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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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INSPECTOR'S REPORT.-The quarterly report of the Licensing Inspector (Sub-Inspector Fowler) was submitted. The Police Magistrate remarked that two hotels in Morpeth needed renovation. In one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday afternoon, before Me[?] D. M'Dougall and H. M'Fadden, js. T. a man named Edward Donuelly, deemed to be o unsound mind, was ordered to be sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alfred Alladin Scbnabel has been convicted at the Bathurst Circuit Court of the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Schnabel. The jury strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ernest Oldfield pleaded guilty to assaulting a boy named James Le Petit, on the 16th inst, on the Dungog Recreation Ground. After…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Grafton Circuit Court, which opened to-day before Acting-Judge Pring, James Murpby was arraigned on a charge of the alleged murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The tender of Hocking Bros., Canterbury, use been accepted for the erection of a Court House at Stewart's Brook…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Federal Furnishing Company against John Hassett, claim £3 18s 4d, for goods sold and delivered. Defendant pleaded not indebted. After…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →T. A. Doyle v. James and Catherine McMahon.—Recovery of tenement under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1899…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The greater number of the Boers [?]ging Wepener is concentrating to oppose the advance of Lieut.-General Sir H. M. Rundle, who is entrenched at De Wet's Dorp, where he is awaiting the arrival…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Police Court to-day, Joseph Burrns was committed for trial, charged with breaking and entering the warehouse of Patterson, Laing, and Bruce, with intent to steal. Evidence showed that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Sunnyside several rebels tried at the Criminal Sessions urged that many of their witnesses were not procurable in Capetown. The prosecution replied…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALLEGED ILLEGAL USE OF A HORSE William Richardson was charged with illegally using a horse on several occasions, which was in charge, of W…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A well-known Irish Resident Magistrate tells the following story:-When stationed iu the West of Ireland there were two doctors in the place, one of whom had a great reputation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The now low term opened this morning in the presence of a large attendance, of the legal profession. A new trial was granted in the case Hutchinson v. Singleton, Argus on the grounds that his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MAINTENANCE.-John Edward Bourke, of East Maitland, appeared on bail for disobeying a maintenance order for the support of his wife. Bourke paid in the sum owing-£1 5s-and asked, through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Standard Rays that the Commonwealth or Australia Constitution Bill will be introduced into the House of Commons on May 10 or May 14. The Daily Telegraph sates that the reformed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.-John Maguire pleaded guilty to maliciously damaging a window of the Freemasons' Arms Hotel, the property of Bernard Tierney, of the value of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. R. Evans, P.M.. Messrs. E. Bowman and W. Clendenning, J's.P., the police proceeded against Charles Hodges and Thomas Hodges…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Morpeth Police Court yesterday, Michael O'Toole was charged with having, on the 20th April, made use of indecent language and having resisted Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A stranger pleaded, guilty to a charge of drunkenness, on the previous day, and was fined 2s 6d, in default imprisonment till noon. Fine paid…
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