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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 15, 1843
Page
6
A licensing case over the Annerley tea gardens resulted in the license being granted despite opposition from ministers and residents. Witnesses warned the gardens encourage Sunday gatherings and vice, citing moral harm, church disruption, and nuisance to neighbors. The bench, after weighing testimony, approved the license.
The report covers the Oxford Circuit assizes with Justice Wightman sentencing Bray to twelve months and an accused female to eight months after a horse stealing conviction. It details several Lex hate stealing indictments and guilty pleas by Thomas and Susannah Davis, plus grand jury actions on Lady Ricketts and others. Northern Circuit mentions Thomas Henry, a draper from St James's Place, charged with defrauding Phenix Insurance. a shop fire and post visit are described, with a trial to follow.
A Liverpool shop fire destroyed most of the stock after a night blaze with inconsistent police testimony about the blaze’s location and shawls and cloths. The owner faced a separate Mottram murder trial for James Ford, who denied killing Samuel Shaw but was found guilty of murder with a harsh sentence and rape noted.
A judge delivers the death sentence after a harsh rebuke about misused potential. The condemned man, moved, staggers on leaving the bar and falls down the dock steps. Proceedings at the assizes close around eight.
At the Central Criminal Court the Recorder sentenced Charles Abraham Bennett to six months hard labor in the house of correction after his Thursday conviction for assault with a dinner fork. Also, Eli Hine received six months for common assault and Samuel Crouch faced transportation for fourteen years for theft aided by witnesses amid courtroom disruption.
A detailed account of Alary Thomson suspected of child theft. The case unfolds with Bowie's examination, conflicting identities, and a clergyman's inquiries. The lord mayor remands Thomson for a week while authorities search for the child’s true guardian amid tests of memory and motive.
A laundry of noisy London cases features a blind piper accused of public-house misdeeds, a drunken bricklayer assaulting a constable, and a distressed widow fined or jailed for begging. The court blends mercy and law as witnesses recount violence, insult, and family scandal beside a grand assembly in Whitehall style.
A column laments the collapse of a great mind, Horace Smith, mourning the poet humbly while condemning public folly. The piece blends satirical commentary on political anxiety sparked by a comet and a heartfelt elegy for the fallen poet, invoking Derwent, Greta, Helvellyn, and other Lake District scenes.
A Scots ballad invites folk to gather at the smithy and cheer the forge. It calls for laughter and craft as long as the smith has a spark in his throat, urging bairns to jump to the iron and celebrate the smiddy with good cheer and fellowship.
A vivid old verse recounts Bruffam on a pyebald horse clearing hedges and ditches with fearless speed. The Belvoir hunt roars past as hounds in full cry chase the quarry, while rivals like Cardigan and Melton’s best could not match his prowess. A shadowy friend beside the horse’s side adds intrigue to the famed ride.
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