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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Police Fire On Crowd In Singapore

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 14

SINGAPORE, Wednesday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Police fired at a disorderly crowd of 100 Malays and Indonesians armed with…

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Parents Charged With Murder Of 2 Children

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Charged with haying murdered their two children, a man and his wife appeared separately at…

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Gatekeeper Charged With "Neglect"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 1

The relieving railway porter who was in charge of the gates at the Five Islands Road level rossing, Unanderra, on…

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Dapto Smash; Car Driver Charged

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 3

A driver of a car which was involved in the accident at Dapto late on the night of January 3, in which 12 persons…

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Kiama Court

Kiama Independent · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 5

The list of cases before Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., at Kiama Court on Wednesday last were quickly disposed of, none being defended…

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Gaol Escapees Recaptured At Gunpoint

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The two prisoners who escaped from Corriemungle prison camp, in Western Victoria on Thursday…

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Train & Truck Collide at Crossing Porter Charged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 1

At Wollongong Court on Friday a [?]g railway porter, Richard Harold Cotton aged 22 years, of Corrimal…

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Titian and Skip Court To Run In Challenge Stakes

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 11

SYDNEY, Monday.—Race plans for Titian and Chip Court have been changed and both horses will now run in the Challenge…

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Manhunt Ends; Eighty Murder Charges

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—A former convict, Bill Cook, suspected of killing eight persons, was arrested in Mexico…

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Suggestion of Murder In Wren Case

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tuesday (AAP).—The suggestion that his mother had committed adultery was a greater libel than the suggestion that his father had instigated the murder of "Squizzy" Taylor…

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Court Hears 8 Traffic Cases

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 4

"A heavy lorry was driven along Prince's Highway, near Unanderra, on November 3, at a speed of 34 m.p.h. by John…

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Brian Killian to Ride Skip Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 12

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Apprentice Brian Killian snapped up an offer to ride Skip Court in the Challenge Stakes after the…

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Committed for trial on theft charge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 1

At the Wollongong Court on Tuesday a man was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a…

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Abos. Mob Routed by Police

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 6

DARWIN, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—A mob of 32 aboriginal strikers, armed with sticks, who were marching on Darwin from…

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New Police Traffic Plan Today

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 14

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Traffic offenders will receive only one caution, no matter how trivial the offence, when the new…

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Japan's New Police Are Quasi-army

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 15

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Japan's new khaki-clad national police reserve forces of 75,000 men and its quasi-military…

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Labourer Claims Police Sergeant "Hurt His Arm"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 15

It was alleged in the Bulli Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday, before Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., that a police sergeant had…

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Heavy Traffic Fines at Bulli Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 9

Heavy fines were inflicted in the Bulli Court of Petty Sessions by Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., on persons convicted for traffic…

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Police Die In S.A. Bushfire

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Friday. — Three Adelaide police officers were burned to death while fighting a fierce bushfire in a gully at Upper Sturt Estate today…

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Theft From Van

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 7

Between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday two purses were stolen from the locked glove box of Messiters' Dry Cleaning…

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