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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Labor M.l.a. Asks Foe Party Talks on Police Assault Allegations

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—A Labor M.L.A. to- day, asked the Premier (Mr. Cahill) to call a meeting of the Parliamentary Labor Party to discuss allegations that…

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Royal Commission Witness Sent To Gaol

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Mr. Justice Dovey today sent a Royal Commission witness to gaol for 48 hours for contempt of Court. The witness is Thomas…

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Police Probe Burglaries

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 1

Police arc investigating two burglaries in the Wollongong district. The office of F. C. W…

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Police-Citizens Boys' Club Notes

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 10

Cyril Martin, well-known and popular Wollongong photographic expert, has been entertaining the lads and their…

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Court Briefs

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 5

Eighteen year old labourer, Stanley Garnett Henner, of Fitzgerald St., Cringila was sentenced to…

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For Trial on Charge of Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.—A 38 year old barman was today committed for trial on a charge of having…

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Air Assault Halts Red Drive

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1954 · page 3

HANOI, Fri. — A massive French air assault halted four advancing Communist Divisions 75…

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Murder, Suicide Verdicts

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1954 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Fri.—Police said today they were prepared to record the deaths of Wallace R. Parnell…

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Ordered Not to Sack Drunk Wharf Labourer, Foreman Tells Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.—A foreman stevedore told Mr. Justice Ashburner today that a shipping company's instructions had prevented him sacking wharflabourers…

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Theft From 'Dozer

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 1

About 20 gallons of diesel oil valued at £3 the property of the Wollongong Council was stolen from a bulldozer on Cordeaux…

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Aerial Assault on Germ-carrying Insects

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 8

FORTH WORTHS, (Texas)—Elaborate preparations for war against disease and despair are being made in…

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Suspended Sentences For Men on Theft Charges

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 11

Two young married men were given six months' suspended sentences under the First Offenders Act at the Wollongong Court on Monday on charges relating to a series of thefts over the past 12 months…

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27 Cases In Supreme Court List

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 3

At the Wollongong sittings of the Supreme Court which. ended last week, Mr. Justice Walsh dealt, with a total of 27 cases…

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£248 Stolen Money Hidden in Mine, Detective Tells Court

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 6

A miner took detectives four miles into the Keira mine yesterday and showed them where he had £248 hidden, it was stated in Wollongong Court…

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Police Sergeant Tells Commission: No Secrecy About Ruxton Going To Hospital

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—Sergeant Wilfred Theodore Miller told the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission today he did hot think it odd for a police inspector to phone about the condition of a prisoner…

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Police Constable Remanded

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues. — A former New South Wales police constable, Reginald Reinald Green, 29, was…

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Rang Police After Throat Cut

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—An elderly man with a deep wound in his throat was in agony for two hours…

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Settlement in Court After Breach of Promise Claim

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—A Newcastle marine engineer had written a girl about 140 love letters during three years of ardent wooing. then jilted her shortly before…

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Court Fines

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 30

At the Wollongong Court on Monday, Leslie William Makin, 28, painter, of 28 Jenkins Street, Unanderra, was fined £5 for…

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Police Recover Money in Mine

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 10

A 29 year old miner, Cleve Walters, of 125 Bassett Street; Fairy Meadow, was remanded until 15th June when he…

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