The Boy Murderer. Charged with Shooting his Father
AT the Buthurst Circuit Court on Wednesday last Richard Cross, a boy under 13 was charged with mudering his father, Charles Cross, at Hill-end,…
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Courts & crime, 1892
516 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 26
West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, April 14. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. J. Riley, and Jno. Rourke, J's. P.)
THREATENING LANGUAGE.—James Lachlan was charged that he, at Louth Park, West Maitland, did threaten one Joseph Calwell that he would cleave him down, he at the time of making such…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Burglary in Sydney. Disturbed at Their Work
WHILE Constable Farr, of Woollahra, was patrolling the Glenmore-road at 3.30 a.m. on Monday he saw two men who were sitting on the doorstep of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 19Th April. (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, P.m.) Drunk
Two "drunks" pleaded guilty and were each fined 5s or 24 hours in the lockup. INDECENT LANGUAGE. William Finn pleaded guilty to a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Confession of a Forgotten Murder
At Warrington, on Feb. 27, a respectably-dressed man named Roland George Lush was charged on his own confession With having murdered William Parsons at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coveted Criminal Documents a Daring Attempt at Burglary. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A DARING attempt to commit a burglary at the office of the Clerk of the Peace was discovered this morning. No money was in the office, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Scare in Court
The hearing of a trial for murder at Nagpur Was brought to an abrupt termination by an extraordinary outbreak on the part of the prisoner.The case was being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Brutal Murder. (Herald.) Melbourne
A brutal murder was committed this evening in a five-roomed house in M'Crae-street, Bendigo, the victim being Michael Gearon, aged 51. He was formerly a miner, but during the past three months,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder by a Mother
In Blackburn, on March 10th, the wife of a brewer's labourer named Enright cut the throat of one of her six children with a razor. After her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court, 20Th April, 1892. (Before J. N. Brooks, P.M.)
Charles F. Taft, charged with assaulting one Thomas Piper, thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm, on the 18th inst. Constable Snushall, on oath, states: About 12 o'clock on Monday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Bendigo Tragedy. Suicide, not Murder
Since the article which appears elsewhere in our columns under the heading of "more murder in Victoria" was published, it has been discovered that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Police Sergeant's "Mistake"
Mr Rusker, a farmer, of Bearley, Warwickshire, is known far and wide as a total abstainer. One day while he was driving at King's Heath he had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Murder in Victoria. a Brutal Assassination
INFORMATION from Victoria states that a brutal murder was committed on Tuesday evening in a five-roomed house in M'Crae-street, Bendigo, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Anarchists. Plot to Murder the King of Spain
LONDON, April 19,—Two dynamite outrages are reported from Belgium. In one case a dynamite bomb was ex at the house of Public Prosecutor in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, April, 21, 1892. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., H. Crothers and Jno, Rourke, J's.P.)
VAGRANCY.—George Lang, an elderly man, was charged undpr the Vagrant Act with having no visible lawful means of support or fixed place of abode. It appeared from the evidence of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Licensing Court. Thursday, April 21, 1892. (Before Mr. W. F. PARKER, L.M., and F. A. Parbury, L.m.)
William Phillips, charged with Sunday selling, at the Seg [?]hoe Hotel, Ab[?]dien. Mr. J. A. K. Shaw appeared for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, April 25. (Before Mr. Brookes, P.M.)
DRUNKENNESS AND OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—William Clarendon, who was sentenced to pay a fine of 5s, in gefault to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours, for having been drunk in High-street on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →East Maitland Police Court. Friday, April 22, 1892. (Before Mr. Brooks, P.M., and Dr. Wright, J. P.)
THREATENING LANGUAGE.—Mary Greaves charged her husband, Charles Greaves, with having declared and threatened that he would do some personal injury to the complainant, and applied that he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Sensational Burglary
FROM Adelaide it is reportod that a burglary with brutal violence took place last Saturday morning at the house of Mrs P. P. Dungey, a widow,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 26th APRIL. (Before Messrs. J. N. Brooks, P.M., St. T. Loder, and Geo. L. Lothbridge, J's.P. Inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm
RALPH GASKIN was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on John M'Menamen. Mr E. P. Richards appeared for the…
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