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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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His Honor delivered the following judgment in this case. He said—"This was an action brought to recover the sum of £103, amount of costsincurred in an action for goods sold and delivered against one David Browne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was action for slander. The trial commenced on Monday, and was now resumed and concluded. Three distinct slanders were set out in the declaration. Those charged in the first and second counts were imputations against the chastity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have before mentioned that the trial of the cause was on Wednesday suddenly interfered with by reasons of the nonappearance of the plaintiff, and to give an opportunity for finding him, the further hearing had been postponed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This court commences on Monday next, before h[?] Honor the Chief Justice. It is uncertain whether Harry, the aboriginal murderer, can be committed for trial in time for the circuit, but without his case the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Christopher Ford was charged by Robert Ford with the abduction of Jane P[?]nl Ford, an interesting looking girl, the daughter of prosecutor. The following evidence was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This Court opened yesterday morning, before his Honor the Chief Justice; Mr, Martin, Q.C, conducting the prosecutions for the Grown. The other barristers present were Mr. Faiioett, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Shepherd, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Green, John Ridley, and Francis Conway, convicted on Monday of horse-stealing, were sentenced to five years hard labour on the roads or other public works of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Horrigan was indicted for unlawfully assaulting Mary Robinson, at Hinton, on the 19th December, [?], with intent, violently, and against her will, to ravish her. Under a second count he was charged with inflicting upon her grievous bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Benjamin White was indicted for the commission of wilful and corrupt perjury. The indictment, which was of considerable length, set forth that, on the 23rd March 1859, at the civil sittings of the Maitland Circuit…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All the new existing general rules, made in the insolvency jurisdiction of this court, under the Act 5 Victoria, No. 17, s. 103, or otherwise (except as to the days appointed for the sitting of the court), shall on the 17th day of September instant, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daniel Henry was indicted for unlawfully assaulting Catherine Ferguson, at West Maitland, on the 6th August, with intent to ravish her; under a second count he was charged with inflicting upon her grievous bodily injury; and under a third…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daniel Harvey, a prisoner committed on two chargesâthe one of horse stealing, the other of stealing a saddleâwas placed in the dock. Mr. Martin read a letter which the prisoner had written to the Attorney General, from which it appeared that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Harry, the aboriginal, was indicted for feloniously, wilfully, and of his [?] aforethought, killing and murdering Mary M[?], at Half's Creek, on the 16th July. The prisoner (a man of rather slight build, about the middle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]—Sandy (an aboriginal of robust and gigantia proportions) was charged by Constable M'Goldrick with assaulting him whilst in the execution of his duty. From the constable's evidence it appeared that on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The case of Ah Chong was again referred to by Mr. Martin. It appeared that the prisoner had been committed on the 28th June for trial at the Tamworth Quarter Sessions, on a charge of felonious wounding with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—Alfred Brees was fined £1 or seven days' imprisonment, for having been drunk on the 15th instant. OBSCENE LANGAUAGE.—John Coster was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chief Commissioner reported that William Attkins having applied for a certificate, and having failed to attend (he the Chief Commissioner) after an adjournment for such attendance, had decided upon various grounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dixie Chapman was in licted for unlawfully and wilfully assisting Thomas Whitehouse to marry [?] Jane Potter at Paterson, on the 22nd July, without her father's written consent having been previously obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WEDNEDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, TO FRIDAY, SEPT. Sept. 20, 1861. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four.) RIGNEY V. DANGAR. This action was for trespass on a squatting run. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOUSE BREAKING.—George Bateman, on remand, was charged with breaking into the dwelling-house of Alice Grey. Constable M'Morrow deposed that he took the defendant in charge between twelve and one o'clock on…
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