Daring. Burglary and Robbery. What Can be Done?
A most daring robbery was perpetrated at Alexandria, Sydney, early on Sunday morning, a heavy iron safe, which weighed fully 2ewt., having…
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Courts & crime, 1892
516 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 26
Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 14Th June. (Before Messrs J. N Brooks, P.M., and W. Dudding, J.p.) Drunk and Disorderly
OWEN JONES pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and was fined 20s, cr, in default, seven days in the lockup…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Land Court Case An Interesting Point Settled
At the sitting of the Land Court in Sydney on Friday last an important decision Was given by Mr Oliver (President) and Mr Freeman in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting in a Railway Carriage. Valker, M.P., before the Court. Victim too Unwell to Attend. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Redfern Police Court to-day Mr Walker, M.P., was charged with [?] the Rev. Lascron in a railway [?] about ten days ago. After his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death In Maitland Gaol
Before Mr. Brooks, coroner, at Maitland Gaol, on Tuesday afternoon, an inquiry was held into the circumstances attending the death of a confinee, Phillip Roscoe Schpineskey. The following evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weat Maitland Police Court. Thursday, June 16, 1892. (Before Mr. Brooks, L.M.)
TRANSFER OF A PUBLICAN'S LICENSE.—Application was made for the transfer of the license of the Hinton Hotel from Aubrey Coombes to John Hill. No police objection was offered, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greta. Police Court, 15Th June, 1892. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M.)
Arthur W. R. Knott, in custody, charged with nsing indecent language in Chapman's Family Hotel the previous evening. Pleaded guilty; fined 10s or forty-eight hours in lookup. Fine not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Licensing Court
Yesterday, at East Maitland, a special meeting of the Licensing Court for the district of Maitland was held for the purpose of considering applications made for the renewal of licenses under the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Memorialising a Murder
A singularly gruesome ceremony was performed at the Melbourne General Cemetery last Friday morning, when the remains of Emily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suspicious Death of a Girl. De Wayne Sentenced
AT the Central Criminal Court on Saturday Louis de Wayne, who was found guilty on Saturday on a charge of having on February 10 last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Tuesday, June 21st, 1892. Before Dr. H. J. H. Scott and Mr. J. J. Dodd, J's.P
THOMAS PHELAN was charged with maliciously [?]ing a dog, ordinarily kept for domestic purposes, the property of Edward Solomons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Deliberate Murder Shot Through the Heart. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
A MAN known as " Scotty " Edwards was shot dead to-day, it is alleged, by Joseph Carter, with whom ho had a serious quarrel. Carter, who is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. Tuesday, 21St June. (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, P.M. and Dr. R. Rend, J.p.) Renewals
THE following renewals of publiceans licenses were granted:—Thomas Balls Railway Hotel; Robert Clarke Bridge Hotel; John J. Deherty, Red…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Quarter Sessions. Tuesday, June 21. (Before his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.)
The Court re-opened at 10 o'clock. Mr. Beva[?] prosecuted for the Crown. FORGERY AND UTTERING. Thomas Robinson was charged that he, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Magistrate's Decision Questioned. An Appeal from the Police. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The police to-day appealed to the Supreme Court Judge against the decision of police magistrate Giles in dismissing an information by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Assault in the Railway Carriage
On May 12, before Sir Peter Edlin Q.C., the Hon. Patrick Greville Nugent was indicted for assaulting Marion S. Price, in a first-class railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court, June 22Nd. (Before J. N. Brooks, Esp., P.M.)
An inebriate, first offence, was sentenced to pay a fine of 2s 6d, or occupy a cell in rear of courthouse till 6 p.m. He had 1s 3d on his person, and expressed a belief that he would be able to "float a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland District Court
The business of the Maitland District Court was entered upon on Thursday morning, a[?] East Maitland, before His Honor Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson. The barristers present were Messrs. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Good Story. a Narrow Escape. Circumstantial Evidence Nearly Results in Judical Murder. The Mysterious stranger-A Toll-Tale Glove-A Sensational Revolation in Court Which Acquitted an Innocent Man
De Quincey related that, shortly after the Rate[?] Highway (England) murder, in 1812, he met coleridge, and found him "in a profound reverie upon the trememdous power…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small Debts Court Thursday, June 23rd, 1892. Before Dr. H. J. H. Scott
DAVID WILLIAMS, of Moonan Brook, sued Geo. Hymes for the sum of £8 6, for the hire of two horses, agistment and cost of a counterpane and blanket…
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