The Murder on the Castlereagh River
Some short time since we copi[?]d from the Bathurst Free Press, a brief notice of the reception in Bathurst gaol of a woman named Boddy, charged with the murder of her husband,…
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Courts & crime, 1853
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Maitland Circuit Court
This Court commences on Monday, the 7th March. The list of prisoners in gaol awaiting trial is small, only eight, but it is understood that a larger number are out on bail, waiting…
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This court opened on Monday, 7th March, before his Honor Mr. Justice Therry. A Carter, Esq., of[?]iciated as Clerk of Arraigns, and Major Crummer, P.M., as Deputy Sheriff…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Therry.) Wednesday, March 9, 1853. Cutting and Wounding
Morris and Johnny Wickity Wee, aboriginals, were indicted for cutting and wounding James Ker Panton, at Howe's Valley, on the 22nd November, 1852, with intent to do bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Therry.) Saturday, March 12, 1853. Cattle Stealing
John M'Millan was indicted for stealing six heifers and six calves, the property of John M'Geachie, at Pedlar's Yard, on the 30th June, 1852…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Circuit Court. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Therry.) Monday, March 14, 1853. Fraudulent Insolvency
Philip Henry M'Grane, convicted on Friday of fraudulent insolvency, was brought up for sentence. Mr. Purefoy moved that the defendant be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Gazette. Tuesday, 15Th March, 1853. Police Districts
Certain amendments having become necessary in the boundaries of the [?] districts, his Excellency the Governor-General is pleased to direct the publication of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney News. Supreme Court.—monday, March 14Th. (From the Sydney Morning Herald) Nisi Prius Sittings. (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson and a jury of four.) NICHOLSON V. BROWN
This was an action for breach of contract, the plaintiff being a miller, residing at Maitland, and the defendant being the captain of the ship Templar. The declaration set out a contract…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. (From the Empire, March 24.) Wednesday, March 23. (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson and a jury of four.) WHYTE V. MAILLER
This was an action of assumpsit, upon a special contract of agency. The declaration stated, a delivery by plaintiff to defendant of large quantities of bay, cheese, and potatoes,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Quarter Sessions. Wednesday April 13, 1853. [Before the Chairman, P. Green, Esq., J.P., B. Russell, Esq., J.P., and A. Lang., Esq., J. P.,) Stealing Boots
James Hayes was indicted for stealing one pair of boots, the property of John Gillies, at Maitland, on the 13th February, 1853. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wilful Murder. (From the Herald, April 15)
The inquiry which was opened before the coroner and a jury of thirteen on Thursday, the 6th instant, at the central police office, touching the death of Patrick Spurgeon, a private of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. (From the Herald, April 16.) Friday, April 15. Banco sittings.—Before the full court. the Queen V. STANDRIN
This was a special case from the Maitland Quarter Sessions of October last. The prisoner had been tried for embezzlement, upon an information containing three counts, each charging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney News. Supreme Court. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.) Sittings in Banco. Monday, April 18, 1853. (Before the full Court.) WHYTE V. MAILLER
This was an action of assumpsit on a special contract of agency. The contract averred was a special one on the part of the defendant to sell at Melbourne a quantity of hay, cheese,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney News. Supreme Court.—monday, April 25, 1853. BANCO SITTINGS.—[Bef[?]re the Full Court.] (From the Herald.) the Queen on the Psosecution of Ogg and Others V. M'GRANE
This was a motion for a new trial. The defondant had been convicted at the Maitland Assizes, before Mr. Justice Therry, under one count of an information, charging him upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court.—may 4, 1853. Banco Sittings. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.) Before the full Court. the Queen V. COLLINS
This was a special case from the Maitland Quarter Sessions, partially argued on a previous day, and adjourned in order to procure a copy of the Chairman's notes. The questions at issue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Police Case. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
SIR—You will oblige me by publishing the following case. I left Newcastle on Tuesday morning for Maitland, leaving everything quiet and regular. On my return Mrs. Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supreme Court.—wednesday, May 11. Sittings in Ranco. (Before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Dickinson.) (From the Empire, May 13.) in Re Taper
In this case a rule had been obtained, calling upon Messrs. Thomas Bell and Henry Moring, Justices of the Peace, to show cause why a prohibition should not issue to restrain the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. (From the Empire, June 27.) (Before Mr. Justice Therry, and (by consent) a jury of three.) NOWLAK v EALES
This was an action of tresspass for breaking and entering a run belonging to the plaintiff called Walhalla, in the Liverpool Plains district. There was special damage claimed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supreme Court.—wednesday, June 29. (From the Empire.) (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson, and a jury of four.) CHRISTIAN v. JOSEPH
This was an action for deceit and false representation of a schooner called the Frederick Griffiths, sold by defendant to plaintiff as sound and seaworthy, but which proved to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supreme Court.—monday, July 4, 1853. (Abridged from the Empire.) Before Mr. Justice Dickinson and a mixed jury of twelve WILLIS V. BYRNES
This was an action on the case for libel The defamation charged by the declaration was contained in a letter from the defendant to the Colonial Secretary, published in the Sydney…
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