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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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The adjourned inquest on the body of Robert Crawford was resumed on Thursday morning, at the office of the Sydney City Coroner, Kelly and Lindsay were again before the Court in custody, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rowland v. Moran: Insulting language, settled out of court. Denn v. Gekler: Assault and threatening language. In this case a verdict was recorded against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday afternoon, the 25th of August, a man named Benjamin Wrigley, residing at Gordon-street, Port Macquarie West, brought to the police station the foot and a portion of the leg of an infant, found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Darley, instructed by Messrs. Holdsworth and Brown, appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Butler, instructed by Messrs. Iceton & Son, for the defendants. In this action the plaintiff, Mr. John Piper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday the evidence before the coroner's jury sitting to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Robert Crawford, who was found stabbed in Parramatta-street, Sydney, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For the plaintiff, Mr. Darley; attorneys, Messrs. Holdsworth and Brown. For the defendants, Mr. Butler; attorney,Mr. Iceton The action was brought to recover the sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In this case a rule nisi had been granted, calling upon Mr. H. Scott, Police Magistrate of Newcastle, Mr. Parnell, a Justice of the Peace, and other parties, to show cause why the proceedings in this case should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALTERING AND UTTERING A CHEQUE.— William Coulter, on remand was charged with altermg a [?]beque from £1 10s to £4 10s, and passing it in that state to Mr. Ferguson, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following cases were disposed of — J. P. Abbott v. D. & A. M'Donald.—Settled. Same v. M'Namarra.—The defendant in this case having neglected to file his defence, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an application for an attachment against Mr. Joseph Chambers, of East Maitland, a solicitor of the Supreme Court, for refusing to obey an order of Mr. Justice Hargrave, made in Chambers, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Windeyer moved for a rule nisi for a prohibition directed to Mr. H. Scott, Police Magistrate at Newcastle, and other persons, under tho following circumstances:—Cundy was informed against at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the borough police court at Wigan, a few days since, Ann Burns, who surrendered on her own confession of having murdered her step[?] father twelve months ago, was placed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ASSAULT.—Anthony Towers, arrested at Muswellbrook under a warrant, was charged with assaulting his mother. The complainant not desiring to press the charge, the defendant was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This court opened on Tuesday at East Maitland, before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling. The barristers present were:—Messrs. Mannning,Healy, and R. Wisdom. Attorneys—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →San Jose, August 4th.—Last night two men, names unknown, were shot, in the foothills beyond Berryessa. The only facts ascertained are that the men were threshers, at work with a machine on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Solicitor-General applied for a prohibition to stay all proceedings under a certain information filed against one Cunliffe, at the Police Court, at Newcastle. The information…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court re-opaned at ten o'clock before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling. NEW TRIAL MOTIONS. [?]ford v. [?]ckford. This application his Honor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our readers will remember the report of the murder of a girl, reported in the Home News of May 19. A young man, named Edmund Walter Pook, was charged with the murder, and after several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on this case was opened at Myrtleford on Wednesday by Dr. Dempster, coroner. Several witnesses having been examined, mainly to show that a pipe found at the scene of the murder had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Police court was occupied with this case from Wednesday, the 6th instant, at 2 p.m., till sunset, and on Thursday, from 9 a.m. till half-past 2 on Friday morning…
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