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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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We find the following case of murder reported in the Herald's Bathurst Circuit Court proceedings. The trial took place on Monday last, before Mr. Justice Dickinson. Charles Augustus Wollenwebber was charged with the wilful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Beresford was indicted for feloniously stealing, taking, and leading away one gelding, the property of Charles Atkinson, at Maitland, on the 11th March. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. He was undefended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The thanks of the public, as well as of the suitors interested, are due to Chief Justice Sir Alfred Stephen, for his determination to remain in Maitland till the whole of the civil causes are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before the Chief Justice and a special jury of four.) This was an action of debt, in which Patrick Walsh was plaintiff and William Giles defendant. The declaration stated that the moneys ought to be recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This case was resumed, and the following additional witnesses were called for the plaintiff in reply: Thomas McDonald, Daniel Sutherland, Jeremiah Cary, William Eckford, Thomas McKeown, Robert Geolan, William…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Circuit Court was oponed before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson. Owen Fox was indicted, for uttering a forged bank cheque, at Cowra, on the 15th of October last. Guilty;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before the Chief Justice, and a special jury of four.) In this action Engene Kenny was plaintiff, and the Australasian Steam Navigation Company were defendants. The declaration stated that the defendants were common…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In this action Richard Maher was plaintiff, and Ellen Molloy defendant. The declaration stated that the plaintiff sued the defendant as executrix of the will of Thomas Molloy, for the carriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →His Honor gave judgment in this case as follows:- This is a claim filed to compel the specific performance of a contract by the purchaser of land against the vendors. The sale was by auction, in May, 1854; a large estate, called…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GENTLEMEN—Here we are on the 1st of April, without a police magistrate in Tamworth,in fact, without any magistrate nearer than Goonoo Goonoo. Such neglect, to say the least, is very discrediable to our "popular"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Michael Ryan, alias Big Mick, was charged with the wilful murder of John Keanane, alias Connaught Jack, on the 19th May, 1857, at Coolac. It appeared that the deceased had in some way irritated the prisoner, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most barbarous and deliberate murders that have been recorded in the criminal annals of the connty of Durham, occurred in the quiet village of Crook, on the night of the 28th November. This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Fitzgerald and Edward Goodman, private soldiers of the 77th Regiment[?] were indicted for stealing from the person of George Kirkpatrick a watch, and other articles, and money to the amount of £6[?]. Kirkpatrick had left the Empire office at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Matthews was indicted for having, at Sydney, on the 1st. April, 1857, stolen three planes, the property of Edward Lane. The prisoner was a storekeeper in the service of Mr. Lane. Not guilty; remanded to take his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action to set aside an injunction restraining the Sheriff from paying over certain moneys, the proceeds of the sale of the ship Princess Alice, on the ground that the sailors had a claim upon the ship for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This case, which stood over from the last general gaol delivery, was re-opened yesterday morning, before Mr. Justice Therry. The prisoner, Joseph Wilkes, was indicted for the murder of his son, William Wilkes, about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An enquiry was held to day by Mr. De Mestre, the coroner, Dr. Mennos being too ill to attend, and I give, in a narrative form, the substance of the depositions The victim—Fotheringham Frazer, was an old soldier, about…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IT appears to us that Mr. Chambers has, on the face of our report, the best of the magistrates in the very noisy argument at the Court-house, East Maitland, on Tuesday. It may or may…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A meeting of magistrates waa contened by advertisement to be held at the Court House, East Maitland, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday last, for the purpose of determining the bouudnry between Morpeth and East…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This was a proceeding by rule nisi calling upon the respondent to snow cause why the complainant should not be at liberty to redeem or to re-purchase certain property mentioned in an agreement which was under seal,…
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