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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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This was one of a number of similar cases in which the Council took legal proceeding, by the Inspector of Nuisances, for the recovery of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A WIRE from Childers (Queensland) states that the police camp at StantonHarcourt has been broken up. Sargeant Kelly and Acting Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITHDRAWN.—In a case in which John Joseph Markham complained that Maurice Murphy had used insulting words towards him, whereby a branch of the peace might have bean occasioned,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the sitting of the Small Debts Court on Wednesday last, before Messrs. T. C. K. McKell. P.M., and W. A. Wilson and R. Simson, J's.P., the Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AFFILIATION—Robert John York was summoned for neglecting to support his illegimate child, Leslie Arthur Boyle. Defendant pleaded guilty. He said he had agreed with the grandmother of the child to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First-class Constable M.J. Breen, late of Merriwa, has been appointed to Singleton in place of Constable Moore, who has gone to the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wilson Butler, aged 51 years, a quarry man, residing in Avon-street, Globe, was engaged in an argument about the war last night in an hotel, when a decanter is said to have struck him on the head…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wm. Henry Bowden, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and was admonished and discharged. For using obscene language he was fined 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALLEGER ROBBERY—Joseph Stacey and Patrick Sharkey were charged with having, in company, on Dec. 27, 1809, at West Maitland, Stolen the sum of £157, the property of Thomas Belliamy, from his dwelling.—Mr. J.H.F. Waller appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Children Police Court, Brisbane, yesterday an aboriginal named Willie Broome was brought up charged with the murder of the girl Mary Le Blowitz, at stanton Harcourt. The prisoner was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEGLECT TO REGISTER DOGS.—Lovick Tyrrell was not present to answer to charges of neglecting to register three dogs owned by him. A plea of guilty was entered, and he was fined 10s and 4s 10d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is announced in our business columns that a Revision Court, for the purpose of re-revising the Municipal Lists for the ensuing year, will be held in the Council Chambers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of a man with the skull fractured was found on the Narromine Common, three miles and a half from town, yesterday. The man, who was apparently about 50 years of age, is believed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Martin Puddle pleaded guilty to taking too much on Saturday night, and behaving in a disorderly minner in High-street. He explained that the conduct was caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →QUARTERLY REPORT.—The usual quarterly report of the Licensing Inspector (Sub-Inspector Fowler) was placed before the bench. RENEWALS OF LICHNERS.—A renewal of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There were some rather amusing cases heard at the East Maitland Police Court last Friday, When Archdeacon Tyrell, E Branch (inspector of nuisances), and John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNK,—Ellen Waters, an aboriginal, pleaded guilty to being drunk the previous day in Johnstreet. Constable Brook said he saw Ellen in the thoroughfare displaying n half-brick which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ellen Watters (an aboriginal), was charged with drunkenness and using obscene language in John-street on Monday last. She pleaded guilty as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Two men who had indulged too freely were cautioned against a repetition of their conduct, and discharged. ALLEGED LARCENY.—Joseph Stacey and Patrick Sharkey were charged with, in company, on December 27, 1899, stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday night Constable Traccy arrested Alfred A. Had in Schnarbel, who shot his wife at Burnberry, the previous afternoon. The…
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