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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

129 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 7

Poultry Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 7

Fines of £2/10/- or five days on each of two charges involving the theft of fowls were imposed by Mr S A. Thornton S.M. at Wollongong…

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Theft at Helensburgh

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 5

Herbert Norman Willsmore (63), gardener at Waterfall Sanitorium, pleaded guilty at Bulli Court last Friday to stealing an alarm clock…

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Fined for Stealing Fowls

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

William Salmond (35), labourer, was fined £2/10/0 on each of two charges of stealing, at the Wollongong Court yesterday…

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Weddings Williams — A'court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 2

Rev. Turnbull officiated at an attractive rainbow wedding at the Presbyterian Church, Wollongong, on December 8th, between Sylvia…

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Police Safety Campaign

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 6

Sydney motoring organisations express satisfaction at the police decision to resume their full road safety campaign, but appeal to the police chiefs…

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Kiama News More Police

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 9

At the Kiama Council meeting on Wednesday night, it was decided to request that the complement of the police in the area be brought up to…

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Four Months Gaol

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 5

At Wollongong Court on Monday William Coffey (52), labourer, who gave no address, was sentenced to four months gaol on a charge of…

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Broke Window Four Months' Gaol

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 1

A man who had five aliases and 61 previous convections, was sentenced to four months' gaol at the, Wollongong Police Court on…

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Swore at Police Sergeant

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 1

"I am not going to permit the police to be insulted in the open street," Mr. Thornton, S.M., told Cecil John Carter, a boilermaker, of Balmain, at Bulli…

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Police-Citizens Boys' Club

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 7

To be crowned "Princess of New South Wales" would indeed tee a great honour, and yet that honour might go to a young lady of the…

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Magistrate Farewelled

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 4

Mr. S. Thornton, S.M., was farewelled by members of the legal profession, the C.P.S. Office and the Police Dept. at the Wollongong Court yesterday…

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S.p. Bettors Before Court

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 5

A number of S.P. bettors were fined at the Wollongong Court yesterday. William S. Stace (37), dealer, who had taken 70 bets valued at £24/3/, at…

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£560 Tobacco Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 7

One of the State's largest thefts of tobacco of recent months was that from Davis and Penney's warehouse at the corner of Smith…

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Tree Cutting Incident again Before Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 18

Arising from the cutting off of some 250 limbs from a 60-year old Norfolk Island nine tree on Flagstaff Hill on the night of…

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£200,000 Appeal. Police Boys' Club and Anti T.b. Association

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 6

A public meeting at Wollongong, on Tuesday night, unanimously decided to support the coming Youth Campaign by the Police/…

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Assault on Mother 18 Months' Gaol

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

William Henry Sindel (25), labourer, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by His Honor Judge Nield, at the…

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Three Years' Gaol

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

At present serving two sentences of two years for having an unlicensed pistol in his possession, sentenced to year's imprisonment…

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Two Youths Charged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 11

T woyouths, Reginald John Sperling (24), fireman, and Kenneth Austin Ross (19) appeared day at the Quarter Sessions…

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18 Months Gaol for Lorry Driver

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 9

Hedley Arthur Belt lorry driver, who was found guilty at Tuesdays sittings, of the Quaker Sessions was sentenced yesterday by Judge Nield…

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Assault Charges Dismissed

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 5

Allegations of assault were made against George Walter Clarke (20), labourer, at Wollongong Court on Monday by an eighteen-year-old…

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