Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 5Th May. (Before Messrs G. F. Scott, P.M.)
TBAVELLING WITHOUT RAILWAY TICKET GEORGE WELLS pleaded guilty to travelling on tha railway from West Maitland to Singleton without having…
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Courts & crime, 1896
812 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 41
The Newtown Murder. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The inquest on the body Julia Love, a hotel servant, whose husband is charged with shooting her with a revolver, and fracturing her skull with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hospital Saturday. Charge of Stealing a Box. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
AT the Police Court to-day, George Fenton, aged 28, and Robert M'Gregor, alias King, aged 25, were arrested and charged with having in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Muswellbrook Letter. Muswellbrook Police Court. Tuesday, Amy 5Th, 1896. (Before Messrs. E. Bowman and C. Doyle, J's.P.)
ALLEGED CARELESS USE OF FIRE.—James Cobb White v.John Mason. No appearance of complainant or defendant, and the case was struck out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Singleton Letter. Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 5Th May. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Acting P.M., and Mr. Robert Faulkner, J P.)
DRUNKS.—Harry Perry an ab[?]riginal, pleaded guilty to being drunk, and was fined 5s or twenty-four hours. Three first offenders pleaded guilty, and were each fined 5s with court costs, in default…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Acting P.M., and Mr. Robert Faulkner, J.P.)
Mary Smith v. Isahella Browne—claim for £3 11s 8d, goods sold. Mr. Howe appeared for the defendant. The plaintiff deposed that the goods sold were household necessa[?] Hilda Smith, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Acting P.M., Chairman, and Mr. Robert Faulkner, L.M.)
TEMPORARY LICENSE.—An extension of his license was granted to James Benham, of the Lord Riglan Hotel, to hold a booth on the 14th and 15th instant at the Singleton rseer. The hours for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Debts Court. Tuesday, 5Th May. (Before Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Robert Faulkner, J.p.) Mary Smith V. Isabella Browne
Claim for £3 11s 8d, goods sold. Mr Howe for defendant. Claimant said the goods were supplied by herself, and were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Murder at Newtown
The Newtown tragedy inquest concluded to-day, when the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against deceased's husband, George Love, who was committed for trial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Muswell Lodge Murder
The two ex-convicts Wilson and Fowler, who were, with some conjurors, arrested at Bath on a charge of having murdered on the 18th February Mr. Henry Smith, an elderly gentleman residing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News. Greta. Police Court, Wednesday, May 6TH, (Before Mr. Q. F. Scott, P.M., and Dr. Walker, J.p.) Municipal Appeals
Mr. R. W. Thompson appeared on behalf of the Greta Colliery in the following appeals againse municipal assessment. Greta Colliery, rate on manager's house, assessed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court
At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr W. Dudding, J.P., John M'Crown was brought up, on remand from Tamworth, on a charge of disobeying an order of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft
A middle-aged couple, Alice Cope and Edward Wylie, were remanded to-day on a charge of stealing a £50 bank note on the City Bank of Sydney, the property of Bernard Gormicy. Bail was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault in a Train
By the train that left Newcastle on Saturday afternoon for Sydney there were as passengers Warder Armstrong, of Darlinghurst Gaol, and a prisoner named Hareford, alias…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Forbes. a Murder
A blackfellow named Bob Murray was murdered near Forbes racecourse last night. When discovered the body was in a terribly backed and mutilated condition. The police have arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder in Queensland
In a fit of jealousy, a man named Longlands, residing at Morningside, shot his wife with a revolver on Saturday night, and the victim died on Monday. In her dying depositions deceased stated her…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Confession of Murder
A statement of a startling nature was made in the Darlinghurst Gaol about three weeks ago by a prisoner named Charles Hareford, alias…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day's Telegrams. Sydney. a Mean Theft
The young thieves, George Finton and Robert McGregor, who snatched a collection box containing a few shillings from the hands of Miss Rohey on Hospital Saturday were finally dealt with to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Week's Police News
This week has been one of the quietest, so far as the police are concerned, for some months. At East Maitland there have been no cases at all. At West Maitland on Monday the only business was a…
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The following cases were dealt with at the West Maitland Police Court on Monday:—E. P. Capper and Sons v. J. M. Tonkin, Morpeth—claim for £4 3s 10d for goods sold and delivered…
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