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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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WILLIAM SPINKS pleaded guilty to a charge of resisting the police in the execution of their duty, and was fined 10s, or, in default of immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALLEGED LARCENY IN A DWELLING.—John Monaghan and James M'Millan, two young men of respectable appearance, were brought up, on remand, charged with having stolen, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Blantyre miners have struck work in sympathy with the railway men. A sharp akirmish has taken place between the police and the strikers at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A CHARGE UNDER THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT.—Adeline Cavenagh, a girl of tender years, was brought before the bench under the provisions of the Industrial Schools Act. It seemed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wolfe, Garrick, and Co. v. J. Ireland, balance of account for goods sold, 14s 8d, £4 having been paid after the summons was issued. Verdict for amount claimed with 17s costs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COLIN MAR[?]HALL was charged with being drunk and disorderly on the 23rd December last. Defendant, who pleaded not guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Postmaster-General, Mr D. O'Connor, has come into collision with the Supreme Court. The foots of the case are as follow:—Some weeks ago…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At this court on Wednesday, before J. N. Brooks, Esq., P.M., and Messrs. Green and Walker, Js.P., the following cases were disposed of—Geo. Young, hotelkeeper, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LARCENY OF SCALPS.—John Erickson was charged with having stolen a number of dog scalps. Remanded for eight days. HORSE STEALING.—John Smith, alias Bourke,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[Sir Stafford Northeote was wont to tell Devonshire stories with much humour and spirit. The following is one of them.] A man of the name of J. B. was accused of having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fashionably attired young man, described as a bookmaker, and named Charles Alfred Maddock, was presented to the Prahran magistrates on Monday on a charge of wife desertion. The Melbourne Age…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DRIVING WITHOUT LIGHTS.—Alfred Hyndes was fined 10s, with 2s 6d court costs, for not having lights attached to his vehicle after sunset. ALLEGED BREACH OF THE POISONS ACT.—Chang…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TROUBLESOME FELLOW.âDaniel Markham, who had been before the court on many occasions previously, but of late had not been a resident of the town, was charged with having been drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →T. J. Finley, jun., v. J. Lowe, absconding from his hired service as a shearer, he being a member of the Shearers' Union, on the 14th October, 1890. Mr. Treacher, of Quirindi, for plaintiff, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Cohen and Mr. Burke (instructed by Mr. F. W. Walker, solicitor for the informants) appeared in the matter between the Attorney-General of New South Wales, on the relation of John Arkins,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anne Howe, 22, a match maker, was charged with causing the death of her child, which was under three years of age.-The evidence showed that the prisoner herself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warsaw, Nov. 27.-After a mail train on the Warsaw. Vicuna railway had p[?]ssed the station of Kutno to-day two passengers were found murdered in a second-class…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MARGARET J. MORAN, Sedgefield, applied for a renewal of wine license. Mr W. W. Robbinson appeared in support of the application, which was opposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What is known as the Hampstead murder case was finally disposed of on December 3, the trial of the accused—Mrs. Pearcey—for the murder of Mrs. Hogg aud her child resulting in a verdict of guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALLEGED WIFE DESERTION.—James Smith, labourer, appeared on summons to answer a charge of deserting his wife. He pleaded not guilty, and said that his wife had deserted him. Mr. J. E…
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