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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
206 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 11
Thomas Long, James Wenslow, John Dillon, Thomas Hart gan, Patrick Halloran, and Dennis Coleman were indicted for unlawfully and rio[?]ously assembling and gathering together, on the 2[?] March, at Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frances Davison, arraigned on Friday under the charge of wilfully murdering a male infant, name unknown, was placed at the bar for trial. Mr. Simpson appeared for the defence; attorney Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THREATENING LANGUAGE.âAnn Barnard was charged by her husband, Samuel Barnard, with threatening to take his life. She was bound over, in the sum of £2[?], to keep the peace for 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution. The declaration stated that the defendant on the 28th March, went to Mr. E. D. Day, a Justice of the Peace, and before him falsely, malioionsly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action of trespass, in which Francis T. Rusden was plaintiff, and Joseph Onus was defendant. The declaration stated that the defendant had at divers times broken and entered upon the lands of the plaintiff,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In this case an application for special injunction [?] been made on the part of the plaintiff to restrain the defendant from outting timber. The plaintiff was a lessee of Church and School Lands for twenty-one years, the defendant a tenant under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenders will be received at this office, until twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the 30th October next, from persons willing to contract for the erection of a Court and Watch house, at Timbarra. Tenders to be endorsed, "Tender for Court and Watch House…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the general committee of the association for the suppression of cattle stealing was held on Saturday, Mr. A. Hodgson, M.L.A., in the chair, when the following draft circular, for transmission to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HARBOURING AN ABSCONDED SERVANT.—[?] [?] of Glendon Brook, was charged with illegally harbouring Amelia Roberts. Margaret Bowe deposed that Amelia Roberts entered into a written agreement with her on the 20th inst., to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE court-martials on Corporal Lavelle promise to become " celebrated causes" in the annals of New South Wales courts of justice—if indeed that title be not a misnomer in the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Robinson Smith, district registrar at Redfern, Was indicted for illegally celebrating a marriage in the presence of only one witness. It did not appear that there had been anything improper about the marriage,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Swan was indicted for unlawfully assaulting Mary Ann Newman, on board the steamer Paterson, on the 3rd August. Alary Ann Newman gave evidence to the effect that while she was lying down in her berth, on the passage to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.âJohn Garbutt, charged with having been drunk on the 6th instant, was [?] £1.âJohn Brown, for a similar offence, was admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ABUSIVE LANGUAGE.—Mary Richardson charged George Perrett with making use of abusive language towards her on the 9th instant. From the evidence it appeared that the complainant was on the day in question sitting in the house of Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a motion for a new trial for seduction, which had been tried at the Maitland Circuit Court on the 23rd of March, 1859, before Mr. Justice Milford. The defendant was sued for the seduction of the plaintiff's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion for a new trial in an action of seduction, in which the plaintiff had obtained a verdict, with £400 damages. Mr. Darvall, Q.C., Mr. Isaacs, and Mr. Norton, appeared in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20.—I sent by telegram yesterday information of a murder which had been committed at Eastern Creek, on Wednesday last, of a sawyer named Matthew Jones. immediately on the matter becoming known, Mr. White, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILFULLY PULLING DOWN A FENCE.—William Pinkerton, road overseer on the Great Northern Road, was charged with committing this offence by Captain Russell, M.P.—William Barton deposed that he was Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WINDSOR POLICE OFFICE.—Tuesday, 23rd October.—Before Messrs. James Ascough, J.P., Dr. Day, J.P., J. B. Johnston, J.P., and Edward Powell, J.P. MURDER OF JONES.—Joses Xavier Pelreira was again brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Windoyer moved for the release of the above estate from sequestration. The facts, as shown by affidavit, on which he thus moved, were these: A meeting of creditors in this estate had been duly called by advertisement in the Government…
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