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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Young Man Acquitted On Murder Charge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 July 1947 · page 9

At the Central Criminal Court last week James O'Sullivan, 27, meat worker, of Freeman's Reach, was acquitted of having murdered Harry…

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Fines For Stealing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 July 1947 · page 5

Joseph William Cuttle pleaded! guilty at Wiseman's Ferry Police Court on June 23 to a charge of stealing 23 sheets of corrugated iron…

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Special Licensing Court Has Short Setting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 July 1947 · page 3

A SPECIAL, Licensing Court held by Mr. J. Bliss, S.M., at Windsor on June 27, to hear club applications and other…

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Wages Claim Settled Case at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 July 1947 · page 3

HEEDING the advice of Mr. J. S. Mart, S.M., the parties in a wages claim at the Windsor Court on June 27 settled the…

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Park Tennis Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 July 1947 · page 8

When a letter from the Pitt Town Civic Club, suggesting the provision of a tennis court in the Memorial Park at Pitt Town, was read to the…

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Neighbours in Court "Insulting Words" Charge Defendant Put on Bond

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 July 1947 · page 11

SOUTH Windsor neighbours figured in proceedings at the Windsor Court on June 27, when a defendant, who pleaded not…

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Possession Wanted For Demolition Magistrate Grants Order

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 10

IN tenancy proceedings in which a possession order was granted by Mr. J. S. Hart, S.M., at the Windsor Court on July…

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Popular Sergeant Farewelled Windsor Court Eulogies

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 1

APPRECIATION and good wishes from the Bench and legal profession were extended to Sergeant A. A. Jorgenson before…

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No "Police" Courts

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 30 July 1947 · page 2

By official regulation, as from 1st July last courts formerly known as Police Courts are no longer described by that name, but are now known…

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"Goods In Custody" Charge Fails No "Reasonable" Suspicion Says Magistrate

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 30 July 1947 · page 9

HOLDING that the prosecution had failed to establish a "reasonable" suspicion, Mr. J. S. Hart, S.M., at the Windsor…

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Magistrate Refuses To Issue Order Holds Tenant Would Lose Business

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 August 1947 · page 2

HOLDING that an order would affect the business of the tenant, who would suffer the greater hardship, Mr. J. S. Hart,…

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Windsor Valuer Sues For Fees Magistrate Grants Claim

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 August 1947 · page 3

AFTER proving his case in the absence of the defendant, a Windsor valuer who claimed valuation lees was granted the…

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Six Months' Gaol

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 August 1947 · page 5

Pleading guilty at the Richmond Court on August 8 to a charge of stealing £5 in money from the Commissioner for Railways, John Alwyn…

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Not Worried By Income Tax Vagrant Sent to Gaol

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 August 1947 · page 8

A DEFENDANT who informed the police that he was thinking of applying for a permanent exemption from income tax was…

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Airman Placed On Bond Good Record Saves From Gaol Sentence

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 August 1947 · page 5

HIS good Service record, and the fact that the amount in question had been recovered, saved an airman from a gaol…

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Long Assault Hearing Concludes Two Parties-convicted at Richmond

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 August 1947 · page 11

PART-HEARD at two previous courts, the marathon assault case in which three parties issued cross-summonses…

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Licence Cancelled Driver in Court After Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 August 1947 · page 10

AN appeal for a bond to avoid automatic cancellation of his driver's licence failed at the Richmond Court on August 8…

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Heavy Fines For Taking Car Two Men Before Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 August 1947 · page 2

TWO defendants, each with a "record," were each fined £20 by Mr. J. S. Hart, S.M., at the Richmond Court on August 8,…

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More Care Needed, Says Magistrate Milk Vendor Fined at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 8

ADVISING the defendant to impress on his staff the need for more care in future, Mr. J. S. Hart, S.M., fined a milk vendor…

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Further Fines For Gravel Stealing Two Offenders Convicted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 5

TWO more convictions for stealing gravel from council roads were recorded at the Windsor Court on August 15,…

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