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Courts & crime, 1951

11,126 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250

Cash Prizes in Housie Police investigate Bondi charity game complaint

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 3

POLICE are investigating complaints that cash prizes are being distributed in a housie game at Bondi. The Bondi game is operated…

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Love Affair Blamed for Gunman's Death Police search for jealous killers Earlier bashing gives new clue

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Saturday. — Interstate criminal George ("Spadger") Bray, alias George Lee, with many other aliases, whose trussed body with two bullet wounds in the head was found in a creek near Morphettville, died as the result of a…

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Dramas of the Courts '£30 to fix me' a woman said in court this week

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 39

SOME of life's greatest dramas come from city and country court rooms, for questioning and cross-questioning can often reveal one's innermost secrets. An illustration of this…

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Grim court story of alleged shootings on highway Shearer Sent For Trial Over Taxi Man's Death

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1951 · page 34

On the evening of December 17, a taxi coasted to a stop outside a restaurant in the Blue Mountains town of Blackheath. A man alighted from the cab and ate a meal in the…

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£80 Theft of Clothing Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

Leonard Brian Watts (18), Heath St., Asquith, was charged at Central Court today with having stolen dress materials…

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£80 Theft of Clothing Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

Leonard Brian Watts (18), Heath St., Asauith, was charged at Central Court today with having stolen dress materials…

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'War Propaganda' Met by Life Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--"War propaganda" has become a crime punishable by life imprisonment in Bulgaria, Prague Radio reports. This is provided by a new…

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'War Propaganda' Met by Life Gaol

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--"War propaganda" has beome a crime punishable by life imprisonment in [?]ulgaria, Prague Radio, reports. This is provided by a new…

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Reds Mass for New Assault 300,000 face Allied line

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

TOKIO, Sun.--More than 300,000 Communist troops are massed ready to make a two-pronged assault on the Allied defence line in Western and…

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50 Police Seek Child, 6

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 7

Police fear for the safety of a six-years-old girl who has been missing in the Darlinghurst district since…

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Girl Of 6 Missing; Fears Of Abduction, Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 1

A six-year-old girl disappeared from her home at 36a Macleay Street, Potts Point, at 3 p.m. yesterday and early this-morning police officials said they feared she had either been…

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Police Probe on Deaths of 300 Women

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--At least 300 women with money or property died in the Greek Convent at Karatea -- not from natural causes…

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News in brief Fight Led to Court

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 8

Ronald William Carpenter (22), Baltic St., Newtown, was fined £10…

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NeWS in brief Fight Led to Court

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 8

Ronald William Carpenter (22), tic St., Newtown, was fined £10…

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Skip Court for Challenge No Buzmark Run At Rosehill

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 20

There has been a change of Slap Court plans. Skip Court will now be a runner in the £2000 six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday…

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Skip Court for Challenge No Buzmark Run At Rosehill

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 20

There has been a change of Skip Court plans. Skip Court will now be a runner in the £2000 six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday…

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Skip Court for Challenge No Buzmark Run At Rosehill

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 20

There has been a change of Skip Court plans. Skip Court will now be a runner in the £2000 six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday…

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But Rosalie Was Safe and Sound at Grandma's Home 50 Police Combed Cross For Her

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

While her mother frantically tramped the streets, and 50 police combed the district, six-years-old Rosalie Southey, 36a Macleay St., Pott's Point, slept peacefully at her grandmother's home last night, blissfully unaware of the commotion she had caused…

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"Red Witch" Sentenced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 15 (A.A.P.). —[?]se Koch, the "Red Witch of Buchenwald," was sentenced at Augsburg to-day to life…

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Wifebeater Given Six Months' Gaol

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 5

George Fraser (40), laborer, of Chandos St., North Sydney, was sentenced at Central Court today to six months' gaol on a charge of having assaulted his wife, Ethel Agnes…

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