The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Sat 2 Nov 1867 1
DISTRICT NEWS.
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MUSCLE BROOK. [sic]
SMALL DEBTS COURT, TUESDAY, 29TH OCTOBER, 1867.—(Before FW Thrum, JP.)
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At the police office to-day, before the same JP, Thomas Marsden was charged with an assault, and was remanded for a week.
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Sat 9 Nov 1867 2
DISTRICT NEWS.
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MUSCLE BROOK. [sic]
POLICE COURT, FRIDAY, NOV 1.
(Before FW Thrum and W Bowman, Esqs, JP.)
William Robinson, in custody, charged with making use of obscene language on the previous evening in Sydney-street, pleaded guilty, and was fined in the sum of 20s; in default, fourteen days' imprisonment.—The same person was also charged with assaulting the apprehending constable in the execution of his duty; to this offence he pleaded not guilty, but the evidence clearly establishing his guilt, the bench imposed a further penalty to 10s or fourteen days' imprisonment; the incarceration in each case to be concurrent.
Robert Nicholson, charged with stealing a carpenter's hammer, the property of Janes Telfer, was found guilty of the larceny, and sentenced to pay a fine of 20s; in default, to be imprisonment for one month. The fine was immediately paid.
On Tuesday, November 5th, the same magistrates in attendance. An adjourned case against Thomas Marsden, for an indecent assault on the person of —— Jones, at her husband's residence, on Tuesday, 29th October, was heard with closed doors; and the offence having been proved, their Worships, taking into consideration that the prisoner was in liquor at the time, sentenced him to three months' imprisonment in Maitland, with hard labour.
1 The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Sat 2 Nov 1867, p. 3.
2 The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, Sat 9 Nov 1867, p. 3. Emphasis added.