Gaol Sentences
The Wollongong Quarter Sessions commenced on Monday before Judge Amsberg. A 20-year-old waiter, Planton…
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Theft of Liquor
A 23 years old miner was fined £10 and ordered to pay compensation to a man from whom he stole 14 bottles of…
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A 29 years old labourer was fined £5 for stealing £1s worth of scrap copper wire from the A.I. and S. Ltd., at Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Man Charged After Road Accident
A serious accident on the Port Kembla road on the morning of November 3 led to the appearance in the Wollongong Court…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →£10 Fine for Theft of Petrol
A man who allegedly attempted to "milk" petrol from a car in Globe Lane on the night of November 11 was fined £10 at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Alarming Rate of Theft and Vandalism
What was described by the Northern Zone Committee as an "alarming rate of theft and vandalism, was reported to the…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Police Were "Menaced" Said Sergeant
A large crowd of seamen and wharf labourers "menaced" police who attempted to arrest a seaman on No. 3…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gaol After "Scandalous Attack On Police"
Two men, who "had made a scandalous attack on the police," were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment by Judge Amsberg in the Quarter Sessions at Wollongong yesterday…
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Twenty - seven - year-old Vincezo De Luca, of a Unanderra hostel, told detectives last night that, after…
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A Wollongong man who objected to a taxi driver using the entrance to his drive way, was fined £2 with 12/- Court costs and ordered to pay £6/8/- witnesses' expenses and £3/3/- professional costs yesterday. He was convicted of…
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A 22-year-old married man was yesterday sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment when he appeared in the Quarter Sessions on a charge of carnally…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Assault On Daughter Admitted
A man admitted in the Quarter Sessions on Thursday that he had indecently assaulted his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Undertaker's Second Trip to Gaol
SYDNEY, Fri.—An Ashfield undertaker to-day made his second trip to gaol in five months for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£100 Graft Alleged In Court
SYDNEY, Fri.—Former Mayor of Leichhardt, Edward Charles Erwin, had demanded £100 from two men for Council's approval to begin shipbreaking activities near a proposed children's playground, Mr. A. Larkins (for the Crown) said…
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£20 worth of material, 20 yards of floral damask, and 12 yards of cream curtain material, the property of Mrs. Mary…
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At the Wollongong Quarter Sessions on Thursday, a 22 year old Corrimal labourer, John Edward Sperring of 22…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Youth On Suspended Gaol Sentence
At the Wollongong Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, an 18 year old labourer, Cecil Frederick Sebbens, of Bomade[?] pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Police Report On Alleged Graft
SYDNEY, Sun.—Police officers have reported on their investigations into an allegation that a City Council Alderman accepted a gift of £50. The police…
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A man who the Court was told had been "on a bender," was sentenced to 14 days'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Driver Deliberately Drove Lorry at Bus, Court Told, Fined £30
A £30 fine was inflicted on a lorry driver yesterday who it was alleged had deliberately driven his lorry at a bus on Windang Rd. last year. He was also…
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