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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
201 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 11
This was an aetion upon a policy of insurance on a store at Maitland destroyed by fire. It had been twice tried, and had on each occasion terminated in a verdict for the plaintiff. It had also been before the Court in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Metropolitan District—Return of the number of apprehensions, committals, convictions, and discharges for the undermentioned offences, for the ten months ending 31st…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULT.—Charles May was charged with assaulting Mrs. Burke. At the request of the complainant, the charge was allowed to be withdrawn, and the defendant was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for breach of a contract to purchase 1000 bags of Adelaide wheat, at 5s. 6d. per bushel, deliverable by plaintiffs to the defendant at the wharf of the former before the end of January last. The defence was that the plaintiffs were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COMMITTAL OF THE REV. VINCENT GEORGE WILLIAMS.â The evidence in this case is voluminous, the following witnesses having been examined:âWilliam Wightman, John Wightman, George Gray Brodie, George Munro,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANT ACT âMary Ann Coyle and Elizabeth Wilson, apprehended on the 15th instant, for being common prostitutes, were found guilty of being disorderly characters, and sentenced to be imprisoned in Singleton gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action on an attorney's bill by Mr. W P. Moffat against Mr. David Buchanan, to which the latter bad pleaded a denial of his liability, and a release, by sequestration of his estate, and by certificate of discharge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is as complete a list as we can at present give of the prisoners to be tried at the next sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court, to be held on Monday week:— Henry Wilson, wilful murder; Murrurundi bench…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following opinions of the late Attorney General, in reference to the right of magistrates to exclude the press from Police-courts, was yesterday laid upon the table of the Assembly by Mr. Cowper —…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before E. A. Rodd, J. Johnston, and S. B. Dight, Esquires.) OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—John Martin, in custody, was charged with using obscene language, on the 18th inst. Constable Warren doposed that defendant, on last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for goods sold and delivered, to which there were pleas of payment, denial of liability and of the debt. The female defendant was sued as the executrix of a former husband, and the defendant was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The criminal sittings of the Maitland C[?] Court were commenced yesterday, at ten o'clock, at East Maitland, before his Honor Mr. Justice Milford. Barristers present: The Hon. the Attorney General,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANT ACT.—Thomas Garroway, in custody, was charged with a breach of this Act. Constable Sparks deposed: On Friday last I apprehended the prisoner in George-street, Singleton, having been informed that on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Catherine Morley, who on Monday pleaded guilty to having unlawfully wounded Macaiah Morley, her husband, was brought up for sentence. His Honor said it appeared that she had received no trifling provocation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →These sittings commenced yesterday morning. Barristers present:—The Attorney General, Messrs. Martin, Q.C., Faucett, Foster, G. B. Simpson, Darley, Long, and. G. W. Paul. WOLFE AND GORRICK V. M'KENZIE…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANT AGT —James Ascott, in custody, was brought before the bench on a charge of being an incorrigible rogue and vagabond. Constable Sparkes deposod: On the morning of the 28th of August last I apprehended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Butler acted as Crown-Prosecutor. John Sing was indicted for the murder of one Yu Won, at Sofala, on the 10th March. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. From the evidence it appeared that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In this matter the plaintiff sued the defendant for £105 5s 9d., alleged to have been received by defendant for the use of plaintiff. Defendant was poundkeeper at Breeza, and, in 1861, he received certain moneys from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The hearing of this cause was commenced on Tuesday morning, continued during that and the two succeeding days, and was terminated yesterday, occupying the Court four whole days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROBBERY BY CARRIERS—The two draymen, Sweeney and O'Neil, who had been several times remanded, charged with breaking into loading entinsied to their care, wore, this day, fully oommitted for trial…
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