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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
288 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 15
IT is hard to think calmly of the event of Thursday last, and harder still to write about it in language appropriate to the occasion, yet fit to appear in a public print. Wo are sure that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eli Allen was charged by James Ah Sing (a Chinaman) with refusing to pay wages das Defendant was ordered to pay 15s. for wages 4s. 6d. court costs, and 12s. 6d. expenses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion on rule nisi, calling upon Mr. Joseph Palmer Abbott, an attorney of the Court, and six other persons, to show cause why an attachment should not issue against them,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No event has ever transpired which has caused a greater amount of indignation in this town than when the news arrived on Thursday evening last of the dastardly attempt made on that afternoon, on the shores of Port Jackson,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—John Connor, for being drunk, was fined 5s. MASTER AND SERVANTS' ACT.—Jolly v. Fitzroy: This case was postponed until next Tuesday, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The discovery of the death of Mrs. Atkinson, the wife of the recently elected member of the Castlemaine Mining Board, under circumstances inducing the belief that she met with foul play,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In this case there were cross-demurrers—to pleas and replications. The action was brought for the conversion and sale of plaintiff's shares in the above company by order of the directors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A woman, named Bailly, and her daughter by her first marriage, have just been tried at Rheims for the murder in the Forest of Trois-Fontaines of the husband of the former, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An attempt at murder, most extraordinary in every aspect, was made at an old ruin called Red Abbey, near Cork, on Monday night. The abbey and adjoining property is in the care of an old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday—the very day that the Alton murderer was adjudgoe to be hanged —a crime singularly resembling his in character was brought to light in Shropshire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ASSAULT.—John Pitt v. George Sherman.—In this case it appeared that the plaintiff had sent his boys with a team to fetch wood; they came back crying; he went to see what was the matter, and the defendant abused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IMPOUNDING ACT.—John Churchland, poundkeeper at Singleton, was charged with a breach of this Act by Patrick Brady, for making an excessive charge for sustenance of cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Long before the opening of the court the space in front of the court-house was filled by between eight and nine hundred persons. Admission into the court could only be obtained by tickets, granted by the Sheriff. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are in receipt of two telegrams describing theresumption yesterday (Monday) of the trial of O'Farrell. Sydney, Monday, 4 55 afternoon. O'Farrell's case was resumed this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an application for prohibition. A man named Boyle had been convicted under the Cattle Stealing Prevention Act, of-illegally using certain cattle belonging to a Mr. Bartlett, a neighbouring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Long before nine o'clook the space in front of the Court-house was crowded. Gentlemen, as on Thursday last, were admitted to the body of the court, and to the reserved seats, by tickets only obtained from the Sheriff…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULT.—Robert Bellamy stood charged with assaulting Robert Eldridge. The complainant did not appear, and the case was struck out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amongst the remarkable crimes that have occupied the attention of Australian courts, that of John Thomas Griffin, who has lately been condemned to death at Rockhampton for murder,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[Herald.]—An awful crime has been just disclosed. Two hawkers, named Pohlman, have been murdered below Narandara, and their bodies burnt to ashes in a scrub. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There were three separate applications to set as de, by prohibitions, three several convictions of the applican[?] by the Police Magistrate at Fort Bourke, for having had music in his licensed house; the fact being that the…
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