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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1959

117 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 6

Murder inquiry

Tribune · Wednesday 14 October 1959 · page 4

COLOMBO: The Communist Party of Ceylon has demanded a full investigation into the assassination of Prime Minister Bandaranaike…

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Police Changes

The Biz · Wednesday 14 October 1959 · page 20

There have been some changes in the Fairfield Police Station. Detective Sergeant Ned…

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Fairfield Show November 6 & 7 Man Charged

The Biz · Wednesday 14 October 1959 · page 24

Following the alleged stabbing of a man at Fairfield on Sunday, October 11, a man has been charged…

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Opinion on Court Reports

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 14 October 1959 · page 5

A reader this week comments on the publication of court reports in newspapers. The reader states:…

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Scotland Yard Probes Holyday Murder

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 October 1959 · page 1

LONDON: Scotland Yard detectives have been called in to investigate the Birmingham murder on Rosh Hashonah eve of 87-year-old moneylender, Louis Cassell…

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EDITORIAL Med. School Murder

Tharunka · Wednesday 21 October 1959 · page 2

The “Herald’s leading article, “Mystery of the New Medical school” (Oct. 14, 59) , has expressed what every student in this University has been thinking. The arguments advanced by that paper on the unsuitability of Prince Henry,…

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Police Station for Merrylands

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 21 October 1959 · page 3

A site is being bought at Merrylands for construction of a police station. It is one of many new police…

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Police Conflict in Evidence at Stuart Inquiry

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1959 · page 3

ADELAIDE: Conflicting evidence by police witnesses has been a feature of Stuart Royal Commission proceedings over the oast week. CROSS-EXAMINATION of police…

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Tear gas supplies! to Sth. Aust. police

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1959 · page 5

ADELAIDE: Under the regime of Playford's "hangman" Government, police are to be equipped with US-made tear gas guns, truncheons and shells. "DECENT additions to the police…

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Smithfield Police Station Bigger Station, More Staff Wanted

The Biz · Wednesday 21 October 1959 · page 6

Smithfield Police have been "battling" for 10 years for a new police station and extra men. The present police station, an antique 20 by 8…

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Fiji sugar workers fight C.S.R. starvation wages policy Court evidence of shocking conditions and race bias

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1959 · page 9

SUGAR workers in Fiji, employees of the Australian monopoly, Colonial Sugar…

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Court Purchase Bid by Tennis Club

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 October 1959 · page 12

Hakoah Tennis Club has called an extraordinary general meeting of members for…

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Police Probe Fires

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 28 October 1959 · page 6

Police Scientific Bureau experts have been called in to assist…

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Drover bashed while police were present

Tribune · Wednesday 28 October 1959 · page 11

ALICE SPRINGS: An eyewitness account of an assault on a drover by police black trackers in the presence of white police officers has aroused further public disquiet about the spread of police…

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Police evidence 'shifty, untruthful' says Stuart's QC

Tribune · Wednesday 28 October 1959 · page 3

ADELAIDE: In a sharp attack on police witnesses, counsel for Rupert Max Stuart, Mr. J. Starke Q.C., told the Royal Commission that their evidence "is about as unsatisfactory as it could be"…

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Move to Have New Court House and Police Station at Penrith

Nepean Times · Thursday 29 October 1959 · page 1

At Penrith Council Meeting on Tuesday night, when it came to general business, and that's the last item on the program, the last speaker was Ald. W. L, Chapman. He made a good proposal…

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Who Signed Blue-print for Mass Murder?

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 6 November 1959 · page 2

In public and private commemorations throughout the free world Jews of Central…

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Landlord Gets Gaol and Fine

The Biz · Wednesday 11 November 1959 · page 10

A landlord was gaoled for six months and fined £250 for a breach of the Landlord and Tenant Act, in the Special Federal Court last week. He was George John…

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Court rejects levy appeal

Tribune · Wednesday 11 November 1959 · page 10

MELBOURNE: The Commonwealth Industrial Commission has unanimously rejected an application by W. Costello asking the…

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New Police Station Overdue at Cabra

The Biz · Wednesday 11 November 1959 · page 5

A new Police Station for Cabramatta was long overdue, the Mayor of Fairfield,…

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