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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
216 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 11
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—James Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly on Sunday last. The defendant was fined 20s., in default, forty-eight hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This court opened at East Maitland yesterday morning, before his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett. The barristers present were Mr. Darley, (crown prosecutor), and Mr. Windeyer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an application to vary an order which had been made, ex parte, by his Honor the Chief Justice. The action was one for breaches of various [?]venants in a lease of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Court reopened at ten o'clock. CATTLE-STEALING. Robert Newson, on bail, was indicted for having, at Clarence Town, on or about the 17th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The court re-opened at ten o'clock. PERJURY. Richard Hughes, ou bail, who on Friday last had pleaded not guilty to a charge of perjury,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court re-opened at ten o'clock. The barristers present were Sir James Martin, Q.C., Messrs. Windeyer, Darley, Foster, Dillon, Bowman, Wisdom, Wilkinson, Healy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court re-opened at ten o'clock. DEGNER V. BROOKES. This was an action for slander. The declaration set forth that the defendant had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Court re-opened at ten o'clock. COBCROFT V. THE NATIOVAL MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. This was an action on a time policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.— James William Smith pleaded guilty to this charge, and was fined 5s., in default to be imprisoned until sundown. Yarry (an aboriginal), for a similar offence, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The court re-opened at ten o'clock. RUSSELL v. KING AND ANOTHER. This case was resumed. It was an action on lease of certain mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Marsham, of Wybong Creek, a young man, apparently not more than 20 years of age, appeared in custody, charged with an assault, with intent to commit a rape, on the person…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Selfe v. Thorsby, assault case, dismissed.—The bench granted permission to Mr. Smith (innkeeper) to exercise his license on the cricket ground on the Prince of Wales Brithday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In this case, the jury who had been locked up at half-past six o'clock, agreed at nine, and sent a message for his Honor, who came over from West Maitland and took their verdict. This was unanimously…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action by Mr. Andrew Hardie M'Culloch against Messrs. John Eckford and John W. Eckford, for trespass and trover. The first count of the declaration (in trespass)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 2nd September, Mr. William Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquest at the Marlborough Arms, Westmoreland-street, Peckham, concerning the death of Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Considerable excitement has been occasioned at Saffron Walden in consequence of an attempt to kill Captain Elliott, a magistrate of the county of Essex, who resides at Chesterfield…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ASSAULTING CHILDREN.—Daniel Dillon, on remand, was charged with assaulting two little girls named Mary Anne and Elizabeth Lucy, by running after them and beating them with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shocking tragedy has occurred at South Kensington Five years ago a man named Samuel Lee, aged thirty-five years, applied for employment as a potman at the Drayton Arms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of the town and district of Scone took place at the Court-house, on Wednesday last, the 2nd November, when the following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Place was indicted for an assault with intent to commit rape upon Emily Etta Austin, a girl about twelve years of age. Prisoner was step-father to the girl, who deposed that she was sewing…
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