Transports sentence for life after graphic transport reform tale
Crown Lipz hears Dolphus plead to be spared life due to horrors of transport. He recounts flogging and hard labor, cannibalism, and shipboard escape. Norfolk Circuit follows with a Chartist conspiracy trial in which Vincent and Edwards are found guilty of high treason acts and sentenced to prison.
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Livemoor
Crown Lipz
Justice Coleridge
Charles Dolphus
de Sirous
Dolphus
Transportation for 15 years for bank note theft at Birmingham
Thomas Webb alias Stanley, a Birmingham post office sorter, was found guilty of stealing two Bank of England notes from a letter on February 16. He fled to London and then across to Calais before being captured in Hastings. The jury convicted him on the Bank note change evidence, and he received 15 years transportation. A second indictment for another note theft was left untried.
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Baron Gurney
Henry Vincent
William Edwards
John Frost
Sergeant Talfourd
Richards
Whateley
Edwards
Carrington
Vincent
David Jones
Pontypool
Frost
Privy Council
Fergus O'Connor
Lord John Russell
House of Commons
Wales
Theople
Jones
Egypt
Moses
Vincent Saing
Johanne
William Llewellin
Stephens
John Roberts
Midland
Warwick
Tursday
Justice Bosanquet
Thomas Walsh
John Walsh
Helen Connor
Peter Coffe
Birmingham
Mary Walsh
John
Serjeant Goulburn
Clarke
White
Birmigham
Lawley-street
Owen Walsh
Dale-end
Grand Junction Railway
Aston
Aston Church
Coleshill
Thomas
Owen
M Walsh
Walsh
James Lightfoot
William
William Lightfoot
Bodmin
James
Dunmeer Hill
Norway
Mr. Norway
Udges
James Tigheioor
Justice Coltman
Spring Assizes
Waawicx
Saroanay
Thomas Dfaad Web
Serjeant
Goulburn
Waddington
Strutt
Bank of England
John Hoare
Smith-strest
Marlborough-road
Chelsea
Stratt
Hoare
Pst-Office
London
George and Blue Boar
Holborn
Bank of Englands
J. D. Williams
George
Blue Boar
New Street
Ththeatres
Cambridge
Brighton
Mr. Pearce
Stanley
Hastings
Dover
Calais
Jack Sheppard
Pearce
Webb
Ramsgate
Small-street
Smith-street
Bow-street
Mellor
Mr. Mellor
Boston
John Marshall
Union
Marshall
Lincoln
House of Correction
Stamford Mercury
John Garrow
J. Wilson
Tyne
Aberdeen
Newcastle Chronicle
Naval Court Martisn
F. Strong
Replark
Devonport
Ladd
Mediterranean
Edward Codrington
D. P. Bouverie
Thomas Hastings
Admiralty
Hutton
Hampshire Telegraph
France
Chantilly
Duke of Orleans
Sor
Henry Seymour
Government Stud
Baron Anthony Rothschild
Mr. Fasquel
Mr. Palmer
M. Eugene Aumont
James Bateman
Portland-place
Marylebone
Wells-street
Oxford-street
Crown-street
London Fire Establishment
Secret Service
Murder trial at Crown Court over Wadebridge merchant Nevill Norway
James Lightfoot and William Lightfoot faced trial for the murder of Wadebridge merchant Nevill Norway after his death near Bodmin. The scene drew crowds. details describe a violent head injury from a heavy instrument and a grisly riverbank finding before the body was transported to Wadebridge for examination.
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Boomin
Crown Court
Justice Coltman
James Lightfoot
William Lightfoot
Nevill Norway
Wadebridge
Cockburn
Rowe
Norway
Bodmin
Mr. Norway
Wadebrie
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Vincent and Edwards
st'Pontypool
Lulary
Israel
Jack Russell
Mr. Tory
Brougham
New York
Hell
Devizes
Edwarda
Scotland
Yorkshire
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