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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1958

176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 9

Police Commissioner Opens Brilliant Ball

Nepean Times · Thursday 29 May 1958 · page 3

True to tradition the Annual Catholic Ball of Penrith held in Log Cabin Hotel on Friday evening was organised and presented successfully in every aspect. It was officially opened by the…

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Police Check on Anti-semitic Literature

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 30 May 1958 · page 5

Police are investigating anti-Semitic literature in hoth English and Hungarian which has been…

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Seamen Allege Police Assault

Tribune · Wednesday 4 June 1958 · page 10

BRISBANIE: Seamen from four Australian ships in Townsville -- the Yandarra, Binburra, Whyralla and…

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Murder Charge Sefton Man Not Guilty

The Biz · Wednesday 4 June 1958 · page 12

A Central Criminal Court jury last week found a, car dealer not guilty of the murder of his neighbor…

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Cabramatta Police Lost Property

The Biz · Wednesday 4 June 1958 · page 28

Sgt. Randell of, Cabramatta Police, has Informed us that he is holding a large variety of lost, property awaiting owners…

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Promotions in Police Force at Fairfield

The Biz · Wednesday 4 June 1958 · page 4

The latest list of promotions in the N. S. W. Police Force has elevated two constables at Fairfield to the ranks of sergeant…

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Lost Property at Fairfield Police Station

The Biz · Wednesday 4 June 1958 · page 9

The number of mislaid bikes is mounting again at Fairfield Police Station. A few of the bikes probably were stolen and…

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ACTU lays plans for wage campaign Anger at Court 5-

Tribune · Wednesday 4 June 1958 · page 1

MEASURES aimed at having the basic wage increased have been decided on by the Interstate Executive…

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Fine for Stealing Heaters

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 June 1958 · page 4

A tiler, Robert Ronald Anderson, of Cataline Street, St. Marys, was fined £20 in the Penrith Court of Petty Sessions…

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Burnie Slates Police Attack

Tribune · Wednesday 11 June 1958 · page 10

TASMANIA: Burnie Trades and Labor Council strongly criticised the recent Melbourne police attach on watersiders, seamen and other…

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Merrylands Police Station Site Offered

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 11 June 1958 · page 4

Site for a police station or Merrylands is under review by the Police Department. Holroyd Council has offered land…

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S.s. Man Faints During Murder Trial

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 13 June 1958 · page 1

ULM (Germany): Werner Schmidt-Hammer, on trial here with nine other former Gestapo and S.S…

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Cabramatta Accident Police Interest

The Biz · Wednesday 18 June 1958 · page 20

Fairfield detectives desire to Interview the driver of a cream utility, possibly of Holden make, the prefix letters may be B.A.Z.,…

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Ruling class has long murder record

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1958 · page 3

SYDNEY: Through the entire history, of the working class struggle for a better way of life, the ruling class has used torture and murder to maintain its position…

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Fairfield Police Round-up

The Biz · Wednesday 25 June 1958 · page 6

A wide field of minor and major offences was covered in the Fairfield police files last week. Antonio Restuceia of…

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Breaking and Entering Fairfield High Schools Guildford Youths Charged

The Biz · Wednesday 25 June 1958 · page 26

Fairfield detectives last week arrested two fifteen-year-old Guildford boys and later charged them with breaking, entering a…

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The Nagy Case: Summary of Treason Trial Court Evidence

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1958 · page 4

Detailed evidence of the treason for which former Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy has been tried and executed is published here. This summary of the evidence was issued by the Hungarian News Agency. WITH eight others, Nagy was…

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Trained Killers Plead for "Human Right" to Commit Murder

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1958 · page 10

"We will use terror against the Socialist countries, but we insist they accord us full legal rights when we are caught at It." This sums up the capitalist case against the Hungarian workers, who protected their Socialist state by death sentences on Nagy and his…

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Federation of N. S. W. Police Citizens Boys' Clubs "We stand as sentinels at the gateway to the child's mind, and it is ours to say what shall or shall not enter."

The Biz · Wednesday 2 July 1958 · page 12

It was Saturday, April 1, 1937, and the speaker was the late William John MacKay, a former Commissioner of the…

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Jewellery Theft At Granville

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 9 July 1958 · page 4

Thieves recently broke into a Granville store and stole…

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