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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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Christopher Lye, indicted on a charge of rape, pleaded not guilty. The case was not proceeded with, in consequence of the absence of a material female witness, and the prisoner was bound over to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The court re-opened at twenty minutes to ten o'clock. THE CASE OF HOLLAND ALIAS COLLIER. The Crown Prosecutor said that he did not intend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court reopened at ten o'clock. THE JURY LISTS. The panel of the criminal jury having been called, that of the civil jury summoned was also called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court reopened at a quarter to ten o'clock. SWEETLAND V. BLAMEY. This was an action to recover possession of the Belmore Soap Works at Newcastle. Defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NAPIER: 3 country lots, 2 in the parish of Coolah, at the junction of Ulimarnbra Creek and Back Creek, Terrawinda Run, on Coolaburragundy River, Benana Rock Run, and adjoining Nelson Lawson's 1920…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The court re-opened at twenty-five minutes to ten o'clock. BROWN V. EALES. In the three other cases between these parties,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court re-opened at twenty-five minutes to ten o'clock. HUNGKRFORD V. ELLIS. This was an action for obstructing a road and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CATTLE STRAYING.—John Maguire and — Mansegh, for allowing their cows to stray in George-street, were each fined 5s., with 2s. 6d. costs. Two other similar cases against George Richard Jarman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday morning the people of Beaufort and its surroundings were much excited by a report that a shocking murder had been committed during the previous night at Main Lead, a village about three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court re-opened at twenty-five minutes to ten o'clock. HUNGERFORD V, ELLIS. This was an action for obstructing a road and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case was resumed and concluded. It was an action in which damages were claimed for a false covenant and guarantee. The plaintiffs were Messrs. John Russell and George Alexander Murray,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF MUNICIPAL BY-LAWS.—A case against Jonathan Jorden, for a breach of the Municipal By-laws, lapsed, as the bench could not agree. Henry Clark pleaded guilty to allowing four cows to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROBBERY.—William King and John Ring, in custody, were charged with stealing nine pounds, a Crimean shirt, and a pair of moleskin trousars, from one Frederick Owen. Constable Lott deposed that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—Edward Rose pleaded guilty to this charge, and was admonished and discharged. Nicholas Ryan pleaded guilty to a similar charge, and was fined 5s., with 6s. 6d. court costs, in default…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir—In your issue of Tuesday appears a notice from your Murrurundi correspondent that a petition was in the course of signature for the appointment of a police magistrate at that place; and in another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A shocking case of wife murder has occurred at Rushcutter's Bay. Ellen Taylor, the wife of Thomas Taylor, landlord of the Durham Castle Hotel, Rushcutter's Bay, was found lying dead on the floor of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—William Smith pleaded guilty to this charge, and was fined 10s. with 6s. 6d. court costs. The fine was paid. MAINTENANCE.—Williamson v. Williamson.—At…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an action in which damages were claimed for malicious prosecution. The plaintiff was Mr. Thomas Blaney, soapboiler, at Wallsend, near Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ILLEGALLX ON PREMISES.—John Hanley was charged with being unlawfully on the premises of Charles Humphries, with intent to commit a felony. Constable Spence deposed that on Friday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This had been an action of replevin tried at the last Maitland Circuit Sittings before Mr. Justice Hargrave and a jury of four, and in which a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, by consent, damages £5…
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