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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
398 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 20
STOCK ASTRAY.—John Ryan was fined 2s 6d, with 2s 6d court costs, for suffering a horse to stray. [Mr. Browne, J.P., did not adjudicate in this case.]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Martin Daley was fined 10s, in default to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours, for being drunk and disorderly on Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking crime, arising out of the national agitation, is reported from Ireland. At Listowel, in County Cork, two wellknown farmers, who have been boycotted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chinaman who murdered Morris, at Blacktown, regained consciousness last night, but he is not expected to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HENRY PATON, a boy about eleven years of age, was charged with stealing fruit. Henry Coffin deposed that he was a fruiterer, and on Friday last bad left his cart at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY afternoon a shocking murder was committed by a Chinaman at Blacktown, a settlement a few miles beyond town, a settlement a few miles beyond…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A boy, aged eight years, living in Paris, murdered his brother, aged six, and afterwards committed suicide. The murder was planned in the most deliberate manner, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GOULD and King v. R. Southon. Claim for £2 4s 8d, goods sold and delivered. The defendant being a resident of Newcastle, the Bench decided that it had no jurisdiction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SERIOUS charge against a rising clergyman of the Church of England was investigated by the Adelaide Ecclesiastical Court on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Eliza Welsh was convicted of having been drunk and disorderly in Newcaatle-street, on Wednesday evening, and ordered to pay a fine of 10s, in default to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William R. Fox v. Robert Thompson, goods sold, £1 13s 6d. Verdict for plaintiff, with 8s costs. Edmund Auckett v. Keyran Maher, money lent, £5. Verdict for amount of claim, with costs, 7s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LARCENY.—Ernest Fitch, aged eleven years, was charged with having stolen three pigeons, the property of James McLaughlin. The lad admitted that he took one of the birds, and said the others…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Joan Apps v. Thomas Moore and Thomas Andrew Moore. This was an action for £10, and the plaint set out that the defendants "so negligently, improperly and unskilfully drove and managed a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →STEALING FROM THE PERSON.—Joseph Stubberfield and Jack Fogg were charged that they, on the 3rd instant, at Rutherford, did steal from the person of Richard Jackson, the sum of £8, two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Forsyth, alias Billy Barlow, was charged by Constable Butler with being drunk and disorderly. Pleaded guilty, and was fined 1s, or imprisonment until the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INDECENT EXPOSURE.—William Cox was ordered to pay a fine of 20s, with 6s 8d court costs, and 5s expenses of a witness, for having indecently exposed himself within view of persons passing in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Forsyth, better known as Billy Barlow, was brought before the court by Constable Butler, charged with being drunk and disorderly in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daniel Roger Harris v. Edward Bartlett. Daniel R. Harris, on oath, stated: I am a miner and hold a miner's right…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Brisbane police are investigating the case of criminal assault on the girl Annie I[?] at Woollangabbs, on Saturday night. A young married man named Harry Payne,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, [?] meeting of the Local Land Board was held. The three members were in attendance: Messrs. James Vernon, (Chairman), J. N. Brooks, P.M., and John…
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