These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
536 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 27
DRUNKENNESS.—A young man was charged with being drunk in High-street on Saturday night. His father appeared for him, and pleaded guilty, saying he had to leave town to go to his work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—It is always a pleasure to bestow a word of praise in a deserving quarter, especially on those who so often have to bear unmerited reproach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ELIZABETH TELFORD was brought up on a charge of attempted suicide. Constable Turner deposed that at about 8 o'lock on Saturday night he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALLEGED BUEGLARY.—John Robinson, on remand, was charged on suspicion of attempting to break into the house of Beuben Ray, of 30 Brougham-street, Sydney, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WILLIAM LEWIS sued Michael Cantwell under the Masters and Servants Act. for the sum of £3 1s, work and labor done. Mr. J. A. K. Shaw appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the police court on Tuesday last, W. F. Parker, Esq., P. M., presiding, Senior-Sorgeant David Cowan was charged with having been drunk and incapable of discharging his duties on the 17th June last on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LUNACT.—Joseph Clarke was brought before the Bench on a charge of being of unsound mind. Sergeant Oxley stated that about eight o'clock the previous evening defandant was given into his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—An old man, charged with being drunk in Northumberland-street on the 19th instant, pleaded guilty; and, having been locked up since Saturday night, was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MOST sensational case of attempted murder is reported from Gralton. An old man named Charles Du Pare, 71 years of age, a, man named Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN PERRITT pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly; also to having made use of obscene language. On the first charge was fined 2s 5d, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INDECENT EXPOSURE.—Robert Dixon, charged with indecent exposure on the 16th instant at Hinton, was found guilty, and ordered to pay a fine of ten shillings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PROTECTION.—John Normoyle was brought before the bench on suspicion of being of unsound mind. Constable Eggins, lockup keeper at East Maitland, stated that on the previous day, about half-past…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A MOST sensational case of attempted murder is reported from Grafton. An old man named Charles Dn Pare, 71 years of age, a man named Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Christopher Barker, a joiner, was indicted at Lincoln, on July 11th, for the murder of Crosha James Creasey, a schoolmaster, aged twenty-eight,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PROTECTION.—John Normoyle, on remand, was before the court. Dr. S. A. Alcorn gave evidence that defendant had been under his care in the gaol hospital for nearly a week, and was now fit to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Albert Hollins broke into St. John's Church, Chislehurst, and stole a penny, "the money of the churchwardens." Hollins was convicted at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GEORGE FEEDERICK HOWARD, the man arrested in Brisbane and charged with being connected with the recent explosion of dynamite in the second-class cabin of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A strange story comes across the wires from Cincinnati. An extraordinary punishment, suggestive of the rack and thumbscrew, is reported to have been inflicted on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ILL-TREATING A HORSE.—Abraham Doel, an Indian hawker, in custody, was charged with having on the previous day cruelly ill-treated a horse. According to the evidence of the apprehending…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TRANSFER OF PUBLICAN'S LICENSE.—An application was made for a transfer of the license of the Plough Inn, High-street, West Maitland, from Ellen Monaghan to James Hamilton. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →