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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
210 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 11
This was an action by Mr. John Jacob, of the Post Office Hotel, Sydney, against Mr. J. M. Leigh, for the board and lodging ot the "All-England Eleven." The plaintiff's claim was £206 10s 6d, of which £150 Os 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following are the particulars of a case which yesterday was the general topic of conversation in the district, and caused not a little anxiety. It will be seen that the affair is of a most mysterious character, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALLOWING PIGS TO STRAT.—John Bowen pleaded guilty to a charge of allowing his pigs to stray in the streets, and was fined in the mitigated penalty of 5s. and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Every nation, it has been observed, possesses its peculiar faculty of eating. The Tartar quaffs his bowl of mare's milk, the Hindoo relishes assafcetida, a delicate young lady of Canton picks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There were a great number of cases on the list at this court yesterday, most of them adjourned from last Friday. Mr. Bolding was the only magistrate on the bench. The court was opened in the usual manner,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Before T. A. Perry, W. Scott, and G. L. Gibson, Esqs., J.P.'S) The cases to-day were rather heavy. The first one, however, did not occupy much attention. Michael Forde was charged with being of unsound mind, and while in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a special case from the Singleton Quarter Sessions. The prisoner (a female) had been been convicted at the June sittings of this court of stealing a pair of candlesticks, and had been sentenced by Judge Purefoy,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a special case from the Tamworth Quarter Sessions, the question being whether or not the jury had been properly directed by Judge Francis, who presided. Mr. Darley appeared for the prisoner, and Mr. Brenan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Mr. Bolding's letter in your paper of to-day might be left to answer and contradict itself. With his "characteristic" correctness he gives his version of the occurrence, and I am willing to let it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—John O'Brion pleaded guilty to being drunk on the 5th instant, and was admonished and discharged. POCKET-PICKING.—John Ryan, in custody, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This case was referred from the Newcastle District Court to the arbitration of Mr. H. O'Meagher, who made his award in favour of the plaintiff. Mr. Foster, instructed by Mr. Mullen, now applied to have this award…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Honor the Chief Commissioner delivered judgment upon a proof tendered by Messrs, Heard, in the matter of the Tomago Mining Company. The question for his decision was whether the Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was a vast amount of business on the police sheet this day, in faet at four o'olook the court adjourned until next day. BIGAMY.—Margaret Gleeson, aged fifty-three, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[The following case, the hearing of which was commenced on Monday, August 29th, was terminated yesterday.] RE WILLIAH GRIFFITHS, DECEASED…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The September sittings of this court were commenced yestarday at the Court-house, Sempill-street. The court room was inconveniently small for the purpose. The barristers present were Messrs. Foster, Windeyer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An atrecious crime was perpetrated late on Saturday evening, the 9th, in a first-class carriage on the North London Railway, when a Mr. Thomas Briggs, engaged in the banking establishment of Messrs. Hobarts, Curtis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In conseqnence of the inconvenience experienced at the sittings of the District Court, held yesterday, of the West Maitland Court-house, by its want of accommodation, the following memorial was drawn up, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE request preferred by the Municipal Council of West Maitland to the Government for a Court-house suitable to the requirements of the town is a very reasonable one; and as some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Sorry as I am to have to address you again on the subject of the scene in the police court here, which has lately ongrossed so much of public attention, and which may be styled either as the "Bolding v. Jaoob,"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—To-day I attended the police court, as is my custom, at eleven a.m.—the hour at which the court professes to open, and for which parties are summoned; but the only magistrate then present (Mr. Bolding)…
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