trapped by Car Mishp Sir Percy Sillitoe, who later became chief of Britain's Intelligence Service — M.I.5 — fells how police operated when one of their comrades was murdered by car thieves

The World's News · Saturday 26 March 1955 · page 14

I HAVE met and dealt with killers. Some escaped with a verdict of culpable homicide, others were hanged. Two among them joined…

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Seamen Answer Court Order

Tribune · Wednesday 30 March 1955 · page 12

SEAMEN, at their annual general stopwork meeting on Tuesday, instructed their Committee of Management…

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