Norwood murder inquest reveals suspect assault and drowning details
A Norwood woman Mary Osborn, aged about 38, was found dead near a ditch after leaving Brixton with her daughter. Investigators noted clothing displaced and possible sexual assault but could not confirm. Coroner’s inquest heard evidence from Underwood, Shepherd, Adams, Mrs Gibbs, Dr Laurie, and relatives. cause of death listed as suffocation or drowning with no conclusive perpetrator identified. The incident has caused local shock and intensified police inquiries for a possible suspect seen lingering near Norwood.
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Norwo
Ce Behan
Mary
Ann Lee
David Osborn
Roupell
Towed
Tulsehill Cottage
Brixton
Smith
Norwood
Beon
Church Street
Shoreditch
Webb
Goswell-street
Shepherd
Underwood
Horns Tavern
Laurie
Bank of England
Bass
Carter
Surrey
Adam Smith
Blackfriars
Thurlow-place
Leigh Lane
Mr. Underwood
Margaret Gibbs
William Forbes Laurie
Ann
Richard Lock
Pleasant Retreat
Jane Lock
Witness
Mr. Ronpell
Nils
Witness and Coroner Hear Evidence of Drowning Death
In a coroner's inquest a girl described as Mary Ann was found dead at the Home after an evening when she appeared unsettled. A man at the gate followed the witnesses as they left, but his face was unseen. The jury returned a verdict that the death was by drowning, though the manner of entry to the water remained unclear.
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Mary Ann
Witness
Mackintosh
Fiers
Bynes
Secondary Potter
Portugal
Fleet-street
Bath
King v. Ben
Dowling
Thomas Martin Horsley
James Clarke
Greenwood
Cuthbert Charles Brown
Bank of England
Regent Square
St. Pancras
Crook
James M.pherson
M‘pherson
Dimity
Pherson
Walworth
Sourcipe
Gabriel Trollope
Broderip
Waterloo-bridge
Charles Fraser
Thames
Somerset House
Surrey-street
Williams
Falconer
Lundor
Dakertain
Cook
Giddy
Tandor
Surrey
Union Hall
James Thompson
Bell-yard
Temple-bar
Emily Stacey
Greenwich
Deptford
Greenwich Railroad
Rilrush
Cox v. Carrage
Matty Grogan
Bogar
Molly Foley
Murdher
Cromwell
Jeremiah
Matty
Nick Hartney
Blud-A Nekurs
Ripon
Assize Highlights at Monmouth and Kingston Assizes
Arrivals of Barons Gurney and Coleridge mark the Monmouth session with ninety prisoners and nine trials as Welsh slander case Jenkins v Phillips ends in amendment allowing Welsh words. Kingston jury reports seventy eight civil entries and a seven year transport for a shoplifter Isabella Watkins. judge laments juvenile crime and urges state care over children aged seven to fourteen.
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Monmouth
Maxpax
Baron Gurney
Justice Coleridge
Crown Court
Nisi Prius
Jeneing
Phillips
Sergeant Talfourd
Godson
Sergeant Ludlow
Whately
Blenavon
Beddoes
Hall
Jenkins
Blenavon Chapel
Kingston—Totespay
Baron Parke
Sancine
Isabella Watkins
Messrs
Atkinson and Co
Westminster Bridge Road
Parke
Bankrupt Treas ay and Official Assignee Absconces
Law items report Thomas Hamilt of Leicester Square as bankrupt with mortgage relations to Lime House and Princess's Theatre as assignees chosen. A major scare follows as official assignee Abbott vanishes with funds, exposing systemic shortfalls in small estates and creditor losses.
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Thomas Hamilt
Commissioner Evans
Coventry-street
Prince’s-street
Leicester-square
Thomas Marsh Nelson
No. 3
Charles-street
St. James’s Square
Limehouse
Princess's Theatre
Oxford-street
Abbott
Fonblanque
Accountant-General
Westminster Sessions Begin With 89 Prisoners for Trial
The Westminster Guildhall sessions opened with Mr. Sergeant Adams presiding and a bench of magistrates. Ninety nine prisoners were named for trial, 34 for felony and the rest for other offences. The grand jury was sworn and addressed on duties, with a proposal to prepare printed forms outlining plain principles of English law for grand juries.
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Westminster
Sergeant Adams
Guildhall
Juvenile Forgery Case at Guildhall and Nearby Incidents
Edward Gould a 12 year old was brought before Mr Alderman Lainson on suspicion of uttering a forged £8 10s check to Mr Dickins. The boy claimed provocation and was discharged. Separate matters include a woman and father disputing possession of a Bartholomew Close home, a Lascar cutting and stabbing at Bow Street, and a pair of fashionable youths fined for orange peeling and assault on a Covent Garden market constable.
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Alderman Lainson
George Pratt
Mary Pratt
Bartholomew Close
Lainson
Farebrother
Bow Street
John Corder
Lascar
Jardine
Lucy Jimmons
John Jimmons
Lascelles Court
Broad-street
Bloomsbury
Witness
William Field
Broadstreet
St. Giles’s
Townsend
Smith
Twyford
Covent-garden
Moore
Covent-garden Market
House of Correction
Iourt
Quedn Square Offender Charged With Indecent Conduct
Reports describe Thomas Lennard a gardener for Mr Braham charged with conduct calculated to insult females at Brompton Crescent Fulham Road premises. Witnesses including two female servants testified to repeated indecent acts, leading to Lennard’s committal as a rogue and vagabond to hard labour for three months.
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Quedn Square
Thomas Lennard
Braham
Brazier
Brompton-crescent
Fulham-road
Susan Deal
Mr. Braham
Gregorie
A Canal Barge Clash and a Drunken Wife Fight
On a foggy canal night Samuel Conliff, a ragged barge man, fought police aboard a barge after grappling with his wife who nearly drowned in the water with a cord tied to her wrist. The scene included an officer nearly losing his life, a spirited rescue by a watchman, and a 40s fine or six weeks’ hard labour for Conliff.
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Samuel Conliff
Bingham
William Taylor
City Basin
N Division
Clarke
Tonge
Taylor
House of Correction
Latimer’s Sermon Sketch of an English Farmer’s Life
A column presents Bishop Latimer’s vivid portrayal of a rural English father. The father owned a small farm, tilled land, tended sheep and cattle, paid wages, and supported his family and poor neighbors. He married sisters with modest dowries and maintained hospitality, all from a modest farm.
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Blackheathfield
Ki Wen
Extraordinary Fecundity and Poem Fragments From Pontnewynydd
A grey hound bitch at Pontnewynydd mill whelped twenty one pups and can be seen at Pontnewynydd mill. A mountain ewe near Llanithel farmer Mr. Lewis Richards has four lambs and the mother, Cambrian region. The text also quotes a poem by Bazar Corsi about childrearing and sorrow and joy.
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Dodd
Pontnewynnydd
Pontrrias
Pontnewynydd
Lewis Richards
Llanithel
Antique Horn Found Deep Beneath Kirkstall Road Ground
Workmen cutting coin at Kilvington and Vickerman estate on Kirkstall Road unearthed a well preserved horn about three feet long buried 6 feet deep in clay and gravel. The horn, largely intact with root end missing, has been sent to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society committee for examination.
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Messrs. Kilvington and Vickerman
Kirkstall Road
Leds Philosophical and Literary Society
Leeds Intelligencer
Terrier nurses four fox cubs at Maddington estate
A small terrier owned by James Axford, gamekeeper to Mr. Maton of Maddington, is nursing four young fox cubs along with her two own puppies. The report, from the Salisbury Herald, highlights the remarkable maternal care observed on the estate.
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James Axford
Maton
Maddington
Salisbury Herald
Extraordinary Briar Growth on Thistle-hill Hill
The Helifex Guardian notes an astonishing briar shoot from Thistle-hill Knaresboro near Eu Aram’s execution site. Measured at thirty feet, the growth has occurred since March, marking a prodigious vegetative instance in the local flora.
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Thistle-hill
Knaresboro
Helifex Guardian
Moonrise revelry in the wild wood fairies
A lyrical verse invites a moonlit revelry with fairies in a forest glade. The speaker describes moonbeams, roses, cowslips, and glowworm torches as they beckon the reader to join the fairy court. The scene promises joyous banquets, dancing, and a carefree night under stars.
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SMD
la Belle Assembide
Legacy duties and probate revenues across Britain and Ireland
A 1841 return shows capital subject to legacy duty in Great Britain at £40,411 and in Ireland at £2,087,283 for the same period. Duties on probates and administrations totalled £10,581 with £26,394 from bona inventories and £19,192,010 from stamp duties in the United Kingdom for 1810. Between 1797 and 1841, total Jogacies duty reached £34,400,104, while probate and inventory duties amounted to £26,707,980.
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Hume
Great Britain
Ireland
United Kingdom
Impromptu on a Beautiful Girl by Mrs Edward Thomas
A poem warns against following a mother’s fortune telling and describes a daughter's captivating gaze as a gentle witchcraft. The speaker urges the beloved to resist the necromancer love that mans fate, noting Cupid as the familiar elf and the need to look to himself.
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Edward Thomas
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Surrey Canal
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Aldridge
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H. Manning
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Goat
Pimlico
George Hayter
Royal Stables
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du Pasquier
Cleveland Row
Royal Household
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Edward Manwaring
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N. J. Knatchbull
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