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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
23 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Joseph Ralph was convicted of a larceny, and sentenced to be transported to a penal settlement for seven years. Bridget Hacket was found guilty of stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John M'Lachlin was indicted for a larceny. Not guilty, discharged. James Apted was indicted on a charge of cattle stealing. The jury returned a verdict of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An account of a most diabolical murder committed, on the 1st January, at Mount George, on the Manning River, has been furnished to the Sydney Morning Herald by a correspondent, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HUNT V. SOLOMON.—This was an action of trover, brought by Mr. Edward Hunt, an upholsterer, against Mr. Solomon, the trustee of an insolvent estate, for the recovery of property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BURGLARY.—On Friday, June 23rd, a man named George Hurpur, per Earl Grey, assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company, was brought before the police bench charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Caroline Harrison was indicted for stealing a £5 note, the property of Walter Buchanan Wilkinson, on the 7th June last, at Maitland. Guilty, to be imprisoned in Newcastle gaol for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held on Thursday, the 13th inst., and adjourned until Monday, the 17th, at the house of Mr. James Williams, Clarence Town, before J. S. Parker, Esq., coroner, on the body…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Andrew Smith, assigned to Mr. Edward Sparke, jun., was brought before the bench charged with stealing four tongues, the property of his master. The case having been fully…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An immigrant named John Goodworth, in the employ of the cloth company at Stockton, North Shore, was bound over to keep the peace for twelve calendar months, for having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Dales, assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company, was convicted of drunkenness, and sentenced to fourteen days solitary confinement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A most daring robbery and attempt at murder was perpetrated on Friday evening, the 18th instant, on the property and person of a small settler named William Hurley, re[?]ding near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last his Honor Mr. Justice Stephen, accompanied by the Attorney General, Mr. Alfred H. Stephen, clerk of arraigns, and Mr. John Legh Vannett, pro sheriff, arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Honor took his seat upon the bench at ten o'clock, and the jury having been called, Michael Kelly was placed at the bar,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →His Honor took his seat upon the bench at halfpast nine o'clock, and Michael Kelly, John M'Donald, Lachlan M'Lucas, and James Young, were placed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PILCHER V. BRIGGS.âThis was a case of disputed property which had been seized by the sheriff under an execution. The property was claimed by the trustee of Charles Robins, an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Hargreaves, per John Barry, an assigned servant of the A. A. Company, was arraigned on a charge of misdemeanour. John James, a prisoner, also in the service of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ESCAPE FROM NOBBY'S ISLAND.—William Thorp, a convict in irons at lobby's Island, was charged with making his escape from the island on the 23rd September. Robert Backop, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Pickle was indicted for stealing an axletree, the property of George Hobler, on the 10th July last. A second count in the indictment laid the articles as being the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday last a public meeting of the inhabitants of the district of Maitland was held at the court house, East Maitland, for the purpose of adopting petitions to his Excellency the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE were well pleased to see so large an attendance on Monday last at the meeting for petitioning the government and Legislative Council that the gaol at East…
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