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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
324 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 17
While the people of Forbes were quietly sleeping on Wednesday night, a most horrible murder was committed almost in the town. The victim is an old woman named Mrs. Ragen who lived by herself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Darley, Q.C., and Mr. Harris, instructed by Messrs. Want, Johnson, and Co., appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Pilcher and Dr. Sly, instructed by Dr. G. J. Sly, for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GEORGE BROOMFIELD v. WM. GILBURT. Claim for £10 7s good sold. Defence : Not indebted. Mr Gould appeared for plaintiff and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This Court opened on Tuesday, the 15th instant, at 10 a.m., before his Honor Judge Dowling. William Gilbert was sued by George Broomfield, for the sum of £10 7s, being for furniture supplied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Legislative Council on Wednesday, MrDalley intimated that the prisoner Graham Ben. nett, who was convicted with others for complicity in the murder of Constable Bowen at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Boorer v. John Crockett, Section 17, Diseases in Sheep Act. Defendant pleaded not guilty.—John Boorer, on oath, saith: I have heard my information read, and it is true, and defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →DRUNKENNESS.—Two persons were convicted of drunkenness, and fined 5s or six hours' confinement in the lockup. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The inquiry touching the death of Catherine Rogan, an old woman who was found murdered in her house on the Condoblin road on the morning of the 10th inst., was resumed on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Pilcher and Mr. C. B. Stephen, instructed by Messrs. Norton, Smith, Westgarth, and Saunders, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Darley, Q.C., and Mr. Field, instructed by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DRUNKENNESS.—One person was convicted of an offence against sobriety, in Melbourne-street East Maitland on the previous day, and a fine of 5s was inflicted, with the alternative of 24 hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—James Murdoch, who pleaded guilty, was fined 10s, with the alterative of three days' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly in High-street at one o'clock on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR.—Patrick Conroy, a youth, on bail, pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a riotous manner in High-street. It appeared that on Saturday evening, about twenty minutes past…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Bruderlin, charged with disturbing the Salvation Army on the previous evening, was remanded for a week, being admitted to bail, the arresting Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pittsfield, Mass., July 5.—The dead body of George Dunbar, one of Pittsfield's wealthiest and best known citizens, and for many years superintendent of the Pittsfield Gas Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKAND DISORDERLT.—Thomas Sloan, charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Melbourne-street, pleaded not guilty. Constable Bellamy's attention was called to the defendant's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At about half-past 11 o'clock on Saturday night, a man named Kitson, aged 25 years, was murdered on the road near Ghinni Ghinni, by two aboriginals named Combo and Johnny Gibson. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →On Friday last the Circuit Court was opened at Tamworth before His Honor Sir William Manning. Mr. Tarleton was the Crown prosecutor, and the other members of the bar present were Mr. D…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Bruderlin was charged on remand with disturbing the congregation of the Salvation Array at their barracks in George-street on Monday night week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This court resumed its sittings on Saturday morning before his Honor Sir William Manning. John Curran, who pleaded guilty on the previous day to a charge of uttering, was sentenced to two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DRUNKENNESSâOne offender pleaded guilty to having been drunk and was ordered to forfeit 5s, or to undergo 24 hours incarceration in the lockup. INDECENT EXPOSURE.âA charge of having committed an…
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