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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—William Johnston, for making use of obscene language in Hunter-street, on the 24th instant, was fined 40s.; in default, one month's imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A magisterial inquiry was held on Tuesday, the 31st December, 1887, at the Singleton Police Barracks, before W. C. Lesley, J.P., respecting some human bones belonging to three persons which had been found on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday, October 20, a man named William Williamson, a surfaceman, was appre[?]ended and taken to Cupar, by Captain [?]remner, chief constable of Fifeshire, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Edwards was again brought up, and as the evidence for the Crown was still incomplete, a remand was applied for.—Their Worships, however, intimated that they had determined not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been favoured with a copy of a letter from a gentleman to Messrs. Wolfe and Gorrick, Maitland, dated Tulloona, Dec. 30, with an account of a murder committed on Christmas Day. He writes:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS —John Hatch, for being drunk, was fined 5s. TRESPASS —John Taggart pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing on the enclosed lands of William Durham,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A correspondent of the Singleton Times sends to that journal further particulars of the murder mentioned in our last issue. The murder appears to have been committed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday, Oct. 25, Arthur Cooper, living at 4, Vernon-square, Clerkenwell, was charged, at Guildhall police-court, with indecently assaulting Jane Carter, a domestic servant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Moore, a miserable and dissipated looking old man, was placed in the dock charged with stealing a decanter containing port wine, from the bar of Eaton's Hotel, Prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Thompson was charged by Martin O'Brien with an assault, and robbing him of the sum of £12 10s. The case was in no way substantiated, and the prisoner was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John French was charged by James Reed with stealing a bay mare, his property.—James Reed on oath deposed: I am a labourer, and live at Bourke; yesterday I saw the mare in question with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William John Hurst, clerk to a stockbroking firm, surrendered to his bail at the London Central Criminal Court, Oct. 30, to take his trial on several charges of embezzlement, and of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Clauson, charged with drunkenness, was convicted, and fined 10s., or 48 hours' imprisonment. Owen Prior, charged with a similar offence, was convicted, and fined 5s, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →STICKING-UP.—Charles Gardener was placed at the bar, charged with sticking-up the Junction Inn, on the Bogan River. William Marsh, on oath, said I am cook at Mr. John Colliss's, on the Bogan River; I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are favoured by Messrs. Wolfe & Gorrick with the persual of another letter received by them from Mr. Richard Dines, dated Tulloona, Warialda, January 13th. Mr. Dines's remarks on the police arrangements, &c., &c.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court of Assizes of the Seine has just [?]en engaged in the trial of Frenchman named [?] for two horrible murders. The culprit [?] sixty-nine years of age and was formerly a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pursuant to announcement, a meeting to revise the Municipal list of ratepayers in the borough of Morpeth was held in the Council Chambers, on Tuesday, at ten o'clock. The following members of the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday, Oct. 30, a telegram was received from Constantinople, addressed to the secretary of the association at Lloyd's, anouncing the capture of the Hon. Mr. Calvert, vice-consul…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Friday evening the mail steamer Ruahine, from Panama, arrived at Sydney, bringing news to the 16th December from New York, and from Europe to the 15th. The account of the Fenian outrages in a telegraphic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wednesday, January 29.—(Before H. J. Bolding.P.M.) —Samuel Osburn was charged with using profane and indecent language in a public place, also being drunk and resisting the police. Prisoner pleaded guilty to both…
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