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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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On Trial For Murder With Uranium

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 4

MEXICO CITY, Mon.—Mrs. Lucina Alvarado Tessada, 47, yesterday was ordered to be held for…

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Remanded on Charges of Assault

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 6

A man was remanded at the Wollongong Court yesterday on charges of assaulting two ten-years-old…

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Suspended Gaol Sentence for 2 Youths for Illegal Use of Cars

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 2

After allegedly stealing a car in Sydney on Friday, two 19-year-old youths allegedly stole another car in Stuart Park. This was related m the Wollongong Court…

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George Barnes in Exhibition at Wollongong Police Boys' Club

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 12

National welterweight champion, George Barnes, will give an exhibition with a leading fighter at the Wollongong Police Sous' Club tonight. The exhibition will be…

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Gaol for Theft From Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 25

Two men with criminal records who stole liquor from the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, on Friday last, were on…

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BOND For Assault

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 16

At the Wollongong Court on Tuesday, 33 year old electrician Alfred William Wonson of 19 Lysaght Street, Fairy Meadow,…

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Hard Labour For Rum Theft

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 9

One and a half bottles of rum found in the possession of two men recently, resulted in each of…

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Police Warning

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 17

Wollongong police have issued a warning about a man who has been acting in a suspicious manner in the…

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Young Men In Court On Several Charges

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 5

Two young men appeared at Bulli Court on Tuesday morning on charges of breaking and entering the Coledale Co-operative…

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Letter Threatens Life of Queen; Security Police Probe

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thurs.—Commonwealth Security Police and Victorian and South Australian detectives are believed to be searching for the writer of a letter…

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Charged With Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun. - A young married woman was Charged with the murderof another woman…

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Most Modern Police Station in State

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 21

The phenomenal growth of the district and the expansion of industry and the accompanying growth of the…

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Movie Unit Works Wnder Police Protection

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 7

AS if making a movie in Honolulu weren't exciting enough, the 100-odd members of the Republic company filming…

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Two Charged With Procuring

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 7

Leaving her Sydney home, to go to the Cessnock district, a 15-year-old girl, told the…

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Three Months' Gaol for Woman Vagrant

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 5

A woman who the Police Prosecutor (Sergt. W. J. Smith) alleged had appeared in the Wollongong Court…

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"Tour Police Control Adequate"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.—Measures taken by the New South Wales Police Force to control crowds…

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Sydenham Smash Inquest Train Driver In Court After Warning

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—A train driver witness at the inquest in to the death of five people at the Sydenham vail smash on December 19 appeared in the City Coroner's Court today one hour after the Coroner had threatened to take "certain…

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Injured Train Driver Said "Did I Do Right?"—court Story

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 February 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, Tues.—A railwayman who administered first aid to the driver of an electric train involved in the fatal Sydenham smash on December 19 last told the City Coroner today that the driver kept repeating, "Did I do the right…

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Six Months' Gaol For Assaulting Wife

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 11 February 1954 · page 21

At Bulli Court on Friday, John Welsh, a miner, of 18 Benelong Street, Bulli, was sentenced to six months' hard…

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Chemist's Shop Dirty' Court Told

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 February 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. - A health inspector told North Sydney Court today that a chemist's…

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