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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1940

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Licensee Fined at Windsor Police Court for Having Bar Open

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 12

THAT the license had been "quite frank," and had mentioned that business was very bad at the moment and that it was "just bad luck" that the police had arrived…

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£10 Fines Motorists Before Court Driving Under Influence

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 3

ERRORS of judgment in driving their cars while under the influence of liquor landed two motorists before the Windsor Police Court on Friday to plead guilty to resultant…

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Assault Charge Concluded at Richmond Court P.m. Cautions Both Parties

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 7

THE hearing of the counter charges in which Thomas Wilson complained of assault by Elwyn Wilson, sem., and Elwyn Wilson, junr., and Elwyn Wilson, senr…

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Unusual Case Following Death of Cow Fine at 'Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 3

A CASE having rather unusual aspects was heard at the Richmond Police Court, on Friday, when a Grose. Vale resident, Francis William Monish, was…

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Assault Charge Preferred by Hotel Barman Defendant Bound Over

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 12

THAT he was struck twice on the head with a beer mug by the defendant while struggling with another man whom he had ejected from the hotel premsies, was stated…

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P. A. Federation Water Scheme Supported Police Supervision Problem Acquisition Scheme Comment

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 1

INCLUDED in decisions at the quarterly conference of the Hawkesbury and Nepean Districts Federation of Progress and Kindred Associations on…

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Claims Dismissed Berkshire Park Litigants at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 6

A CLAIM and counter claim by two Berkshire Park residents—one for proceeds, of cheques cashed by the defendant, and the other for meals and goods supplied and…

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Riverstone Fracas Described at Windsor Court Assault Charges Dismissed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 6

THAT in "a vast amount of lies" it was difficult to determine the truth, that had the affair occurred in a public place he would have bound the parties over to…

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Selling Eggs Prosecution by Board at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 July 1940 · page 2

FOR having sold eggs to a person other than the Egg' Board, three Pitt Town residents were each fined £1 with £1/1/-professional costs at the Windsor Police…

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Cattle Impounding Causes Legal Argument at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 July 1940 · page 12

A CLAIM toy an owner that certain of his cattle which had been impounded had been taken from unenclosed land, and that certain damages claimed and…

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False Pretences Earns Month's Imprisonment at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 7

PLEADING guilty to a charge at the Richmond Police Court on 5th instant of having obtained £4 from a local resident by means of false pretences, an optimisitc…

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Megligent Driving Richmond Court Decision Defendant Has Interpreter

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 12

OF alien nationality, a defendant had so limited a command of the English language that he had to secure the services of an interpreter when he appeared at the…

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Murder Suspected in Death of Ex-Windsor Resident See Page 2 Sudden Death Former Windsor Resident Police Suspicion's Aroused

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 July 1940 · page 1

THOUGHT at first to be the victim of a "hit-run" motorist, Victor Moulos, of Sydney-road, Manly, and formerly of Windsor, was found unconscious on a roadway…

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Wages Claim Settled After Conference Windsor Court Proceedings

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 14

THE much-adjourned matter of the claim Arthur J. Shaw against Ivy Taylor, alleging a breach of the butchers' award, was finally dealt with at the Industrial…

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Tenancy Matter A.i.f. Man's Difficulty Windsor Court Order

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 14

THE difficulty the tenant—a member of the A.I.F.—had experienced, in the limited time allowed to him by leave from military duties, in securing another home…

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"Stolen" Cheque Accused Proves Obdurate Richmond Court Hearing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 5

TRACED with a charge of having stolen a cheque, for which he was liable to a fine or imprisonment in consequence of certain admissions he made…

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Shoplifting Two Young Women Fined at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 9

HOW two young women, left to make a selection of coats at a Windsor store, made a selection of hats instead, and absent mindedly walked out without the…

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False Pretences Obtaining Food Relief Coupons Windsor Court Fines

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 August 1940 · page 2

FOR having obtained food relief coupons at the Windsor Police Station by means of false pretences, to which they pleaded guilty, two men were fined by Mr. C. Pickup, S.M…

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Drink and Driving Magistrate Gives Opinions Riverstone Man Fined £10

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 September 1940 · page 7

THAT, although a man might even be able to drive a car better after several "revivers," he nevertheless had no right to do so, and in such circumstances was "a…

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Goods in Custody Defendant Placed on Bond at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 September 1940 · page 12

FOUND with certain articles in his possession, stated to have been missing after a robbery at the Mulgrave railway station had been discovered, a young Vineyard…

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