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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
406 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 21
BREACHES OF THE PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACT.—John Canham, Henry Fitness, and George West were fined 1s, with 7s 4d court costs, for not causing their children to attend school for a period of not less than seventy days during the half-year…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →S. J. Dowell v. Henry Rogers, goods sold, £5 6s 8d. Defendant did not appear, and, on proof of service of summons, a verdict was entered for plaintiff for the amount claimed and 19s costs…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SUPPOSED LUMACY.—Michael Miley, an aged man, was brought up in circumstances denoting derangement of mind. The unfortunate man was discovered by the police at an early hour that morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thomas Shelton v. Elizabeth Brown, goods sold, £1 13s 6d. Mr. Morrie appeared for the plaintiff, who obtained a verdict for the amount claimed, with 5s costs and 5s expenses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Mudgee assizes yesterday, Amelia Cupitt was sentenced to death for the wilful murder of her infant child…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Lane was brought up on a charge of embezzling the sum of £4 3s 3d, the property of William Henry green, of Newcastle. Senior constable Hickey deposed : On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALLEGED STEALING FROM A DWELLING.—Thomas Kerwin appeared in custody, on remand from Maitland, charged with having on the 10th day of August last stolen a purae containing £5 from a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The regular quarterly meeting of the Licensing Bench for the licensing district of Muswellbrook was held at the Courthouse, at noon on Wednesday last. Present: E. Bowman, Esq., J.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A small brick house in Canning-street, Carlton, was shortly after midnight on Friday the scene of one of the most desperate and violent efforts to resist the entrance of the police which has occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frederick Cross, for drunkenness, was fined 5s., in default of payment 24 hours in Greta lock-up. William Burns, for a similar offence, was fined 10s., in default 48 hours in Greta lock-up.—The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →DRUNKENNESS.—Two persons who had been worshipping with too much fervency at the shrine of Bacchus were mulcted in the sum of 5s 4d each, with the option of spending…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →APPRENTICE CASE.—William Smith and Andrew Skulthorpe were charged that they, being apprenticed to the firm of Dilley and Hogan, did absent themselves without leave or lawful excuse before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intelligence from Irelad states that Mr Hegarty, Police Magistrate of MillStreet Cork, has been fired at and wounded. The police have not succeded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Constable O'Connel was shot at Freemantle on Wednesday evening by a man named Hughes, whom he was endeavouring to arrest, O'Connel is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Roms states th[?] that Mr Edwin Hawkins, chairman of Murilla Divisional Board, was [?] dead in his bed, having been sho[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOR allowing animals to stray, George Allen, Margaret Magine and Thomas Playford were severally fined 5S for each animal, with 2s 6d costs of court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BATHING AT PBOHIBITED HOURS.—John Butler, Michael Seymour, Matthew Seymour, and Henry Field, four boys, were charged with having bathed in view of Steamer-street, a public street, between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CRUELLY ILLTREATING ANIMALS.—Reuben Hills was charged with having cruelly illtreated two horses by working them with sore shoulders. Defendant pleaded guilty, and stated that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →APPLICATIONS FOR COLONIAL WINE LICENSES.— John Thomas Chapman, storekeeper, applied for a certificate authorising the issue of a colonial wine license for premises situate at Cessnock. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Circuit Court will be opened at East Maitland, on Monday, at 10 a.m., before his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett. Mr. H. L. Elles will prosecut for the Crown. We are indebted to Mr. F. S…
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