POLICE v. STUDENTS
A demonstration by student has been stopped at St. Petersbrug. It appears a thousand students arranged to attend the cathedral in the city, where a requiem service for the last pupil of the…
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Courts & crime, 1897
838 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 42
A Man Charged with Abducting His Daughter
At the Quarter Sessions to-day Sydney James McIntosh was arraigned on an indictment charging him with having abducted Ethel McIntosh, his daughter. He pleaded not guilty. It appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tea Gardens Police Court. 16Th March, 1897. (Before F. W. Garstang, Esq., P.M.
John cornelius Korsman, fisherman of Cery Island, proceeded against Edward Holbert, also of Cery Island, fisherman, for assault. The defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland District Court. (Before Acting Judge Wade.) Thursday, March 18, 1897. Borough Council of West Maitland v. E. J. DENNY
In this case the borough council sued E. J. Denny for £25 4s 10d. Mr. W. T. Lindeay appeared for the plaintiff council, and Mr. R. W. Thompson for the defendant. The particulars supplied showed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Stealing
At Cooma, the wholesale sheep stealing from Oakvale Station has assumed a more serious aspect. The police yesterday arrested at Alum Creek Tommy Ah Yet, Joseph Phillips, Patrick Hayee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sentenced to Death
Few persons who have been present in a court of justice when the death sentence is being pronounced can ever forget the horror of the moment, so vividly does every detail of the solemn scene…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Charge of Assault
John Smithers was charged at the court this morning with assaulting Joseph Torpy on February 13th last, causing him to receive actual bodily harm. Evidence was given to the effect…
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Samuel Kay was charged at Bury, Lancashire, with murdering Elizabeth Fatough. Police Superintendent Noblett said that Kay called at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Assault—A Policeman Committed
In the Summons Division of the Water Police Court. Sydney, Senior-sergeant William Chambers and Senior-constable George Hammond appeared to answer a summons issued at the instance of Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Return
The police return giving the number of arrests effected by the police in the Singleton district during 1800 has been compiled, and sent on to the Dupartment of Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Brady Murder Case
The trial of william Phillips for the murder of William Brady, at cooper's ironmongery establishment on the 12th January, concluded in Melbourne this week. The accused pleaded not guilty. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Melbourne Tragedy. Phillips Sentenced to Death
ONE of the most singular criminal trials that has over taken place in Victoria was brought to a close on Wednesday last, when William Myles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →E. S. Rowe Sentenced. a Money-lender's Victim
EDWIN SHERWINv ROWE, who was convicted at the Sydney Sessions on Wednesday on a charge of having obmined money by means of valueless…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Week's Police News
At the East Maitland Police Court on the 12th instant, the crises under the Betting ,Act against John Boyle and Thomas Vipon were postponed till May 21.—On Tuesday a woman named Clara…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland District Court
The March sittings of the Maitland District Court commenced at East Maitland on Wednesday before Acting District Court Judge Wade. Mr. W. F. Robertson was the Registrar. The members of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Divorce Court
In a divorce suit, Ryan v. Ryan, the petitioner gave some extraordinary evidence. She deposed to having been formerly married to a man who had committed bigamy. She was not a widow when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court
Tho Following cases were dealt with at West Maitland on Monday :— S. H. Webber v. Joseph Sciffer, Stockton, goods sold, £2 17s 6d. A verdict was given for the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Extraordinary Court Case
At Bloomsbury County-court [?] Friday, Miss Eise Brown, a [?] maker claimed £1 from the Rev. P.T. Helling, M.A., vier of Christ Church,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murder of Mr. Green at New Guinea
Mr. J. Whitlow, who was with Mr. Green, the New Guinea magistrate [?] previous to his murder by New Guinea natives, previously mentioned in our columns, [?] at prevent in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Sydney "Pushes" Assault on a Steward. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
SHORTLY after midnight last evening a steward on the steamer Ringarooma, was set upon by a number of roughs assisted by a woman, In Suseex-street,…
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