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Courts & crime, 1952

11,550 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250

Threat to Murder Duke Denied

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sat.--Scotland Yard last night denied rumors that a threat had been made to…

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Threat to Murder Duke Denied

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sat.-- Scotland Yard last night denied rumors that a threat had been made to…

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Threat to Murder Young Duke of Kent

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Sat.--Scotland Yard is taking seriously a threat to murder the Duke of Kent 16-years-old nephew of the King. The threat was contained…

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British Charge Egyptian Police With Bayonets

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 1

CAIRO, Jan. 25 (A.A.P.).—More than 1,500 tank-backed British troops shot at and shelled hundreds of defiant Egyptian police into surrender in a furious six-hour…

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Courts, Shipping, Mails Tuesday's Courts District Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 20

The Registrar.--10.15: Ryan v. O'Sullivan. 10.30: Bramley v. Price; 10.50: Whitehead v. Burcher, 11.10: Buckwell v…

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Divorce Court Decisions Before Mr. Acting Justice Nield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 4

Decrees nish B. A. Lowe v W. T. Lowe, E. Pont v G. H. Pont, A. Campbell v W. G. Campbell, A. Knight v G. J…

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Bayonets and Tanks Rout Egyptians Grim Fight For Police Barracks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sat. (B.U.P., Extel). -- British troops yesterday launched savage bayonet sorties, after Centurion tanks had blasted the walls to pieces, to capture the Egyptian auxiliary police…

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Bayonets and Tanks Root Egyptians Grim Fight For Police Barracks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sat. (B.U.P., - Extel). -- British troops yesterday launched savage bayonet sorties, after Centurion tanks had blasted the walls to pieces, to capture the Egyptian auxiliary police…

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Tanks Blast Egyptian Police H.Q. Biggest battle in Canal Zone

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 2

CAIRO, Fri.--British troops stormed and captured the Egyptian police auxiliary barracks in Ismailia after a three-hours battle this morning…

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Wet Court Affair Fatal for Savitt From An Ex-International

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Friday. —Dick Savitt was right in complaining that the use of spiked…

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True Crime The liar who marrie a shrew His lying kept the police running hither and thither until he got his train times wrong

The World's News · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 6

"AS for her," wrote the would-be suicide of his victim, "she is in the river." Which was an outright lie. She…

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Anti-theft Car Device

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1952 · page 29

Designed specifically for Holdens, and now available from authorised distributors and dealers, an…

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Murder Charge After Surry Hills Shooting

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 27 January 1952 · page 1

Frederick Bennett, 34, lorry driver, of Arthur Street, Surry Hills, died in St. Vincent's Hospital last night from a shot wound in the chest. At 11.30 last night Central Station police charged a…

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16 Police To Guard Princess

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 27 January 1952 · page 3

Fourteen Australian detectives and two Scotland Yard men will guard Princess Elizabeth and the…

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Police Allegations In Tenancy Fraud Case Mystery Man "Forger Of Tax Clearances"

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1952 · page 7

A mystery craftsman who forged the income tax clearances allegedly used by a King's Cross agent and his attractive secretary-wife to flee the country last year was mentioned by police in…

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Woman Given 20 Years' Gaol For Jealousy Poisoning Of Husband "Got Her Own Back" by Affair with Boy of 15

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1952 · page 4

PARIS, Sat.—A farmer's wife who "got her own back" on her husband by having intimate relations with a 15-years-old…

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Real Life Court Dramas She woke up with a hangover, a wedding ring, and a husband

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 January 1952 · page 25

ALFRED ERNEST EVERSON, a man of few principles--if any, played several dirty tricks on his wife, Thelma Mary Everson, not the least of which was to marry her while she was drunk in a ceremony of which she has…

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Charge of Murder: Court Told of Guns

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 5

Police alleged at Central Court today that a man charged with murder had obtained two loaded rifles from a house in Surry Hills last…

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Charge of Murder: Court Told of Guns

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 5

Police alleged at Central Court today that a man charged with murder had obtained two loaded rifles from a house in Surry Hills last…

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Hole in Sock Theft Clue

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 11

LONDON (D.M.W.S.). --Called into an Army camp at Worcestershire to investigate a series of…

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