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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
15 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
THE fourth grievance treated of in the Report on General Grievances is connected with the police and gaols of the colony; and as this is a question which directly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Circuit Court will open on Wednesday next, the 12th instant, before his Honor the Chief Justice. The following is the calendar of prisoners for trial up to the 5th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Honor took his seat on the bench at twelve o'clock, and the list of jurors having been called over, the following gentlemen were fined for non-attendance:—David Brown, storekeeper,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Honor took his seat on the bench shortly after nine o'clock. OBTAINING GOODS ON FALSE PRETENCES. Henry Thompson, who had pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last an inquisition was held, before John S. Parker, Esq., coroner, at the Maitland Inn, on the body of Susannah Lynch, who had been found dead that morning in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Cowley, Thomas Short, and John Brierley, were indicted for assaulting one Joseph Lewis, and putting him in bodily fear, and stealing from his person a cheque for £2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A clerical error having occurred in the preambles to the descriptions of the police districts of Wellington and Cassilis, as laid down in the notice from this office, dated the 15th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The metropolis has again been thrown into a state of consternation by another diabolical murder. It appears that for some weeks a man and a girl of 14 or 15 years of age were living…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning (Thursday) hundreds of individuals who had been disappointed of getting a view of John Ahern, the supposed murderer, on his arrival by the steamer from Maitland on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN—Business in this line for the last fortnight seems to be looking up. Within that time no fewer than three cases have been disposed of, an amount of business quite…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. John Rorke, of Minmi, appeared on the information of Mr. Samuel Holt, Inspector of Distilleries, charged with having an illicit still on the 7th day of April last. Mr. Parker…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Circuit Court will open on Wednesday next, the 10th instant, before Mr. Justice Dickinson. The following are the prisoners who have been warned for trial up to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This court opened on Wednesday last, the 10th instant. His Honor arrived at Morpeth on Tuesday morning by the steamer, where he was received by a number of gentlemen, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Circuit Court, adjourned from Friday, 12th instant, sat again this morning, for the trial of civil causes. WOLFE V. STARK…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. John Neale, brewer, of West Maitland, appeared before the bench to answer the charge of carrying on the business of a brewer without having his name and premises duly registered,…
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