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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
324 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 17
BREACH OF MUNICIPAL BY-LAW.—J. H. Wilkins was summoned by the Acting Inspector of Licensed Vehicles, Carts, Waggons, &c., for plying for hire within the municipality of Muswellbrook without…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY morning Mr C. T. Norton, Principal of the Singleton Grammar School received a telegram from 'Sydney stating that four of his pupils, Masters Blaxland,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Wilcannia police court on Thursday last, John Taylor, a stonemason, was charged before the P.M. with having attempted to murder his wife by cutting her throat with a razor, on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The sittings of the Maitland District Court opened at East Maitland, on Thursday morning before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Larceny.—Philip McCafferty was charged with having at East Maitland, on the 8th instant, stolen one broom, the property of Martha Wilding. The case was initiated on Wednesday, and remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →EXPOSURE.âAndrew Moore, who was charged with having indecently exposed his person in view of persons passing in Sempill-street on the previous day, pleaded not guilty. Accused was found lying…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →DRUNKENNESS and INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.— Charles Campbell, admonished and discharged for being drunk, was sentenced to pay a penalty of 20s, or to be imprisoned for seven days, for indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Johnson, alias Hall, remanded from Scone, was charged with having stolen a black and white sheep-dog, the property of Frederick Bond Smith. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. The evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This action, which was for negligence, the claim being £200, was begun on Thursday, when the case for the plaintiff was concluded, a summary of which appeared elsewhere in our last issue…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was a Supreme Court issue sent for trial at the Maitland District Court on the 7th September last, and postponed till the present sittings of the couit, owing to the absence of the necessity papers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was an action brought by John Boyle and Jane Boyle, his wife, against William Taylor, for wrongfully and negligently driving a cow which attacked and gored the female plaintiff; whereby…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Oct. 29 four men broke into Netherby Hall, the residence of Sir Frederick Graham, near Carlisle, and stole a quantity of jewellery. Information having been given to the county police,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The S. M. Herald's St. Petersburg correspondent writes on Oct. 9:—The great event of the day in St. Petersburg is the renewal of the trial of Mironowitch. The readers of these letters have perhaps…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →APPRENTICE CASES.—Thomas Chandler, brought up in custody, charged on warrant issued by the West Maitland Bench with absconding from indentured apprenticeship of Morris Benjamin, of West…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The police of London are striking back at the Pall Mall Gazette for the strictures which that paper made on them during its recent exposures of London vice. They cannot assail the paper directly,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →From a Blue-book just issued, relative to the British Army, it appears that during the last year there were 12,493 soldiers tried by court-martial, and as all were found guilty aad punished, there…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Stephen Bushly was sentenced to pay a fine of 10s, in default to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours, for behaving in an indecent manner in Melbourne-street, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Billiard license renewals were guaranteed to James Nichol, Peter Russell, and Joseph McAlpin, and a bagatelle license was granted to Margaret…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS, PROFANE LANGUAGE AND ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—James Shiner, convicted of drunkenness and fined 20s, or seven days' imprisonment, was further muleted in the penalty of £2, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—John Murphy was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in a public street on Monday evening. About 9 o'clock that night Constable Brown heard a noise…
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