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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

772 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 8 of 39

Magistrate Warns Naval Airman

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 3

Magistrate Fleeman at the Nowra Police Court on Tuesday, told a naval airman that he was heading for serious…

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Magistrate Is Not Bond Happy

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 4

Magistrate Fleeman, at the Nowra Police Court on Tuesday, in refusing a Nowra vegetable gardener leniency on a charge…

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Before Court on Embezzlement Charge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 7

A 22-year-old man appeared [?] the Wollongong Court on Thursday on a charge of embezzling £68/19/-…

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£13 in Traffic Fines at Bulli Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 12

Fines and costs totalling £13/10/0 were imposed on traffic offenders at the Bulli Court on Friday morning…

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Lorry Driver Before Court on Driving Under Influence Charge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 4

A driver, whose lorry crashed through a safety fence at the foot of Geard's Hill, West Wollongong, on December 26, appeared at the Wollongong Court last week…

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£5 Fine For Stealing Paper

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 March 1951 · page 4

A man who stole a Sydney paper from the front lawn of a Smith Street home yesterday morning was fined £5 in the…

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Master Baker Accused of "Using" Court to Ensure Payment of Debt

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 March 1951 · page 7

Both the Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr. J. Fleeman) and a Wollongong solicitor accused well-known Wollongong baker H. G. Denison yesterday with using the criminal processes…

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Port Kembla Man Before Court on Assault Charge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 23

A Port Kembla man, who police allege assaulted an elderly pensioner at her home last month, appeared at the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions last Thursday morning…

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Ginger Meggs in Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Associated Newspapers Ltd. sought an interim injunction in the Equity Court today to restrain…

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New Powers For Arbitration Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday.-The Minister for Labour (Mr. Holt) introduced in the House of Representatives today the Bill to give the Arbitration Court the same powers as the High Court to…

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Station Masters Fined for Disobeying Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 13

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The State Industrial Court today imposed fines of £20 each on three officials of the…

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Magistrate's Authority In Fair Rents Case Challenged

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 5

Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., will announce on April 30 a judgment as to whether he has jurisdiction to decide a fair rents application and whether certain aspects of the Landlords…

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Queensland Electoral Officer Charged with Ballot Paper Forgery

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Bernard Joseph Maguire, 53, Queensland Chief Electoral Officer, was remanded on £600 bail on a ballot forgery charge in the police court this…

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Man Held Until Police Arrive

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 1

Two private citizens seized a man who is alleged to have been attempting to break into a Crown Street store last night…

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No Trace of Taxi Driver at Baby Murder Trail

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Although numerous telephone calls were received offering help to the defence, radio and newspaper appeals to the missing taxi driver to come…

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Mrs. Gorr Found Not Guilty on Baby Murder Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Mrs. Joan Isobel Gorr, 26, was found not guilty of murder, mans[?]augter, or infanticide of her…

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Illawarra Unionists Pleased with High Court's Decision

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 2

Greater Wollongong left-wing trades union officials received yesterday's decision of the High Court on the invalidity of the Communist Party Dissolution Act with restrained…

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High Court Says Red Act 'Wholly Invalid'

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 1

High Court held today that the Com-munist Party Dissolution Act was wholly invalid. The Court upheld a chal-lenge by 10 unions and the Communist Party to the validity of the Act. The decision was by a majority of six to one, the Chief Justice (Sir John…

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Magistrate Agrees: Police Are Not Actors or Dramatic Stars'

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 7

At the Wollongong Court last week, Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., agreed with the police prosecutor that the policy were not actors or dramatic stars but merely witnesses…

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Magistrate's Jurisdiction Challenged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 8

The jurisdiction of Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., to hear an application under The Landlord and Tenant Amendment Act…

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