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The only thing Shirley Beiger thought she was guilty when she shot and killed her boyfriend Arthur Griffith was too much love.
Less than three months later, in November 1954, the 22 Kings Cross model and former Miss Australia contestant stood up in court and rejected the claim that she killed Griffith, 23, in a fit of anger Attorney after his dalliance with another woman.
Shirley Beiger escorted by police to the Coroner's Court of the city of the investigation into the death of Arthur Barry Griffith.
Amid public attention and intense media, the foreman announced not guilty and 150 people in the public gallery cheered and clapped for nearly two minutes.
A woman ran weeping from the court shouting She is not guilty of dozens of people in the crowd began to cheer up a woman shouted at you good, Shirl, the Sydney Morning Herald reported the next day.
Colin Hyde enjoys telling the story of the acquittal of Beiger tourists.
The tour guide that allows visitors a walk through Kings Cross every week, said the Beiger case embodies the passion and violence in the region.
No Eastern potentate's most faithful minions that it privileges and all his canine comfort are His health is a matter of public care His disease is almost a public calamity.
The passion and violence - in the form of two wars - Cross certainly shaped kings into what it is today.
As the US military and others have walked up the road to the naval base at Garden Island in Woolloomooloo during World War II and the Vietnam War, they were looking for a good time - and found the Cross.
Strip clubs, nightclubs, prostitution and the drug trade that characterized the Cross follows from these two periods of the tumultuous history.
He was on the Cross that some of the largest gatherings of civilians and soldiers, sailors and airmen took place during the last days of World War II.
As rumors swirl that peace had finally come in the Pacific, the crowds have taken to Kings Cross, and people climbed on stationary cars, tooting horns, put the headlights, and in many cases, running virtually cars more the Herald August 11, 1945.
Kings Cross has rarely seen such a scene of unbridled joy assessments yelled and joked with the lieutenant-commanders, the rank has been set aside in a spirit of pure abandon.
Enjoy the revelry was Abe Saffron aka Mr. Sin, the undisputed king of the Cross.
Safran took advantage of the growing demand for entertainment and bought the famous Roosevelt Club in Kings Cross in the 1940s.
King Cross Abe Saffron club Rossevelt in January 1951.
As he built his empire nightclub, Safran has become infamous for its relations with the police suspected of corruption, politicians and judges.
But, despite being one of the most studied men in Australia, he was convicted only once - in 1987 for tax evasion - and spent two years and six months behind bars.
If Safran encapsulated the seamy side of the Cross, then another identity, heiress Juanita Nielsen, was the opposite.
Nielsen, the great-granddaughter of magnate Mark Foy store, was an anti-development activist who campaigned against the redevelopment of Victoria Street, which led to the demolition of its old terraces.
Juanita Nielsen If we ever need a picture of me, what I want is issued, she said David Farrell.
But after attending a meeting at the nightclub The Carousel Cross - property of Safran - 10: 30 pm July 4, 1975, she was never seen again.
Saffron was never a suspect during investigations regarding the disappearance of Nielsen, but his offsider James Anderson, who managed the carousel was.
A coroner's inquest found Nielsen was murdered but his body was never found and neither were his killers.
Today, the development - Victoria Point - stands proudly on Victoria Street, while the disappearance of Nielsen remains one of the greatest mysteries of the Sydney crime.
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But people are not the only stars of Kings Cross.
The Cross, with its proximity to the CBD, was home to some of the most luxurious villas of Sydney - and first apartments.
In the early 19th century, was known as the Cross Henrietta city named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie second wife Elizabeth Henriette, before being renamed Cross of the Queen in 1897 after the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and Kings Cross, after King Edward VII in 1903.
Building Cross was awarded to some of the most important settlers working in government and houses were built, provided that each of them would cost at least 1000 - a tidy sum for that time.
He was Mansions in parklands, Valhalla gods Gilt-edged, Adelaide's The Advertiser newspaper written in October 1939.
Two houses remain standing - Colonial Secretary Alexander Macleay Bay House Elizabeth Onslow Avenue, which had views of Sydney Harbor and has been called the finest house in the colony, and Tusculum on Manning Street, which was built between 1831 and 1837.
But most of the other houses were subdivided into small apartments or demolished and replaced with American-style apartments.
One of the oldest apartments, the same style as the United States apartments, was Kingsclere, built on Macleay Street in 1912.
Macleay Street Apartments in Kingsclere similar in style of American apartments.
More and more housing arose on Macleay Street and Cross quickly became one of the most densely populated areas of Sydney.
The Building magazine observed in 1939 that the inhabitants seemed to subscribe to dish some extent, the modern conception of life where the home is, but a place to hang his hat and that life should be in the restaurant and theater.
The apartments have allowed a certain type of people to enter, said the City of Sydney historian Lisa Murray.
Most residents were European migrants who, after the end of World War I, came to Kings Cross in search of affordable accommodation and a similar lifestyle, she said.
In the early 1930s, there were delicatessens and specialty food stores there was the Jewish War Memorial Hall, the Swedish Club and the Greek Consulate General said Murray.
Patricia Keill OAM, 83, said she was just 14 when she moved into an apartment near Bay Rushcutters when his family was evacuated from New Guinea in the 1930s.
The apartment had rented a bedroom with two beds for her and her mother, a living room, kitchen and bathroom.
Like other residents Kings Cross transient, it does not stay long, she was sent to boarding school and returned to New Guinea with his mother after World War II ended She returned to be secretary general the Association of women of countries, which has its offices of the Cross, for three decades until 2000.
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A resident who was staying at the Cross for over a decade and has become Kings Cross idol and his best-known figure was Bob fox terrier.
The owner of Bob, who lived near the corner of William and Darlinghurst Road Street, died in 1926 Inconsolable but determined, the terrier made the corner of his house.
For 13 years, Bob was a public and public hero character and his fox terrier non-descript face is as familiar to newspaper readers in New South Wales as the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, Melbourne's The Argus said in January 1938.
No Eastern potentate's most faithful servants that it privileges and all his canine comfort are His health is a matter of public care His disease is almost a public calamity, the Argus added.
Bob spent his later years, without fail or care with Mr. F C Thompson in Cygnet, Tasmania, Hobart's Mercury reported in 1939.
As Bob, the theater stage and the Sydney arts called home Kings Cross.
Long known as a bohemian hangout, Cross became the site of some of the city of great musical events after the Second World War in the early 1960s, John Harrigan promoter rented Kings Cross Theater 5000 tickets on Darlinghurst Road aka The Strip and renamed Surf city - open to local acts such as Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and the Easybeats.
Hair opened at the Metro Theater in Kings Cross in 1969 and had six African Americans in its cast - including singer Marcia Hines, who was 16.
In the early 1970s, Martin Sharp turned a terrace 1897 Yellow House named painting by Van Gogh in Arles and made a permanent space for artists in the 1970s.
Although it only lasted a few years, it has attracted big names such as British rock band Pink Floyd and filmmaker Peter Weir.
Sharp, in 1971, said Yellow House was an artistic community in the south, the sun, and probably one of the greatest pieces of conceptual art ever.
Cross has also inspired many authors, it became the theater of a wide range of novels - the detective fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, the book by Jon Rose in 1961 the first autobiographical Cross Australia from life gay in the 1940 Kings Cross.
Best-selling author Anne Summers, a longtime resident, said the Red Cross was a place that will never inspire the writing that is light or mundane.
The romance of the place is that it embodies the hardest, edgier side of life, it is a place of danger, full of players who rarely earn much and often lose everything, including their lives, she said in a introduction to Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra's book in the Gutter watching the stars An adventure through the Kings Cross literacy.
You never hear a lawnmower in Kings Cross, and that for many of us, is quite reason enough to live here Give me sirens every day.
The passion and violence of Kings Cross birth, Passion, violence, kings.