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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
206 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 11
Jim Crow, an aboriginal, was indicted for the commission of a rape upon the person of Jane Delanthy, at Thalaba, on the 21th January, 1860. Mr. Windeyer appeared for the defence; attorney Mr. Mullen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Court, after hearing Mr. Stephen for the appellant, and Mr. [?]tin, Q.C., for the respondent, granted leave to appeal to th[?]vy Council, but directed that the plaintiff should, in the [?], recover the fruits of his judgment, giving security…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[We continue, from our supplement, the trial of John Jones, [?]or the murder of Rebecca Bailey—one of the prisoners charged, John Ashworth, having been acquitted at the close of the case for the Crown, as therein reported.]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John Jones and John Ashworth were indicted for feloniously, wilfully, and of malice aforethought killing and murdering Rebecca Bailey, at West Maitland, on the 18th December, 1859. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. They were defended by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This case, commenced on Friday, was resumed. The action was one of assumpsit, wherein the plaintiff claimed damages for breach of agreement, in not delivering to the plaintiff certain stations called Keira and Derra, with sheep, stores, &c.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This case was resumed. The outline of it, as stated for the plaintiff, was, in brief, as follows:—In March, 1859, the plaintiff sent 6475 sheep from one of his stations to the Retreat; 6460 arrived there, and were in good health and sound. They were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Corban appeared before their worships, charged by Constable Spratt with using obscene language. From the evidence adduced it appeared that between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday night last the constable heard detendant, when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Batharst Circuit Court, on the 21st instant before Mr. Justice Milford, James N[?] was charged with having, on the 21st February, at C[?] murdered one Mary Moore. The prisoner pleaded not gullty, and was delended by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for breach of agreement for sala and delivery of cattle. Louis Doyle was plaintiff, and James Glass defendant. The declaration set forth that the defendant had agreed to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This action—upon a fire insurance policy—was settled, the defendants agreeing to pay a sum of £2250, and the plaintiff accepting that amount in place of his original claim, which was for a larger sum…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—John Lawes was fined 20s., or 24 hours imprisonment, for having been drunk on the 26th instant. IMPOUNDING ACT.—Cornolius M'Cosker charged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This case was resumed. This was an action of trespass, in which Elijau Hart was plaintiff, and John Broderick defendant. The declaration stated that the defendant had broken and entered on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sittings of the Goulburn Circuit Court commenced on Monday, the 26th, before his Honor Mr. Justice Wi[?] It is the first time his Honor has been on circuit since his appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held at the Race Horse inn, West Maitland, by Dr. M'Cariney, on Monday afternoon, on the body of an infant born on the 11th of March, in Durham-street, and found in a well about noon on Monday. France Davidson, alias…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Malcolm Melville Macdonald was on Saturdays brought before the bench by Chief Inspector Higgims, who on Friday apprehended him—a warrant for that purposes having been granted on a charge of having assaulted the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was one case before their worships, the Hon. Joseph Dopker, and James Smith, Esq., Police Magistrate, to-day, wherein a man and his wife were prohibited, for 12 months, from being served with [?] liquors, the [?] stating at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Goodson, an old man of sixty, was indicted for the murder of Mary Goodson, at Ryde, on the 11th March. It appeared from the evidence that on the morning in question, Goodson was drunk, and asked a boy named Hatton to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS —Michsel Ryan, for having been drunk on the 7t[?] instant, was fined £1. FURIOUS RIDING.—Herbert Hamilton was charged with riding furiously through George-street, Singleton, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Thursday it was reported in town that a murder had been committed the previous day, near the Ravensfield quarry, in the bush off the Wollombi road. On enquiry it proved to be too true. A man named John Barton was on his way to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several parties were, this morning, summoned by the Chief Constable for allowing their pigs to stray upon the public street; but as these were the first cases under the Act being put in force, the bench dismissed them upon payment of court costs…
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