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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Assault Actions Remanded

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 4

Cross-actions for assault which, it was claimed, might have serious effects on the driver of a public vehicle were…

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Remanded On Theft Charges

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 25

On a charge of stealing a watch, a 22 year old miner, Ronald Charles Brodie, of 22 Beatson Street, Wollongong was…

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2 Charged With Manslaughter

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 12

A man and a youth have been remanded on charges of manslaughter arising from road accidents…

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Police Constable Reinstated

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—Senior Constable Edward Clyde Davis was re-instated in the New South Wales…

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Marine Court Finds Ship Foundered

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.—A Court of Marine Inquiry today found that the 437-tons freighter Awahou foundered 60 miles west of Lord Howe Island on September…

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Assault Alleged

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 5

Henry A. F. Hellmund, of of Flagstaff Road, Warrawon, alleged in a Wollongong Court yesterday that…

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Behaviour Bond For Assault

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 5

"I lost control of myself and hit him on the head," a New Australian told a Wollongong Court…

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Fitter Fined for Stealing Timber

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 7

A Primbee fitter and turner was fined £10 yesterday for stealing timber and other articles, the property of the Electricity Commission…

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Seamen Charged with Assaulting Customs Official

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 7

Two seamen denied they had told a customs officer they had a gun, a detective told the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Mother of Twins Arrested and Charged with Vagrancy

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The mother of twin three months old boys, left at Redfern police station last night, was today arrested and charged with vagrancy The woman is Mrs. Lisa…

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Complaint on Noise From Tennis Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 2

Mr. H. J. Purcell, of Reserve Street, Gilmore Park, complained to Central Zone Aldermen on Wednesday…

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Charged His Son

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 3

A case involving a charge by a father against his son of illegally taking and using a motor lorry was adjourned at the…

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Bond For Man On Assault Charge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 5

"When I said it was my coat, he punched me on the lips and nose." Lodewijk Marie Roes, of the…

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Mau Maus Murder Woman, Two Children

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 2

NAIROBI, Sun.—A gang of 20 Mau Mau terrorists yesterday savagely murdered an…

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Accommodation for Police at Unanderra

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 8

The urgent need for a police officer to be stations at Unanderra was again stressed by Mr. H. Fowles,…

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In Court Two Successive Days

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 10

Last Tesday morning, Joseph Waring, aged 55 , appeared at the Wollongong Court on a charge of drunkenness…

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£100 Bail After Theft Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 10

A haulage contractor was remanded and placed on bail of £100 when it was alleged in a Wollongong…

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Sydney Man on Assault Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon—A 27-years-old man had criminally assaulted a married woman in a King's Cross flat on Saturday night. Police Prosecutor, Sergeant…

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Judge Rejects Evidence Of Police

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—Police had Given "absolutely cappricious and unreal" evidence at a Quarter…

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Boulder Stopped Stolen Car in Chase, Police Say

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 6

The story of a chase down Lysaght Street, Fairy Meadow, at 45 m.p.h. into a paddock where a stolen utility was halted by a boulder, was related in the…

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