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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
487 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 25
Thomas, the Sydney bank defaulter, was brought before the police court to-day and remanded for the arrival of the Sydney police, when he will be sent back to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R. Robinson v. Wm. Shepherd, amount £6 4s 7d; verdict for portion of amount. H. Dixon v. J. Robertson; verdict for £9 8s and costs. Dixon v. Griffin; verdict for £2 5s and costs. Adrian v…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drunkenness.—An inebriate was ordered to pay a penalty of 10s, the alternative being forty-eight hours' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Executors in the estate of the late George Brewer v. Frank Jennings, balance of account for goods supplied, £9 7s. Mr. Soiling for plaintiffs, for whom a verdict for amount claimed, with 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROBERT HOWARD, the New South Wales hangman, arrived at Wagga by train on Friday morning. None of the cabmen would drive him or take his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT Wagga all preparations have been copleted for the execution of Beilly, the murderer of Eppel, which takes place at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. The under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the trial of the men charged with having murdered Dr. Cronin, evidence was given by Winnipes convicts, who awear that four men [?] Dr Cronin to death with Band-bags and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE application of William Walker for an auctioneer's license for the Scone district was granted. SLAUGHTERING WITHOUT NOTICE…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS has been received in Sydney that H.M.S. Royalist, attached to the Australian station, has been cruising among the Solomon Islands punishing natives for recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The license of the Freemason's Arms, John-street, was transferred from William M'Donald to John M'Menamen, BREACH OF PUBLICAN'S ACT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A WELL-KNOWN showman named John Ice bas been arrested at Broken Hill and charged with the wilful murder of his adopted son, Charles Godfrey. Godfrey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DESERTING HIS CHILDREN.—Samuel Ward was charged with having unlawfully deserted his children,—Walter, Mary, and Francis Ward. He was apprehended on Sunday forenoon by virtue of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alexander Sullivan, one of the men accused of complicity in the murder of Dr Cronic, at Chicago, has been discharged, there being no ground for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Terry pleaded guilty to being drunk, and was fined 20s or seven days. LANGUAGES. The same acc accnsed also pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Central Criminal Court today, John Williams, for stealing from a dwelling, was sent up for six years penal servitude; Charles Edwards, for robbery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THINGS were rather likely at the Girls Industrial School at Parramatta on Friday night, when some of the girls, taking advantage of the temporary absence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the request on the body of the unfortunate man Bartlett, victim of King-street shooting Affray, this morning, Willoughby Andrews, the man who shot him, was before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Thomas Smith, in custody, pleaded guilty of using "language" in Bridge-street on the preceding evening, and it being his "first offence, your Worships," Thomas was let off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the case of Wells—charged with the murder of his mother at Penrith two years ago by putting her down a well, where the body was afterwards found,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night (says the Melbourne Age) the refractory ward of the Melbourne Hospital was as usual fully occupied. Two of the rooms were occupied by female patients, and the third by two…
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