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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 28, 1790
Page
4
A notice describes a swindle where a trader is lured to a dining room or parlour while a partner pockets goods ordered for viewing. The scam targets linen drapers and silk haberdashers with a pale young man of genteel address about five feet four inches tall. The con works in the evening with goods sent away early next morning.
Notification to half-pay lieutenants on full pay states they may join overseas regiments within ten days. A London police criticism notes alleged lax policing. other items describe elections for a Godsmiths Company surveyor, a plan for a new bridge, indictments for arson and highway robbery, a bigamy trial, and various court actions with vivid city details.
Eighteen prisoners convicted at the Old Bailey on felonies. one ordered to be private, whipped and discharged, one to be medicated and discharged, and thirteen acquitted. Trials for rape against Ann Cadwell and Sarah Curray ended with acquittals or mistrials amid contested testimony and judge’s cautions.
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