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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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This Court opened on Monday the 24th April. His Honor, the Chief Justice, before commencing the ordinary business of the Assize, addressed some observations to the magistr[?]y, and the inhabitants of the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Hallam did not appear to answer a charge of being drunk on the 26th ultimo, and 5s. deposited for his appearance were ordered to be forfeited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action by commission agents in Sydney, against a farmer at Dungog, to recover £20 Os. 6d. balance of account. Mr. Stephen, instructed by Messrs. Stephen and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULTING THIS POLICE —William Mitchell stood oharged with this offence —Constable Beatty deposed: Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning last the prisoner was lying in John-street; I raised him up,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CATTLE STEALING.âAndrew M'Kenzie was charged by Thomas Ferry with stealing a bullock, the property of H. J. Adams, Esq. After the evidence on both sides had been heard, the bench dismissed the charge, considering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for libel. The libel declared upon had been published in a newspaper at Tamworth (the Tamworth Examiner), of which the defendant was proprietor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →POSSESSING A STOLEN SADDLE.—Daniel Dillon was charged with having in his possession a saddle stolen from George Wyndham, of Ravensworth. Jeremiah Kelly deposed: I am in Mr. Wyndham's employment at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Thursday, Philip Gavin and Mary L. Wentworth Dickson, charged with stealing Kildare and Zenobia, racehorses, the property of Rowland G. Yeomansâand Thomas Cunningham…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The trial of this case, which occupied a portion of Tues day and the whole of Wednesday, was concluded on Thursday. It was an action by Mr. Edward Holloway, coal merchant, &c., against the Waratah Coal Company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Hanser did not appear to this charge, and 5s. deposited for his appearance were ordered to be forfeit[?]d. PERJURY.—Charles Westhover was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for seduction. The plaintiff, Thomas Moore, claimed damages for the seduction of his daughter, Susanna Moore, by the defendant, James Pryor. The declaration alleged, in the usual form, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Lenan was charged with stealing the amount of seven pounds, the property of a man named Dyke. It appeared from the evidence that in the month of March last Lanan and Dyke were on the spr[?]e, and during that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George Gibson, alias Paddy Tom, found guilty at last Bathurst Assizes of the mnrdor of Alexander Musson, at the Pyramul, was exe[?]nted within the pre[?]in[?]ts of the gaol on Saturday morning. He maintained his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was an action by a commission agent at Newcastle against a member of the firm of Cargill and Co., of New Zealand, for the non-acoeptance of certain bills, drawn by the formor upon the latter for a cargo sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Darley, for the official assignee (representing the creditors of the above-named company) moved for the confirmation—under the 17th section of the Joint Stook Company's Act, 2 Vic. No. 19—of the report made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The trial of this case, which had already lasted two days, was resuemd and concluded. It was an action for the non-acceptance of certain bills of exchange, to which the substantial defence was that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OSBORNE LANGUAGE.—William Gentle, for making use of ob[?]cene langnage in John-street, Singleton, on the 29th instant, was fined 10s.; in default, forty-eight hours' imprisonment.—John Woods, who was in company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Duckworth v. M'Callagh, for stealing a coat, valued at 15s. This case, whioh had been postponed from two successive sittings, was concluded, a verdict being given for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for libel. The plaintiff was Job Webster Cheesbrough, a squatter and a magistrate of the territory; and the defendant was John Ambrose Gallagher, proprietor of the Tamworth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Chief Justice, before entering on the business of the term, delivered—on behalf of himself and his learned colleague—the following address, in referenoe to the late Mr. Justice Milford:—…
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