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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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The Court re-opened at 10 o'clock. THE MAITLAND POISONING CASE. In the case of the Queen v. Mary Ann Burton and S[?]rah Keep, charged with murder,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Satisfactory progress is being made in the boring operations in Maitland gaol, and the greatest success has resulted. The bore is now down some 740 feet and an abundant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The quarterly Licensing Court was opened before Messrs. F. H. Bartlett and R. Scobie. COLONIAL WINE LICENSES.—Licenses were granted to the following persons, there being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HORS[?]S STRAYING.—James Eckford, charged by the Inspector of Nuisances with allowing four horses to stray on the Pitnacree Road, East Maitland, pleaded guilty, and was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ASSAULT.—Edward Cantwell was charged with having, on the 8th October, unlawfully assaulted Walter Mullen[?] The complainant's evidence was that on Saturday evening, 18th October, between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday morning the civil business of this court was begun at East Maitland before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer. The barristers in attendance were: Messrs. F. E…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The court re-opened at 10 o'clock. BSEIVL V. HILL. This action which was a claim for half share of loss sustained on the shipment and sale of wool to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNKENNESS AND OBSCENE LANGUAGE.— Edward Canham who had been fined 10s. with an alternative of three days' for drunk[?]ness, had a penalty of 20s or seven days' imprisonment for using…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action brought by Thomas Cook, of Turanville, near Scone, against the Commissioner for Railways, for damage caused to plaintiff's grass lands by the emission of sparke and other burning…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The civil business was continued on Wednesday last. SEIVL V. HILL The First part of the morning was taken up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court re-opened at half-past 10 o'clock. ELLIS V. LYONS, Jury: Alexander Brown, John Ewing, Timothy O'Sullivan, and James Morrison…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an action brought by James Augustine Cuneen against the Commissioner for Railways for damage caused by sparks from a railway locomotive. The declaration…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prederick Boyd was charged with having been drunk and disorderly on Monday evening. Mr Howe Defended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INDECENT ASSAULT.—J. H. Brown was charged, on a warrant, with indecently assaulting one Charlotte Cook on the 27th of September last. James Smith stated: I am…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DRUNKENNESS.—Two persons were convicted of drunkenness, and fined respectively 2s 6d or three hours, and 20s or seven days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—Kindly permit me through your columns to ask "the powers that be" to do something to the cushions and seats in the sundry deportments of the Court House, jurors', reporters', and magistrates',—I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Court re-opened at 10 o'clock, NOWLAND V. QUINLAN. Jury: William Henry Holmes, Alex. Brown, John Lawrie, and Edward Sparke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the resumption of the criminal business this morning the case against Mary Ann Burton and Sarah Louisa Keep, charged with the murder of William Henry Keep,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The court re-opened at half-past 9 o'clock. NOWLAND V. NASH AND OTHERS. Jury: Gavan Carmichael, James Morrison, John Lawrie, and William Henry Holmes…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sparke and Clift v. Thomas Watts, loss on the resale of a horse, £5 4s 2d. Mr. Soiling appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Young for the defendant. The evidence for the plaintiffs showed that on the 3rd…
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