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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Mother Charged Murder Of Sons

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 9

TOOWOOMBA, Tuesdays —Mrs. EVangeline Lee, 41, of Toowoomba, was today remanded until Thursday on a charge of…

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Mother Charged With Murder Of Sons

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 9

TOOWOOMBA. Tuesday.— Mrs. Evangeline Lee, 41, of Toowoomba, was today remanded until Thursday on a charge of…

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Police Want Tight Check On New Australians

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Sydney C.I.B. detectives today advocated a tighter check on New Australians to facilitate the work…

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Police Want Tight Check On New Australians

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sydney C.I.B. detectives today advocated a tighter check on New Australians to facilitate the work…

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Cattle in Court Case Stolen and Mutilated

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 9

ROMA, Tuesday.—Nine head of cattle being held in the Roma Police Court yard as evidence in a cattle stealing case were…

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Cattle in Court Case Stolen and Mutilated

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 9

ROMA, Tuesday.—Nine head of cattle being held in the Roma Police Court yard as evidence in a cattle stealing case were…

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Stealing Charge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 8

At the Wollongong Court on Monday, Stanley William Sperring, 34, loco driver, 9 Smith Street, Fairy Meadow, was…

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Theft of Tools, Cement

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 1

Wollongong detectives are investigating the theft of a quantity of tools sad one and a half tons of cement…

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Dead Man's Name Mentioned in Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 8

When the name of Derek Pinter was called at the Wollongong Court on Monday, police said he was not before the court…

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Tax Excuses "Thin" Says Magistrate

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 3

"These stories sound thin," stated Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday,…

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Comic Court Retired

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—Australia's outstanding racehorse Comic Court has been retired from racing…

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Theft of Copper From Steelworks

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 7

"Copper, to the value of £324 was stolen from the A.I. & S works, Cringila, sometime between July 26 and 27, it was…

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"Police State" in Australia

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—Passing of the Communist referendum proposals could give the Menzies Government "a blank cheque to…

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Theft at Woonona

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 30 July 1951 · page 4

Thieves broke and entered a Woonona shop in the early hours of last Wednesday morning and rifled the till…

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Actor Charged With Smashing Door

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 30 July 1951 · page 5

SANTE FE, New Mexico, Sunday (AAP).—Actor Lawrence Tierney was charged with smashing down the screen door…

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Children Slept While Police Searched

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 30 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday—After 30 police had searched for more than eight hours, Dale Tattersall, 4, and Barbara Dodds,…

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Six Months' Gaol for Vagrant

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 6

An itinerant carpet repairer who said he wanted to be an asset to the country was, yesterday, sentenced to six months'…

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Police Probe Quirindi Woman's Death

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 2

TAMWORTH, Monday.—Police are inquiring into the death of the wife of a wealthy Wallabadah district grazier at…

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Kiama Court

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 1 August 1951 · page 5

A sitting of Kiama Court was held on Wednesday last before Mr.J.Fleeman S.M. John R. Duncan of Shellharbour…

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Police Believe Wife Died From Poison

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 August 1951 · page 1

QUIRINDI, Tuesday.— Mrs Eveiyn Maude Wilson, 45, wife of a wealthy Quirindi grazier, is believed to have died after…

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