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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
126 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 7
In the case of John F. Hufhes and John Hudhes, committed by the Maitland Bench on a charge of cattle stealing, Mr. Chambers, who, with Mr. O'Meagher, appeared for the defence, made application on affidavit for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charles Bratt was charged with having stolen a bank cheque of the value of £8 6s. 11d. at Warwick, on the 2nd March, the property of Thomas Rummery. The cheque was found in his possession. Guilty; twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Michael Doran was indicated for stealing a horse, the property of James Lyall, at the Allyn River, on the 21st April. Under a second count, he was indicted for feloniously receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This was a motion, upon leave reserved, for a change of verdiot. The action, which was one of ejectment, had been tried at Maitland, before Mr. Justice Therry, and a verdict returned for the defendant. Leave had, however, been reserved for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The contractor for furnishing supplies of provisions and other articles. In the Police District of Maitland, having according to agreement given three months' notice, that his contract will terminate on the 30th June next, tenders will be received at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a motion for now trial of a squatting action wherein the plaintiff had succeeded. The Attorney General, the Solicitor General, and Mr. Isaacs, supported the motion, and Mr. Wise and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Geo. Ma[?] for the opportunity of publishing the following [?] [?] Colonial Secretary's Office,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stephen Allen was indicted for feloniously wounding Samuel [?], with Intent to kill him. On two other counts be was charged with the minor offences of wounding with intent to disable, and to do grevious bodily harm. Allan was cook…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hugh M'Neal was indicted for having feloniously ravished Johanna O'Leary. The girl O'Leary aged about fifteen or sixteen, was steplaughter to a shepherd reskling near Bombala. According to her statement she was looking after a lock of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of the Rev. Samuel Smith and Sarah Smith, his wife, for the murderous attack on a Mr. Leech, of Croydon, near the Yate station on the Midland Railway, look place before Mr. Hiron Channell and a special jury,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Champion was indicted for having embezzled certain sums of money received by him by virtue of his employment as clerk to Messrs. Tooth and Co., whose property the money was. Champion had been employed by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NORTHUNBERLAND: 4 country lots, parish of Vere, at and near the road from Wollombi to Singleton, adjoining and lying to the south of D. M'Donald's 634 acres; contaning from 48 acres 1 rood to 97 acres 2 rood, 3 exclusively of a road 1 chain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SITTINGS FOR THE TRIAL OF CAUSES.—JURY COURT. (Before the Chief Justice and a special jury of twelve.) EALES V. M;DOUGALL. The trial of this cause again occupied the whole day, without…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case was again continued the whole day, without terminating. It will doubtless, however, be concluded to-day. BANCO COURT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion for new trial of an action for breach of contract (tried at the September sittings in Maitland) wherein the [?]fendant had obtained a verdict The Attorney-General and Mr Isaacs apperared in support of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an application by rule nisi for a criminal information against the defendant, for a libel against the plaintiff, contained in a letter which he (defendant) had caused to be published in the Armidale Express, and was also addressed to the Bench of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been requested by the Clerk of Petty Sessions to publish the following letters received by him from the Chief Justice:- "Department of Land and Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr Justice Therry delivered the judgment of the Court in this case. The application was one for a new trial, upon the ground that the verdict was against evidence, which the Court refused. His Honor's Judgment consisted of an analysis of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Edmund Long, Daniel Long, and John Tong, were placed at the bar, charged with assaulting Michael Manogue on the fith of August, 1857. Michael Manogue deposed that on the 6th of August,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest on the body of the unfortunate chief officer of the Oliver Jordan, Mr. William A. Alden, whose death we mentioned in our last issue as having been caused by a knife wound in the neck, received on board during Friday last, was held on…
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