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Newspaper
Lloyds Weekly News
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 27, 1903
Page
18
Mary Rogers was found guilty of murdering her husband to finance a new life with another man and to obtain insurance money. She planned reconciliation with him, using a knot tying scheme and chloroform poisoning, then disposed of the body in a river. Police uncovered forged letters detailing the crime.
John Kennedy a young Seghill miner was charged at Whitley County Sessions with the murder of his 17 year old wife. He allegedly shot her three times in the head and then cut her throat. The court remanded him for a week to allow depositions to be taken due to his unfitness for trial.
In Neaton West Cheshire Henry Pritchard joiner aged 28 and Ernest Grundy bricklayer aged 25 fought after a political argument. Pritchard died days after an eye injury requiring surgery. Grundy, agitated by the death, fatally cut his throat with a razor. Both men lived with parents and were single.
Coroner at Westor held inquests into the deaths of Harry Pritchard and Ernest Grandy. Pritchard died from a skull fracture after a quarrel with Grandy outside the Liberal Club on Dec 12. Grandy died by suicide in his bedroom after learning of Pritchard’s death, ruled as death by own action while of unsound mind.
Admiral Bucknill’s reserved judgment in the cross-actions from the June 29 collision in the Channel finds the Melampus solely to blame for the loss of the Ruperra. He accepts the cruiser officers were truthful but misled the court by incorrect inferences.
Notice from the Post Office promotes Express Delivery with railway single letters, advance special delivery, Sunday special delivery, Christmas advantages, and telephone service integration. Also included is a schedule for mails from London to Australia New Zealand and Fiji via Brindisi or Naples with weekly and thrice monthly departures. Harvesting in English and Scottish Borders nears completion with final sheaf events noted. many farms finishing late. An advertisement for ENO Fruit Salt touts quick stomach and liver relief and cautions on bottle labeling.
In Westminster a coroner heard how Frederick George Cullum aged three years and William Alexander Cullum aged one year 11 months perished in a fire at 4 K Block Peabody Buildings Orchard Street. The father stated they left for work at 7 am and returned to find the house filled with smoke. Autopsies by Dr. Ludwig Freyberger found death by suffocation. the jury returned an open verdict with the cause of the blaze deemed likely to remain unknown.
City coroner reports a December fire on 19a and 21 For2 Street that started on the ground floor near underwear shelves. Jury says basement egress is unsatisfactory and commends the Metropolitan fire brigade and police. an inquiry into a November 20 Longlane blaze cites insufficient evidence of cause.
West Ham firefighters reported a coffin with Mrs Pretty inside during a blaze at 108 Vansittart road Forest Gate. The body was removed to the pavement then returned inside after the fire was extinguished. The house was gutted.
London reporting a week of fires with 69 incidents the prior week and 87 in the same week of 1902. A gas explosion at 62 Hall Street Peckham injured Harry Moore and slight burns to William Unwin. Numerous other fires include at India Rubber Works Carmon Street Road and many addresses across the city.
The King approves appointments to the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation under the 1905 act. Appointees include the Duke of Connaught and Lord Edmund Talbot among others. The Duke of Connaught is also named President of the Corporation’s Council.
The Local Government committee reports the London County Borough turnout at 47.3 percent, down from 45.9 percent in 1901. Woolwich leads with 69.6 percent and Greenwich with 57.0, while Paddington records 35.3 and Stoke Newington 39.9.
The City market notes a mixed picture with corn from Mare Lane in short supply at 21s 6d to 31s 6d per quarter for home grown wheat. Fruit and vegetables show good display at Covent Garden with moderate demand and a long list of English, American, and colonial items priced per bushel, barrel, or dozen, along with meat, poultry, and fish markets reporting quiet or steady activity and varied prices.
On St Thomas's Day the City of London’s Court of Common Council election saw four wards contesting. Aldgate re elected W Low and Hearson after a poll. Billingsgate chose Howell and Sutton with Seaman defeated. Bridge ward elected Bowles after a ward poll. Farringdon Without re elected the old members, Parker Lavington Nathan voting later. Coleman Street saw Camden win as Thompson retires.
Judgment in the King's Bench Division upheld the revising barrister's denial of ledger votes. The court ruled the barrister could not be overruled for not personally summoning claimants, as he accepted letters in some cases but did not in Jenkins's case. The appeal by Mr. W. Jenkins was dismissed.
Professor Windle addressed the prize distribution at St Philip's Grammar School in Birmingham on Monday. He warned that the shift to broader secondary education would heighten Catholic concerns by forcing more families to seek religion free Council schools. He argued elementary education reduces workhouse and jail rates, but secondary education yields greater national financial return as more boys rise from labor to leadership roles.
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