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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
201 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 11
Sir William Manning, Q.C., moved the admission, as an attorney, solicitor, and prootor, of Mr. Albert Whitty Simpson, who had served the necessary period of clerkship partly under Mr. Minter, of Maitland, and partly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Beechworth, on Friday, before the Chief Justice, Julian Cross, David Gedge, and Elizabeth Scott, were indicted for having, on the 11th April last, feloniously and with malice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—"A little pot and soon hot," says Grumio; and so it is with the little town of Raymond Terrace, or some of the inhabitants [?]hereof. The pot has come to the boil, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The suicide which lately took place at the monastery of the Chartreux of Vaudicre has given publicity to a most extraordinary talc, which might have served as foundation to many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—I crave space to reply to "Lex," whose effusion disgraces tbe Mercury of to-day. I say disgraces, for what right has an outsider, as "Lex" clearly is, to insult 99 out of 100 of the inhabitants of even so little a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for goods sold and delivered, to which defendant had pleaded that he was "never indebted." Mr. Darvall. Q.C., and Mr. Mcymott appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Darley for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TIME is passing, and we are still without tidings of the capture of our leading band of bushranger. It is clear that the work is not to be done in a day, even by the special forces…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANT ACT.—Ruth Dolphin, for a breach of this Act, by being an habitual drunkard, was convicted and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in Singleton gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for libel by Mr. John Scott, surgeon, of Maitland, against Messrs. William Hanson and Samuel Bennett, proprietors of the Empire Sydney daily newspaper, for alleged libels in that journal. Pleas,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carr's Plains will for many a long year be notorious as the tragic scene of one of the most horrible murders that ever stained, our colonial records of orime. The bodies of two young men,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FORGERY—Thomas Long, in custody, was brought before the bench on this charge.— Patrick Cullen deposed: I am an innkeeper, residing in Singleton; on Wednesday or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trial of this case lasted without being concluded. (Before Mr. Justice Wise any a jury of four.) RICHARDS V. WHITFORD. This was an notion for trespass on a station called…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FORGERY.—Thomas Long, on remand, was again brought before the bench on this charge. Senior-sergeant Thorpe deposed: On the 12th instant I was in the lockup when prisoner was brought there by constable Waller;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M'ARTHUR AND ANOTHER V.LOUND AND ANOTHER. This was an action upon seven bills of exchange accepted by the defendants in favonr of the plaintiffs, and upon which the plaintiffs sought to recover a balance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trial of this action, which commenced on Monday, Nov. 16th, is not yet concluded, but the evidence on both sides was closed yesterday, and may therefore be reported without prejudice. Owing to the enormous length of the evidence, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We continue (from the Empire) the report of the proceedings in this case. The evidence on both sides, as has already appeared, closed on Thursday; and the Empire says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RAILWAY ACT.—Benjamin Robinson, of Singleton, was charged with a breach of the railway by-laws, by John Golder, station-master at Singleton, by refusing to pay his fare. The defendant did not appear. The case…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE QUEEN v. MONTGOMERY.—This was a special case. The prisoner had been tried at the Quarter Sessions, Tamworth, and convicted of horse stealing. The point reserved was whether the Judge (Mr. Francis) had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion, by rule nisi, for new trial of an action on promissory notes, &c., wherein a verdict had been found for the defendant. The Attorney-General and Mr. Stephen appeared in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Isaacs, for plaintiff, stated that he had been instructed to move for a rule nisi for new trial of the above case, but as it was one of great importance, and the evidence had been very voluminous, he asked for an…
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