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Newspaper
Champion
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 04, 1816
Page
4
Serema Uootey, a worker for the Hon East India Company's service, killed himself with a double barrel pistol after a prior failed throat cutting. Domestics alerted, found him on the floor bleeding. a surgeon arrived too late as he expired.
Artemrrep Surcipr. and his wife argued near the Regent's Canal Long Acre when she plunged in. The husband followed to rescue her and both nearly drowned until bystanders at the Jews Harp public house pulled them from the water and sent them home in a hackney coach.
Reports from Ballyvourney near Macroom describe a Sunday riot between the Lynches and the Twomeys. About 100 armed men pursued the Twomeys as they left their chapel, killing John Hegarty with a scythe wound to the neck and severely wounding Cornelius Casey. An inquest returned a verdict that Hegarty died from the blow.
In Roscommon assizes an old man named Hugh Connor was found guilty of murdering Bartholomew Gibbon in 1809 after leading a party to attack Gibbon’s house. Connor had previously evaded justice. Another trial concerned a riot incident on June 24 last involving Lich regiment soldiers suppressing rioters. a rioter struck by a soldier died and the man was tried and acquitted after a full inquiry.
The report states that one hundred and twenty one persons are to be tried at the assizes, outlining the large judicial proceeding and the number of defendants slated for trial.
In Remainiamswood Meath Thomas Carson was found guilty of murder in the case of C Cassaly. The judge ordered execution for Friday but delays arose as the clergyman and prisoner's uncle attended the sacraments. An attempt to administer last rites faced confusion and lengthy prayers before proceeding amid a chaotic scene.
On a Wednesday evening Mr Brown a jeweller and pendant maker on St John Street Clerkeaowell suddenly cried out in pain and expired. His daughter living in Faulknee Square returned after being sent for and, while coming back, tripped on a loose stone in the street, injuring her arm and dislocating her collar bone.
On Sunday two young men Joseph Holmes aged 25, eldest son of Derby cutler, and John Bamford aged 21, son of Repton grocer, both with ties to local trades, were drowned while bathing in the Derwent. They entered the swollen river early in the morning at the usual bathing place in the old meadows and were swept beyond their depth by the rapid current.
Captain John Dunfield and Lieutenant W Higginson were examined on Wednesday before William Fielding Esq charged by Oliver surgeon to the York Hospital Chelsea with challenging him to a duel. They were committed to Tothillfields Bridewell for want of sufficient sureties to answer at the next sessions. It is thought they cannot obtain bail and may remain in prison until September.
Marriages announced include Robert Ramsden to Frances Matilda Plumptre at Nonington church and several other matches at St George's, Bangor, Camberwell, and Bishopsgate. Died notices record Mrs Louisa Schreiber aged 80s, Henry Augustus Leicester, and Mary Wilson aged 87, with brief personal details and residences.
Fragmentary OCR reads a public notice about a kingdom theory and early portraits. Mentions an administrator overseeing publication and a regent figure, with unclear place names and dates. The readable text is garbled and lacks concrete events or numbers.
A short notice describing tinted and published work by Joan Scott located at the Olbee building on Catherine Street Straud.
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