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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

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

(Published by Arrangement) Wholesale Murder

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 May 1927 · page 12

Referring to the commencement of the eighth year of Prohibition in U.S.A., the Belfast "Evening Telegraph" says that "wets and drys agree that it has cost more…

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Road Signs License Fee to Be Charged Windsor Council Benefits

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 May 1927 · page 16

ACCORDING to legal opinion it is an offence to use a hoarding unless it has bee licensed by a local government bod. In view of this, Windsor…

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A "Knott-y" Problem Trouble Over Sanitary Pans Police Prosecution Fails

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 13

QUITE a mystery surrounds a case which was listed for hearing at the Richmond Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.M., when Charles Knott was…

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Solicitor Sentenced Baum Gets Three Years Clients Mourn Many Losses

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 6

"A SOLICITOR ought to have known "better," said Judge Cohen at the Darlinghurst Sessions last week, in passing sentence of three years…

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Wages Claim Publican Sued Case at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 August 1927 · page 16

At Richmond Industrial Court in Tuesday, before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.M., Edward Bilby proceeded against John Harold Mahony for not paying him in full a sum…

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'I'll Kill You! I'll Kill You!' Midnight Quarrel in a Bedroom Husband Alleges Serious Assault Against Wife Webb's Creek Sensation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 August 1927 · page 1

TO BE awakened in the early hours of the morning by a blow on the head with a claw hammer, and to see your "better half" brandishing the implement, at the foot of the bed, to the accompaniment of the threat, "I'll kill you, I'll kill you," is not a very pleasant situation…

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Police Protection for Pitt Town

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 September 1927 · page 12

IT does not take Mr. R. Bruce Walker, M.L.A., long to get moving after he makes a promise. At his political meeting at Pitt Town on August 22, Mr. Walker…

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Police Officer for St. Albans

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 3

Mr. R. Bruce Walker, M.L.A., has been informed by the Chief Secretary's Department, in reply to his representations, that a police officer be stationed at St. Albans…

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Allowed to Drift Council Charged with Neglect Richmond's Sanitary Arrangements

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 4

RICHMOND COUNCIL, has received a communication from the Board of Health, in which it is stated that the general sanitary' work in the…

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Funeral Expenses Claim in Small Debts Court Richmond Case

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 September 1927 · page 10

AN UNUSUAL case came on for hearing at Richmond Small Debts Court on Tuesday, when Albert Arthur Price, funeral director, proceeded against Charles Frederick…

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Who Hit Lorry? Alleged Assault After Dance in Windsor Bench Warrant Issued for Missing Witness

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 1

WHO hit Larry Cunneen? THAT was the big question which occupied the time of Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.M., for nearly three hours at Windsor Police Court on Monday, when, owing to the absence of a material witness for the prosecution, a Bench Warrant was issued…

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Killarney Farm Injunction Granted Application to Equity Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 9

In connection with the suit Of John William Stewart Lucas, of Hampton Court, Darlinghurst, against Charles Higgins and W. J. C. Pendergast, an application was listed…

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The Mysterious Punch Who Hit Lawrence Cunneen? Midnight Scene After Dance in Windsor Charge of Assault in Company Fails

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 5

ALTHOUGH John O'Cass frankly admitted in evidence that it was he who delivered the mysterious punch—a right hook—that rendered Lawrence Cunneen unconscious on the roadway in front of the old Windsor Picture Theatre shortly after midnight on September 22, a good deal of suspicion still surrounds the…

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Early Morning Attack Youth Alleges Assault Hawkesbury College Student

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 3

Frederick Roy Franklin, (24), fishmonger, was committed for trial by Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., at the Central Summons Court on Monday, on a charge of assaulting and…

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