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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 03, 1845
Page
6
An assortment of late 19th century court notes detail a jury awarding damages to a plaintiff, along with various circuit outcomes. The Hastings case involves a chapel burglary and a sentence of fourteen years transportation, while Norfolk and Tyrone reports cover burglary, infidelity, and civil actions.
Law report from the chancellors court discusses Mathews versus Wepatsa with Rogers and Romilly. The case centers on a breach of performance rights for a translation of Homme Blasé renamed Used Up. Affidavits show disputes over alterations and additions made by Mathews and Ennis, the theatre's copyist, to the translated piece. The matter involves Bourcicault as author of the original London Assurance piece and questions the legitimacy of the changes and the title Used Up.
The eighth report to Parliament on Criminal Law outlines procedures in indictable cases and suggests reforms. It urges abolishing grand juries creating police courts in each county, appointing stipendiary chairmen and crown prosecutors, and giving defendants 15 days to prepare. It also calls for pretrial disclosures, limited peremptory challenges, special juries in major trials, and costs awarded when innocence is clear.
Thomas Throsby stood before Mr Jardine on Tuesday charged with exposing obscene prints near Southamp ton street Holborn. Inspector Neales testified the man marketed debasing materials publicly to passersby. Throsby claimed he would not demoralize anyone. The prints were not as bad as usual. The magistrate gave a caution and a fine option of 10s or two weeks in jail on default of payment.
M Vidocq, famed French thief taker, visits court to denounce a public hoax in Great Windmill Street. A placard claimed Vidocq would act as master of ceremonies at a grand ball, the only Englishman with that name. He aims to expose the deception and consider legal steps.
The report details a heated dispute between Miss Moss and her neighbour, with pushing, scratching, and a damaged dinner setting. The magistrate ordered each to enter into £20 recognizances to keep the peace and to share costs, noting blame on both sides and proposing better neighbourly conduct.
A pistol in a party's procession at the Hornlydown regatta exploded injuring a boy named John Marshal of Red Lion Street Wappleg after they landed near Tower Hill. He bled severely and was taken to St Thomas's Hospital after initial treatment by a surgeon. The report also covers a London to Birmingham railway accident near Leyton where a driver was injured requiring amputation, a Dutch Indiaman wreck rescue, and a legislative update on costs in local and personal bills with church incomes listed.
An inquest at the Plume of Feathers Clifton heard Jobe Chalmer a former Bristol police constable who killed himself the previous evening. He left a long paper letter detailing years of affliction debt and failed attempts to rejoin service. Witnesses described his distress and recent resignation from the force. The jury returned a verdict of felonious death and Chalmer was buried at Clifton burying ground.
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