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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

871 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 18 of 44

Court House Clock (To the Editor)

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 5

SIR.—My first Simons, has been entrusted with the job of supplying and installing the hew clock at the…

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Track Men Do Big Job Police Boys' Oval

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 3

earth onto the grounds at the Police Lorry drivers tipped 246 loads of Boys' Club at North Wollongong on Sunday in preparation for the construction…

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Assault on Wife Cowardly, Says S.m

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 2

Mr. Fleeman, S.M., told a man in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that his action in assaulting his wife was cowardly."…

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Police Probe Burglaries

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 2

Police are investigating three recent burglaries in the Port Kembla-Wollongong district…

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Commissioner Orders Q.C. To Leave Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—Mr. Justice Dovey ordered Mr. J. E. Cassidy, Q.C, to leave the Court during a heated clash at the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission today. The Judge withdrew…

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Policeman Injured Duty After Accident, Court Told

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 2

The hearing into a charge in which a man, allegedly under the influence of liquor at the time, allegedly struck down a 'police constable on traffic duty, began…

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Gaoled For Assault On Schoolteacher

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 5

YOUNG, Wed.—A 27-year-old labourer was sentenced to 12 months gaol in Young Court…

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Man Charged With Wounding Taxi-driver

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 1

ORANGE, Wed. — Police today charged a 24-year-old New Australian with having maliciously wounded a taxi-driver last night. The man will appear in…

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Inspector Denies Payment for Assault Summons Withdrawal

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Det.-Inspector John Aldridge denied at the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission today he had paid £250 to have an assault summons against him withdrawn. Aldridge, of Sydney…

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Drove Against Police Advice And Wrecked Car

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 8

A 30 years old kitchenman who was driving a car when it crashed into a telegraph pole on Princes Highway, Fairy Meadow, early on Sunday morning, was fined £20 at Wollongong Court on Monday…

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Working Bee at Police Boys' Club Grounds

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 1

This photograph taken last Sunday shows a group of the voluntary workers on the ground at North Wollongong and in the background the heaps of filling give a good indication of the magnitude of the task…

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Police Question Man Ter Alleged Assault on Five Mnnequins

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Five models employed by a Sydney modelling school were allegedly outraged at Terry Hills today. Police were told that…

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Theft from Workman

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 11

Detectives Fletcher and North of Wollongong, are investigating the theft of a stainless steel watch valued at £10 and 10/-…

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Magistrate Ordered Case To Proceed

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 5

Although a father said at Wollongong Court last week that he would not mind if police did not proceed with a…

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After Assault Wife Had Concussion, Black Eye

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 11

A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife was ordered at Wollongong Court last week to enter into a £20 bond to be of good behaviour for six months. It was alleged that on one…

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Supreme Court Sittings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 1

With two cases settled on Friday, the second week's sittings of the Wollongong Supreme Court were concluded…

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Engineer Charged With Causing Grievous Bodily Harm to Constable

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 5

A 27 years old engineer, Leslie Wallace Speed, of Webber Street, Towradgi, appeared at Wollongong Court last week on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm, by driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor, to Constable Raymond James Paff, of Wollongong…

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Two Fined for Theft of Blankets

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 10

Two men were yesterday fined £5 each when they appeared in the Wollongong Court of…

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Court Briefs

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 5

A former State swimming champion. Bruce Wallace Picone, of Moree, was yesterday fined £5/18/- in the…

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Motor Cyclist Claims Damages From Car Driver in Supreme Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 10

A Corrimal bus driver told the Wollongong Supreme Court yesterday that while riding a motor cycle on School Hill, Corrimal, he "hit the side of the road" when he saw a car come from behind a bus travelling in the opposite direction…

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