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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1940

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Police Protection Reply to P.a. Federation Present Staff Sufficient

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 September 1940 · page 4

The following reply to the P.A. Federation's request for additional police protection at Richmond has been received through Mr. R. B. Walker, M.L.A.:—…

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Accident Claims Cross Action by Parties at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 September 1940 · page 12

A RATHER complex proceedings in the Richmond 'Small Debts Court Friday, in which a great deal of local interest was taken, centred around a minor…

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Tenancy Application Riverstone Family Trouble Detailed to Magistrate

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 8

FAR from cordial relations in a Riverstone family circle were evidence in an application to, Mr. N. L. Sheridan, S.M., at the Windsor Police Court on Friday, by a…

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False Statement Obtaining Driver's Permit Fine at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 6

AN unusual matter in local police jurisdiction came before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, S.M.,at the Windsor Police Court on Friday, when a young man pleaded guilty…

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"High Handed" Burning Down Tool Shed Magistrate Awards Damages

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 October 1940 · page 12

IN the course of the hearing of a damages claim at the Richmond Small Debts Court on 11th instant, in which the defendants had admitted the burning…

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Negligent Driving Prison Farm Warder Convicted at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 October 1940 · page 2

THAT the driver on the right is unwise in some circumstances to depend on having the right of way when two motor vehicles are approaching an intersection was…

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Schofields Burglary Youth Committed for Trial at "Wtndsor, Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 2

THE discovery on the morning of October 11 by a Schofields business man that his shop had been burgled during the night, and portion of his stock stolen, had a sequel…

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Stealing Charge Two Youths Before Court One Gaoled, Other Discharged

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 12

QUICK work with a police wireless car in the early hours of the morning of October 6, on receipt of information concerning the stealing of petrol from a pump at Mr…

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Betting Fines at Windsor Police Court Two Riverstone Cases

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 9

ON separate charges of having used the yard of the Royal Hotel, Riverstone, for the purpose of betting, two men pleaded guilty at the Windsor Police Court on…

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Gaol Preferred Fine for Dirty Premises Pig Keeper Convicted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 12

FINED at the Richmond Police Court on 11th October for failing to keep clean premises occupied by him at Clarendon, a defendant announced that he had no money…

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"Silly Action" Taking and Using Car Richmond Court Fine

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 10

THAT the offence was "a silly action" by the defendant, a redeeming feature being that the car taken and used had been returned to the place where defendant had…

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Insulting Behavior Neighbors in Court Case From Riverstone

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 November 1940 · page 10

STRAINED relations between two Rivera stone neighbors resulted in a charge by one against the other at the Windsor Police Court on Friday of insulting behavior…

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Husband Fined for Assaulting Wife Magistrate's Warning

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 December 1940 · page 4

FOR having, while under the influence of liquor, so far forgotten himself as to strike his wife, a Riverstone resident appeared before the Windsor Police Court on…

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Assault Charge Riverstone Youth Fined Argument in Theatre

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 December 1940 · page 4

AS the result of an argument which occurred at the Olympia Theatre, Riverstone, following a school function in the I building on a recent evening a Riverstone…

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