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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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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