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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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The court gave judgment on the new trial motion herein, which was argued in the early part of the present term. It was an action of trespass on lands claimed to be the property…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Gill was indicted for stealing one bale of leather, and ten pieces leather, the property of James Cross, at Maitland, on the 22nd November, 1851…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Certain amendments having become necessary in the boundaries of the undermentioned police districts, his Excellency the Governor General is pleased to direct the publication of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We extract from the Bathurst Free Fres[?] of the 14th instant the following account of the successive murders of three men by a young exile named Thomas Wilmore. The substance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Kean alias James Wilson was indicted for forging and uttering a cheque for £170, at Sydney, on the 28th November, purpo[?]ting to be a cheque drawn by John Tindall on the Bank[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Skinner was indicted for having stolen a quantity of stays, gloves, and hosiery, of the value of £40, the property of Messrs. Rossiter and Lazarus, drapers. He was found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This Court commences on Monday, the 1st March. The following is a list of the persons for trial, one only being on bail, but probably others are out on bail awaiting trial:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This court opened on Monday, 9th instant, before Mr. Justice Therry. UTTERING A FORGED ORDER. Thomas Wilson was indicted for uttering a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint John Murray, Esq., to be Lieutenant of the fourth division of Native Police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This court opened on Thursday, the 19th inst., before Mr. Justice Dickinson. MURDER. Thomas Wilmore was indicted for the wilful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Peisley was indicted for stealing two horses, the property of Thomas Weavers, on the 12th May, 1851. Not guilty; remanded, but subsequently discharged on his own…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Wilmore was indicted for the wilful murder of Philip Alger, in the district of Wellington, on the 20th November, 1851, by shooting him in the belly with a pistol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Alexander was indicted for stealing a cow, at Mount Macquarie, on the 6th December, 1851. Guilty; four years on the roads. HORSE STEALING…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This Court opened on Monday, before his Honor the Chief Justice. The barristers present were the Solicitor General, who prosecuted for the crown; and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Patrick M'Namara was indicted for the wilful murder of Rose M[?]Namara, at Aberglaslyn, on the 2nd March, 1851, by striking and thrusting at her with a knife, and thereby inflicting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →David M'Lean was indicted for uttering a forged order for £8 11s. 3d., purporting to be drawn by C. E. Doyle on B. Doyle, Esq., Midlorn, Maitland, and dated Killarney, 10th March,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for trespass, the plaintiff being John Single and the defendant John Allen. The declaration stated that on the January, 1851, the defendant broke into a close of the plaintiff's,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for slander. The delaration stated that on the 1st January, 1851, the fendant maliciously uttered slanderous words respecting the plaintiff, as follows: "That…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an action of ejectment brought on a demise of Samuel Lennox Adair, dated June, 1842, to recover possession of 100 acres of land at the junction of the Paterson and Allyn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Mr. John Proctor to be Chief Constable at Wellingrove. CONDITIONAL PARDONS…
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