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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1902

982 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 50

Assault Case

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

C. W. Woods v. J. Pigott; assault. C. W. Woods deposed: I am foreman at the Aberdeen A.C. and F. Co's butter factory; have heard…

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Aberdeen. Police Court. April 7Th, 1902. (Before Mr G. R. Evans, P.M )

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

W. CARE v. Mrs H. Jackson this was an act ion for damage to property, to wit, a hat. Plaintiff sued tor 12s 6d, damage to hat…

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West Maitland Police Court: Monday, April 7. (Before Mr. G. F. Scolt, P.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 5

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Thomas Bellamy was charged with having made use of obscene language, on the Great Northern Road at Rutherford, on the 29th March.—Mr. Waller…

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Small Debts Court

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

Municipal Council v. W. Briderlin; claim for £2 OS IId for rates. Verdict for complainant, with 5S costs, and 4s IOd cost of Court…

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Letter to the Editor. the Death in the Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 3

SIR,—In your report of the inquest held in the Maitland Gaol on Wednesday last it appears, from the opinion expressed by the Coroner, the rider of the jury will not have, the desired effect. Now, Sir, as…

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Maitland Circuit Court. in Divorce. Monday, April 7. (Before His Honor Justice G. B. Simpson.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

The following divorce cases came before his Honor after our report closed yesterday : BARBER V. HARDER. In this case, Ellen Barber, of Wickham…

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The Shooting of Unarmed Boers the Murder of the Rev. C. Heese. Story of the Missionary's Widow. No Eye-witnesses. London, April 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 3

Mrs. Heese, the widow of the Rev. C Heese, who was murdered in the Northern Transvaal on August 23, has written a letter to the Berlin Missionary Society relating what she knows of her husband's…

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Police Court.—tuesday. (Before Messrs. Geo. F. Scott, P.M., and C. Hellmrich, J.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 2

ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES.—Joseph Le Mothe was charged with obtaining the sum of 10s and a set of artificial teeth from William Johns, of Quirindi.—Senior-sergeant Ogdon…

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The Shooting of Unarmed Boers. The Murder of the Rev. C. Heese. Story of the Missionary's Widow

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 2

Mrs. Heese, the widow of the Rev. C. Heese, who was murdered in the Northern Transvaal on August 23, has written a letter to the Berlin Missionary…

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Maitland Circuit Court. in Divorce. Tuesday, April 8. (Before His Honor Justice G. B. Simpson.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 5

The following cause was taken yesterday, in Divorce. HEWSTON V. HEWSTON. Annie Hewston, formerly Watts, of…

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A Thief Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 3

A man named James Brookman was sentenced to six months' hard labour at the police court to-day, for stealing several articles belonging to two ladies who had left them temporarily in the porch of the…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, April 8Th, 1902

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 2

(Before Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M. and Mr C. Hellmrich, J.p.) FALSE PRETENCES. Joseph La Motte was charged with…

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Murder of Sepoys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 3

Outlaws in the Mahsud territory, on the north-west frontier of India, waylaid and killed eight Sepoys. The Mahsuds repudiate the crime and are anxious to arrest the authors…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, April 9. in Divorce. [Before Hit Honor Justice G. B. Simpson.) The Court re-opened at 9 45. MACNAMARA V. MACNAMARA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1902 · page 2

The cause Macnamara v. Macnamara, adjourned from Monday for the taking of petitioner's evidence before a commissioner, wits continued. It was one in which Thomas Joseph Macnamara sought for a…

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An Alleged Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 April 1902 · page 3

Harry Curotta was committed for trial at the polios court to-day on an alleged charge of having in company assaulted Wm. Russell aud robbed him of £10 and a diamond scarf pin…

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Dungog Police Court. Before G. Atkin and G. S. Waller, J.P.'s

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1902 · page 3

W. H. Green v. C. Phillips—Delentention of a horse. Mr. Elliott appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Carlton for defendant…

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Police Court. Friday, April 11, 1902. (Before Mr G. R Evans, P.m.) Municipal Cases

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1902 · page 2

INSPECTOR of Nuisances v. J. Page; allowing a cow and calf to stray. Defendant pleaded not guilty, and do posed that the animals were left in…

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Licencing Court

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 12 April 1902 · page 3

We would remind those of our readers who may be interested, that the Quarterly Licensing Court for the District of Murrurundi will be held at the local Court House at…

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Two Escapes. Charges of Wife Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 April 1902 · page 4

A FARMER named Robert Billson Hawkins, charged with murdering his wife, on December 6th, was retrial at Ballarat, the second trial concluding…

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