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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1970

20 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Police Promise More Patrols

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 March 1970 · page 1

More pastorals will be carried out at Windsor and Richmond to prevent hoodlumism, the…

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Police Rescue Squad to Give Talk

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 April 1970 · page 12

A member of the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad is to give a talk and demonstration to members…

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Police Round-up of Youths

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 April 1970 · page 21

Five youths pleaded guilty at a recent Windsor Court on charges which included…

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Driver Run Into Police Car

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 May 1970 · page 12

A driver, who had been drinking, made the classic error of running Into the rear of a…

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Man Charged After Fatal Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 June 1970 · page 2

A man has been charged with culpable during following inquiries by Richmond Police…

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River Sanding Back in Council’s Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 June 1970 · page 14

The problem of what is to be done to reduce sanding in the Colo and MacDonald Rivers has been lobbed back into the Colo Shire Council’s…

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Meat Theft Brings Fine

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 June 1970 · page 16

Convicted on a charge of stealing meat from the Riverstone Meat Company, a defendant…

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Threatened Police Sergeant

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 June 1970 · page 14

Asked to leave the Richmond Police Station, a man had threatened “to get” a police…

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Auction of Police Premises

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 June 1970 · page 2

The former Police premises at Wilberforce are to be offered at auction by the Department of Lands,…

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Lions’ Donation Boost to Police Boys Club

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 July 1970 · page 2

A donation of $1216 to the Hawkesbury Police Boys Club could be the spur that it needed to get this organisation off the ground…

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Gave Bribe to Police

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 July 1970 · page 15

A man gave a $20 bribe to a police officer to overtook an offence which subsequently…

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Wouldn’t Heed Police Warning

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1970 · page 16

Although warned by a police sergeant not to drive, a man had been seen driving only 10…

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Assault Female Charge No Doubt of Identification

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 September 1970 · page 6

He hail no doubt that a 57-year-old plant operator was the man who had taken hold of a young woman’s hand at South Windsor, Mr R. J. Walgett, S. M., said in a recent Richmond Court…

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Assault Brought Three Months’ Jail

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 September 1970 · page 16

A quarrel between a man and his former defacto wife, which extended over a night and a day, had an aftermath at a recent Windsor Court when the man was sentenced to three months’ jail on…

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“Police Brutality” (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 30 September 1970 · page 2

Sir,—On September 18 I participated in what was to have been a peaceful demonstration against the…

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Pensioner on Stealing Charge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 October 1970 · page 16

Appearing on a stealing charge at a recent Windsor Court, a pensioner said he had taken…

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Police Help Appreciated (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 October 1970 · page 2

Sir,—The members of the Rotaract Club of Windsor would like to express their appreciation for…

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Aware of Need for More Police

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 November 1970 · page 17

The Premier (Mr R.W. Askin) has told the Richmond Chamber of Commerce he is aware of…

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Suspended For Calf Sentences Stealing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 November 1970 · page 24

Convicted on charges of stealing two calves, two Riverstone men were each given…

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Wouldn’t Leave Police Station

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 December 1970 · page 14

Going to Richmond Police Station to see his brother, who had been arrested on a…

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