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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →UNSOUND MIND.—William Marus was brought up under circumstances denoting derangement of mind. Upon the application of Senior-sergeant Du Vernet the prisoner was remanded for twenty-four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday afternoon information reached Senio[?] sergeant Kerrigan from Mr. P. Green, J.P., that a man was in his custody at Mount Huntley, near Lochinvar, for attempted murder, and requesting that two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Beaufort Police Court, on Thursday, 10th inst., James Wallace, the negro who recently committed an abominable outrage at Mount Beckworth (Victoria), was brought up on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PUBLICANS ACT.—Sarah Jane Kennedy; landlady of the Northumberland Hotel, George-street, appeared on summons, charged with a breach of this Act, by neglecting to have her name painted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACH OF THE SHEEP DISEASE ACT.—Dowe v. Parnell: The Scab Inspector complained of Mrs. Pa[?]ne[?]f for not having registered her sheep according to A[?]t. Fin[?] 10s., witnesses 10s. 6d., costs of court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner held an inquest at nine o'clock this morning, at the Benevolent Asylum, Pitt-street South, on view of the body of a female infant, then and there lying dead. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Susan Anderson, on remand, was again brought up for examination at the Water Police Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, charged with attempting to murder her female infant on Hyde Park, on the night of the 30th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On May 12, during the hearing of criminal business before the magistrates at Edmonton, Inspector Gould, of the divisional police, stated to the bench the particulars of a daring burglary which had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Julius Menetrey, the man alluded to in a recent issue as having committed a murderous assault on Mr. Walter Green, at Mount Huntley, on Saturday, 19th instant, was brought up, on remand, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The man Julius Monetrey was again brought up on remand at the temporary court-house, West Maitland yesterday, before Mr. W. H. Smith, J.P., charged with having assaulted, with intent to murder, Walter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We learn from a gentleman who arrived in Sydney, by train, this morning, from Bathurst, that a murder of a most horrible nature is supposed to have been perpetrated upon an old man…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking tragedy took plape in Hotham yesterday morning. A woman who kept a small grocery shop at the corner of Howard and Little Howard streets gave poison to her four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHEEP STEALING.—Charles Collins was charged with stealing one sheep, the property of I L. M. Acland, of Phillips' Creek. Both parties are free selectors, and live on adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir G. Jessel (Solicitor-General) has accepted the Mastership of the Rolls…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Jarvis, a powerfully built fellow, medium height, and described as a native of New South Wales, and twenty-four years of age, was brought up at the Water Police Court, Sydney, on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable excitement was caused in town on Saturday night last by a report that a teamster named James Muggridge had been murdered on the Orange road, a few miles from Bathurst, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It will be seen by the subjoined extracts from the Tamworth Weekly News and the Armidale Express, that a vary violent assault has been committed, at the Manilla station, on the 21st July, on a young man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Jarvis was charged on suspicion with murdering one Henry Muggeridge, on the Orange Road —The prisoner had been arrested in Sydney by Detective Elliott on Tuesday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The impression that the body of the man, supposed to be Muggridge, who had been murdered on the Orange road, had not been consumed in the fire where portions of the bones…
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