Dalston Arrest On Charges Of Embezzlement At Clerkenwell Court
Charles Marchmont Richmond a 47 year old clerk of no fixed address faced remand on embezzlement charges involving 1031 pounds 1 shilling 8 pence from James Hicks astronomical instrument maker of Hatton Garden Holborn. Witnesses testified to a wide pattern of defalcations from brewery related accounts and receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clerkenwell
Charles Marchmont Richmond
James Hicks
Hattongarden
Holborn
Richmond
Californ
Muggeridge
London
Barnet Oakley
Francis J. Rotham
Young and Co
Wandsworth
Francis Causton
Bilogg
Barnabury
Frank Hawley
Alfred T. Worth
Pure Ie Clerkenwell
Mr. Bros
Wreck of the Hull Trawler Etruria Off Ravenseer
Foggy Yorkshire coast wreck leaves 10 crew stranded as Etruria strikes rocks near Ravenseer. The boat fills with water but is towed to Scarborough by Robert Lamp lough’s vessel, then aided by Industria. Cargo of fish aboard. Prime Minister wreck at the same spot cited for magnetism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkshire
Ravenseer
Robert Lamplough
Scarborough
Industria
Baby prophecy proclaims fate as child dies abruptly
A Bethesdan incident on December 11 reports a three month old baby allegedly spoke a warning of a terrible year ahead. The child then died after replying Yes to a question about the next year and was buried December 12 as crowds debated the omen. The tale follows a recent strike, fueling superstitious dread in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tan
Liverpool Post
Bethesdan
Tragedy at Cheltenham and Odd Judicial Notes
A cottage in York Street Cheltenham yields a gruesome scene with Alice Woodman found dead and Sydney George Smith critically alive after a fatal throat wound. A note states I killed her at three o'clock. Also glimpsed are a Dublin ruling on a divorce related case and a Millwall police stick drill. A terse classifieds fragment ends the clipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheltenham
York Street
Alice Woodman
Ackington
Sydney George Smith
Smith
Four Rooms Wrecked in Cromwell House Explosion
Miss Katie Jones and Miss Florence Jones, living with their father D. L. Jones at Cromwell House Kingston Hill, woke Sunday to a blast that blew out the garden wall and damaged interior with fire in the breakfast room. The family extinguished the flames. no injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie Jones
Florence Jones
D. TL. Jones
Cromwell House
Kingston Hill
Woman charged in vitriol attack on housemaid
Lavinia Coulson, 25, wife of a veterinary surgeon's assistant, was charged at Keighley with throwing vitriol at Hannah Marie Kenefick on November 18. Prosecution said jealousy prompted the act. Coulson borrowed male clothes to watch her husband, and a masked voice identified her. The attack blinded the victim and Coulson was committed for assize trial with bail refused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavinia Coulson
Keighley
Hannah Marie Kenefick
Coulson
Mr. Carter
Assizes
Caught in a trap at Wood-green burglary charge
Ex convict Charles Griffithe of I banet Street Easton road was charged with burglary and housebreaking and with stealing 601 worth of jewellery at Wood-green. He escaped custody in July en route to Holloway. Found on October 10 in a Bow house with a gang. detective quipped about the trap. Committed for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood-green
Charles Griffithe
I banet-Street
Easton-road
Holloway Prison
Griffiths
Edinburgh-road
Bow
Solicitor Struck Off For Stamp Graft Case
In the King’s Bench Division on Monday, Mr Hallams for the Law Society sought to strike off Anthony Buck Creeke the younger from the solicitors roll. Creeke had been convicted in September last of possessing mutilated stamps and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. A Government official, Richards, allegedly helped by taking stamps, substituting face value, and the solicitor profited from selling them. The court held the offence serious and ordered Creeke struck off the roll.
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King’s Bench
Hallams
Law Society
Anthony Buck Creeke
Creeke
Giveen
Richards
Alverstone
Two Men Charged With Assault and Robbery at Wor Ship Street
Frederick Williams 21 and James Taylor 26 faced Wor ship street police court on a charge of being concerned with others not in custody in assaulting and robbing Thomas Power. The prosecutor, bleeding from head wounds after a Brick Lane tavern incident, claimed they followed him and struck him, taking 17s. A constable, ill and then mentally unsettled, could not testify. the prisoners were discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Williams
James Taylor
Worship-street
Corser
Pullen
Result of a bigamous marriage shocks Edinburgh girl
George Fisher of Edinburgh married a young woman while already married. The girl was devastated and may never recover brain damage feared. Fisher received three years penal servitude. A cab owner won a court case over driver hire terms for lack of written agreement under an Act. Jeannie Land's End, the mysterious wanderer, has been sent to Russia with her father in London.
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George Fisher
Edinburgh
Fisher
Southwark County Court
Addison
Four Sweetheart Stabbed and Bayonet Attack at Court
At Thames police court William Denslow nineteen, a sponge packer and Docks and Customs Volunteer, was charged with attempting to murder Charlotte Street woman Charlotte Street Stepney by stabbing with a bayonet. Constable Wood said the injured woman was found bleeding in Fair Street and brought to the station. Denslow admitted using a bayonet saying she pushed him and he struck her as he passed. He was remanded.
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Thames
William Denslow
Docks and Customs Volunteers
Devonshire - Street
Mile-end
Charlotte Street
Pair Street
Stepney
London
Divall
Wood
Fair-street
Grant
Devonshire Street
London County Sessions South Division BrixtonBurglary and fraud trials
H Spinney 21 and Thomas Cross 28 convicted of breaking into Rosa Folker’s Brixton flat stealing 201 value. Spinney also guilty of cheque frauds. Cross jailed nine months, Spinney 15 months. George and John Williams convicted in a separate mare theft, Williams 22 months hard labor. reports of prior sentences and police supervision. Other cases include furious driving charges rejected and an acquittal for wounding at Peckham Rye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Spinney
Thomas Cross
Rosa Folker
Hackford-road
Brixton
Ebbage
Hawkins
Spinney
John Williams
Middlesex
McConnell
George Williams
Bliss Turown
Charles Hill
George Coleman
Albert Brown
Annie Turk
Frank Cecil Colliard
William Henry Headhouse
Acquitrep
Geo. Tobitt
Kye
Peckham-rye
F. Bailey
Scylla Road
Peckhamrye
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Dalston
Rocks and Magnetism
Master of the Rolls
Dublin
William Munropool
Elgin
Annie Barclay Ewing
Ewing
Dorothy Harris Wool
Millwall
Bat
al Hudson
Kingston Ladies
Solicitor
Constable
Sweetheart
London County Sessions
Newington
Xatara
Actina
Wilson
New York and
London Electric Association
Walnut Street
Kansas City
U.S.A
Lloyd’s
Don Riche
Ceredit
Lion
Sheffield
Prudential Furnishing Steel
Seven Sisters
Roai
Eteller&c ° Credit Tailoring
BE. Teller & CO
Great Credit Stores
London RD
Elevilant
S.E
ACME
Samuel's
Reise Mas
Pinter I Ilverwars
H SA
Market St
Ccarter
Pitts
Carter
Crediyi
Werealy
EK. Teller and CO
Great Credit
Eluphant
Symington’s Pea Flour
Approvoval
Eneva
Shepfield
Zox
Lloyd’s Nena
ZOX CO
Hatton Garden
Chemists, &c
Gloria Tonic
Great Britain
Sa. 3d
Ciftsbe
City of London Direct Supply
Upper Street
Islington
Grimailts
Ingian Cigarettes
Wilcox and CO
Daymarket
Landen
Paddington Furnishing CO
Harrow Road
Seraee
Ssendi
Department A
ONIL
S &Ad
Fosoto Air
Altenheim Medical Dispensary
Doctora
Altenheim
Stone
Cutter-Street
Arera
Rand Rx
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