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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
237 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 12
At the Water Police Court, Sydney, on Saturday, Joseph Armstrong, Solomon M'Carthy, and William Turner were charged (before Messrs. T. Hale and W. Crane) with having feloniously, wilfully, and with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →W. C. Thompson v. Evan James: Goods sold, £4 18s 2d. Case dismissed. J. Perfement v. Michael Scanlon: Rent, £6 10s. Verdict for plaintiff £5 18s lOd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE establishment of a well organized police force was by no means one of the least services rendered to the colony by Mr. Charles Cowper; and yet, perhaps, for no public act of his, whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNEENNESS.—George Moore pleaded guilty to this charge, and was fined 5s. Fine paid. MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION.—Conrad Moss, on remand, was charged by Michael Kinzig, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THREATENING LANGUAGE.—William Samuel, a lascar, was brought up on this charge, and remanded fall Tuesday next. VAGRANCY.—George Thompson was brought up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Turnaday evening last a public meeting of the inhabitants of West Maitland was held at the School of Arts, for the purpose of determing what steps should be taken to secure a court-house for this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There had been an application on the part of the plaintiffs in the above suit for probate of the alleged last will and testament of the late Mr. Thomas Lindsay, of Branxton, West Maitland. The application…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court opened before Mr. Justice Hargrave on Monday morning. James Baker was indicted for having assaulted with attempt to commit a rape, one Sarah Maloney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heniy Blossom, alad of sixteen, and William Knight, both pleaded guilty to a charge of having uttered false and counterfeit coin. The prisoner Blossom said that a fortnight before he was arrested he ran away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The S. M. Herald gives the following report of the further investigation, at the Water Police Court, Sydney, on Friday last, into the case of the brig Carl, and the alleged murders of Polynesians:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hannah Jane Wood was indicted for the murder of her maleinfant. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. From the evidence it appeared that prisoner on the evening of May 26 complained to her step-mother of pains in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is the petition prepared by the committee appointed at the recent public meeting:— To his Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight Commander of the most distinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More anthentic particulars regarding the murder of Mr. Gordon have just come to hand by the Defiance. The following letter from a Cbnstian convert at Cork's Bay, Erromonaga, who was with Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an action in which damages, laid at £100 were claimed for the breach of an agreement for the sale of shares in the Peak Downs Copper Mining Company. The declaration recited that it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CATTLE STEALING.âGeorge Pendleton,on remands was charged with stealing fourteen head of cattle, the property of Timothy Lucy, at Emu Creek. The parties are neighbours, and for some time past…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At about 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning a woman named Margaret O'Donoghue aged 32 years, killed anotner woman named Mary O'Rourke, alias Hewston, in a house in Punch's-Iane off Little…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →VAGRANCY.—John Killeen was charged with being a vagrant. It appeared that prisoner, who was a feeble old man, had recently been discharged from the hospital, and had given himself up to the police,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News has reached me at the Middle Camp that Daniel Ryan has been murdered by the blacks on last Tuesday. Two miners, named Williams and Boon, went up the left-hand branch of the Percy on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This was an application to make absolute a rule nisi for a writ of prohibition to stay all proceedings under an order of the Small Debts Court at Warialda. The rule nisi had been granted by the Chief Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This was an application on behalf of defendants in the above action, for leave to appeal to the Privy Council from a judgment of their Honors, whereby it was decided that the death of a defendant during…
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