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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
354 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 18
The Court re-opened at ten o'clock. The members of the legal profession present were Messrs. F. E. Rogers (Crown Prosecutor), and G. B. Simpson, barristers; Messrs. R. W. Thompson, H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the list of causes set down for hearing at the Maitland District Court, which opens this day, at East Maitland, before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The court re-opened at ten o'clock. Mr. P. O'Keeffe, barrister, was present, in addition to some of the legal gentlemen already named. STEALING FROM THE PERSON…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Argus of June 17 says:—At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, John Pryor Barrett was arraigned for the wilful murder of his wife, at his his residence, Ballarut-street, Carlton, on the 21st…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →STEALING.—William Lendross was charged with stealing a crosscut saw, a baud saw, and an adze, the property of William Fox, who deposed: I am a butcher, residing in John-street, Singleton; the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday afternoon, reports the Evening News of Monday, at about half-past two, a Chinaman named Chow Ching shot at and wounded another named Tommy Ah Lum, in George-street, opposite…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This Court opened on Tuesday morning, at East Maitland, before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling. The members of the bar present were— Mr. F. E. Rogers, Mr. R. Wisdom, and Mr. J. Dillon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The case in which John Muller, Mary Muller, and William Burgess were charged before the bench at the Merriwa police-court, on suspicion of murdering John Pearson alias Scotch Jack, at Middle Creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Muller, Mary Anne Muller, and William Burges were charged with having feloniously and wilfully and of malice aforethought killed and murdered one John Pearson, of Middle Creek, on or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In our Saturday's issue we gave a few general statements concerning a murder committed at Middle Creek, about eight miles from Merriwa, on or about tbe 4th inst. The body of a man, as has been already…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Brindley Bettington deposed: I am a magistrate of the colony of New South Wales, and reside at Brindley Park, Merriwa. On Wednesday evening, the 9th instant, I was informed by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William M'Naugbt deposed: I am in the service of Joseph Cooper, Esq., on the 8th instant I received information that one John Pearson, a man in Mr. Cooper's employ, was away, and that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday morning the town of Wagga Wagga was somewhat startled with the intelligence that the body of a man bad been discovered in the Murrumbidgee River, near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was a motion to make absolute a rule nisi for a new trial. The trial of the action took place at the Sydney sittings last August, before Mr. Justice Faucett and a jury of four,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A rule nisi was granted on the 7th inst., calling upon the Registrar of the District Court at Murrurundi to show cause why he should not be ordered, under the 93rd section of the District Courts Act, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A transfer of license for the Royal Hotel. Singleton, from William Ash to [?] Croft; was granted. An application for permission to use a…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent of the Cooktown Courier furnishes full particular respecting the dreadful mutilation of a Chinaman by the blacks:- Permit me a smill space in your journal to relate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PUBLICAN'S LICENCE.—The bench granted the transfer of the license of the Royal Hotel, Singleton, fiom William Ash to Charles Croft. ALLOWING ANIMALS TO STRAY.—Upon the…
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