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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1962

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Caught In Act Of Stealing From Cars

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 January 1962 · page 3

A 33-year-old labourer had been caught in the act of stealing from parked cars in the…

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Gaoled For Stealing Wire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 January 1962 · page 2

A Kurri Kurri man, who had only recently was released from gaol, was sentenced to 12…

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Burglary at Hotel

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 January 1962 · page 1

Thieves recently broke into the Australian Hotel at McGrath’s Hill and stole a large…

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Didn’t Appear On Wire Stealing Charge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 January 1962 · page 15

A defendant, who had been released on £100 bail, failed to appear at the last…

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Two-Year-Bond On Cattle Stealing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 31 January 1962 · page 16

A Riverstone man, who appeared before the Windsor Court last week on a cattle stealing…

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Two Months Gaol on Assault Charge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 February 1962 · page 12

“I think I will give your wife a holiday— from you,” said the Richmond Police Court…

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Queensland Motorist Disregards Police

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1962 · page 11

A motorist from Queensland, Anthony Charles Buttenshaw, now living in…

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Deadbeat In Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1962 · page 14

One of the few workless in Windsor, Walter Batty, who appeared before Mr. D. Tyler, S.M., in…

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Gaol As “Home” Nothing Else For Old Vagrant

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 February 1962 · page 3

Another item was added to his already long list of convictions when Roland Hassell Stephenson, well…

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Bond on Assault Charge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 March 1962 · page 6

A Riverstone man was put on a 12 months good behaviour bond, in £20 following the…

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Neighbours In Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 March 1962 · page 9

Two Riverstone neighbours were in the Windsor Court last week as the result of cross-summons for…

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Wouldn’t Leave Police Station

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 March 1962 · page 3

After the Richmond Police had arrested a young man for indecent language, his mate…

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Daring Rovvery Smart Work By Police Recovers Loot

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 March 1962 · page 1

A very daring robbery was earned out at the hardware stone of Paull Bros., Richmond, early on Saturday morning…

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Stealing Charge Dismissed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 April 1962 · page 4

Charges of stealing brought against two young men at the last Richmond Court could,…

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Bond On Dog Stealing Charge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1962 · page 6

Charged with stealing a pedigreed Pekinese dog, valued at £25, an 18-years-old Riverstone…

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Police Chief For Ball At Kurranjong

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1962 · page 7

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. N. T. W. Allan, will attend the annual hospital ball arranged…

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Fined for Theft in 1960

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 May 1962 · page 3

A man was fined £25 at the last Windsor Court on a charge of stealing goods in…

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Threatened Police with Shotgun

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 May 1962 · page 4

In the preliminary hearing of a false pretences charge against a Quakers Hill man at the last Windsor Court, police witness alleged that they had been threatened with a shotgun when they attempted to…

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Burglary At College

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 June 1962 · page 1

The home of an officer of the H.A. College was broken into last Wednesday…

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Drove at Police Car

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 June 1962 · page 12

A youth had driven a car straight for a police vehicle and only veered away when about 20 or 30 feet separated the cars, a witness told the…

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