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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
249 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 13
We extract from the Newcastle Pilot of Wednesday the evidence given at the inquest held on Tuesday by Mr. A.A.P. Tighe, coroner for Newcastle, upon the body of an infaut of Mr. Lewis, whose throat was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was an application for a prohibition to stay all proceedings under a conviction by Mr. Helenus Scott, police magistrate at Newcastle, in an information under the 2 Vic. No. 2, section 16…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PUBLICANS' LICENSES.—The bench granted the transfer of the following publican's licenses. The Railway Hotel, John Street, south Singleton, from Johanna Heuston to Margaret Houston. The Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday immense sensation was created at View Point, and in fact throughout the town, when the circumstances of the following extraordinary robbery which was perpetrated during Saturday night and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion upon rule nisi, calling upon Mr. District Court Judge Josephson, of the Western District, to show cause why an information should not be filed against him for alleged misdemeanour in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was a motion upon rule nisi for a writ of quo warranto calling upon the Rev. Adam Thomson, principal of St. Andrew'sPresbyterian College,affiliated to the University of Sydney, and the Rev. Robert Steel,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.âJoseph Wells pleaded not guilty to this charge, and after three witnesses had been examined, he was remanded for twenty-four hours for contempt of court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Herald of Monday reports that on Saturday, evening, acting sub-inspector Anderson was stabbed while conveying a prisoner to the lock-up; but fortunately the wound is not a dangerous one. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The principal actor in the fearful tragedy which was enacted on board the ship "Rifleman" on the 16th of March last, was hanged within the precincts of D[?]rlinghurst gaol at thirteen minutes after nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—With reference to the paragraph in the Mercury of Saturday last, headed "Exposing Goods on Footpaths," in which allusion is made to the recent prohibition granted by the Supreme Court against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an application upon rule nisi to rescind or vary an order of Mr. Justice Faucett refusing to make absolute a rule nisi for a prohibition to stay all proceedings under an order made by a bench of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Orange Western Examiner of the 5th inst., states that a violent assault was committed recently by a man named Patrick Moran, upon his wife, and that the injured woman was taken to the hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—James Cunningham pleaded guilty to this charge. Being the second offence within a short time he was fined 10s., in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment.—Richard Bourke,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This was a motion on behalf of defendant upon rule nisi for new trial of, or to enter non-suit in, an action upon a promissory note and a contract for goods sold and delivered, such action having been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Charles Hines in custody, is charged with using obscene language in Sydney-street on yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and he having been already…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →S. J. Dowell v. John Hewston, goods sold, £11 14s. 6d.; case struck out. John Gleeson v. Robert Ward, goods sold, 16s. 6d.; settled out of court. Mr. Fitzgerald appeared for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The newly established Court for the trial of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes was on Wednesday morning opened in due form, in the apartment usually known as the Jury Court room, King-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The arguments herein were resumed and concluded. It was a motion on behalf of defendant to enter nonsuit in, or for a new trial of, an action of trover tried at the last Maitland Circuit Sittings, before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The argument heroin was resumed and concluded. It was a motion upon rule nisi for new trial of an action of trespass tried at Maitland, before Mr. Justice Cheeke and a jury of four,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an appeal from a decree of the Primary Judge in Equity (Mr. Justice Hargrave) directing specific performance on defendant's part of an agreement with the plaintiff to convey to the latter a…
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