18 Months' Gaol For Indecent Assault
A case in which detectives denied having "bashed" a man in order to extort a confession from him, was heard at the Wollongong Quarter Sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week…
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Shop Lifter Sobs In Court; 2 Gaoled
A member of a shop lifting trio sobbed in the Wollongong Court, yesterday, and rushed from the witness box. Later, he and another man, received six months' gaol sentences. The third member of the trio, a woman, was placed on a bond to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australians Arrested By Jap. Police
TOKYO, Fri.— Four Australians and an officer of the British Commonwealth Forces…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Gaol Escapee Recaptured
MELBOURNE, Sun.—Russell. Bliss, 25-years-old Pentridge "escapee, who has been at large for nearly a fortnight, was recaptured at Camp Pell early today. Acting on a "tip-off"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Headquarters on Wheels
In the form of a large caravan, the new mobile headquarters offer the police forces of the county the same facilities as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Women In Court
Two women were before Wollongong Court last week on various charges arising out of an accident in Allen street, Port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£10 Fine for 3/- Knife Theft
A waterside worker was fined £10 for stealing a 3/- table knife from the Balgownie Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Crown's Doubts on Mastermind in "Greatest Theft in Annals"
MELBOURNE, Mon.—The £33,593 Mayne Nickless payroll theft, the greatest theft in the annals of Australian history, "was very cleverly and cunningly contrived, the Crown told a Criminal Court jury today…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Seek Girl's Assailant
BRISBANE, Mon.—Police in South-East Queensland and northern New South Wales are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Bans Wharf Stop
MELBOURNE, Mon.—A Nation-wide 24 hours stop work meeting planned by watersiders for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Charged with Keeping Savage Dogs
People from Windang, Corrimal and Fairy Meadow were summoned in Wollongong Court yesterday for being the keepers of savage dogs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Men Sentenced to Six Months' Gaol
The hearing was concluded as Wollongong Court on Wednesday in which two men, Roy Luke Cantrill, 35, electrical mechanic of 3A McPherson Street Waverley, and Alexander Edward Cantrill, 41, clerk, of Wood Street, Randwick,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Charged With Goods In Custody
Milan Niksic, a 39-year-old fitter, of the Karingal Hostel, Port Kembla, was remanded at the Wollongong Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Remanded on Charge of Stealing £88
It was alleged in the Wollongong Court yesterday that a man's wife had returned £88 to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Charged with Father's Death
SYDNEY, Thurs. — A youth was charged today with having murdered his father with an axe at their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suspended Gaol Sentence for Car Salesman
A Wollongong car salesman told a client to "go his hardest and get the demons when the client threatened to see the police regarding money owing to him. This was related in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Kiama Woman Sentenced
Nita Hogan. of Minnamurra Street, Kiama, was sentenced to ten days imprisonment at a special sitting of Kiama Court on Tuesday on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Charged After Bush Shooting
SYDNEY, Fri. — A 36-years-old woman was shot dead near a rabbiter's hut in the hills beyond Werris Creek pastoral station today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Stop Fight
BRISBANE, Fri. — Ed Francis (10.6¼) defeated Grahame Moffitt (10.5¾) on a tko at Brisbane stadium…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unions To Defy Court Order
At a meeting of the Combined Unions on Thursday night a decision not to work on Christmas…
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