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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

876 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 33 of 44

Trainer Says Comic Court Will Start Today

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1950 · page 13

Although rumours circulated thought Melbourne on Thursday that Comic Court had broken down, trainer J. Cummings says the horse may be regarded as a certain starter in todays Turnbull…

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Husband Charged With Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 October 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday. — Police at Gunnedah today charged a 41-year-old salesman, Keith Vincent Bull, with the murder of…

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Approval for Police Boys Club

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 October 1950 · page 4

Approval has been granted for materials with which to struct a Police and Citizens' Boys' Club at North…

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Supreme Court to Wollongong

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 October 1950 · page 1

For the first time in history the Supreme Court will commence sittings in Wollongong next year…

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Woman Swears at Police Probing Complaint

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 October 1950 · page 3

Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., in Bulli Court of Petty Sessions, was told that when two police officers visited a Woman, investigating…

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Police Objected to Language of Bulli Woman

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 October 1950 · page 2

Police objected to language used by a Bulli woman resulted in her appearance at the Bulli Court on Friday to…

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"Neighbour Threatened to Burn House Down" Bulli Feud Aired in Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 October 1950 · page 5

Allegations that a woman had threatened to burn her next-door neighbour's house down, that a woman had threatened to charge a man with rape, that a woman had broken eight windows of her neighbour's home and removed fence palings for firewood…

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Japanese Guilty Of Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 October 1950 · page 1

LOS NEGROS, (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Three Japanese were today found guilty by the War Crimes Court of having…

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Court Told: "Someone Hit"; Motorist Did Not Stop

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 October 1950 · page 3

Giving eveidence before Mr. J. Fleeman S.M. at the Wollongong Petty Sessions Court, yesterday, John Donald Ayrten…

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Six Months' Gaol for Obscene Exposure

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1950 · page 9

Sentenced to six months' hard labour on one charge of obscene exposure, a man was remanded on £50 bail in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to answer…

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Four Now Face Murder Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1950 · page 3

ALBURY, Tuesday.—Two young, men and two young women who were detained yesterday at Chiltarm, 30 miles…

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Court Directs F.e.d.f.a. to Hold Meeting

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1950 · page 9

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission today directed the F.E.D.F.A. to immediately hold…

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Cable Theft Described As 'Crass Stupidity'

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 12 October 1950 · page 6

"This is a very serious matter" said Mr J. Fleeman, S.M. at Wollongong Court on Monday to two men whom he…

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Toukley Murder Inquest Opens

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 October 1950 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday, — Detective Sergeant J. H. Dogan told the Coroner's Court to-day that when he questioned a man about footprints near the battered bodies of two English…

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Grazier For Trianon Murder Intent Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 October 1950 · page 3

NYNGAN. Wednesday.—Edward Ronald Backhouse, a wealthy 29-year-old grazier, was committed for trial at the…

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Police to Watch Art Unions

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 October 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Evatt) announced tonight that police would, in future, supervise the…

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Tennis Court Lease Sought at Russell Vale

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 October 1950 · page 14

The Russell Vale Progress Association and the Russell Vale Tennis Club have both asked for a lease of the tennis…

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Salesman Charged with Theft of £1650

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 13 October 1950 · page 11

Six charges, involving the theft of a total of £1650, have now been laid against a Wollongong salesman. Already on bail on two…

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New Soviet Move For World Police

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 13 October 1950 · page 3

LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday (AAP).—Russia has proposed that the Security Council renew earlier attempts to establish an…

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Kiama Court

Kiama Independent · Saturday 14 October 1950 · page 3

A sitting of Kiama Court of Petty Sessions was held on Wednesday last before Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M. Leslie Rutty, of Wollongong,…

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