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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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Dr. Bennet Clarke Hyde, who was early last year guilty of having murdered his father- in-law, Colonel Thomas Swope, by means of strychnine capsules, and sentenced to i—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A petition, signed by 50,000 persons, was presented for the reprieve of Stinio Morrison, sentenced to death for the murder on Christmas Eve of Loon Beron, the foreign Jew, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The second trial of James M'Cormack for the murder of Constable Jones at Bacchus Marsh, on December 31st, by striking him on the head with a bottle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Royal Commission of inquiry into the administration of the Law by the Newcastle police in the case of Jessie Stockton, was continued after our report closed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Royal Commission If Inquiry into the allegations regarding the administraton of the law by the Newcastle police, In connection with the keeping of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While the British steamer Arabistan was on her way from New York to Monte Video, a stoker, an Italian named Gallerducel, in a fit of madness killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following case was dealt with on Monday last:— SALE OF A BUSINESS. Mrs. Kate Hancock, of Young,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the [?] Maitland police court this morning before Mr.W.B.Pryor, J.P.,Joseph Wright was charged with drunkenness and language on East Maitland railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Police Court yesterday, Benjamin Goldberg, a licensed hawker, was proceeded against, under the Hawkers and Peddlar's Act, for not having his name…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A young girl was assaulted by a man at North Sydney about noon on Wednesday. An arrest was subsequently made. The girl is about 12 years old, and lives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →M. Rouet, a clerk in the office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meamon (who is alleged to be a British subject), and Pallier, his secretary, have been arrested,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Joseph Newton was brought up on four charges of obtaining from Ernest Daniel, Henry Dowd, Vivian Daniel £4 each, and Arthur Daniel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A defendant, who pleaded gullty to the above offence, expressed his regret, and said that It was his first offence. He remarked that the word complained of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Acting-Judge Edmunds, sitting as a Royal Commissioner, continued the inquiry at Newcastle on Wednesday regarding the allegations made against the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The criminal business of the Maitland Circuit Court was concluded at the Courthouse, East Maitland, on Friday, before his honor Mr. Justice Pring, when…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stinic Morriosn, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of an oldman on Clapham Common on New Year' Day, has been reprieved, the sentence being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday, before the Royal Commission of Inquiry regarding the administration of the law by the police of Newcastle in the case of Jessie Stockton charged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sentence of three months' imprisonment on a man named Hodgson for assaulting Constable Henthorn, who is unpopular in the neighbourhood, led to a riot at Salisden,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Royal Commission of inquiry into the allegations regarding the administration of the law by the police in connection with the keeping of a disorderly house…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A violent conflict has taken place between the police and the strikers, who were formerly employed on civic contracts at Prince Rupert, in the British West…
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