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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

772 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 11 of 39

Ties Were Too "Sexy" for Magistrate

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Mr. Burchill, S.M., found today that ties exhibited in a Queen Street store window last year emphasised sex and were obscene…

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Hill 60 Man Remanded On Assault Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 2

At Wollongong Court yesterday, before the Chamber Magistrate, Mr. C. Hall, Arthur Lockley, 32, of Hill 60, Port Kembla…

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Appeared in Court with Black Eye

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 13

A 32 years old laborer, Arthur Lockley, of Hill 60, Port Kembla had a black eye when he appeared at the Wollongong…

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2 Migrants on Forgery Charge in Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 16

Two New Australians appeared at Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a forgery charge in which the sum of £200 is involved. The migrants, Jonas…

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Three Months' Gaol for Car Generator Theft

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 11

Information given by guests at a hotel in Wollongong led to the arrest of a 26-year-old truck driver, Ronald Allen George, of Clifford Street, Goulburn, who was yesterday…

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Assaulted Police; Six Weeks' Gaol

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 2

In Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, a resident of Hill 60, Port Kembla, was sentenced to six weeks hard…

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Chef For Trial On Wile Murder Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Edward. Joseph Scully, 52, a chef, was this afternoon committed for trial at the Criminal Court…

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Swore Near the Police Station

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 2

A man in a house near the Bulli Police Station used bad language in a loud voice at night The police heard him and…

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Betting Charges at Bulli Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 2

Robert Charles Williams, miner, of Liddle Street, W. nona, and Stanley Norman Kelley, labourer, of Cotteril…

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Driver, Under Influence Said Wife "Nagged" Him Into Disobeying Police

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 3

A man at Bulli Court yesterday said his wife had "nagged him into driving" after the police had warned him. He was fitted "£10 on a charge of driving under the influence…

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Fined for Stealing Bricks

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 8

A fine of £10 was imposed on a carpenter who, at the Wollongong Court on Thursday, pleaded guilty to…

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Goal Term for Clothing Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 8

A 54-year-old labourer, who helped himself to a case and its contents at Nowra in March, found his deed a…

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Two Men Fined for Stealing Blue Metal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 16

Two men were fined £10 each at Bulli Court on Friday, after pleading guilty to stealing three tons of blue…

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Man Charged with Rape at Nowra

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 1

A 24-years-old man was arrected at Bomadenry last night in connection with an alleged capital offence…

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Aboriginal Failed to Take Police Warning

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 13

An aboriginal, who was warned by Nowra Police to go home because he was drunk, but who 20 minutes…

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Story of Landlord's Backyard Fight with Tenant Told in Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 5

Allegations that a Cringila landlord and his wife struck a migrant tenant with a broom, caught Yam by the threat and then hit him with a bottle after serving a notice to quit, were made in the…

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Man Charged With Assault on Girl

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 April 1951 · page 6

NOWRA, Monday.—Police today arrested and charged a 30-years-old man with the criminal assault on Saturday night of a…

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Baker Fined £10; Charged 1/2d for Cartage

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 April 1951 · page 2

A baker was fined £10 by Mr. J. Fleeman in Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday, for selling bread above the maximum…

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Police Probe Even Flow Swab

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 April 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday. —C.I.B. detectives investigating the doping of Even Flow today interviewed employees at the…

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Gaoled, Lashed; In Gaol Again

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 April 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A man who served 15 years' imprisonment and received 15 strokes' of the lash for his part in the Coles Store shooting in 1931 was sent back to gaol today for three…

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