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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
356 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 18
LARCENCY.—John Howard was brought up in custody, charge with having in the month of December last, at Sydney, stolen a gold watch and chain, the property of David…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hearing of the charge of forgery preferred against the girl, Catherine Griffin, who is accused of writing begging letters in the name of the daughter of Professor M'Coy to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Elizabeth Rawlins was charged with having on the 30th June made use of indecent language within the hearing of persons passing in High-street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Rogers and Mr. Harris, instructed by Mr. M'Culloch, for the plaintiff. Mr. Stephen, Q.C., and Mr. Pilcher, inatructed by the Crown Solicitor, for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE—William White appeared in answer to a charge of Constable Margetts with having made use of obscene language. He pleaded guilty to the charge,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We (Echo) learn by telegram that the proprietors of the Melbourne Herald have been fined £25 for contempt of court, in publishing comments on the case, sub judice, Herman v. Chirnside, Marks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS AND PROFANE LANQUAGE.- Joseph Kelly was charged with drunkenness and fined 20s or seven days in gaol. The same pri[?]oner was charged with having use of pro[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DRUNKENNESS.—One individual was convicted of the above offence, and was ordered to forfeit 2[?] 6d with the alternative of spending twenty-four hours in the lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →According to the provisions of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act lately brought into force, power is given to the Stipendiary Magistrates in our Police Courts to order,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brennan, on bail, pleaded guilty to a charge, preferred by Constable Sherlock, of being drunk in High-street on Saturday night. In answer to a second charge of making use of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARGE OF EMBAZZLEMENT.—Denis O'Hearn, on remand, was charged with having on the 17th March, at Singleton, while the hired servant of Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Thursday night last Mrs. James Simpson, an elderly lady, living at Smithfield, was made the victim of a cowardly attack at the Globe. She had been spending the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GERIGE COLLINS and Thomas Ritter were each fined 10s. and costs for riotous behaviour on the Goorangoola road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF THE MUNICIPAL BY-LAWS.— The Inspector of Nuisances prosecuted in five cases for breaches of the Municipal By-laws. The following persons were fined 2s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PROFANE LANGUAGE.—Ellen Arkins was charged with having made use of profane language in High-street, on Friday evening. Defendant was arrested for drunkenness in…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dallas, Texas, May 16.—The jury in the case of the State against the Rev. Henry Smith, a Whit[?] Baptist minister, on trial in Canton, Van Zan[?] County, for the murder of Deputy Sheriff B. H. Day,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EMBEZZLEMENT.âGeorge Easson, in custody, was charged that on the 1st of June, at West Maitland, he, then being employed by Drs. Morson and Blackwell as bookkeeper…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[?]RUNKENNESS.—For being drunk in High[?]r[?]et on Monday evening three persons were [?]ed 20s, with the alternative of seven days' [?] prisonment.—Another person was fined 5s,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Edward Noble was charged on the information of Frannis Parmeter with using threatening language towards complainant…
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