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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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ONLY two cases were sat down for hearing, one of which was settled out of court, and in the other there was no appearance of parties…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, a meeting of the Local Land Board was held, when the applications hereunder mentioned were heard [?]nd determined. The board was constituted of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This Court was opened on Tuesday. Several undefended cases were disposed of. The following causes were also heard:- Richard Young v. George William Sterrett,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joseph Carter, a lunatic, on a month's leave of absence from Gladesville Asylum, was brought up charged with being of unsound mind, and not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOSEPH CHAPTER, a lunatic, on leave of absence from the Gladesville Asylum, was brought up on a charge of being unfit to be at large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Sweeney v. John Healy, using threatening words with intent. Mr. Middleton deemed the threat of so frivolous a character that he dismissed the complaint with costs. Mr. Soiling for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Saturday afternoon a shocking tragedy occurred in Riley-street, Woolloomooloo, where a man named William Carroll murdered his wife, Mary Ann Carroll, by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BREACHES OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACT. Ann Shearer was charged by William Lumley Bernard, School Attendance Officer under the Public Instruction Act, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dugald Robertson was charged by Senior-Sergeant Smith with committing the abovenamed offence in Muswellbrook on the 28th February last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BREACHES OF THE MUNICIPAL BY-LAWS.—A lad named George Taylor was charged with that he did loiter on the street, and that he did not discontinue so to do upon being requested by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Walter Lore was charged with stealing some money, the property of John Teddiman, from a dwelling. Mr A. J. Gould appeared for accused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A startling disclosure comes to hand from Mortlake. It appears (says the Evening News) that a man named Michael Carroll, aged 40, who has been employed as a labourer at the Mortlake…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following is a list of causes set down for hearing at the Maitland District Court, on Saturday next. Alex. M'Donald, v. A. Phillipa, jun.; goods sold. Alex. M'Donald, v. Thos. Macpherson; goods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Court re-opened at nine o'clock. Mr. Fitzhardings prosecuted for the Crown. NEW MAGISTRATES. Messrs. James E. Hannell and F. Lowe were sworn…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robert Read, in custody, was charged with stealing two pumpkins from a garden, the property of Alex. Milligan, on the 11th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Wilson who was found guilty on a previous day on two counts of horse-stealing—stealing the same horse twice—was brought up for sentence. Mr Harris, Deputy Gaoler, produced a record of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News reached Yass on Monday night thataserious shooting affray had taken place at Binalong, and that the would be muderer had made off. It appears from the Kiss Courier that on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The business of this court was entered upon before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling, on Saturday morning. Messrs. W. Blacket and A. B. Shand were the barristers present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK[?]NNSS.—An elderly woman, who has been before the court on many previous occasions, and was recently brutally assaulted by a man who is undergoing a term of imprisonment, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the police Court to-day, the man willam Carrol, who confessed to the murder of a girl at Eltham, England, was discharged on a formalcharge of lunacy, and re-arrested…
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