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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
118 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 6
The September sittings of this court commenced on the 15th instant before Mr. Justice Milford. Mr. Pring seting as Crown Prosecutor. Robert Austin was indicted for having, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Jenkins was indicted for stealing 50 cattle, the property of James Smith. Not guilty; discharged. Henry Carrol was indicted for having violated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Richard Middleton was charged with having robbed Anne West with fire-[?], at Mittagong, stealing a watch, a pair of boots, and £7 in money. The prisoner, with a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dick, otherwise called Basket, otherwise called Bitly, an aboriginal, was indicted for committing a rape on Mary Jane Brooker, at Eagle Farm, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Samuel Hyland was indicted for conspiring to cheat and defraud Joseph Kosminski, at the Castlereagh River. The prosecutor was a Pole, who,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →George Reid was indicted for that he, on the 18th of March, 1856, at the Billabong, did feloniously and unlawfully abuse one Martha Smith, an infant under the age of ten years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Smith was charged with having, at Sydney, on tbe 12th September last, burglariously entered the house of Henry Hough, of Sussex-street and stolen property therefrom. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A most brutal aad cold-blooded murder was perpetrated on Monday evening last, on the turnpike road between Derby aad Nottingham, in the parish of Spondon, about two and a half…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Joseph Hupper was indicted for the manslaughter of Daniel Murphy, on the 14th August. It oppenred from the evidence that on the day named the prisoner, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →John Frederick Haslam, who pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery, and to a obarge of obtaining money under false pretences, was sentenced for the first offence to two years' hard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Jackson was charged with having unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously wounded Henry Davis. The origin of the affair was a quarrel about some, liquor in a public house,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alexander J. Evelyn was brought before the Central Police Court by Inspector Brown, who deposed that yesterday be apprehended him in virtue of a warrant handed to him for that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action by an endorsee against the indorser of a promissory note for £100. The defendant pleaded that there was not dus notice of dishonour of the note…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We have been favoured by a gentleman with a sight of the plan of this proposed building. The plan shewn to us is not, we believe, as yet finally accepted, neither is the ground on which the building is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The people of West Maitland are under obligations to Mr. Gorrick, for having forcibly called attention to the wretched hole, mis-called a lock-up,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many of our readers will doubtless recollect the extraordinary conduct of Sarah Shephard, the wife of John Shephard, of Kilbuster, near Armidale, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Justice Dickinson delivered the judgment of the Court in this case, as follows:- The declaration in this case stated that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Whereas it is expedient to increase the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion for a now trial in an action for trespass on a squatting run, wherein the plaintiff had obtained a verdict, with twenty pounds damages…
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