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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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Four actions for allowed libel, preferred against the proprietors of The Bird o' Freedom, and which were set down for hearing to-day, were withdrawn, defendant stating that the article complained of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bench at this court this morning was occupied by Messrs. A. G. Cullum, J. Cunningham, and J. Windross, J's.P. Remanded.—James Richmond, a middle-aged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Francis Hickey was to-day remanded on a charge of having assaulted Mary Hickey, and robbed her of four shillings and sixpence. Prosecutrix bore the appearance of having been brutally ill-treated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Sunday morning a notorious criminal named Osborne attempted to escape from Peatridge Gaol, Victoria. The warder on duty in the corridor of one of the divisions was alarmed by a sound of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The remarkable proceedings against Austin Chapman, M.L.A., for alleged corruption during the recent election campaign, commenced before Mr. Giles, S.M., in the summons division of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A fearful tragedy occurred in Franklin-street, West Melbourne, on Monday. John Walshe, an ex-railway employe, who had been out of employment for the past two and a-half years, fired three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. W. F. Robertson, Acting District Registrar in Bankruptcy, conducted an examination at the Conrthouse, East Maitland, yesterday morning. Re James Murray, coal miner, of Greta. In this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the East Maitland Police Court on the 6th, Sarah MeEnery, of East Greta who had boon remanded from West Maitland for medical observation, was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four actions for alleged libel against the proprietors of The Bird o' Freedom, and which were set down for hearing on Thursday, were withdrawn, defendant stating that the article complained of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police-court excuses are occasionally original and sometimes funny. That which was given by a prisoner who was charged with having partaken of too much alcoholic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CHINAMAN who was caught lighting a fire near Parramatta Park was today sentenced to one month's hard labor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR CHARLES HILTON DIGHT has been gazetted Deputy Licensing Magistrate for the Patrick's Plains district during the absence of Mr Brooks, P.M., on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At an inquest on the body in Parramatta gaol, of a prisoner named Henry Sinclair, the jury found that deceased had died from shock and loss of blood from a wound self-inflicted while in a cell. Sinclail…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bench at the above court this morning was occupied by Messrs. H. Crothers, S. S. Moore, and W. H. Mullen, Js.P. DRUNKENNESS.—A respectable-looking man was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The residence of Miss Amy Sherwin, the Australian vocalist, has been entered by burglars during the absence of the family at the seaside. The burglars ransacked every room in the house,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Henry Why v. Mrs. George Starling, West Maitland—claim for £4 19s 1d for goods sold and delivered. Defendant did not appear. A verdict was given for the amount claimed with 5s costs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The celebrated Dean case cropped up again to-day in a most unexpected fashion, when Mrs. Dean leaded against her husband, George Dean, for maintenance. Several hundred persons, burning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four cases were set down for hearing at the Small Debts Court yesterday, before Messrs R. Faulkner, G. Loder and St. T. Loder, J's.P. Two of these were settled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARTICULARS are to hand concerning a tragedy at Guerie, a small village on the western line, about 14 miles on the Sydney side of Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENESS.—A first offender pleaded guilty, and was fined 2s 6d or imprisonment till the rising of the court. Another case was postponed for one week…
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