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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
237 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 12
DRUNKENNESS.—John White and John Prestige, for being drunk, were each fined 5s., in default 24 hours' imprisonment. CATTLE STEALING.—Henry Jones was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VAGRANCY.—John Boyd, an old man, was charged with being a vagrant within the meaning of the Act. Senior-sergeant Du Vernet deposed: On Friday last, the 29th November, the prisoner came to my house…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Attorney General, for the defendant, moved for a rule nisi for new trial of this action which had been heard at the lost Maitland Circuit Sittings before Mr. Justice Faucett and a jury of four. Owing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday evening, the residents in the neighbour hood of Woolloomooloo were startled by the intelligence that a lodger bad cut the throat of the wife of the man in whose bouse he had been lodging, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is the additional evidence taken at the inquest held in Sydney, on Thursday, upon the body of Mrs. Ward, whose throat had been cut on the previous evening by a man named M'Crow, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a special case, reserved for the opinion of the Court from the last Maitland Assizes before Mr. Justice Faucett. Mr. Windeyer appeared for the prisoner; Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.—Samuel Smith, on bail, was charged with this offence. On being placed in the dock, it appeared that he was again under the influence of drink, and he was re-committed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This court commenced its December sittings at East Maitland on Tuesday, before his Honor Mr. District Judge Dowling. The barristers in attendance were Messrs. Wisdom, Rogers, Healy, Cohen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon the inhabitants of the city and suburbs were thrown into great consternation on learning that a horrible attempt at murder had been committed at Hamilton, by a miner named Samuel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday last a terrible murder was perpetrated by a free-selector named Stephen Purcell, his victim being a person named Delohery. From the information that has reached us, we…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an application upon rule nisi for a prohibition resc nding an order of Mr. Justice Hargrave, granting an injunction to restrain the defendants in the above named action from mining upon certain land…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Royls v. Jeremiah O'Brian; unlawfully detaining a filly. It appears that the complainant in this case purchased the filly in question from Mr. George Bell, of Wybong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Court re-opened at ten o'clock, before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling. FOLLINGTON V. MOORE. This was an action for slander. Damages were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an application on behalf of defendants for leave to appeal to the Privy Council from a judgment of the Court, refusing to grant a new trial in this action…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS—Jane Taylor was charged with being drunk. Being the third offence within the year she was fined 20s., in default to be imprisoned for one month is Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—John Dowd (who pleaded guilty) was charged by the police with making use of obscene language in a public place. Fined 5s. 6d. court costs, and he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an appeal, on behalf of defendants, from a decree of the Primary Judge ia a suit by the official assignee in the insolvent estate of W. A. Hollinshead, praying that a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an application to the Court to amend an order discharging a rule nisi for new trial of this action, upon the ground that the death of one of the defendants before the verdict was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BATHING WITHIN VIEW OF THE PUBLIC DURING PROHIBITED HOURS.—John Bourke and Matthew Easterbrook, for bathing within view of the public during prohibited hours, were admonished and…
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