Bail For Men Charged With Theft
Two men appeared in the Wollongong Court yesterday on charges of breaking, entering and…
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Prisoner Shot in Gaol Break Attempt
ALICE SPRINGS, Tues.—Four prisoners who attempted to escape from Alice Springs Gaol were stopped when one was wounded by a shot from a…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—Communists were spreading "wild and fantastic charges" to discredit Court-controlled ballots, the Victorian Secretary of the Federated…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—The dispute between the New South Wales Government and the Sydney County Council over increased bulk electricity charges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Speed Up Tarien Enquiries; Report Likely Today
SYDNEY, Tues.—The Police report on the Tarien swab may be handed to the A.J.C. stewards tomorrow morning. Detectives investigating the case are doing everything possible to expedite their report…
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On a charge of stealing fifty steel girders valued at £300 the property of the Australian Iron and Steel Coy it Mount Kembla…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—In Central Court today, Maurice Joseph Napier was committed for trial…
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Mr. Howard Fowles, M.L.A., is still pressing for a police Officer to be stationed at Unanderra…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Copies of the bank accounts of Mrs. Eunice Woolcott Forbes, wife of bankrupt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Doyle Tells Court Of £140,000 Betting Loss Since 1951
SYDNEY, Wed.—Reginald Aubrey Doyle, bankrupt in[?]istor, today refused to tell the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. [?]hringer) whether he had occupied the room of the former [?]ister for Mines (Mr. Arthur) at Parliament House…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Torn Shirt As Exhibit In Court Case
Bohumir Guzic exhibited a torn shirt in the Wollongong Court yesterday and alleged his landlady…
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A clerk told Wollongong Court yesterday, he was assaulted by two intruders in the Port Kembla Customs office, who told him they had guns and would use…
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The Wollongong Con was told yesterday a men chased and caught man in Stuart Park on…
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At Bulli yesterday a man was sentenced to six months' gaol for being the keeper of a common gaming house. A poker machine was ordered to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girder Theft Alleged
Three men were arrested a[?] Woonona on Saturday an[?] charged with the theft of [?] number of steel girders…
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Two Wollongong women, Jean Ling, 31 year old domestic, of 62 Crown Street, and May Alice Mortimer, 35, domestic, of 40 Campbell Street, were again before the Wollongong Court on Wednesday on a number of charges of stealing and receiving, and were committed for trial at the Wollongong Quarter Sessions on May 18th…
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A very torn and tattered shirt was the chief exhibit at the Wollongong Court on Thursday in a case in which…
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British craftsmanship at its best is exemplified in a Triumph "Thunderbird" on display at G. H. Spence's showrooms in Market…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Remanded On Theft Charge
John Brian McIntosh, 2[?] a truck driver, of High [?] Woonona, was remanded [?] charge of stealing girder…
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SYDNEY, Mon. — The Minister for Local Co [?]rnment (Mr. Renshaw) has sent, to the Police…
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