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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

130 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 7

Month's Gaol For Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 2

At Wollongong Court on Monday, Jack Cummins (24) wharf labourer, was sentenced to one month's gaol by Mr C. Pickup. S.M. on a charge…

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Tenant Charged With Assault

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 2

Charles Francis Bennett Tracey (44) wharf labourer, was charged at Wollongong Court on Monday, with assaulting Mrs. Isabel…

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Month's Gaol for Stealing Rum

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 1

Jack Cummins (24), wharf labourer, was charged at the Wollongong Police Court on Monday with stealing a bottle of Beenleigh.Rum, the property…

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Assault Charge Dismissed

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 1

Charged at the Wollongong Police Court on Monday, before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., with unlawfully assault-ing Isabel McAndrew at Wollongong…

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Kiama Police Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1945 · page 3

At the Kiama Police Court on Wednesday last, before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., the case of J. N. King v. C. Stevenson, for possession of…

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Bulli Court FRIDAY (Before Mr C. Pickup, S.m.) Straying Stock

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 6

Four persons were each fined [?]with 8/- costs for allowing stock to stray. They were Eric Boyton, Ernest Birkless, Frederick Francis…

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Fined for Stealing Harness

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 1

Charged at the Wollongong Police Court on Thursday of last week, before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., with stealing a set of sulky harness valued at £5,…

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£10 Fine for Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 30 March 1945 · page 4

John Walter Booth (25) stoker was fined £10 or 20 days last Thursday at Wollongong Court on a charge of theft…

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Month's Gaol for Seaman

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 14

Russell P. Read (21) a seaman, was sentenced to one month's gaol by Mr. C. Pickup S.M. at Wollongong last Thursday…

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Gaol Term for Assault

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 7

Leslie Arthur Mason (24) a soldier was charged at Wollongong Court yesterday with using indecent language and with assaulting Sergt W…

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Two Months' Gaol

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 4

Leslie Arthur Mason (24), soldier, was charged at the Wollongong Police Court yesterday with using indecent language and assaulting Segt. W. J…

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Two Months Gaol

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 1

On each of two charges of goods in custody, Richard Joseph Jerome Miller (36), soldier, was sentenced to two mouths hard labour by Mr. C…

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Gaol For Goods In Custody

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 16

On each of two charges of goods in custody, Richard Joseph Jerome Miller (36) a soldier, was sentenced to two months aol at Wollongong…

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Kiama Police Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1945 · page 4

At the Kiama Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday last, before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., the licensee of the Grand Hotel, Kiama, was charged…

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Shipwreck Story Man Charged With Vagrancy

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 3

There was a very prosaic sequel on Saturday last to the shipwreck yarn which had so excited the City press on the previous day…

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Porter Fined For Assault

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 3

Allegations that he was assaulted by a railway porter at Cringila Station on the morning of March 17th, were made at Wollongong Court on…

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Wollongong Court Monday (Before Mr C. Pickup, S.m.) Two Men Charged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 5

Francis E. McClear (27) labourer, was fined £3 or six days for using indecent language in Wentworth st. port Kembla, Constable Thatcher…

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Imposter. Say Police

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 1

A sequel to the sensational story of last week-end that a man had been found more of less unconscious at a farm house at Bombo,…

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Fined for Hindering Police

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 7

For hindering a police officer in the execution of his duty, Ronald Arthur Bender (39), shunter, was fined £3, at the Wollongong Police Court on…

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Police Claim Man An Impostor

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 3

At Wollongong Court on Monday Bernard Hudson Matheson (20) a labourer, was further remanded until next Monday on a charge of…

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