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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
487 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 25
A BOY named Oswald Hooker was changed with an assault on R. B. Conolly, another lad, by hitting him with a stone at Redbournberry. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Armidale Circuit Court yesterday, John Madden, aged 18, was sentenced to death for an attempt to murder, by poisoning, John Cosgrove. The latter having recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →REFERRING to the Webster court martial, the Telegraph says:-The evidence was a revelation of the way in which things are conducted in the little sham State, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Wednesday—A shocking tragedy is reported from the Island of Rustan, in the Bay of Honduras, Central America. An English missionary named Henry Hobson…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT Melbourne on Saturday night, about 8 o'clock, James Henry Williams, who had been 10 days discharged from gaol after having served three months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOME days ago a man lying dangerously ill in a village near Carlsbad confessed to a priest that he had recently committed murder in the woods near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HURRIBLE disclosures were made to-day at the inquest on the body of Mrs Johanna Bonney, who was found dead on the floor of her bedroom on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SHOCKING tragedy occurred at Gates Head, in the County of Durham, yester day. A married woman, who had been living apart from her husband for some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday night (April 20) about 8 o'clock, a seaman, named James Henry Williams, attempted, in a most deliberate and dastardly manner, to murder his wife, Jane Williams, by cutting her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.âA female, who was arrested on the previous night, was ordered to pay a fine of 5s, in default to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A startling murder, says the New York correspondent of the Daily News, was committed at Charleston, in South Carolina, on March 12. It appears that Captain F. W. Dawson, editor of The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A most daring escape from gaol was attempted on Wednesday morning last at East Maitland. The prisoners working on the tower, at the south-east corner of the gaol, were called in for church. By…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRIVING AT [?] PACE FASTER THAN A WALK.— William Young pleaded guilty to driving a horse and cart round the corner of a street at a pace faster than a walk. He was fined 5s, with 2s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Gardiner was brought up charged with being of unsound mind. Dr. Besston and Dr. Bowman both stated they had had the man under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HIDDEN away in the weekly gossip column of the Birmingham Post, we came upon the following account of the remarkable change which has come over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HIDDEN away in the weekly gossip column of the Birmingham Post, we came upon the following account of the remarkable change which has come over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RENEWAL OF WINE LICENSE.âMartin Bouffier, of Cessnock, applied for a renewal of his wine license. There were no objections of any sort, and the application was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BREACH OF MUNICIPAL BY-LAWS.âMichael Darcy was charged with allowing two horses to Btray in the streets of the borough. He was fined 5s, with 2s 6d costs.âAlexander Calwell, of Hinton,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Water Police Court on Friday, before Mr. A. M. Fisher, S.M., Robert Edward Hardy, 32, grocer, and W. Barnard, 42, condiment manufacturer, appeared in answer to a charge of beiug…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Melbourne police authorities have been notified of the fact of a remarkable arrest at Greta. It appeared that on September 13, 1877, a man named George Wright, who…
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