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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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DRUNKENNESS.—Michael Henry Carney, for this offence, was fined 10s., or forty-eight hours' imprisonment. RESISTING THE POLICE.—The same…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About tbe middle of January in the year 1856, I was startled from a very sound sleep, just as the town clock was striking three, by a very loud rapping at my office door. I arose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LIBEL.—R. J. Pierce v. Hines and D'Orney. —This case, which had been postponed from last court day, was brought on for hearing, and after a considerable amount of evidence had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Michael Henry Kearney pleaded guilty to this charge, and was admonished and discharged. S[?] GROG SELLING.—Mrs. Boland was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ASSAULT.—Wm. Wiley, Andrew Turnbull, and John Russell, on bail, appeared to answer a charge of unlawfully and violently assaulting James Franks, by tying the complainant to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ambrose Blackford and John Williams were brought before the bench at the police court, East Maitland, on Tuesday, charged with cattle stealing. Mr. W. W. Gorrick (for Mr. R. W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Davies pleaded guilty to this charge and was fined 5[?] in default, twenty four hours imprisonment. CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING.— Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An impudent case of horse-stealing was perpetrated at Walgett [?] the evening of the 8th instant. Mr. Fuller, of the Junction Inn, is in the habit of paddocking his horses of a night,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stealing.—John Wright, in custody, was brought before the bench, charged with stealing a saddle, the property of J. H. Keys, Esq., of Bengalla. Prisoner was remanded until Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Wright, on remand, was brought up, charged with stealing a saddle, the property of J. H. Keys, Esq, of Bengalla. The bench found the charge proved, and sentenced the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HORSE-STEALING.—Alexander Gourley was charged with stealing a horse, the property of Patrick Cantwell.—James Cantwell deposed: I am son of Patrick Cantwell, residing at Scott's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquest was held at Dry Creck, Kilmore (on the Melbourne and Sydney Road) touching the death of a woman whose death is said to have been caused under horrifying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BREACH OF THE ACT FOR RETAILING WINE. —Edmund M'Cann (who holds a license to retail wine at his residence, near Gresford) was charged by Senior constable Wells with illegally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABUSIVE LANGUAGE—Sarah Sullivan was charged with making use of abusive language towards Patrick Cullen, who deposed: On the night of the 25th of January last I was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WAGES.—Richard Carter, of Goorangoola, was summonsed by Benjamin Sutherland for the sum of £12 10s, wages due to him. Mr. Gould appeared for the defendant. Complainant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—P. Ryan, in custody, was brought up and found guilty of the above charge, for which he was ordered to pay a fine of £l, in default 48 hours in the cells. Another charge of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Court opened on Tuesday, before his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett. Joseph Brett, alias Eugene Lardine, was indicted on a charge of stealing in a dwelling. It appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Horse-stealing.—Joseph Barton, alias John Taylor, was brought up in custody, charged with stealing a horse, the property of William Tranter. Prisoner was apprehended at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Martha Elizabeth Rumpf was indicted for that she did, on the 11th day of January last, at Jnrcumbilly, feloniously and wilfully, and of malice aforethought, kill and murder one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Farrell the younger appeared to answer a charge of stealing a cow, the property of Thomas Wilson, at Pittwater, on the 4th August last. The case was tried and reported at the last sittings of the…
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