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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

876 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 24 of 44

Deaf-mute Accused Of Assault On Bulli Girl

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 1

In an eerie and silent hearing in Bulli Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, a deaf mute was convicted on a charge of having assaulted a young, attractive girl at Bulli on…

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Racing Man in Court on Driving Charges

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—Well-known racing man Ernest Keith White was charged at North Sydney Court today with driving under…

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Murder in the Beehive

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 1

Radio listeners are accustomed to unusual sounds included in certain broadcasts, but even the most blase listeners were startled by records of bees heard in a recent broadcast from the B.B.C. They were not just ordinary…

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Extradition On Murder Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 3

PERTH, Monday.—Lionel Charles Thomas, 4, baker, will stand trial in Sydney charged with the murder of Mrs. Phyllis…

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Man Charged At Nowra With Assaulting Child

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 1

Wollongong detectives yesterday arrested a 27-years-old Nowra man and charged him with indecently assaulting a…

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Motor Cycle Speedsters Fined in W'gong Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 2

Motor cycle speedsters Were among five men fined a total of £16/5/- for fraffice offences in the Wollongon Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. For exceeding the speed limit…

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Police to Search for Widow's Body

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Police will set out tomorrow night or early Thursday to search in rugged country around Eden for…

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Police Search for Bodies of Drowning Victims

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police have not yet recovered the bodies of a boy drowned at Bankstown, an elderly man…

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£606 Court Award to W'gong Man

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Frederick Ernest Wolf, managing director of a Wollongong clothing manufacturing firm, was awarded £606 damages against Tooheys Ltd. in the…

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Gap Survivor In Court On Police Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Doris May McGuirk, 43, who fell' into the sea from the Gap, at Watson's Bay, on July 2 and lived…

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Year's Gaol For Manslaughter

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—James Wallace Hines, 24, insurance salesman of Bulkara Road, Epping was sentenced to 12 months'…

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Aprested for Assault on Child

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 1

On Monday detectives, arrested a 27-year-old Nowra man on a charge of assaulting a five-year…

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Axis Police

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. (A.A.P.).—Government officials said yesterday that the U.S. Was prepared to discuss proposals for…

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Taxi Nearly Hit Police Truck; Driver Charged

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 3

The driver of a taxi which nearly collided with a police truck appeared in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. The taxi driver; John Murray…

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Labourer Fined For Stealing Shirts

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 2

A 65-year-old labourer, who had in 1912 been convicted on a charge of stealing, was fined £[?] in Wollongong 'Court of…

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Court Report Error

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 2

In the "Daily Mercury" of July 21 it was reported in a court case that Mr. Edward George Angel, of Bundanoon…

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Japs Charged with Beheading 50 AUST. Ps.O.W

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 3

LOS NEGROS, Thursday (A.A.P. Reuter) — Decapitation and bayonetting of about 53 Australian prisoners of war by…

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Five Years' Gaol For Armed Robber

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday—A 19-years-old youth was sentenced to five years' gaol by Judge Holt in the. Quarter Sessions today on a…

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Police Found Liquor in Taxi

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 3

Evidence that police had found a partially consumed bottle of Creme de Cacao in the cab of a taxi-driver charged…

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Comic Court Not For Sydney

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday. — Comic Court will not come to Sydney for the A.J.C. Spring meeting. He was scratched today from…

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