"Master Cracksman" Believed Behind £3000 Theft
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 10
SYDNEY, Tues. — Police said today that they believed a criminal recently released from gaol directed a gang of cracksmen which stole £3000 from Sydney suburban shops during the Bank Holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Behaviour Bond for Subtenant for Assault
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 2
The magistrate, Mr. Fleeman, yesterday bound a man over to be of good behaviour for six months after the man had been convicted of assault…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Briefs
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 2
Keith D. Hill, Town St. Shellharbour admitted to the Wollongong court yesterday that he had carried…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Birchall, Hill Restored To Police Duty
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tues. — Detective Constable L. G. Birchall and Constable I. R. Hill will be restored to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →6 Months' Gaol
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 38
At the Wollongong Court on Thursday a man was sentenced to six months hard labour on charts of vagrancy and…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →£20 Fine For £21 Theft
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 44
A man who stole a roll of notes from his brother-in-law was fined £20 at the Bulli Court on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Boy Charged After Train Derailment
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 1
A youth, aged 13, was arrested yesterday morning following investigations by police and railway officers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Seek New Witness
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 1
Detectives investigating the [?]uorder of 52 year old Char[?] Liolios at Wollongong Golf Links on the night of July 23rd…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Chief in Hospital
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 3
SYDNEY, Wed.—Doctors at the Mater Hospital, North Sydney, tonight operated on the Commissioner fo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supreme Court Upholds Man's Divorce Appeal
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 7
SYDNEY, Wed.—A marriage, which had hopelessly broken down was better dissolved in the interests of the community, the Full Bench of the Supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Suicide Bid In Cell, Court Told
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 3
SYDNEY, Wed.—While in a cell at Wollongong police station last night, a 26-years-old labourer had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth's Surf Rescue Mentioned During Court Hearing
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 42
A 19 year old youth who was said to have performed an act of great bravery in a surf rescue was before the Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Washing machine theft alleged; man for trial
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 7
A 40-year-old Wollongong business man, who appeared in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday charged with stealing 10 washing machines, was committed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Think Man Died In Fit
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Detectives believe that a nude body found floating in Farm Cove yesterday was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Told of Redex Man's Adulery, Threat to Shoot Wife Sydney, Thurs
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 4
A Redex Motor Trial competitor, who was found by a raiding party in compromising circumstances with a member of his crew, had threatened to shoot his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Months' Gaol For Knife Assault
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 15
A man, who attacked his wife with a knife in each hand was sentenced to three months' hard labour at the Wollongong Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to a charge of assault…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Boy Charged Over Bulli Derailment
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 2
Railway officials and po[?] investigating the derailment [?] the South Coast Daylight [?] press at Bulli last week yest[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For Trial On Charge of Theft
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 11
At the Wollongong Court on Thursday, a 40 year old manufacturers' agent was committed for trial at the Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Thieves Steal Police Patrol Cars
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sun.—Thieves stole a police wireless patrol car parked outside a house at Campsie while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1954 Earls Court Show
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 8
This year is another in which London is to become the scene of the two most spectacular International Motor Exhibitions in the Show Calendar, each the largest event of its kind to be housed in one building…
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