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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

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Alleged Speeding Cases at Windsor Police Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 May 1926 · page 15

At Windsor Police Court on Mon-day, before Mr. D. W. Reed, relieving P.M. and Mr. Edwin G. Daws on, J.P., Lionel Percy Reynolds was charged with…

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Licensing Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 2

Mr. William S. Arnott, Licensing Magistrate, made a special visit to Windsor on Tuesday to take some cases under the Liquor Act…

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£8 for 8 Oranges Thieving at Grose Wold Magistrate's Warning

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 1

With the advent of the citrus fruit season, thieves are again beginning to make their presence felt in the Kurrajong district. An offender, however…

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"He Tried to Choke Me!" Assault Charges Fail St. Albans Police Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 July 1926 · page 1

ON Wednesday of last week the little-used St. Albans Police Court opened its doors to hear two charges of assault laid by one, Williams, a wheeler, of Cessnock,…

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Mr. Fitzsimons' Death Motorist Re-charged

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 July 1926 · page 4

A re-hearing of the evidence given at the inquest into the death of Mr. W. R. Fitzsimons, M.L.A., after he was knocked down by a car on March 15, was conducted at the…

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"Smashed the Door" Football Party After Drink Sequel, in Police Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 July 1926 · page 1

The licensee of the Baulkham Hills Hotel was standing outside that establishment twenty minutes or so after he had closed the bar last Saturday week…

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Police V. Police Constables at Court Detention of a Dog

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 1

IT is somewhat unusual to see members of the police force airing their differences in court, but this actually happened at Windsor Police Court, on Monday, when…

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Driver Before the Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 1

At Windsor Police Court on Monday afternoon, before Messrs Reg. G. Cookson, and J. J. McLeod, Js.P., Ernest Maul, 27, was charged with driving a motor car…

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Petrol Bowsers Are They an Obstruction? Windsor Council Seeks Opinion Rental Fee to Be Charged

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 August 1926 · page 6

AT a recent meeting of Windsor Council an application was received from Messrs Hayes Bros, and Co., to sink two petrol pumps in the footway—one in front of their…

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Detention of a Dog Police Constables at Court Prize Pointer Breaks a Leg

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

"We believe the dog was only loaned to the defendant, but the complainant was very careless about it. It appears that the dog only became valuable in the…

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Who Was the Goat? Assault at Richmond Defendant Commits Himself

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 5

AT Richmond Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr H. H. Chippindall, P.M., John Wood proceeded against William James Acason for unlawful assault in…

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A Case That Failed Suspected Orange Stealing Who Was the "Mystery Man?"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 6

When John Cullen exchanged two dozen Navel oranges for a similar quantity of White Silettas to a motorist who pulled up at his stall along the…

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An Abominable Crime Returned Soldier Charged

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 3

ARRESTED at Kurrajong during the week-end, a young returned soldier appeared at the Richmond Police Court on Monday, charged with committing an…

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Tall Police Are Grown Here But London "Bobby" Beats Them All

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 September 1926 · page 6

NEW SOUTH WALES cannot better the record of Constable Nichols, London policeman,, who is 6ft. 8in. high, but there are many here who wouldn't need to look very…

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(Published by Arrangement) Era of Murder

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 10

"If," says "The Enquirier," Cincinatti, "General Andrews, head of the U.S.A. Prohibition enforcement army, and the United States District Attorney, E. B. Buckner,…

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Wilberforce Police Station Telephone and Motor Cycle the Old, Old Story

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 2

Mr. R. Bruce Walker, M.L.A., has received the following communication from the Chief Secretary's Department, dated 27th August, 1926: Dear sir,—In reply to your…

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Appeal to Full Court in Breach of Promise Case "An Ignorant, Old Man" Plaintiff Wins £1,000 Verdict in Breach of Promise Case Romantic Climax-defendant Weds Mrs. Alsop

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 1

"KATE WATERS is a determined, strong-minded, designing woman, and has formed a deliberate plan to take down this simple, ignorant old man."—Counsel for defendant. "O'BRIEN appears to have had both these ladies on the string, and when he found…

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How Hotels Get Caught Magistrate Explains

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 1

"YOU are just the kind of man liable to lead a licensee into trouble. I'm sure half the hotelkeepers would not be brought to Court only for men of…

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Alleged Assault Rumpus at Windsor Station Case Adjourned

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 3

CHARGES of unlawful assault were preferred against one another by Eva Gosper and William James Mortley, at Windsor Police…

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An Abominable Crime Returned Soldier Charged Committed for Trial

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 1

"It's a terrible thing—I don't think I did it," said Frederick Sidney Aller, a returned soldier, when arrested at North Richmond on August 28 for committing…

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