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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

33 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 2

Scales! Case in the Court Decision Postponed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 5

In the Small Debts Court at Windsor on Monday, an unusual case was heard. James Sands, of Parramatta, a scale adjuster, sued Victor Moulos, resturant proprietor, of…

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Too Much Business at Windsor Court Inconvenience to Litigants

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 14

At nearly every court held in Windsor a number of cases nave to go over to the next court, and then are often not reached. The congestion is becoming more marked every…

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Tragic Tennis Ex-windsor Man Dies on Tennis Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 4

Great sorrow was felt, and expressed in Windsor when the many friends of Mr. George T. Clarke read in the Sydney morning papers last Friday of his tragic death…

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Reckless Motorist Case at Richmond Court Magistrate's Warning

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 10

At Richmond Police Court last week, before Mr. T. W. Cohen, Relieving P.M., and Mr. A. Matheson, J.P., John Stephen Hurst was proceeded against for driving a…

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A Black Record Young Man Sent to Gaol False Pretences and Stealing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 14

At Windsor Police Court on Monday, before Messrs T. Lobb, A. Spy, C. M. Hayes, and Rev. N. Jenkyn, Js.P., Francis Wilson was arraigned on four serious charges…

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"I'll Fight You!" Husband to Detective Story in Divorce Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 9

A wife, taking a private detective with her, followed her husband and a girl across the harbor one night, and subsequently found them on a vacant block…

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Driver Arrested Charged with Feloniously Slaying Motor Smash Development

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 October 1925 · page 3

Kenneth Quinton, the driver of the car that figured in the tragic motor smash at Parramatta on Sunday week, has been charged with feloniously slaying Mollie Yohl. He…

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St. Matthew's Churchyard and the Murder of John Anderson First Fleeter

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 October 1925 · page 7

It is gladdening to the heart, to at last find an awakening of the pride of the Windsor folk, as a community of people, in their beautiful and historic Church of England,…

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Pulled Off a Horse Exemplary Fines Assault at Magrath's Hill

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 October 1925 · page 9

At Windsor Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Cohen, P.M., and Mr. W. H. O'Brien, J.P., Claude Williams Farlow proceeded against Charles Francis Campbell…

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Windsor Gaol in and Out

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 November 1925 · page 12

On a recent' Sunday . I found myself in .Windsor Gaol,.though fortunately, I had the privilege of walking out again, when I felt disposed. Sergeant Loomes is the officer in…

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Sure Perjury Police Magistrate Strictures Two Young Men Convicted Serious Accusation Against Police

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 November 1925 · page 7

I am asked to believe that two constables concocted this story. If I believe the evidence of these youths I brand the constables as perjurers, and there is…

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A Jar of Wine How Did It Get There? Accused Acquitted of Stealing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 3

At Windsor Police Court on Wednesday, the Bench was occupied by Messrs J. J. McLeod and H. S. Johnston, Js.P., when a 'case adjourned from the last ordinary…

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Waiting for Justice Windsor Court Delays Litigation at Its Worst

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 9

If patience really is a virtue, most of the offenders that appear at the Windsor Police Court can claim at least one redeeming feature…

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