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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
264 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 14
The country between Eltham and Queenstown was kept in a state of considerable excitement for a day or [?] at the beginning of the week by the presence and doings of a bushranger named Robert Bourke, well-known on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UNSOUND MIND.—Mary Holt, an inmate of the Benevolent A[?]ylum, was brought up on this charge. John Lawrence Newton deposed: I am a duly quali[?]ied medical practitioner, I have been attending Mrs. Hol[?] for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queen and junior members of the royal family, who had been sojourning at Osborne since the 8th July, arrived at Windsor Castle on the afternoon, of August 22. On the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ILLEGAL IMPOUNDING.—Geo. Ware charged William Christy with this offence. Case postponed one week. VAGRANCY.—Small v. Williams: Defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Armidale Circuit Court opened on Monday, the 8th, before Mr. Justice Faucett. Mr. Ellis acted as Crown Prosecutor. The court closed on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following cases were in the list to-day:— Police v. Serivener, breach of Hawkers and Pedlars Act, and another arising from the same cause, police v. Hobbs.—The parties in cach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DRUNKENNESS.—John Purcell, for being drunk, was admonished and discharged. TRESPASS.—George Webb was charged with trespassing upon the en[?]sed lands of Sberid[?]n and Campbell,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday night a report was circulated through the town that a man had been "stuck up," and nearly murdered, on the Great Northern Road, about a mile from West Maitland. The circumstances that gave rise…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Henry Sc[?]tt, aged 29, by trade a butcher, was brought before the bench at the Central Police Court, on Wednesday last, on remand, charged with the murder of the woman whose mutilated remains were lately found…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Michael Maher, alias Murray, was indicted for that he, on the 17th September, 1866, at the Backsprings Station, on the Garrawilla run, in the colony of New South Wales, did feloniously,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Herald, of Saturday, publishes lengthy details of the further examinations of witnesses, on Friday, at the Central police office, Sydney, in the case against William Henry Scott,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The October sittings of this Court commenced at East Maitland yesterday, before his Honor Mr. Jastice Faucett. Barristers present: The Hon. Solicitor-General (R.M. [?]), Messrs. H. W. Ellis, R. Wisdom, P. J. Healey…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Satarday the neighbourhood of Muckleford was throws into an extraordinary state of excitement, in consequence of a report that a man residing there had shot his wife, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →George Jones was indicted for that he did at Newcastle, on the 1st Ootober, steal from the person of Martin Jones a sum of money in gold, silver, and copper, the property of the said Martin Jones…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHEEP STEALING.—J. Sheritam was brought up in custody, charged by Edwin Docker, Esq., of Thornthwaite, with stealing five young lambs, the property of the Hon. Joseph Docker. Senior-sergeant Hinds, called, deposed:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.—James Smith, for being drunk, was fined 5s. INSANITY.—Michael Kiely, who was brought into court in charge of two constables, in a very exoited state, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Patrick John Kelly (who, on Monday, was convicted of robbing the Merriwa mail) was indicted for that he, in company with two other men unknown, did, at Carroll, on the 10th December last, unlawfully rob from one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another murder, the cicumstanees of which are involved in considerable mystery, was perpetrated at about 12 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3, in the immediate neighbourhood of Kilmainham Gaol,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The magisterial investigation into the Sussex-street murder case wss continued at the Central Police Court on Wednesday. William Henry Scolt was brought up on remand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some time towards the end of 1862, a most diabolical murder was perpetrated in Richmond Row, Liverpool, the victim of the foul deed being a Mrs. Reed, the wife of a tinplae worker…
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