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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Persia Will Defy Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 3

ABADAN (Persia), Tuesday (AAP-Reuter).—Persian Oil Director (M. Dafferi) said last night Persia would not obey…

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£5 Fine for Assault at Nowra Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 3

Pleading guilty to unlawfully assaulting the manager of the Roseby Park aboriginal station a Nowra man was fined £5 with…

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Unusual Charge at Bulli Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 11

An unusual charge—one of attempting to obtain a driver's license by a false statement was heard at Bulli Court last Friday…

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Cases from Nowra Court Failed to Give Way

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 2

Alexander Little of Brong Browngle faced, two traffic charges—falling to give way at an intersection, and having…

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Police Promotions

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The following promotion, in the Police Force has been notified: Senior Constable to Sergeant…

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Court Rules Short's Expulsion Invalid

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday. — The expulsion of Laurence Short from the Federated Ironworkers' Association was declared invalid…

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Theft From Garage

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

On Saturday night a tyre wheel and tube was stolen from the Gold Top Cab garage. Valued at £25, it was a 6.50…

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Brief Court Hearing

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 3

THE HAGUE, Sunday (AAP)—The International Court of Justice yesterday heard Britain's plea for temporary…

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Police "Close In" On Alleged Motor Cycle Thieves

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

Nowra police, with the assistance of the Police Motor Squad, Sydney, believe they have uncovered a gang…

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Sketch Plans For Court In Accident Charges

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 2

The need for sketch plans and full information being put before the Court in accident cases was stressed by Mr. J…

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Police Told Of Gun Point Walk

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Three New Australians tied up another New Australian last night and forced him to walk three miles…

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Hotel Murder inquest

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 3

Miss Bourke said she had given most of the jewellery to her sister. She had no knowedge of how they had come to…

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Kiama Court

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 4

A sitting of Kiama Court of Petty Sessions was held on Wednesday last before Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M. Mrs. Phyllis Plummer, of Ellen…

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Crowded Court As Hotel Inquest Opens

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 1

A large group of spectators braved the bleakness of Wollongong Court House yesterday for the opening of the inquest into the death of Oxford Hotel licensee, Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, who was found dead on the early morning of June 11 in her hotel bedroom…

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£220 Theft Alleged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 18

At Wollongong yesterday Stanley William Sperring, was charged before Mr. Hall C.P.S. with theft…

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Czechs Gaol American Newspaperman

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 3

FRANKFURT, Wed. (AAP)—William Oatis, American newspaper correspondent, was sentenced today by a Prague court…

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Wife Attacks Husband In Divorce Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 10

BRISBANE, Wednesday — A woman who screamed in the Supreme Court today that she would kill her husband, later…

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Saved From Gaol By Wife and Child

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—In placing a man on a £20 bond to be of good behaviour for five years after he had pleaded guilty to…

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Oxford Hotel Inquest Police Evidence of Interviews with Men Charged With Murder

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

A Sydney detective last Thursday and Friday at the inquest into the death of Mrs. Lucy Barrows, gave evidence of interviews he said he had had with the three men charged with her murder. He is Detective B. K. Doyle…

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Both Drivers Charged After Accident

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 5

At the Wollongong Court on Thursday before Mr. J. Fleeman S.M. Austin Payne, 45 Beatson Street, Wollongong, represented…

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