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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

772 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 24 of 39

Youth Charged with Car Theft on Mardi Gras Night

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 3

An 18-years-old Corrimal Youth, extradited from Melbourne after his arrest there on several charges last week, will…

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Gaol Sentences for Vagrants

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 4

Two men were sentenced to goal at the Wollongong Court on Monday after pleading guilty to charges of vagrancy…

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Long Court Hearing Following Accident on Maddens Plains

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 10

A traffic case, which has already occupied portion of two sitting days at Bulli Court was listed for a further hearing at Wollongong on Monday but is still unfinished…

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Businessman to Stand Trial On Manslaughter Charge Injured Girl Carried Into Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 1

On Tuesday afternoon, at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of a 17-year old motor cyclist, a Wollongong businessman was committed to stand trial at the Wollongong Quarter Sessions on September 4, on a charge of manslaughter…

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French Gaol for Sydney Man

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.). —John Maxwell Seaforth Gray, 40, of Sydney, was sent to prison for 18 months in Paris yesterday…

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Police Say Woman Bashed with Stolen Baton

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—A police sergeant tonight disarmed a man who allegedly battered a woman with a baton stolen from…

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Toe Used To Fire Fatal Shot, Court Told

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 2

At the inquest held at the Coroner's Court, Wollongong, yesterday, into the death of Ernest William Sommerville, of…

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Undersea Theft Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 6

LUEBECK (Germany), Sunday (A.A.P.).—German deepsea diver Rolf Hallgreen, with 24 other employees of a Hamburg…

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20 Years Gaol for Gestapo Chief

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 3

BRUSSELS, Sunday (A.A.P.).—A Belgian court yesterday sentenced Constantin Canaris, war-time Chief of the Nazi Gestapo…

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Three Charged With Armed Hold-Ups

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 2

GRAFTON, Sunday.—Three men were arrested at gunpoint at a road block near Nymboida today…

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Murder Charge After Woman's Body Found

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The partially clad body of Edith Beryl May Almond, a married 35-year-old barmaid, was found…

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Police Found a Body! — Alive

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 1

Wollongong police had a rush call to Prince's Highway, near Greenhills, Figtree, early on, Thursday morning…

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Police Believe Woman Drugged and Robbed

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Mrs. Glayds Evelyn Thompson, 43, of Yarra Bay, Sydney, who was allegedly bashed, robbed and…

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Bricklayer Remanded On Murder Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday.—Phillip Smith, 23, bricklayer, of Union Street, North Sydney, was to-day charged at Central Police…

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Bride Murder Case Opens In New Zealand

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 2

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—The trial opened today in the Supreme Court of George Cecil Horry, 44,…

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Singapore Riots; Police Action Irresolute

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Monday (AAP-Reuter).—Senior British Police, officers failed to take resolute action to quell last December's…

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Court Told Of Threat To Strangle

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—In the City Court today, a witness said he had heard Stanley Henry Shaw threaten to strangle…

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Migrant Admits Murder of Kandos Man, Police Allege

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 3

KANDOS, Tuesday. — A New Australian charged with the murder of a man and a woman had said he killed the man for…

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Youth Remanded on Car Theft Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 3

A 17-year-old youth was remanded yesterday when he appeared in the Wollongong' Childrens' Court yesterday on a…

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Vigilance Of Police Saved New Aust

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 2

A New Australian who attempted to hang himself in the Port Kembla police station cells recently, was told…

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