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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Allowed Two Baths a Week Tenant Tells Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 2

A tenant of a Wollongong flat told the Wollongong Tenancy Court yesterday that she had received a notice from he[?]landlord she would be allowed two bat[?]…

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Last Minute Session of U.s. Supreme Court on Rosenbergs

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thurs.—The drama of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg built to a climax today as the United States Supreme Court assembled just 11 hours…

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Grafton Gaol Break Hearing

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Fri.—Six of the 12 prisoners who attempted to escape from Grafton Gaol last Sunday appeared…

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Court To Control A.E.U. Election

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.— The Industrial Registrar (Mr. J. E. Taylor), today granted a request by…

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Bulli Court Told of Knife Thrown, Threats to Murder Wife

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 9

The wife of a 61-year-old miner pensioner put on a £30 two year bond in Bulli Court on Friday said he called her fa sexual pervert and threw an open…

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Four Charged with Milk Money Thefts

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 1

Four youths, two aged 18, two 17, have been charged with stealing milk money. At 4 a.m. yesterday, Const…

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Four Arrested For Theft of Milk Money

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 1

At 4 a.m. yesterday Constable Stenhouse arrested two young men at Port Kembla and charged them with stealing milk money…

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Congested Court List

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 7

At the Wollongong Court on Tuesday, a number of cases were adjourned, some of them due to the congested state of the list…

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26 Caught In Police Net

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 2

A police raid by members of the Division 21 and Vice Squad on Saturday week resulted in the appearance of…

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Police Stop March on American Consulate

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.—Police today stopped an attempt by about 2000 people to march on the United States Consulate. The marchers, at a…

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Truck, Dinghy Stolen, Bulli Court Told

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 9

A man who drove a stolen utility truck from Newcastle to Wollongong with his wife and two…

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Assault Charge Remanded

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 6

A charge of apprehended violence and assault concerning two brothers who resided at Port…

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Two Youths Fined for Stealing Milk Money

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 6

Two youths were convicted of stealing "Milk Money" from Port Kembla, when they appeared in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. They…

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Jumped Before Truck Splintered Bridge Witness Tells Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 8

A witness in the Wollongong Court told of how he jumped back just before a truck splintered a footbridge over a water table, near Dapto…

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Natural Mother "Not Fit to Care for Child," Court Told

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—Detective Sergeant Henry Norman Parsons said in the Equity Court today he did not think Joan Murray would be a fit person to care…

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Police Refuse To Produce Statements

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 25 June 1953 · page 11

During the hearing of a case at the Wollongong Court on Monday, the solicitor for the defence, Mr Peedom, served a…

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Man Charged with Theft

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 1

A man was arrested and charged with breaking and entering the dwelling of William Henderson, of…

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Basketball Court for J.h. School

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 8

Two new basketball courts are being constructed at Corrimal Junior High School…

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Christie Sentenced to Death

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.—John Reginald Halliday Christie, 55, self-confessed strangler of seven woman…

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Man Fined for Stealing Cables

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1953 · page 6

David Heeroltz, 22, of Ronald St., Corrimal, was fined £7 for stealing cables and two files…

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