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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 30, 1837

Page

5

Seduction case and public alarm in Hatton Garden roundup

Law and assault cases occupy the docket from Harris v Butler to a Hatton Garden coiners raid. A demurrer over defects in the seduction claim is noted, with amendment possible. In a separate assault verdict, the tailor sues for damages after a beating following juvenile innuendo. Police arrest a coiners gang at No 3 St Andrew's Lane, Westminster, seizing crucibles, moulds, and newly made coins, remanding three men and a woman for a week and notifying the Mint.

Hatton Garden St. Andrew’s Lane Westminster Duke and Hall Ashton Reynolds Clerkenwell Reynols Duke Thomas Birch Thomas Oliver Jzilen Wood Laing

Police Reports from 1837 Greenacre Visit and Robberies

The report covers the Lord Mayor's note to Guildhall opposing visitors to condemned prisoner James Greenacre, plus multiple cases: forgery attempts linked to J Williams and a Walford bill, a quarrel over Polly Hopkins in Camden Town, a Robbery by a servant at Goswell Street, and a highway robbery near Brixton Hill involving John Potter.

Greenacre John Williams Bush Committee of Bankers For Protection Victor Barrer Jamet’s Leicester Square Frederick Peck Jamet’s Hotel Currie and Co.’s Joshua Tisdell Silk-Dyer Red Lion-court Holborn Walford Coleman-street Joan Atkinson Currie and Co Frederick Cook Pope Headalley Gilleneau Geo. Gilleneau William Stephenson Upper Thames-street Glasgow Mutries and Co Barclay’s Robert Mutries Watling-street London Upper Thames Union Hale RoBsery John Potter Wedgwood Bowyer Greenwich Brixton-hill Thornton Road New Clapham Park

Noted suspect denies offence and seeks alibi support

A prisoner argues he is not the offender and seeks to prove an alibi. A policeman recalls the complainant gave a precise description prior to arrest and labels the man as a loose character in Clapham, with a history of custody for felony. The prisoner was remanded.

Clapham

Omnibus row and court cases in Thames police notes

Mile-end omnibus conductors John Stanton and William Preston faced magistrates for a fight at Mile-end gate with a large disturbance. Thames court heard attempts to murder accusations against Patrick Hurley and a brutal domestic injury case. Insolvency actions included Heinrich Cleinman and Thomas Carew, with adjournments and prison sentences. Middlesex Sessions reported omnibus drivers guilty of assault, plus a Paddington Yorkshie Stingo incident.

John Stanton William Preston Docter Shaw Preston Thames Police Patrick Hurley Greenwood Ballantine Daniel Mathias London James Ballard St. Leonard’s Sussex New York Westminster Whitecross-street Hayward Heinrich Cleinman Breslau Prussia Tru Harris Woodroffe Bowen Thomas Carew Cooke Messrs Sansom and Co Watson Linley Sheffield Plate Woodrooffe Messrs. Sansom Middlesex Sessions

Fatal Sailing Boat Accident Off Barking

A sailing boat with three men, Blake and Geo. and William Finch, capsized in a squall near Barking, Essex. Blake could not swim and drowned. the other two men survived but in precarious condition as authorities search the river for the body.

Blake Geo William Finch Barking Essex Aldermanbury Westhorpe St. Alfred’s Metropolis Whitecross Street Watling-street Jeffreys-square County West of England St. Alfred’s Church Braidwood Ellis Chipstead William Walker Cobham Surrey Charles Bodser Partridge Bedser William Harley Horsemonger Lane

Disturbance at Singers Row Ends in Not Guilty Verdict

After a dispute over a dismissed singer, a complainant was dragged from a room by the defendant who then allegedly struck him in the street. The defendant denied the street assault and claimed to have expelled the complainant. Witness Oldacre said he struck the complainant in the street. Verdict: Not Guilty.

Harris Butler Matilda Harris Hughes Mr. Richards Platt Mr. Thesiger Victor Williams Polly Hopkins White Conduit House Joey Camden-town Mr. Rawlinson Stepney Yorkshire Stinao George Hodson James Gheveley Norfolk Street Strand Paddington Phillips Erpietian Oldacre

Reform urged by Henry Bulwer on Marylebone election

Letter from Mr Henry Bulwer J to a friend discusses the Marylebone contest, warns against multiple candidates and factional splits, and urges Reformers to unite until the election. Also noted are a murder report near the Penitentiary at Milbank and changes in British Museum admission and other late items.

Bulwer Marylebone Henry Bulwer J H.n Milbank Commissioners of Woods and Forests Sullivan British Museum Ity Youne Napotrox The Minerve Louis Bonaparte Napoleon Strasburg England Daniel O’connell Griffiths London Walsh Wolverhampton Rome Murper Cashel Cork Charter Cahir Timothy Crowe Robert Bridget Sadlier George Wood Sadlier Wood Stack 25Th Regiment Crowe Tonbridge Allingham Taylor Lewes DeaTu St. Sebastian Paris O’mealey Reinyella Bay Coast-Guard Kilcredane Station Blissett Kilrush Galway Bay W. C. Marrett Galway Youghal Dunkettle Glanmire Factory Hill Dun‘ettle Gray Himalaya Bell Xciety’s Museum Temminck Geographical Society of Paris Captain Back Arctic Geostraphical Society Washington Strand Lowther Arcade Worcester Charing-cross Hospital

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