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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
118 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 6
This Court opened on the 17th March, before his Honor the Chief Justice. Mr. Wise, in the absence of the Attorney-General, appeared as Public Prosecutor. Thomas Locker was charged with stealing a coat, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Doyle was indicted for stealing a horse, the property of Robert Hibberson, at Albury, on the 31st March, 1855. Not guilty; discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Robert Philips was indicted for stealing, at the Cross Roads, on the 12th February, one horse, the property of Elizabeth Throsby. It appeared that the horse had been tied to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Edward Lloyd was indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling house of James Dixon, jeweller, King-street, Sydney, on the 3rd April. On the night stated, Mr. Dixon was awoke by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Henry Tollen was indicted for having violated the person of Sarah Walker, at North Richmond, on the 2nd February last. The peculiarity in this case was that the female…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The trial of Beer, for abortion, occupied the whole of the day, and was not concluded at the rising of the court. The jury were strictly ordered not to separate. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frederick Beer was indicted for having, on the 10th day of February, feloniously and unlawfully administered, or caused to be administered, to Phillis Browne, a large quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Welsh, a detective officer of the Sydney police force, appeared yesterday upon a summons at the instance of George Shying, for having committed an assault upon him on the night of Saturday, the 29th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday and Saturday, the 10th and 11th of January, a coroner's inquest was held on the exhumed body of Mrs. Palmer, wife of the surgeon accused of poisoning Mr. Cook and others…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was a motion for new trial of an action upon a contract tried at the last Maitland Circuit Court, in which plaintiff had obtained a verdict for £55…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion for new trial of an action for wages, tried at the last Maitland Circuit Court, in which the plaintiff had obtained a verdict for the amount claimed —£21 3s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alexander N'Donald was indicted for stealing a sliver watch, the property of Adam Fenwick, at Morpeth, on the [?]9th of September, 1[?]. Mr. Pring appeared for the defence; attorney, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an application by rule ni[?] for a criminal information against Edward Flood, Esq., M.P., for a libel against the Commissioners of the City of Sydney, in their corporate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon the three men, Samuel Weir, Goorge Barnett, and Thomas Smith, were further brought up at the gaol on several charges of the most serious nature, before C. P…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for the value of a horse said to have been entrusted to the company as common carriers, for delivery at Morpeth, and to have been lost by neglect, The defendants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before Mr. Justice Dickinson, and a special jury of twelve. DUTTON V. GAGGIN. This was an action against a magistrate for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the evening of the 17th February two police constables visited a house in Linton-street, Islington, kept by Mr. and Mrs. Somner, the former 29 years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Moses Henry was indicted for stealing some rum, gin, and tobacco. It appeared that prisoner had been sent by Mr. Coxen, a grazier, at Dogwood Creek, to fetch supplies to his station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Henry Martin Larkins pleaded guilty to two informations, charging him with forging and uttering bank cheques. Remanded for sentence. Amos Edgar was indioted for having violated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Manning informed the Court that he had received a commission as Attorney General of the colony from his Excellency the Governor General, that a similar commission had been…
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