Derby Week Chaos at Cravens Meeting Races
Racing notes describe Grillon Stakes results with Equation and Espartero, Canadian winning standings, Chatham’s injuries after a fall, and Derby/Oaks betting shifts. Reports cover multiple stakes events, rider changes, and postrace betting movements at a bleakly cold Heath meeting.
Windsor Steeplechase At Slade With 5000 Onlookers
A Windsor steeplechase drew about 5000 spectators with no incident of note. The race over 40 fences and 12 brooks near Eton featured horses such as Cardinal Ormsby King Cole Miss Fanny and Jim-along Josey. Ormsby ridden by Ball and Cardinal owned by Viscount Drumlanrig led early but Cardinal won with Ormsby second. several falls occurred and Beauchamp’s King Cole remained competitive.
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Eton
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Aldridge
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Household Brigade
Hounslow
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Ormsby
Ball
Beauchamp
H King Cole
Mr. Newton
A. M‘donough
Mr. T. Ward
Miss Fanny
Harry King
Captain Bastard
Josey
Mr. Ricardo
Dickenson
Prince
Scott
Chanley Brook
Royal Buck
Captain Beauchamp
Jim-along-Josey
Chalney Brook
Jim-along- Josey
Cardinal
Beaconsfield
King Cole
Mr. Tilbury
Buffoon
Royals and hounds events in spring hunting season
The New Forest hunting for the royal buckhounds is postponed this spring. A separate report details a wager race from Herne-bay to Canterbury and back, completed in an hour ten minutes with a twelve hands high pony. A royal stag hunt near Slough drew about 150 red-coats and culminated in a two hour twenty five minute chase covering over 60 miles with the deer captured near Cheneys.
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Gerard's Cross-common
Chalfont
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Cheneys
Hertfordshire
Ford
Bulstrode Park
Prisoner Executed for Arsenic Killing at Assizes
The accused, Robert Sandys, convicted of murder by arsenic, received the mandatory death sentence after a full assize trial. The defense challenged the formality of the indictment but the court upheld it, noting the motive tied to a burial club payout. Sentencing followed, with a keep of mercy denied. execution set for the following Saturday, and petitions to vary the outcome noted.
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Welsby
Sandys
Justice Erskine
Robert Sandys
Negligent Solicitors Defeat in Crown Building Case at Liverpool
In Liverpool on April 8 the Crown Building Society trustees sued solicitors Currie and Statham for negligence over an insufficient mortgage security. The trial traced Lowe’s 1839 loan, misapplied assignments, and a later second mortgage that left the society cut out. Jury awarded £1,350 to plaintiffs. Also noted: slander verdict for £50 and bankruptcy proceedings for James Cocksury with a large balance sheet and insolvent debtors court actions including breach of promise of marriage damages.
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Equity
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Tuersday
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C. F. Williams
Sydney
Cantor and Co
East India Company
Victoria Insurance Company
New South Wales
Jonn Charles Norry
Nichols
M. M. Greensted
Roakes
Cooke
Woodroffe
Newman
North
Rookes
Greensted
Bankside
Miss Roakes
France
England
Law Courts Easter Term Opens in Westminster Hall
On the first day of Easter term judges and dignitaries breakfasted with the lord chancellor in George-street and proceeded to Westminster Hall to open the courts. Proceedings include Attorney General v Corporation of Newcastle postponed to after Trinity and Hawteegn v James ordered to refer to the master for dormant managers. The Queen v Exius and other rulings follow, with notes on indictments and trials at Stoke-upon-Trent and Cambridge greyhound match disputes.
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Westminster-hall
ROLLS
Rolle
Corporation OF Newcastle
Purvis
Bishop of Exeter
Hawkins
Pemberton
Hawteegn
James
West Indies
Lord Langdale
Queen’s Bench
Ferpay
Westiminster Hall
Justice Patteson
Stafford
Samuel Ellis
Stoke-upon-Trent
Sergeant Talfourd
Adjourned Meeting Leaves Defendant in Legal Dispute
The defendant was ready for a February meeting but stewards adjourned for a fortnight due to weather. The trial raised whether stewards had power to postpone and if dog matches void the bet. Baron Parke held the agreement related to the week’s Wednesday. arresting judgment denied, rule to show cause allowed.
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Cambridge
Newmarket
Central Criminal Court Burglary and Convictions
William Lawrence aged eighteen was found guilty of burglary at J F Archbold’s Westminster home and sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. Herbert Godwin a city constable was convicted of burglary and stealing a cloak and sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. The court also heard multiple felony charges with many pleas guilty and adjourned sessions.
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Tower Street
New Couat
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Alderman Humphery
M.P
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Rosurxe
Henry Carter
St. Luke's
Chelsea
Bodkin
Carter
Lord Worsley
Payne
Parsons
Clarkson
John Johnson
Newgate
James Simmons
Joseph Kirkfield
London-bridge
Surrey
Frances Kirby
Thomas Worley
Lonuisa Birch
Sabina Amelia Heighton
Court hears brutal neglect case in Clerkenwell trial
In a lengthy inquiry at Clerkenwell, a young woman was found guilty after witnesses described her neglect of a child. A surgeon testified the child was emaciated and in poor condition, while others noted the prisoner’s flighty conduct and poverty. The jury returned a guilty verdict and she received one year of hard labour in a House of Correction.
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Brereton
Churton
Mary Phillips
Macclesfield
Atrorney Panera
Trafford
Robert Sandys
Stockport
Welsby
Taz Murper
Malpas
Ann Edge
James Edge
Tilston
Temple
Thomas Davies
Tilstone
Stockfort
Moses Smith
James Kilroy
William Scarry
Alexander Grear
Denis Mealey
Edward Bowes
John Joseph M‘heon
Patrick Gavin
Michael Mea
Peter Miglett
James Boyd
21St Regiment of Foot
Cox's Vaults
Saddler
Smith
Killroy
Mealey
M‘heon
Gavin
Boyd
Ann Rathbone
Kergong Bodkin
M.P
Euston- Street
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Shlo
Payne
Clerkenwell
Childres
Mallett
Clerkenwed
W. Hevasey
P. Pare
London
Mary Irag
Pyety
Sue
Euston Street
Bodin
House of Correction
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Fell
Williams Alias Rees
William Biges
Richard Bates
Leter
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Ezra Hale
Herbert Gadwin
W. Lawrence
Catharine Jones
Thomas Hollan
John Rice
Charles Carter
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W. Tuckett
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Cantad
J. Trous
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J. Billick
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Cooper
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J. Lawle
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Wilkins
S. Green
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W. Dance
H. FE. Harper
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J. Barrett
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J. Finn
Martha Harrington
W. Unterwurl
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John Francis
Ains Row
Tand
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J. W. Brown
3. Lampit
Thomas Woods
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J. Wood
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T. Robinson
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Peter Jockett
Ann Merry
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D. Alum
G. Butcher
H. Tayford
R. Beard
W. Thompson
H. Stevenson
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M. Gravestock
Margaret Callaghan
Mary Fulbrook
Amelia Bolam
Mary Buckingham
Margaret Plater
Ellen Young
J. Smith
J. Clark
E. Pullen
James Newman
J. Clarke
Charles Hodges
Isaac R. Wright
W. Harris
T. Dunn
E. Kennington
W. J. Medwick
Alfred Freight
G. Claine
W. Hedgwick
W. Arnold
Edwin Moulton
J. Hof
Jeremiah Harding
J. Ryan
H. Turley
J. Boughton
R. Dawes
Enoch Roberts
Samuel Bennett
J. Hall
J. Ladd
Ellen M.carty
Sarah Johnson
J. Moore
Samuel Adams
Peter Ladverry
W. Breen
Elizabeth Nightingale
Mary Freeman
Mary Gaynor
Sarah Judd
Ann Woodgate
Jane Ann Thompson
Mary Finnell
Louisa Cooksley
W. Barrett
J. Groves
J. Parsons
J. Norris
J. Hayden
Henry Austin
5. Allen
Newgate
Fish seizure totals at Billingsgate show vast unfit stock
During a court proceeding on a charge against a Billingsgate fish salesman, an annual return of condemned fish showed 173 657 in tale and thousands of bushels and kits of seafood seized. Goldham credited inspectors and urged similar market inspections to protect public health.
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Pearson
Disorderly Girls Led to Prison in West London Union
Three girls about sixteen were charged with being disorderly after drunken conduct at the West London union. They threw a window with a stick after a heated argument with an officer who refused to take them home. Alderman Gibbs sentenced Matthews Lamb and Welch to fourteen days hard labor in prison.
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