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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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His Excellency the Governor General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to appoint James Smith, Esq. (Police Magistrate at Soone) to be Visiting Justice of the gaol at Muswellbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in a case where a decree by the Primary Judge had been sustained, on appeal, by the full Court. Mr. Gordon appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Blake for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HORSE STEALING.âThe bench, after hearing evidence for the greater part of the day against two persons, on this charge, remanded the case. A report will be given on the decision of the bench being pronounced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an appeal from the Metropolitan District which had been partially gone into on a previous day. It was an action for damage said to have been sustained by a schooner belonging to the plaintiff (the Liberty)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN—There is no crime so general, and which with ordinary caution can be committed with so much impunity, in this colony, as horse and cattle stealing. Those who have access to the "Reports of Crime" or this colony and Victoria are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an adjourned application for the release of the above estate from squestration, upon the ground that all the creditors had been paid; or that the money for paymentof such of them as had of been paid would be lodged in the Court. This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →STEALING A HORSE, SADDLE, AND BBIDLE.âDaniel Harvey stood charged with having stolen a horse, saddle, and bridle, on Christmas Day, from the door of Mr. Boyle's public-house, at Holkham, near Scone, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Moreton Bay Courier, commenting on the recent barbarous onslaught by a native police detachment, under a Mr. Wheeler, on a black camp at Dugandan, when two persons were killed by them and four injured, and three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Tuesday, Jan. 1, an inquest was convened at the Royal Hotel, Malop-street, before Dr. Foster Shaw, coroner for the district, upon view of the body of Captain Ralph Fenwick, of the sohooner Juliet, then lying dead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE old problem, of the most effectual and yet most Christian mode of dealing with the "untutored savage," appears, from the recent news from Queensland, and the comments in another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.âMichael Hayes was fined £1 for having been drunk on Christmas Day.âJohn Martin having been confined in the look-up for twenty-four hours for a similar offence committed on the 21st ultimo,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir John Diokinson delivered judgment in this case as follows:- This was an action of ejectment tried before me at Maitland, on the 30th March, 1860…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—Thomas Cullen was charged with having been drunk on the 8th instant. Having been detained in the lock-up for 24 hours, he was discharged. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Catherine Baker, in custody, stood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A most strocious and diabolical murder was committed on Sunday, the 20th Instant, at Warkworth, Cookfighter's Creek, the victim being a woman named Frances Hunt Sherlock. The perpetrator of the crime was the supposed paramour of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.—Joseph Wearin summoned Edmond Doyle, of Jerry's Plains, for the sam of £16 17s. 9d., wages due. It appeared that the complainant had hired in Sydney to serve the defendant as a shepherd for twelve months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Circuit Court of Mecklenberg county. United States, Charles Hudson was tried for the murder of his slave woman, Jane, convicted of murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for 18 years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Day was indicted for feloniously and wilfully killing and slaying James Healds, on the 20th December. This was the case of the man at Cockatoo Island, who, in illustrating a conversation about the spears of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir William Manning, on the part of the official assignee, moved, upon notice, for an order to reseind or vary a decree which had been drawn up for the insolvent, and signed by the Chief Commissioner, relative to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.—Ducloz (a Frenchman) summoned Mr. Ballard, superintendant of the Great Northern Railway Works, for £6 6s., balance of wages due to him. An interpreter having been sworn,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Crawford and Antonio Charles were indicted for wilfully murdering one Caleel, a Lascar sailor, on the high seas, on board the British ship Norna, on the 17th December. The prisoners, it appeared from the evidence,…
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