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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
398 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 20
The plaintiff, James Balcomb, sued Alfred Cobb, the defendant, to recover the sum of £2 16s 9d for goods sold and delivered. Defendant pleaded never indebted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mary Ann Adams pleaded guilty to a charge of neglecting to seed one of her children, Eliza Adams, to school. The same'defendant was similary charged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In this issue we publish a letter from the Colonial Secretary's Office, answer to a petition forwarded through Mn. R. G. D. FITZ GERALD, M.P., from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last Senior-sergt. Coady in company with Constable Pearce, proceeded to Moonan Brook to arrest one Laurence Kiley for lunacy, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sergeant Morrow v. Henry Burgess, riotous behaviour; fined 20s., or seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SWEENEY was brought up, in custody, charged with being drunk. Pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s. WIFE DESERTION…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EMBEZZLEMENT.—Frederick Pearse was charged that he on the 9th March last, at East Maitland, being then a servant to Thomas Bellamy, did fraudulently embezzle the sum of 3s, the property…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Court opened at 10 o'clock, Singleton Borough Council v. Thomas Eggleston. Claim for £4 18a 4d, arrears of rates. Verdict for full amount, with 5s for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LARCENY.—A respectable looking young man named Robert William Handel was charged with having stolen one horse rug and one surcingle the property of Frank Arthur Corner, of the value of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILLIAM BULLOCK GORDON was arrested on warrant at Stewart's Brook and brought up charged with wife desertion. He was remanded to West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The case against William Arthur Relton, who was indicted for having, on the 21st April last, committed wilful and corrupt perjury at East Maitland before his Honor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colin Mackenzie Logan was granted a of his colonial wine license for a house situated at Bunnan, Wybong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The case against William Arthur Relton was resumed. Charles York deposed: In March last I went out to North Charlton with my father; don't remember…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Henry Mortimer, a prisoner in Melbourne Gaol, was tried at the Molbourne Criminal Court on a charge of wounding Warder Adams with intent to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As "drunk" was admonished and discharged it being his first offence. BREACH OF SOUTH SINGLETON BY-LAWS, Mary Britz was charged by the Inspector of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Golding, a drover's assistant, has been committed for trial for an attempted criminal assault on a domentic servant named Mary Juttrill, at Broken Dam, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DELIBERATE attempt to murder a woman was made on Wednesday at Lilydale (Vie.) by a man named George Syme. Syme is living apart from his wife, who recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CARELESS DRIVING.—The adjourned case-Albert Tonks, charged with having on the 8th September driven upon Newcastle-street so carelessly, that the safety of other persons was endangered, was called…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lawrence Kiley was brought up on remand, charged with being of unsound mind, Doctor F. C. Stevenson deposed : Ho had examined the prisouer, and questioned him…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Oh, I say," cried my opponent, advanving, "what's the row now?" "I seem to be in the hands of the law," I replied, "for the heinous crime of…
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