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263 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 3 of 14
A detective at Wollongong Court last Thursday said that a car driven at excessive speed in Crown Street, crashed into the kerb, wrenched the right wheel off, careered 60 feet along he footpath and collided will another car parked in gear with the hand brake…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A 64-years-old woman was fined £2 at Wollongong Petty Sessions last Thursday for stealing a pair of scissors valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Edmund Lyall Malady, 29, bookmakers' clerk, was released on a £20 bond to be of good behaviour for twelve months by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small, sharp-featured Percy Chapman, 38-years-old labourer, was committed for trial at Wollongong Petty Sessions last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleging he was indecently assaulted by a drinking companion after he had fallen asleep on Wollongong's South Beach, on Feb…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With remarkable composure, at times bright-eyed with interest, and at times unconcerned to apoint nearing boredom, a ten and a halt year old schoolboy defendant listened to a detective relate to a magistrate at Wollongong Court on Monday, a story of the theft of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man and his mother-in law were each sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour at Wollongong Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Traffic in Crown street is overflowing, and the solution to the problem is in Burelli street. The present traffic in Crown street is too, great for the size of the street. We will have to stop people coming in there in vehicles. The use of more traffic police or the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Due to the inconvenience caused to the public during the past year, by pressure of business at Kiama Court of Petty Sessions, it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Etherton, S.M., had rather an extensive list at Kiama Court of Petty sessions on Wednesday last Several cases could not be reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An employee of a picture theatre who walked into the A.I. & S. Ltd., Port Kembla, dressed in overalls on February 29, appeared at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An hotel kitchen man, Percy Chapman (38), was sentenced to two years' hard labour, at Wollongong Quarter Sessions on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The prevalence of robbery with violence and its considerable increase in recent years was referred to by Judge Nield at…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A woman in the gallery broke down and wept at Wollongong Quarter Sessions last Thursday when Percy Norman Howlett…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A former rate clerk of the Central Illawarra Shire Council, Percy Norman Howlett (57), after pleading guilty to three charges of embezzling council money, was sentenced to two years' hard labour, by Judge Nield, at Wollongong Quarter Sessions on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sensational allocations were made by a defendant in evidence at the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions last week about the treatment he received from a police sergeant who had arrested him for behaving in an offensive manner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charged with stealing 100 yards of cretonne, 27 dozen pairs boys' golf sox, 46 yards of serge material and 36 ladies' hand bags,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Desmond Joseph Clinch (29), Kembla Street, Wollongong, appeared before Mr. E. J. Etherton at Wollongong Petty…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Two labourers appeared before Mr. E. J. Etherton, S.M., at the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions, on Monday and pleaded not guilty to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As Magistrate Etherton commented at Bulli Court last Friday, Albert Edward Rhodes walked right into the "lion's…
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