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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

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Further Imprisonments on Vegetable Stealing Charges at Richmond Police Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 8

A FURTHER sequel to the "illegal industry" that has been operating in the Hawkesbury during the past two months—that of stealing produce from…

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Alleged Assault on Elderly Oakville Farmer Three Arrests Made

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 2

AS a result of injuries received, it is alleged, in an encounter with three young men who visited his property on Wednesday evening of last week, Mr. William Brown…

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Assault Charge Remand Application Granted at Windsor Police Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 2

THREE youths, all aged 19 years, appeared before Mr. S. J. Bliss, S.M., at the Windsor Police Court on Friday charged with having, on August 3, assaulted William…

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Loan Claim Cattai Residents at Court Verdict for Plaintiff

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 2

STATING that he had loaned Henry James Johnston, a property owner of Cattai £5 in April of 1934, Clyde Bowl, laborer also of Cattai, made a successful claim for…

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Disputed Claim at Parramatta District Court Share Farming Agreement

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 August 1938 · page 3

IN a matter which occupied over two full sitting days before Judge Barton in the District Court at Parramatta, and was concluded on Monday, George Amos, of…

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Stealing Charge at Windsor Police Court Youth's Committed for Trial

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 3

ON a charge of breaking and entering Taylor's Produce Store at Riverstone on or about July 12, Francis Canavan (alias Frank Cunneen) and Charles Robert Green, both…

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Magistrate Farewelled Tributes to Administration at Winodsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 9

PRIOR to the opening of the Windsor Police Court for ordinary business last Friday, the legal profession, police and court staff took the opportunity of bidding…

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Alleged Assault Three Youths Committed at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 6

TWO charges, one of assault and occasioning actual bodily harm, and the other of assault with intent to rob, were preferred against Elliott T. J. M. Fletcher, Frank…

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Petty Thieving Sequel at Windsor Court Imprisonment Term's Awarded

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 9

SINCE the beginning of the year numerous petty thefts have been reported throughout the district, and although the police made every endeavor to clear them up, it was not…

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Pleasing Tribute Welcome to New Magistrate at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 10

MAKING his first official appearance at the Windsor Police Court since his recent appointment to the Windsor-Richmond circuit, Mr. C. Pickup, P.M., was accorded a…

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Traffic Breach Local Driver Bound Over Magistrate's Warning

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 9

CHARGED with driving a motor vehicle whilst under the influence of intoxicating liquor, Claude Thomas Pettit, of Riverstone, pleaded not guilty at the Windsor…

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Charge Fails Riverstone Resident Acquitted at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 12

"PLEADING not guilty to a charge of falsely representing himself as a traveller to the licensee of the Royal Hotel, Riverstone, on August 7, Arthur Wilson, an employee…

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"Brutal Crime" Assault on Oakville Farmer Two Youths Sentenced

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 7

AT the Parramatta Quarter Sessions on Wednesday of last week, before His Honor Judge Barton, Francis Canavan (alias Prank Cunneen), 19, laborer, Charles…

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Stealing Charges Windsor Youth Bound Over Sentence Suspended

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 October 1938 · page 9

TWO charges of stealing were preferred against Allan Edmund Mullinger, 18, of "Windsor, when he appeared before Mr. C. Pickup, S.'M., at the Windsor Police Court…

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Jaw Broken Windsor Resident Awarded Damages at Parramatta District Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 October 1938 · page 4

AT the Parramatta District court last Friday, before acting Judge Jacques, William John Denzel, hire car proprietor, of Windsor, sued Thomas Henry Martin…

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Impudent Theft Bedding From Verandah Warning to Householders

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 November 1938 · page 4

FOLLOWING the recent outbreak of "snowdropping" in Windsor, when clothes left on lines disappeared in various parts of the town on several successive nights…

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Assault Charge Bodily Harm Alleged Young Man Committed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 November 1938 · page 3

APPEARING in answer to a charge that he did, on November 2, assault Alexander Charles Keith Harvey at Richmond arid occasion him actual…

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Casual Defendant Tells S.m. to "Please Yourself" at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 November 1938 · page 10

THOSE whose daily duties take them to Police Court proceedings witness many incidents that portray pathos and drama that would make many of our leading actors…

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Obstruction Charge Trouble Over Watercourse Windsor Court Proceedings

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 10

AN action instituted by the Colo Shire Council against Leslie A. Chatman, that he allegedly allowed obstruction to accumulate in the bed of a natural watercourse…

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Collision Sequel Mail Contractor Fined at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 9

ALLEGATIONS that a motor vehicle when turning the corner from Macquarie-street into Kable-street, Windsor, had come into collision with a horse and sulky…

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