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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

11,126 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Singapore Police Telephone Plan

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 4

SINGAPORE. -- Singapore police are installing, a "999 network" of 50 London-type telephone kiosks in the…

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Singapore Police Telephone Plan

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 4

SINGAPORE. -- Singapore police are installing a "999 network" of 50 London-type telephone kiosks in the…

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3 Police Die in Bushfire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Fri.--Three police officers were burned fro death in a bushfire near Adelaide today. Three other policemen…

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Skip Court Sprints Well

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 9

Skip Court, Brian Killian's Challenge Stakes mount, was one of the best gallopers at Victoria Park this morning…

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Skip Court Sprints Well

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 12

Skip Court, Brian Killian's Challenge Stakes mount was one of the best gallopers at Victoria Park this morning…

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Skip Court Sprints Wel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 12

Skip Court, Brian Killian Challenge Stakes mount; wal one of the best gallopers Victoria Park this morning…

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Comic Court Shines Again

The Sun · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Comic Court, who will reappear in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley next…

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Skip Court Sprints Well

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 12

Skip Court, Brian Killian's Challenge Stakes mount, was one of the best gallopers at Victoria Park this morning…

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Skip Court Sprints Well

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 9

Skip Court, Brian Killian's Challenge Stakes mount, was one of the best gallopers at Victoria Park this morning…

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Police recover body of drowned woman

The Sun · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 3

The body of Valerie May Coleman, 27, of, Atchison Street, St. Leonards, who was drowned in the…

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Attacked by Man, Girl Tells Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 2

Balmain detectives are investigating a report by an 18-years-old girl that she was attacked and…

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Trapped by Fire Three Police Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Friday.— Three policemen were burned to death to-day when they were trapped in a steep…

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Attacked by Man, Girl Tells Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 2

Balmain detectives are investigating a report by an 18-years-old girl that she was attacked and…

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Court Told That Author Denied "Injustice"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Fri. --Francis Joseph Hardy, author of "Power Without Glory," had said he did not intend to do John West on injustice, a witness said in the Third City Court today…

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Lantern search for Kiama dead Hundreds Aid Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 5

GOSFORD, Fri.--In heavy rain tonight hundreds of people from the Gosford district ore searching the beach with hurricane lamps and…

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True Crime Mass murder for Profit a murderer's plan slipped and killed 143 people ten days early

The World's News · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 6

A GAY excitement covered the bright, flag-bedecked pier at Bremerhaven, Germany, on the sunny morning of December 19,…

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Late News Charged After Accident

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 21 January 1951 · page 1

Fitzgerald, 24. Carrington Avenue, Hurstville, and Beryl Knox, 29, Ivanhoe Street, Marrickville, were…

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Police probing home rackets

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1951 · page 5

Truth this week took a behind-the-scenes look at the activities of racketeers who provide wealthy New Australians with spacious homes and flats…

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Comic Court impressive

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1951 · page 16

Comic Court, who will reappear in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley next Saturday, again galloped…

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Blind baby suffocated, says coroner; mother charged 'I Was Terribly Upset"

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1951 · page 35

Twenty-seven-years-old widow of a doctor, Mrs. Jean Isobel Gorr, sat quietly in the Melbourne Coroner's Court this week, her hands folded in her lap, as a police witness testified that she had confessed to having killed her…

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