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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
235 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 12
Mr. Isaacs, instructed by Messrs. Norton and Barker, applied on behalf of defendants for a rule nisi for a new trial of the above case. It wes an action for damages said to have been occasioned to the plaintiffs by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a special case from the last sittings of the Supreme Court at Darlinghurst. The prisoner Cunningham and another (Mrs. Dickson) had been convicted of receiving certain horses knowing them to have been stolen. A third person, tried…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As considerable interest has been aroused by the charge of murder preferred against Henry L. Bertrand and wife and Mrs. Kinder, we have referred to the report of the inquest held on the body of Henry Kinder at St. Leonard's,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →STEALING A CHEQUE.—Samuel Evans, on remand, was [?]ught up on a charge of stealing a cheque for £80, [?] by John Gill, mail contractor, residing at Moonbi. Upon the application of senior-sergeant Thorpe, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion for new trial upon a rule nisi granted during the second term of the present year. The action was for non-acceptance of a bill of exchange according to contract. The case waa tried at Sydney, in May last,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It will be in the recollection of our renders that a coroner's inquest was held in the early port of Ootober last, on the body of a young man named Henry Kinder, a clerk in the City Bank, who, according to the evidence then Riven, [?]ad for some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an application to set aside an order by the late Mr. Justice Wise. Mr. Salomons, instructed by Mr. Hellyer, appeared in support of the motion, and Mr. Darley,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our last issue we reported (from the Sydney papers) the proceedings of the first three days or the examinations, before the Sydney water police bench, into the charge against Henry Louis Bertrand, Jane Bertrand, and Maria Ellen Kinder, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion on rule nisi to set aside an award made under the Crown Lands Occupation Act of 1861. to determine a question of disputed boundary between the licensed occupants of two runs in the New England district, called…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →STEALING A CHEQUE.—Samuel Evans, on remand, was charged with stealing a cheque for £80, the property of John Gill. Senior-sergeant Thorpe deposed: On the 25th of November last I saw the prisoner in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ah Chong and Ah Tang, two Chinamen, were charged with unlawfully assaulting with intent to rob one Joseph Kitchen, near Gorianawa, on the 4th December. After taking the evidence of senior constable Ewing, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Rymer was indicted for that he did, on the 10th November and 6th October last, at Sydney, feloniously forge and utter certain notes, purporting to be £1 notes of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Henry Smith was indiated for killing his wife, Mary Smith, at Seven Hills, in July last. Mrs Smith was an aged woman, feeble, and in the habit of occasionally drinking too much. She died from burns…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DRUNKENNESS.âMary Ann Dawson, charged with being drunk on the 18th instant, was admonished and discharged. ABSCONDING.âJohn Hayes, on remand, was charged with absconding from the hired service of Alexander Bowman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terence Hannah was indicted for that he did, at Pennant Hills, on the 5th October, feloniously and unlawfully wound, with intent to kill and murder, one Catherine Hannah, his wife. A second count charged the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queen, with the Prince and Princess of Hesse, and the junior members of the royal family, continues still at Balmoral Castle. On Oct. 11 the Queen and the Princess Helena, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and…
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