These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
447 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 23
At the Goulburn Police[?]Court on Monday morning, before the Police Magistrate and Mr. E. Ball, J.P., Osmond Gerard was charged with wilfully attempting to kill and murder Francis Poidevin on…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →John Nicholls, in custody on remand from Cassilis, was brought before the Court charged with forging and uttering, and remanded till the following day. OCTOBER 27, 1886…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →JAMES BENHAM application for a publicans' license for premises previously known' as the Union Hotel, situate in Bourke street Singleton. Mr. A. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas A. Moore v. Patrick M'Kee, professional services, medicine; etc., £1 2s 6d. Verdi[?]t for amount claimed, with costs of court, and 2s Gd expenses of witness. Mr. Solling for plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LUNACY.—Frances Hunt, a young woman, was brought up on suspicion of being of unsound mind. At an early hour yesterday morning the unfortunate woman was discovered on the reserve, near the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last night at eight o'clock the Colonial Secretary (Hon. G. R. Dibbs) received from Lismore telegrams sent by the bench of magistrates in that town and by Dean Doyle, in which fears are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR—John Boyle and James Forbes two youths were charged with having behaved in n riotous manner In High-street. It appeared from the evidence of Constable Chcdz[?]y that the defendants came out of a public house In…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →CROSS KEYS HOTEL, ALLYN BROOK.—The meeting was specially called to consider an application from the licensee of this house for a renewal of his license. It will be remembered that when this…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →STOCK ASTRAY.âAlexander Neddrie was muleted in the penalty of 5s, with 2s 6d court costs, for suffering two horses to stray in a public street. No LIGHTS.âTimothy Lynch was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A NIGHTSOIL NUISANCE.—William Davis was charged with having suffered nightsoil to remain on Tank-street. It seemed from the evidence of the Inspector of Nuisances, that on the 27th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TERRIBLE occurrence took place on Wednesday at the Great Western Railway Station, Snow-bill, Birmingham. For about half an hour a middle-aged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEAN THEFT.—Henry Bagnell was charged with having, at East Maitland, on the 7th instant, stolen a sovereign, the property of Charles W. Newton, in the following circumstances: Prosecutor is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This was a special case, stated by consent, under the provisions of the Common Law Procedure Act of 1853 for the determination of certain points of law arising under the administration of the Land…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →LUNACY.âEdward Chisholm was brought up in circumstances denoting derangement of mind. From certain information which had been communicated to him Sergeant Cruise visited the Commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the Moruya Police Court recently, before Messrs. E. J. Caman and Simpson, a rather sensational case was heard, the complainant being Angus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →William John Newton, a boy 14 years of age, was brought up on remand, on a charge of stealing a pair of pigeons the property of James White, of Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM an Exchange we clip the following :—The Evening News has been teeming with accounts of the marvelleus revelations of a clairveyant at seances…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Following is the fuller telegraphic account of the Kimberley murders, to which allusion was made in our last issue: M'Pheo's Creek, Sept. 22…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A heart-rending atrocity of wife-murder and selfdestruction was enacted at Newtown to-day, with the result that a man and woman in the prime of life and holding a good social position were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Saunders was charged on the information of Constable Gosling with being drunk and disorderly, using obscene language, and resisting the police in the execution of their duty. With the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →