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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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Richmond Police Court Minor Cases

Hawkesbury Herald · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 5

The following minor cases were before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., at the sitting held on Friday, 7th July…

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Embezzlement Charge Police Officer to Stand Trial

Hawkesbury Herald · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 1

At the Windsor Police Court on Friday week last, before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., John Frere Wilson was called upon to answer a charge that,…

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Charge Dismissed Alleged Stealing of Lamp Witness Contradictory Evidence

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 9

STATING that to convict the defendant he would have to believe the story of the Crown witness, who had stated in evidence' that he had signed a charge against…

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Hearing Adjourned Stealing Billiard Balls Alleged Against Two Windsor Residents

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 12

AFTER the hearing of portion of the evidence for the prosecution at the "Windsor Police Court last Friday, in a charge alleging that Harry Donald Blackett and…

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Prison Sentence for Illegally Using Car Case at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 2

A SENTENCE of one month's imprisonment, with hard labor, was imposed on Alfred Thomas Quine at the Windsor Police Court last Friday, when he appeared be fore…

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Subsidy Request Children's Tennis Court Pitt Town Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 12

CHIEF item of discussion at the last meeting of the Pitt Town P. and C. Association was a proposal to revive efforts to provide a tennis court in the grounds. The…

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Inexperience Lands Carter Before Court Fined for Ill Treatment

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 10

STATING that if he thought the offence was committed deliberately he would have taken an altogether different view of the matter, Mr. C. Pickup S.M., at the…

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Stealing Charge Removed Property From Hall Defendant Bound Over

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 12

PLEADING guilty to a charge of stealing a rug, a leather overcoat and a scarf, the property of Alfred Watkins, at Lower Portland, on August 9, Stanley Edward…

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Sentences Suspended Windsor Defendants Bound Over on Stealing Charge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 7

AT the conclusion of the hearing, at the Windsor Police Court on Friday, before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., of the charge preferred against Harry Donald Blackett and Allan…

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Member Arrested Charged with Conspiracy Remanded Until September 18

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 12

ONE of the major district sensations of recent years was provided on Thursday morning of last week by the news that late on the previous evening the Member for…

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Milk Deficiencies Charges at Windsor Court Wrong Impression Corrected

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 3

IT was stated at the Windsor Police Court last Friday, when two local dairymen appeared before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., and entered a plea of guilty to charges of…

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Unlicensed Driver Fined at Windsor Court Employer Also Penalised

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 10

APPEARING before Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., at the Windsor Police Court last Friday, Elwin J. Hannan, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having been an unlicensed driver…

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Collision Sequel Charge of Dangerous Driving Conviction at Windsor Court

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

"I CAN'T come to a conclusion where I can accept your story that your vision was affected by glaring headlights, and I am more inclined to think that your judgement…

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River Bathing Council Asks Police Aid to Enforce Prohibition

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 September 1939 · page 12

THE Colo Shire Council at its meeting on Monday decided to ask the Windsor police to enforce, 'as far as the shire jurisdiction was concerned, the Department of…

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Solicitor Annoyed at Richmond Court Hearing Client Committed for Trial

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 September 1939 · page 5

WHEN several questions asked by the solicitor for the defence were consistently objected to by the Crown representative, on the grounds that they…

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Collision Sequel Fine at Richmond Court Car Driver in Trouble

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 September 1939 · page 6

AT the Richmond Police Court last Friday Harold Holmes, who did not appear to answer a charge of negligent driving (the charge being heard ex-parte), was…

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Unusual Situation in Tenancy Application at "Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 September 1939 · page 10

RATHER unusual circumstances surrounded a tenancy case heard at the Windsor Police Court last Friday, before Mr. C. Pickup,. S.M., when an agent sought…

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Hotel Case Magistrate Warns Licensee Windsor Court Hearing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 7

STATING that he had previously warned the defendant, and if the latter appeared before him again he might record a mark against the licence, Mr. C Pickup, S.M…

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"Peculiar" Aspects Windsor Assault Charge Evidence Magistrates Comments

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 5

RATHER conflicting stories as to the origin of a fracas which took place in the yard of the Carrington Hotel, Windsor, on the evening of October 8, were told at the…

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Charges Dismissed Sequel to Hotel Visit Heard at Windsor Court

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

INFORMATION preferred against two members of the Royal Australian Air Force, George Thomas Gathergood and William Barry Ramsay, alleging that they were…

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