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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 21, 1839
Page
4
A survey of eccentric phrasing by famous writers and critics. Examples include Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas Browne, Addison, and Anne Boleyn styled expressions, with notes on humorous misusages and antiquarian quirkiness.
A complex case of murder linked to omnibus drivers unfolds as Charles Wheeler seeks help to seize a suspect named Russell in the death of Robert Horne. The inquest at Mitre public-house hears of brutal head wounds, a broker Ross, and a coroner Wakley facing a crowded room and a suspicious death verdict for Ross.
Charles Creek a 17 year old plasterer employed at a hotel under construction near the Euston grove terminus of the London and Birmingham railroad died at University College Hospital after a fourteen foot fall into a well of a staircase area. He struck his head on stone flooring causing severe skull fractures and brain injury.
A Dublin figure arrived in Liverpool and spoke at the Adelphi Theatre to a crowd that filled 700 seats, urging reform and Irish justice. He urged middle-class England to support a broad reform program while criticizing the ministry for inaction. A later segment describes arsenic tests on tea and sap in a separate case, noting no arsenic in a child’s stomach and detailing a murder trial.
Norwich reports the trial of carpenter Charles Daynes indicted for the wilful murder of his daughter Elizabeth Daynes by arsenic. The Hempwell family poisoned at breakfast after Daynes lit the fire, prepared tea, and supplied water from a kettle and a pail. Elizabeth died, along with a family friend, within hours. Daynes aided by castor oil and wine and claimed ignorance of the poison, while his wife and another child survived but remained ill.
At the Central Criminal Court John Brown alias Lay faced charges of stealing four Bank of England notes worth £50 each from Mr. Thomas Moreton on January 3. Witnesses described a complex ruse with two accomplices, rendering evidence of a robbery in London and Bristol connections, with notes later found to be fictitious.
At Central Criminal Court Friday April 12 Francis John Nichols aged 19 clerk faces capital indictment for an unnatural assault on William John Purdy. Witnesses recount baths discovery, flogging taint, and a contested confession amid juror caution and defense critique of Reverend Mortimer.
The court heard cross examination by Mr Phillip s and found the testimony largely invalid. A six month recollection period was given, with uncertainty over seeing the prisoner at home except on the robbery day and the two preceding days. Police witnesses claimed injuries from a fight at Griffin public house. Jury found guilt and the common sergeant imposed a fifteen year transport sentence.
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