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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

907 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 27 of 46

Driver Charged After Fatal Accident

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 7

Submissions on behalf of a lorry driver charged with negligent' driving were made at the Wollongong Court on Thusday…

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Car Driver Charged with Negligent Driving

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 11

Mr. Fleeman S.M. at the Wollongong Court on Thursday held that William Jackson, 28 year old labourer, of 2 The Grove…

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Surprise Party Given Popular Police Sergeant

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 4

A surprise party was given popular police Sergeant Terry Lyons, to mark his b[?] and retirement from the New South…

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Doings at the Police Boys' Club

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 12

Boxing boys from Moss Vale and Wollongong clashed when they met for the first time at the Wollongong Police- Citizens Boys' Club recently. Over 700 citizens witnessed the…

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Court Controlled Ballots For Miners!

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 1

A suggestion that the A.L.P. Industrial Group was preparing the ground for court controlled ballots in the Miners'…

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Police Seek Man After Assault

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

Wollongong detectives are still looking for a masked man who assaulted Crown St. fruiterer, Mr…

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Two Cypriots Charged with Murder at Golf Clubhouse

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.—After a series of raids early today detectives arrested two men who later appeared in the City Court charged with the murder of…

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River Murder Search Discontinued

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.—Detectives investigating the murder of Donald Brooke Maxfield, 22, of Murray…

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'Full Arbitration Court Should Decide Margins'

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.—The relativity of margins to the basic wage was of such public importance that they should be decided by the full Arbitration Court,…

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Cameron Considering Appeal to Higher Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Mon.—Former Police Sergeant S. D. Cameron is considering appealing to a higher…

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Court Sequel to Accident--driver Fined

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 2

An accident at the Post Office corner, Kiama, on a Sunday afternoon in January, had a sequel in court on Wednesday when a local…

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Seaman Charged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 2

Two seamen, who, it was alleged, broke into the store room of Commonwealth Hostels Ltd. at Berkeley and stole…

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Cook Charged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 37

A 30 year old cook was remanded at Wollongong Court on Tuesday on two charges of stealing, and did not ask for bail…

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Two Prisoners Escape From Berrima Gaol

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 2

MOSS VALE, Wed.—Police are making a wide search for two prisoners who escaped from Berrima Gaol today. The prisoners escaped from a working party…

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Elderly Man Admitted Stabbing, Police Say

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wed.—An elderly man had admitted stabbing a former champion boxer with a knife, Sergeant J. J. Agnew said in the Coroner's Court today…

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Woman Charged with Poisoning Bob Lulham

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—A woman was charged at Central Court this afternoon with having administered thallium poison with intent to murder international…

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Disobeyed Police; Fined

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 2

disobeying a police direc[?] A man was fined for tion, at the Wollongong Court yesterday…

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Tears Violence, Woman Tells Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 3

A Wollongong woman, proceeding against her husband in the Wollongong Court yesterday…

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Court Orders Man to Leave Flat

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 4

A man who admitted he was in arrears with his rent was ordered in the Wollongorig Court…

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Policeman Hurt on Road, Court Told

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 1

Leslie Wallace Speed, 27, engineer, of Wilber Crescent, Towradgi, was remanded in the…

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