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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
264 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 14
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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] Jona Kellyâwho on Monday was convicted of robbing the Merriwa mail, and on Tuesday was convicted of robbing William Griffin under arms, and who pleaded guilty to three other charges of highway robberyâwas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Henry Scott, under remand, was brought before the court again on Thursday. Mary Wood, a married woman, deposed that she lived in Market-street; on last Queen's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALLOWING PIGS TO TRESPASS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.—Sarah Combs summoned Robert Niohol, publican, for allowing three pigs, his property, to stray into a yard adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was an aotion for breach of agreement The plaintiff, George Shaw Rutheiford, sued the defendants, Isaao and Jaoob Gornok, for that they having by deed, been in the occupation of his land, situate at Rutherford,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CATTLE STEALING.—Robert Gray and George Cumberland, who were remanded from Friday last, were placed in the dock to answer to this charge. Senior-sergean Hinds conducted the case for tbe crown Matthew Dodd,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PROTECTION.âJames Wright was brought up fer protectios. Senior-sergeant Thorpe stated that he had been in the hospital, and given in charge for being of unsound mind. Since then he had ascertained that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The adjourned inquiry into the Sussex-street murder took place at the Central Police Court on Monday. Thomas Rice deposed that he carried on business as a butcher in Lower George-street, the prisoner Scott…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John May, lessee of the Raymond Terrace ferry, was charged by John Barry, sen, with hiving detained him one and a half hour before bringing the punt. Several witnesses were examined, and proved that they were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About noon on Thursday last it was reported to the police that a saddle and bridle had been stolen from Mr. Brown's premises, Tattersall's Hotel, Casino, during the night. Constable Walsh at once concluded that some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Saunders was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Mary Saunders, at Albury, on Tuesday night, the 21st August last George Patrick deposed: Am sergeant of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Lancaster assizes Thomas Wedderburn, a deserter from the 8th regiment of Foot, was charged with wounding William Barlow, a police sergeant, of Barrow, with intent to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Davenport (U.S.) Gazette recently published the following remarkable story:—"In May, 1863, two Californian emigrants called at a farmhouse at Brooklyn, Poweshiek county to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →William Henry Scott was again brought up at the Central Police Court, on the charge of murdering his wife, and committed to take his trial. Senior-sergeant Waters, re-called, deposed to going to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Southwark Police Court, on Thursday week, Wm. Saville, aged 24, described as a labourer, was placed at the bar before Mr. Woolrych, charged with attempting to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trial of John Grant for the wilful murder of Phillp Boobier, at Plymstock, on the 9th of June, took place at Exeter on Friday week, before Mr. Justice Blackburn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eliza Gilbert was indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Horatio and Edmund Gilbert, at Adelong, on the 6th January last. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Stephen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VAGRANCY.âCatherine Booth and Margaret Murphy, two disorderly characters, for having no lawful or visible means of support, were each sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Singleton gaol.âJames Smith, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the case of the man Scott, who stnds charged with the Sussex-street murder in Sydney, is now prominently before the public, and as there can be little doubt that he is identical with William Henry Scott who formerly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Lancaster assizes, last week, John Banks, a discharged soldier, aged 34, was charged with the murder of Ann Gilligan, at Preston, in June last. The deceased woman…
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