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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
447 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 23
NO LIGHTS.—John Atkinson was fined 12s 6d, with 2s 6d court costs, for driving a vehicle without lights in High-street after sunset…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Denis Dwyer, school attendance officer, v. Robert Gall.—Defendant was charged with neglecting to send his child, Thomas Gall, to school 70 days during the half-year ended 31st December, 1885,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Central Criminal Court in Berlin has (says the local correspondent of The Times) been engaged with a murder trial, which it would be difficult to match for brutality and repulsiveness even in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A despatch to the New York Times, dated New Orleans, March 10, aays:— fatal duel occurred at 1.30 o'clock to-day in the private office of the clerk of the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Adriatic, which arrived in Queenstown, brought files of the American papers of the 18th March, containing particulars of the discovery of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An exciting scene was witnessed in Liverpoolstreet near Sussex-street, at a late hour last night. Two constables named Murdoch and Andrews, attached to the Central Police Station,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PUBLICANS' LICENSES RENEWED.—An application from Abigail McKee, licensee of the Farmers' United Home, Morpeth, for a renewal of her publican's license, was further considered. An objection…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Greta on Saturday, before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M., and J. A. Osborne, J.P.-Constable John Dunshea prosecuted George Sincock, William Davis, Augustus Riley, and Robert Sawyer,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Court of Requests was opened, when S. J. Dowell v. George Wilkinson was called. Dofendant did not appear. Verdict for plaintiff. A Court of Appeal against the assessment for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Edward Dixon, agent Mercantile Bank, sued Angus M'Donald, Manager Greta Colliery, for sum of £2 8s. Verdict for plaintiff, with 6s costs. William Scully sued W. Boland for refreshments,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →LARCENY.—Sarah Hassett was charged with having at West Maitland, on or about the 20th instant, stolen a gold ring, a £21-note, and some articles of ladies' wearing apparel, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Essex Market Police Court, New York, is oc casionally the theatre of mi[?]thful scenes. Here is one of the latest:- Benno Drucker, aged twenty-five years, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LUNACY.—Mary Ann Chapman, arrested on Sunday afternoon in circumstances denoting derangement of mind, the result apparently of the excessive use of intoxicants, was too ill to leave the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion to make absolute a rule nisi for a prohibition. The appellant had been convicted on an information under the Inclosed Lands Protection Act (18 Vic, No. 27), sec. 1, for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Pearse was charged with a breach of the Licensing Act, by having drank liquor in the Agricultural Hotel on Sunday, 23rd May, not being a lodger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A more cold-blooded and mysterious outrage has seldom been chronicled in Melbourne than that which was enacted on Saturday night within a few feet of one of the busiest of the suburban…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, Constable Selby, who was on duty in Flinders-street, was informed by two young men that they had seen a man kicking another whilst he was lying on the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Intelligence has been received by the Limerick constabulary authorities of a serious conflict between a party of police and an armed body of Moonlighters near the town…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Upon proof being given to the satisfaction of His Worship, that Richard Hayne by the excessive dunking of liquor was wasting his means, &c., a prohibition was granted forbidding all licensed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.âThomas Bellamy, charged with having made use of obscene language in High-street, on the 20th May, pleaded guilty, and stated that he had a dispute with another 'bus driver,…
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