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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 11, 1841
Page
5
The article recounts a Chester courtroom sequence where Bartholomew Murray and another suspect faced murder charges. Murray was found guilty of manslaughter in the Over-Peover axe murders and sentenced to life transportation. The report covers trial testimony, the judge, the verdict, and surrounding criminal proceedings, plus a separate case involving Gouby for the death of a child and a lengthy apprenticeship dispute in London.
Crowded privy council chamber for the April 6 hearing of Woop Bart v Goodlake and HitchExs over the late Mr. Wood of Gloucester. Report notes press denial of access, lists attending officials, and predicts a two day opening by the attorney general with total ecclesiastical court costs above £50,000. It also covers the Bankruptcy Court proceeding of Keastty Brorgens’ Barkruptcy and a Tablet newspaper fraud related dispute, detailing proofs of joint vs separate estates and creditor challenges.
The Ca leenpan records 251 offences across 251 prisoners listed for the current session at Newgate and related prso ons. Offences include murder embezzlement highway robbery burglary housebreaking larceny forgery and other counts with counts by location totals London Middlesex Kent Surrey and admiralty. The session opens with 269 prisoners total and a mix of sentences and dispositions including transportation terms and insanity acquittals.
The calendar outlines trials for murder of an illegitimate child, attempted suffocation of a newborn, and a ship captain accused of seaman murder off Africa. It also covers a manslaughter in a union workhouse, a jewelry fraud conspiracy with Frenaby, Franklin, and Harding, plus a theft from a reticule and a bank forgery case. The report details verdicts, sentences including transportation, and remarks by judges and juries.
In a crowded courtroom, a prosecutrix denied consent while Russell and Millard faced questions of credibility. Witnesses described a struggle and ground disturbed by a kneeling figure. The jury acquitted both prisoners after brief deliberation. A second edition of the calendar added 54 more prisoners to the calendar, with varied charges. Emma Harling was found guilty of attempting to suffocate Grace Harling and was remanded for mercy after jury recommendation.
A wounded seaman named Joseph Forbes recounts sixteen years of captivity by Timor Laut natives after his ship the Stedcombe was attacked in 1821. He details murders, torture, and survival, aided by Captain Watson who rescued him in 1839. Subscriptions are pledged at the Mansion House to help Forbes, with a Lord Mayor and donor support.
Six men including Charles Brand James Long Richard Thorp Timothy Quinlan John Brown and Silvester Shea were brought to custody by police after a dawn disturbance near Fitzroy Park Highgate. A crowd gathered for a pugilistic contest as cab sped away along Hampstead Road. Witnesses described pursuing the group through fields and a secluded ground before they fled when watched by officers.
The report details a ring of Sunday fights broken up by police over several weeks near a specific spot. Prisoners claimed they joined a mob unaware of the plan. Judge Rawlinson warned that law reaches unlawful assemblies and ordered bail for twelve months, with Brand’s officers seizing others.
A ragged woman Eliza Jones was charged with drunkenness and neglect of herself after being found in Broad Street. She claimed to be a poetess and denied intoxication, saying she had eaten little and only two glasses of ale. The cards found were not hers and she was discharged after the cards were burnt and she blessed the magistrate. A second case involved Henry Miles, nine, accused by his mother-in-law of stealing a shilling. The widow sought asylum for him. he was remanded after the father testified.
A seventeen year old Irishman John Lawless faced Brentford petty sessions for a savage assault on police constable H 195 in Spitalfields. Lawless bit the officer’s hand while a crowd closed in, requiring five constables to subdue him. The constable was severely wounded and unfit for duty. A separate case at Hounslow involves Thomas Silvester, 21, accused of murderous assault on constable Beechey during an arrest, with Beechey hospitalized and unable to testify. remand to Clerkenwell Prison ordered pending officer’s condition.
Multiple lots at Mr Edmund Robins sale in Covent Garden included the skeleton of Holloway, murderer of Mr Steele, knocked down to a surgeon for 30s. A separate report notes a coal laden barge driven against Westminster Bridge works, sinking with about 28 tons lost, dredgermen later benefiting. In Rochdale, two brothers quarrelled and fought, their mother died after an accidental blow. Manchester Chronicle.
A reflective sketch portrays a lively child eight years old named Eane Loving. Descriptions emphasize her innocence, mischief, and radiant presence. The verse notes her arch looks, laughing eyes, and clever acts, likening her to a faggot spark in the hearth and a playful fawn. She delights in solitude yet brings gladness and songs to gatherings.
A compact roundup of famous last words and deathbed scenes from poets, philosophers, and statesmen. Petrarch, Rousseau, Pascal, and others are cited with brief, non-graphic notes on how they faced death, befriended by attendants, or dictated last lines. The piece surveys attitudes toward mortality and fame through noted finales.
The piece recalls mid seventeenth century House of Commons orders banning tobacco smoking in galleries and at the table. It imagines MPs of that era enjoying pipes and the humorous exchanges over personal remarks amid debates in St Stephen's.
A tender verse expresses a parent’s longing as a mother addresses her gentle child, invoking memories of infancy and home. The speaker finds heaven in the child’s dreams and cloudless gaze, cherishing the enduring trust and early years.
Mr Mathew is a middle stout fifty year old teetotaler with clear understanding, strong will, and benignant blue eyes. His plain neat dress and urban manners help win converts while his humor and patience shield him from provocation.
Fragmented text recounts a disaster in 166 crossing on the fifth of March and quotes Nathaniel Lee’s lines written in Bedlam Moorfields. It references Hugh Willianerished, the year 1820 context, and a dramatic lament on storms, rainbows, and poetic irony.
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