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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

772 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 28 of 39

Claimed Police Called Her 'Naughty Names'

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 September 1951 · page 4

At the Wollongong Court on Tuesday a woman charged with using indecent language stoutly denied the allegations. According to her the boot was on the other foot—it was the police who called her "naughty names"…

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Potato Case for High Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 September 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A move to end the seizure by the Victorian Potato Marketing Board of potatoes consigned to…

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Police Boys' Club House at W'gong

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 September 1951 · page 1

This is an architect's drawing of the new building now under construction at North Wollongong for the Police Boys' Club, at a cost of just over [?]…

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Police Funeral for Late Sgt. Roy Smith

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 September 1951 · page 1

A police funeral for the late Sgt. William Roy Smith officer-in-charge of Port Kembla police station, was…

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Youth Charged with Theft of Collection Box

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 1

A 20-year-old youth was arrested at his home at Dapto last night and charged with the theft of a collection box, the…

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Fleming Acquitted of Wife's Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Thursday.—Thomas Lang-home Fleming, 43, grazier, of Mount Parry, was tonight found not guilty of the murder of his wife, Betty, 39, at Willow tree on June 28…

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A.j.c.'s Power Contested in Equity Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1951 · page 12

SYDNEY, Friday. — The power of the A.J.C. to penalise horse-trainer Thomas Hall was contested in the Equity Court…

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Bond For Radio Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 8

Ronald Eric McDonald, who pleaded guilty at the Wollongong Quarter Sessions this week to having stolen four…

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Suspended Sentences For Stealing Copper

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 5

A sentence of 9 months hard labour, suspended on their entering into good behaviour bonds, were imposed on two men at the…

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Police Said Brakes Were Faulty

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 7

Police who examined a motor lorry which crashed into the rear or a car in Keira street, declared that the…

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Supreme Court Sittings Next [?]

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 15

The N.S.W. Supreme [?] will hold its first sittings [?] Wollongong commencing [?] Monday…

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Demanded an Apology From Police Sergeant

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 2

A man spoken to for using bad language outside a hotel, demanded an apology from a police sergeant who asked him to move on. This was stated at the Bulli…

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Assaulted Police; Two Men Fined £15

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 6

Two men who had been arrested for fighting in front of a Wollongong hotel on Saturday, turned on the constable…

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Gaol for "Tests"

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 3

At the Wollongong Court on Tuesday two men, stated by the police to be pests about the city were sentenced to hard labor…

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Bulli Police Boy's Club

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 10

Tenders have now been called for, the construction of the Bulli Police-Citizens' Boys Clubhouse. This building will be erected…

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No District Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 10

On Thursday morning His Honour, Judge O'Sullivan, announced that owing to the state of the Quarter Sessions…

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Police Eject Ten From Menzies' Meeting

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Ten people were ejected by police during the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) referendum…

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Two Charged with Harbouring

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — Two men, charged with having harboured a third man allegedly the principal in the case…

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Kiama Court

Kiama Independent · Saturday 15 September 1951 · page 5

Mr. J. Fleeman, S. M ., again had only a short list at Kiama Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday last. This was mainly due to cases…

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Motor Cycle Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 17 September 1951 · page 8

At Nowra Court on Thursday, Ronald James Clarkson, motor mechanic, of Bomaderry, already under committal on charges of…

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