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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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Stealing Charges Sentence of Six Months at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 8

CHARGED on five counts of stealing and one of having goods in custody reason ably suspected of .being stolen, Michael Joseph Maher pleaded guilty to all charges…

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Accident Sequel Kurrajong Car Driver Charged Case Dismissed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 2

A CHARGE against John Thomas McManus, of Kurrajong, alleging that he cut a corner whilst driving a motor vehicle at Kurrajong on October 15, was dismissed by…

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Defendant Exonerated Case at Richmond Court Selling Adulterated Milk

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 8

FEW cases at the Richmond Police Court during: the past few years created such widespread interest as the one heard at that court last Friday, before…

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Man Committed on Breaking & Entering Charge at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 9

SENTENCED earlier in the court proceedings at Richmond last Friday to six months' imprisonment, with hard labor, on numerous counts of stealing-, Michael…

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Building Shows Steady Increase Steep Rise in Valuations Appeals Court Proposal

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 3

CONVINCING proof of Windsor rapid return to pre-depression prosperity was disclosed at the meeting- of the "Windsor Council' held last Tuesday…

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Charges Dismissed on Licensed Premises Windsor Court Hearing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 9

AFTER the hearing of rather lengthy evidence at the Windsor Police Court last Friday, Mr. C. Pickup, 'S.M., dismissed information preferred 'by the police against…

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Month's Imprisonment Assault and Stealing Charges Windsor Court Hearing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 8

APPEARING on two charges, one alleging that he did at Riverstone on December 18 unlawfully assault Henry Sharp, arid the other alleging that he did on the same date…

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Stealing Charge Defendant's Mental State Questioned Remanded for Observation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 10

ON the application of the police Cornelius McMahon, who was charged with alleged stealing, was remanded by Mr. C. Pickup, .S.M., at the Richmond Police Court…

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Non-suited Claim for Alleged Debt at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 8

STATING at the Richmond Small Debts Court last Friday, that the manner in which a claimant had presented his case was most unsatisfactory, in that insufficient…

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Stealing Charge Defendant Bound Over at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 2

PLEADING guilty to a charge of stealing one handbag, four handkerchiefs, one five pound bank note and thirty shillings in silver, to the total value of £8, the property…

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Assault Charge Parramatta Quarter Sessions Windsor Resident Acquitted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 14

AT Parramatta Quarter Sessions, before Acting Judge Herron and a jury, Henry Donald Blackett, of Windsor, was arraigned last week on a charge of having assaulted…

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Windsor Council Sewerage Rate From April Local Valuation Appeals Court Tar Surfacing Request

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 7

FOLLOWING the adoption of a Mayoral minute at the meeting of the Windsor Council held on Tuesday evening of last week, the Valuer General's…

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Points Decision at Windsor Police Court Follows Pitt Town Fracas

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 8

WINNING in a decisive manner, according to the evidence of "ring side spectators," the first round of an impromptu bout of fisticuffs staged in the street at…

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Serious Injury Pedestrian Struck by Car Police Make Arrest

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 3

ALLEGED to have been struck by a car the driver of which failed to stop after the accident, Charles Sackville Everingham, aged 53 years, is at present an inmate of…

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Tough Luck "Quiet Drink" That Wasn't Story at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 3

PLEADING guilty to a charge of allowing an unauthorised person on licensed premises during prohibited hours, William McCarron, licensee of the Fitzroy Hotel…

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Defendants Acquitted on Richmond Stealing Charge After Lengthy Hearing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 9

BOTH arraigned on the same charge of stealing a wallet containing £9 and a motor driver's licence, to the total value of '£9/10/-, the property of…

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Another Refusal Additional Richmond Police Further Agitation Indicated

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 10

FOLLOWING further consideration of representations by the Colo Shire Council for an increase in the strength of the Richmond Police Station staff—chiefly with the…

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"Practically Nude" Complaint to Richmond Council Matter for Police

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 12

IT falls to the lot of every council to receive complaints on a wide and comprehensive variety of subjects, but Richmond Council was…

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Collision Sequel Windsor Business Man Fined at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 14

THE sequel to an accident which occurred at the intersection of Windsor and West Market streets, Richmond, on June 29 of last year, when a motor…

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Colo Shire Council Monthly Meeting Vote for Bridge Repairs Scavenging Area Defined No Extra Police

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 1

EXTENSIVE repairs to bridges within the shire area were decided on by the Colo Shire Council at its meeting held last Monday, following several…

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