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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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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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Life Gaol For Boiling Water Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 9

LONDON, Thurs. - A woman who allegedly threw boiling water over her three-years-old daughter…

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Bid To End Car Theft Racket

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, Thurs. - A bid to smash a car stealing and stripping racket in the Liverpool and…

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Police Handled Crowd Well

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 14

The traditional efficiency of the N.S.W. Police in handling large crowds was demonstrated…

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Spanish Police Hold Suspected Strangler

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 8

IRUN (Spain), Thurs.- Spanish police are holding William Sanches De Pina Hepper, elderly artist…

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Jockey Moore, Trainer Charged with Improper Practices

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 February 1954 · page 12

SYDNEY, Fri.—Leading jockey George Moore and Brisbane owner-trainer, C. Butterworth, have been charged with improper practices by the…

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Sentenced Death

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 9

Mau Mau's No. 2 leader "General China" of wise 32-year-old W[?]hiu, Itote Express…

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Concurrent Sentence For Theft

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 10

A man at present serving a two-and-a-half-year gaol term was sentenced to another nine-month…

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Acquitted of Cattle Stealing Charge

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 2

A man was yesterday acquitted of a charge of cattle stealing when Judge G'Sullivan, after hearing the Crown's evidence in a Quarter Sessions action at…

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Gaol Warning on Compensation Money

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 3

Judge O'Sullivan, speaking in the Quarter Sessions at Wollongong yesterday, warned a man that unless he paid the Tallawarra Power House Welfare…

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Alleged Death Threat; W'gong Man Charged

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 2

PARKES, Mon.—A woman today elected to give evidence before the Coroner's Court at the inquest into the death of a man her husband is charged, with murdering. The woman, Mrs. Eliza…

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Three Months' Gaol, Several Fines for Disqualified Rider

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 8

Previously fined twice for riding a motor cycle while a disqualified person, a man was fined £15 on a similar charge yesterday, and sentenced to three…

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Police Commissioner Subpoenaed at Appeal Hearing

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.— The Police Commissioner (Mr. C. J. Delaney) has been subpoenaed to appear and produce certain documents before the Crown…

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Two Youths Escape From Gaol

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 10

Sawing through a steel bar in their cell window and using knotted blankets to lower themselves 15…

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Smuggler Theory in London Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 11

LONDON Tues. - Police are investigating the theory that a woman murdered at Ealing last week, was killed because she knew too much of the…

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Fresh Evidence Move in Ferguson Murder Trial

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tues.-A move to call fresh evidence in the Ferguson murder trial, was made in the Court of Criminal Appeal today…

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Workmen's Tools Thefts Number "Enormous". Court Told: £25 Fine

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 9

The Police Prosecutor (Sergt. W. J. Smith) said there was an "enormous number of thefts in the district, particularly workmen's tools," in the Wollongong Court yesterday when a man was fined a total of £25 and ordered to pay £6…

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Gaol For Men With "Formidable Records"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 7

Two men, each described by Judge O'Sullivan in the Quarter Sessions at Wollongong yesterday, as…

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Bond For Young Man on Theft Charge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 37

A young Dutchman was told [?] Judge Q'Sullivan at the Wollongong Quarter Sessions on Tuesday that only his previous…

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Children Tell Court Of Scream

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 7

Two 10-years-old children said in the Quarter Sessions at Wollongong yesterday that they "ran for their lives" when they heard a 13-years-old girl, whom…

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