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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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This was an action on an agreement for the hire of a Government barge, called the Powerful, employed by defendants to raiae the boilers, &c., from the wreck of the Cawarra steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hobart Town Mercury of August 21st publishes the following from a correspondent:— A man named John Harris, shepherd to Mr. James Green, of Mountain Vale, has been found murdered under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mary Workman Wallace, or Dickson, was brought before the Central Police Court, Sydney, on the 20[?]h August, charged with horse stealing. Eugene Francis Regan, of Redfern, deposed that on the 30th March, last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for work and labour, journeys and commission. The plaintiff claimed £75. The defendants pleaded that except as to £25 which they paid into Court, they were never indebted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.âJoseph Morgan waa fined 5s. for this offence. VAGRANCYâCarolina Lincoln, an old offender, was brought up on this charge. Sub Inspector Thorpe stated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Central Police Court, yesterday, Mary Ann Johnston, a young woman, and Tan Chow, a Chinaman, were brought before the court and charged with having feloniously, wilfully, and of malice aforethought, killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night, 1st June, a young man, named Henry Farrington, who resides near Bedford, Leigh railway station, deliberately murdered his wife They have only been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It was not long before the outbreak of the revolution of '48, and when were heard the first mutterings of disaffection against the Orleans dynasty, and the Ministers whose counsels…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Christina Dean, in cusato[?]y, charged with being drunk, was found guilty and fined in the sum of five shillings. On another charge, for making use ot obscene language, she was fined a corresponding amount, Both fines were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This case was formally called on, and the jury were in attendance, but were not placed in the box. His Honor stated that he had thought it right…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion to set aside an order made by Mr. Justice Hargrave, in Chambers—under the Attorney's Act-11 Vio., No 33—for taxation of a bill of costs by Mr. J.R. Brenan, whereon judgment had been obtained and enforced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Catherine Sheeley was charged with having, at West Maitland, on the 28th of June, stolen a purse containing the sum of £5, the property of one George Roberts, of Largs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Richard Meredith Ferguson, late a clerk in the Government Printing Office, pleaded guilty to the charge of appropriating to his own use two sums of money, £1 10s. and 15s., the property of the Queen. The prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ASSAULT.—Alfred Sherwin Wood was charged with assaulting Robert Bellamy, who did not appear, and the case was struck out. ABSCONDING —John Lucas was charged with absconding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News reached town yesterday morning that a most brutal assault, or perhaps murder, had been committed on Saturday afternoon, about four miles from Rokewood. A hawker named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir William Manning, Q C., moved to make absolute a rule nisi for a prohibition to stay all proceedings under a conviction of the present Mayor of Mudge by the Court of Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queen, since our last, has spent her time chiefly at Osborne, where the Empress of the French paid a private visit to her Majesty from the 22nd to the 24th July incog. The Queen during the visits of the Saltan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →F. Caple, found guilty of drunkenness, was fined 10s. OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—A charge of this nature, against Bernard Keenan, late innkeeper at Pentlands, brought by Mr. Joseph Cohen,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a claim for goods sold and delivered. Verdict for plaintiff (£5), without costs. Mr. Thompson for plaintiff, Mr. O'Me[?]gher for defendant. BLACK V. M'LYMONT…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Johnston was fined 5s. for this offence.—Another charge of destroying property, against the same prisoner, was not proceeded with, as the prosecutor did not appear…
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