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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

876 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 12 of 44

New Australian's Case Causes Court Complications

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 2

When a New Australian was charged in Wollongong Children's Court yesterday with having assaulted an 11-year-old schoolgirl, clashes occurred between solicitors, and a witness was with…

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Magistrate Says: Assault on Woman Was Vicious and Cowardly Six Months' Gaol Sentence

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 6

A Port Kembla man assaulted a woman, forced her to go to his hut and remain there all night, and, when she was in bed with him assau[?]ted and kicked her further, causing severe injuries…

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Police Tell Story of Jammed Speedometer

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 25

A motor cyclist, who was involved in an accident at Scarborough, told police that he was travelling at about 35 m.p.h…

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Big Gymkhana in Aid of Police Boys' Club

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 31

As soon as weather conditions become favorable, Wollongong Police and Citizens' Boys' Club committee will resume draining…

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New Australian Said He Cried After Police Visit

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 2

ALLEGATION A schoolgirl at Cringila was kicked in the back while inside the gate of her home on January 17, her hair pulled and her body dragged along a cement footpath by a Yugoslav…

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Migrant Charged with Murder of Wife

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1950 · page 3

ALBURY, Friday.—Police early this morning arested a Yugoslav migrant at Bonegilla migrant camp and charged him with the…

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Double Murder in Kansas

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1950 · page 4

NEW YORK, Friday (AAP)—Charles Binaggie, heir of the famed Democratic leader, Tom Pendergast, and his right hand…

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Organised Gang Stealing Oysters, Growers Claim

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday. —A well-organised gang is stealing oysters from growers' leases in every port on the Coast and is…

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Five Years' Gaol For Bridges

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Australian-born labour leader, Harry Bridges, was yesterday sentenced to five years'…

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Labourer 'Found' Articles; Fined for Theft

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 2

A labourer with a varied list of convictions was fined £10 in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday when he…

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Youths for Trial For Port Kembla Theft

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 2

A Port Kembla theft had a sequel in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday when two Sydney youths were…

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Court Told Of Scots' Wild Ride That Ended in Brawl

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 3

A story of a wild ride, which culminated in a brawl, when two men refused to pay money demanded for a "lift" was told in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Tried to Collect Goods on Court Order; Summoned for Trespass

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 4

When a man tried to collect articles, awarded him by court, from his wife at Coniston, his wife's brother-in-law summonsec…

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Court Told Man and Wife "Scratched and Kicked" in Domestic Argument

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 1

A brawl in which a man and his wife scratched and kicked each other in the Oxford Hotel, using language which had to be…

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Police Gaol "Samsons In Reverse"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 4

LOS ANGELES, Wednesday (A.A.P.). — Two Samsons In reverse were gaoled yesterday for cutting off their wives' hair…

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S.m. Warns Man Fined for Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 23

"Come back here again and you will not be so leniently treated" admonished Mr. J. Fleeman S.M. at the…

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P.K. Man Fined Police Played Poker Machine, But Lost

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 18

Evidence that a police constable had purchasr ed twelve tokens and played them in a poker machine in a Port Kembla Billiard Club and lost, was given at the Wollongong Court on Tuesday when a…

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Man Charged with Attempted Murder of Wife

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 3

TWEED HEADS, Thursday.—A coloured man was cha[?] in the Tweed Heads Police Court to-day with having unlawfully…

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Death for Murder of Woman

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. — After less than a quarter of an hour's deliberation, a jury passed a verdict of guilty on a man charged…

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Three for Trial on Murder Charges

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The City Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) today committed for trial two men and a woman on a charge of…

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