Charged With Murder Attempt
SYDNEY, Fri. — A pensioner, who, police alleged, struck his wife, with an axe three times…
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Remanded on Stealing Charge
Henry John Leonard, a 46-year-old wharf labourer, of Swan St., Wollongong, was remanded, before Mr…
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SYDNEY, Fri.—A banknupt was committed to Long Bay Gaol today from the Bankruptcy…
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TAMWORTH, Fri. — Police investigating the death of a 40-year-old Tamworth woman, Mrs…
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Allegations that the whole of the Kiama, Jamberoo and Gerringong districts were left with the meagre police protection of one Junior Constable were made at the meeting of Kiama…
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LONDON, Sun.—Two Australian Test cricketers were among 60 people whose names were taken…
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At the conclusion, on Friday last, of five days' sittings of the Wollongong Supreme Court, the first twelve of the 45 cases on…
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TAMWORTH, Sun.—Detectives investigating the death of Mrs. Dorothy Maher at Tamworth last…
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SYDNEY, Sun—Court-controlled ballots and a move to reorganise the A.C.T.U. executive will be the main issues discussed at the All-Australian…
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A man who said he used alleged stolen timber openly on a drive-in into his home, with no…
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A man pleaded guilty "under provocation" to assaulting his former foreman [?] a Wollongong Court yesterday. He was fined £4, with 7/- costs and ordered…
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A witness in a case being heard in the Supreme Court at Wollongong yesterday said that for three weeks after he had been involved in a motor cycle accident he had only been able to breathe and eat through tubes in his nose and throat…
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A constable's off er to show a motor cyclist a clause in the traffic regulations giving him power to test his cycle was refused recently. The constable was told…
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A man, claiming for damages in the Supreme Court at Wollongong yesterday, said that he had been forced to lie on his back for 20 weeks after he had peen knocked down by a car…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hardship Caused To Home Builder an Ex-police Officer Who Is Building a Home on the Hartwell Estate Told Kiama Council Last Week That Their Insistence on Certain Building Regulations Was Causing Him Hardship
In a letter to the Council in reply to their request that he should place the iron of the garage with tiles, Mr. R. L. Dawson, of…
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BRISBANE, Wed.—A. woman whose husband was battered to death had told police that a man had told her on the telephone, "He won't start a new…
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Two men were arrested in Wollongong yesterday and later appeared in court where they were…
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A Corrimal woman wanted to go to gaol and asked police if she could take her baby with her. She was speaking outside the Wollongong Court at the…
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A dispute at a Tarrawanna tennis club resulted in two of the women members who appeared in Wollongong Court yesterday being ordered to enter into a…
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NEWCASTLE, Fri.—Two youths found guilty of having raped an 18-years-old girl at Dudley on April 15,…
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