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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
247 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 13
Having reported some few days since the return to Cockatoo Islaud of fourteen of the refractory prisoners who had seen the f[?]lly of perservering in their behavious and the determinastion of the authorities to uphold the law, we then stated that thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This case was resumed this morning. The chief points of the evidence On behalf of the plaintiff tended to show that no contract had been entered into between the parties—whereas, on behalt of the defendants, it was contended that a legal contract had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This case was resumed. His Honor stated that he had considered the application of the learned counsel for a nonsuit, and had come to the conclusion that there were sufficient grounds in the evidence to let the case go…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Honor delivered judgment in these cases; In the first suit, for the plaintiff, for £89 11s. 3d; and in the second case for the defendant. C[?]AM V. RODD…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John O'Brien was charged (upon suspicion) by [?]. Worrard, of the Dartbrook, with taking away a mare, saddle, and bridle, her property. From the evidence it appeared that on Wednesday previous Mrs. Worrard was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In compliance with an advertisement, inviting the attendance of "all those favourable to the establishment of an association for the suppression and prevention of cattle stealing, on a permanent basis," a public meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.—Joseph Bolen, an aboriginal, charged with having been drunk on the 22nd May, was fined £1, —John M'Mullen, for a similar offence, committed on the 27th May, was fined 5s.—William Prescott was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday the June Gaol Delivery was opened at Darlinghurst, by his Honor Mr. Justice Milford, with a calendar of twenty-five cases; the gravest offences comprised in the indictments being robbery with arms, forgery,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an action for libel. The damages were laid at £1000. The plaintiff is the present Mayor of the Shoalhaven municipality; the defendants are the proprietors, printers, and publishers of the Illawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →STABBING WITH A KNIFE.—James O'Brien, ploughman in the employ of John Robertson, Esq., Yarrundi, appeared to answer the charge of stabbing one Thomas Ellis, in the same employ, on Tuesday morning last, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Jones was indicted for the commission of a rape upon a girl named Sarah Thompson, at Cabramatta, in April. It appeared from the evidence that the girl, who was eleven or twelve years of age, had-been living…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Attkins was arraigned for that he, being an uncertificated insolvent, did, on the 12th day of March last, unlawfully and wilfully remove himself out of the insolvency jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Kelly, Henry Collins, and Frederick Heron stood indicted for that they did, on the 20th February, 1861, at [?]ambing Flat, feloniously and unlawfully assault and wound, with intent to kill and murder, one Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Farlow was arraigned on a charge of horse stealing; a second count charged him with receiving the horse, the property of James Frazer. Mr. Butler prosecuted, and Mr. Windeyer defended, the prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Michael Kerr, a ticket-of-leave holder for the district of Soone, appeared at the instance of Charles Thorpe, chief constable of Murrurundi, to answer a charge of having stolen property in his possession. From the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CASE OF AFFILIATION—LAWRENCE V. LITTLE.—This most extraordinary case, which had been postponed for 14 days, was again gone into—the Court being densely crowded, and the bench sitting until after 7 p.m—when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a reference from Chambers by Mr. Justice Milford on a question of costs. The action was one for trespass, tried before his Honor on circuit, in which but 40s. damages had been awarded. It had been proved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →APPLICATION FOR A QUE WARRANTO [?] DEVE[?] This was an application for a writ in the nature of a que warranta on behalf of John Walter Devereux, calling on John, James Brown to show by what warrant he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Court delivered judgment in this case. It was an action of trespass. The plaintiff's possession and the defendant's entranoe on the land were proved. The defendant not appearing, judgment went by default, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a demurrer to a declaration in an action for illegal distress. The distress declared upon, as illegal was the Assessment on Cattle and Sheep Aot of 1858, and the question involved was, whether the statute was…
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