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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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James M'Gluiver, a freed man, was committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement. John Carsons, in irons, attached to Nobby's Island, was fully committed for stealing eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday last Joseph Vale was again brought up in the above case, and Thomas Cutts, (the person in whose hut the unfortunate John Thornton, his wife, and Joseph Vale were living)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday evening last a man named John Brown called on a tinman living at Morpeth, named James M'Kay, with whom he had a slight acquaintance, bringing a book with him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, the foundation stone of the gaol was laid, near the north-west corner of the inclosure within the walls. The stone was laid by E. D. Day, Esq.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Hyde, John Hussey, Wm. Wellwood, Charles Clarke, William Cokeler, and Andrew Redman, all assigned to the A. A. Company, were severally charged with drunkenness and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This circuit commenced before his Honor Sir JAMES DOWLING, Knt., Chief Justice, on Wednesday last. His Honor arrived at Morpeth by steamer on Tuesday morning, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that the Court of Requests for the district of Wollombi and Macdonald River, established under the proclamations of 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Honor took his seat upon the bench soon after nine o'clock, and Mary Ann Clifton, who had heen convicted of perjury, was placed at the bar; and his Honor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Walter Scott, Esq., took the usual oaths as a magistrate of the territory of New South Wales. (Before the Chief Justice, and J. S. Ferriter, and W. F. Gordon, Esquires, assessors.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday evening last intelligence reached Maitland of a most diabolical murder which had been perpetrated on the Toad from Maitland to Seaham, near the fence of A. Warren, Esq…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ann Muller, an aged woman, was charged by the chief constable with being drunk and disturbing the congregation assembled for divine worship in the court-house on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A special meeting of the magistrates of this district having been convened for the purpose of taking into consideration a letter received from his Excellency the Governor, directing the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Henry Peat was convicted of uttering a forged note, purporting to be a £5 note of the Bank of Australasia, and was sentenced to be transported for life, the Judge intimating that he would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Before J. H. Crummer, Esq., J.P., and Major Last, J.P.) William Bennet, a freed man, was charged with an assault on Mr. Alexander Donaldson, of the Stockton Factory, on the 9th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HIS Excellency the Governor, in his Financial Minute presented to the Legislative Council on Thursday week, enters at some length into two or three of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is an abstract of the bill now before the Legislative Council to extend to the Courts of Requests for the districts of Bathurst, Maitland, and Berrima, certain provisions of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Circuit Court will open on Wednesday next, the 11th instant, before Mr. Justice a'Beckett. The following is the calendar of prisoners for trial, complete up to the 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last his Honor Mr. Justice a'Beckett, attended by the Attorney General, Mr. Hutchinson, Clerk of Arraigns, and Mr. C. Prout, Under Sheriff, arrived at Morpeth per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Foster was indicted for stealing a heifer, the property of Evan M'Intosh, at Dulwich, on the 8th of January last. It appeared that the heifer was running…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John Brown, alias Ambrose Provost, who had been convicted of an assanlt with intent to murder, was placed at the bar, and his Honor addressed him at some length, stating that…
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