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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

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Police Exonerated Newspaper's Grave Charges Result of Inquiry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 July 1930 · page 4

With regard to the resolution passed at the recent public indignation meeting in Windsor, requesting the Commissioner of Police to inquire into a statement alleged…

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"Peculiar Atmosphere" the Arbitration Court Mr. J. B. CHIFLrEY'S VIEWS

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 12

DISCUSSING the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill in the House of Repiresentatives, Mr, J. B. Chifley, Member for Macquarie, said he…

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Deserved What He Got.! Old Man Alleges Assault Strange Doings at Richmond

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 12

SERIOUS allegations, impugning the character of two people, were made during the hearing of a case before Mr. M. C. Nott, Relieving P.M., at Richmond Police…

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Glossodia Tragedy Murder Charge Appeal Question of Counsel's Fee

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 5

The application for leave to appeal on behalf of Cecil Farnsworth Charles, convicted on a charge of having murdered his father, and sentenced to death, was…

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Judge Rebukes K.C. in Glossodia Murder Charge Appeal New Trial Son Who Was Sentenced to Death Appeal Upheld in Glossodia Murder Case Counsel Admonished for Attack on Chief Justice

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 September 1930 · page 1

THE Full Court of Criminal Appeal on Friday last set aside the conviction and granted a new trial, in the appeal on behalf of Cecil Farnsworth Charles, who, at the Central Criminal Court, was sentenced to death on a charge of having murdered his father, John Edward Charles, aged 79, at Glossodia in April…

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Not at Present Police Constable for Kurrajong Better Supervision Promised Minister's Reply to Deputation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 September 1930 · page 6

AS briefly reported in a previous issue, a deputation from representatives of the Hawkesbury and Nepean Districts Federation of Progress and Kindred Associations…

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In the Lady's Room "Wine for Illness" Waistcoat, Pyjamas and Undies in Court Private Detective Acquitted of Stealing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 13

WHAT happened when William John Denzel, a garage proprietor, of Windsor, went to the room at the Oriental Hotel, Springwood…

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Married for Money. Windsor Girl and Aged Herbalist. "Wanted to Kick the High Spots!" Story in Divorce Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 4

SHAKESPEARE'S adage that crabbed Age and Youth cannot live together was exemplified in the Divorce Court, Sydney, last week…

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Murder Echo Legal Complications Son As Executor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 5

THERE was an echo of the Charles murder case in the Equity Court on Friday, when Mr. Justice Long-Innes was applied to under section 98…

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Just in Time Old Man Nearly Victimised Slick Police Work

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 10

CALLING at a room in which he sleeps at the Vineyard early one morning last week, two men wakened an old man of 88 years who is…

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Brotherly Love Trouble Over Hospital Account Alleged Unlawful, Assault

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 8

BECAUSE he had disregarded the in junction which says, "Love one another," Leo Butler appeared at the Windsor Police Court on Monday, charged with unlawful…

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Reckless Drivers Gaol Without Option of Fine What Riverstone P.a. Would Do

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 3

RIVERSTONE Progress Association is endeavoring to have legislation introduced, whereby the driver of a motor car or cycle…

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Bank Incident Attempt to Rob Old Man Police Charge Collapses

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 1

SEQUEL to an incident which occurred on September 13, When two young men persuaded an old man living at the Vineyard to go to Sydney, and later to a bank…

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Three £5 Notes Alleged Case of Stealing Wiseman's Ferry Incident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 October 1930 · page 2

BERTIE Charles Cox, of Spencer, appeared before Mr. F. H. D. Sutherland, S.M., at Wiseman's Ferry Police Court on the 24th. ultimo, charged with. stealing, by finding…

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Thrilling Chase Two Young Men Arrested Smart Work by Windsor Police Allegations of Car Thefts

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 3

AFTER a romantic holiday in costly stolen cars, jaunting through three States and countless-country towns, two young men were…

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Who's Harness? Stealing Charge Fails

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 10

AT Windsor Police Court on Monday, before Mr. F. H. D. Sutherland, S.M., Cornelius O'Brien was charged with having in his possession on September 26 a set of sulky…

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Troubel Over Tobacco Dispute with Cafe Assistant Alleged Assault and Riotous Behavior

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 2

THREE young men—Cecil James Gill, George Henry Gill and Roy James Jones—appeared at Windsor Police Court on Monday charged with various offences…

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Car Thieves Sequel to Amazing Exploits Sentences at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 2

SEQUEL to the amazing exploits of two young men, who the police allege had been joy-riding throughout the various States of the Commonwealth in a number…

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"Not Guilty" Glossodia Murder Trial Verdict Charles Acquitted and Cheered in Court Fresh Evidence - 'Varsity Lecturer's Theories

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 1

AFTER a retirement of nearly three and a half hours, the jury in the second trial of Cecil Farnsworth Charles, 53, who was charged with having murdered his father, John Edward Charles, 79, at Glossodia on April 14, returned a verdict of "Not Guilty" at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Saturday…

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Science Works a Miracle Shadow of Silence at Glossodia the Charles Murder Case

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 1

BRANDED a patricide, and condemned to death, Cecil Farnsworth Charles lay in the shadow of the gallows. Judge and jury had…

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