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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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DRUNKENNESS.—Matthew Grice was fined 10s, with the alternative of spending fortyeight hours in gaol for having been drunk in. a public street on the previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWS has come of the murder of Captain Schwartz, of the schooner Leslie, at Cape Marsh, Solomon Islands. It appears the chief, who was Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →W. A. Widden was charged by A. Palmer with having absconded from his indentured apprenticeship. He was ordered back to service,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARGE OF LARCENY.—Joseph Peillon alias Le Prince, who had been brought from Ballarat under an extradition warrant, and had been remanded several times, was again…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THIS was an action for trespass, £200 being claimed. Mr. B. W. Thompson (of Maitland) appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. A. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Charles Thompson and Patrick Kirwin charged with drunkenness were admonished and discharged. James Munro was fined 5[?]. or twenty-four hours' gaol on a like charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S. B. Digit was charged by James Goddard, Inspector of Nuisances for the Borough of singleton having committed 3 breach of the 120th By-law, by riding round the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS—James Myers pleaded guilty to having been drunk in High-street, West Maitland, on Monday, and was admonished and discharged. LUNACY.—Thomas East, on remand, charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Lee, in custody, was charged with being drunk; discharged. The same prisoner was charged with using obscene language, and assaulting the police; fined £3…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FURIOUS DRIVING.—Stephen Fitzgerald was charged with having on the 19th instant, in Newcastle-street, East Maitland, driven furiously to the common danger of passengers. He pleaded not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Henry Rose, a farmer residing at Jerry's Plains, was charged at the lockup with being of unsound mind. Constable Hickey's evidence showed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APPRENTICE CASE.—John Henry Swan was summoned at the instance of Mr. D. A. Thomas, the superintendent of the Asylum for Destitute Children, at Randwick, to answer the charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DRUNKENNESS.—Alice Kelly was charged with having been drunk in High-street on Saturday, She pleaded gui[?]ty, and was fined 5s., or twenty-four hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Rogers, instructed by Mr. Brennan, appeared for the applicant; Sir George Innes, instructed by Messrs. Pigott and Trickett, for the respondent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A HORRIBLE murder was committed in South Brisbane ;on Saturday morning. A woman named Bridget O'Donnell killed her sister-in-law, named Alice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN the adjourned case of the Inspector of Nuisances v. John Gates was called on there was no appearance of the complainant, and the case was struck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—John Bunt was charged by Constable Murphy, with having been drunk in Hinton, on the previous day. He pleaded guilty, and was admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS.—Henry Cains and Alfred Taylor pleaded guilty to having been drunk in public streets on Monday, and were admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Graham, having been in the lockup for twenty-four hours for drunkenness, was admonished and discharged. (Before the same and Dr. R. Bead, J.P.)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STOCK ASTRAY.—Patrick Bourke was charged with having suffered three cows to depasture in a public street on the 29th ultimo. A second information charged Mr. Bourke with suffering three…
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