Not Guilty of Murder in Child Concealment Case
In a Bridewell custody inquiry a mother claimed pain and fear during childbirth. The jury found not guilty of murder but guilty of concealing birth, with sentence deferred. Separately, Francis Bradley faced trial for murdering his wife Alice Bradley by arsenic in beer. evidence showed arsenic in the stomach and he was found guilty, sentenced to death by Lord Denman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perle
Murper
Francis Bradley
Alice Bradley
Manchester
Wilkins
Brown
John Lee
Goolding-street
Joseph Holland
Manchester Infirmary
Catherine Leo
Theresa Pearson
America
PeckHam
Lenny
Bexley Street
Camberwell
Mr. Cottingham
Inspector Campbell
Cottingham
James Pratt
Ana Ihnan
Reigate
Surrey
Mary Anne Nigh
Clarkson
James Illman
Pratt
Spring Gardens
Elephant and Castle
Law Lords Rule Presbytery Must Trial Presentee Auchterarder
The Lords feasting judgments in the case of Young presen tee to Auchterarder church establish that presbytery must trial the presentee. The decision held that a public duty to act creates a legal remedy if refused, citing Sutton v Johnson and Innes v Edinburgh and applying to Scotland. The judgment affirms the court below and orders enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House OF Lords
Tuesnay
Lord Brougham
Lord Cottenham
Lord Campbell
Aventbrarder
J. Fergusson
Bar of Kinnout
Earl of Kinnoul
R. Young
Mr. Young
Church of Auchterarder
Court of Session
Young
Presbytery
General Assembly
Sutton
Ritchie
Court OF Bankruptcy
Twezsnay
Gronce
Commissioner Forblangne
Old Broad-street
Victoria-road
Pimlico
Eames
Gouldshed
Moreton Dyer
Middlesex
E. James
Commissioner Fonblangque
Broad Street
Dublin
Boyle and Co
Messrs. Boyle and Co
Ping
Dyer
Heaton
College of
Gal Way
Police Law Fight Sets New Limits On Warrantless Arrests
The chairman described a late act restricting police power, expanding detention without a warrant to suspected offenses. He opposed the act but noted its passage. A jury found the accused guilty of assault on an officer, with six months hard labour and six weeks solitary confinement. In a separate case, Thomas Martin battered John McCulloch with an iron bar and hammer, nearly severing a thumb. he was sentenced to four months in prison with bail to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Johnson
House of Correction
Thomas Martin
John M‘culloch
St. Pancras
Tottenham
Court-Road
Central Criminal Court
Hense
Tubby
Hall
Broderip
Police Court Chaos Over Chimney Sweepers Cheating and Debauched Tales
A London lord mayor hearing features Mrs King and Mr Gardiner arguing over chimney sweep ethics and alleged morality. The scene includes accusations of theft and impropriety, plus remarks on sweeping methods and a plan to stop climbing boys. A juried parade of fraud and forgery cases follows, with defendants linked to misrepresented trades, counterfeit bills, and public charges.
Insane French Merchant Brought Before Alderman
Guildhall report states DuEuMa Louis Chabrier once a Marseille merchant, now an inmate at Bethlem hospital, appeared before Alderman Lainson on Tuesday. He went insane two years ago during a business visit to England, lodged in Coleman Street, then cared for by two Tower Street gentlemen who paid about £100 for his care and secured Bethlem admission for a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Stephen
Coleman Street
Coleman-street
Tower-street
Alderman Lainson
Marseilles
Boulogne
England
Peter Laurie
France
Peter
Napoleon
Fereny
Sarah Patterson
Jardine
Admiralty
Thomas Morris
Whitehall
Rogers
George Rogers
Howe
Portsmouth
Henry Turner
The
Kennedy
Admiralty Office
Richard Duck
Somerset House
Healy
Newgate
Louis Chabrier
Bethlem Hospital
Niot
Chalmers
Roberts
Hosgisee Arvain
James Rogers
Combe
Elizabeth Charlotte Rogers
Clark's Place
Bagnigge-wells-road
St. Pancras
Tie
Scotchmer
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
William Edwards
Southampton-street
Pentonville
John Allen
Kentish Town
Mary Anne Baker
Broadcourt
Turnmill-street
Clerkenwell
Edwards
Allen
Semple
Mr. Wakeling
James Baker
Comb
Kensington
George Bowles
T. Paynter
Michael Hanley
Frederick Toplis
Burton-street
Pimlico
Broadway
Hamoversmith
S. Jessop
Hammersmith
Hanley
Cloud
Covent Garden
King’s College Hospital
Vast London robberies trial ends with 12 of 21 linked
Final examination of Handley Hunt and Gifford for numerous robberies concluded before Mr Maltby. Witnesses described disguises, raids on Warwick street lodgings, and a network of fences fleeing the country. Handley possibly to become a Crown witness. others convicted and fined with restitutions ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlborough Street
Richard Handley
Sarah Ann Hunt
Richard Gifford
Maltby
Mary Jackson
Warwick Street
Handley
Underwood
Warwick-street
London
Porter
Knocker thieves in Clerkenwell court case
Two well dressed men Charles Roberts and James Chalmers faced magistrate Mr. Combe for stealing street door knockers and assaulting police in Great Russell Street and Caroline Street. Constables testified to resisting arrest and theft of knockers and bell handles. prisoners admitted drunkenness and gave false social descriptions. Combe warned of £5 fine or two months imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steaters
Charles Roberts
James Chalmers
Combe
Gorman
Caroline-street
Bedford Square
Great Russell-street
Chalmers
Reeve
Roberts
Alexander
William Baker
Caroline Street
James Dobbins
St. Giles’s
Hou
Augustus Alexander
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury
Richard Spall
New Ormond Street
Queen Square
Gibson-street
Lambeth
Robbery in Stamford Street Leaves Merchant Struck
About 9:30 p.m. Sunday Mr Holmes a coal merchant was walking along Stamford Street near Blackfriars when two men of respectable appearance struck him in the breast and tripped him. They robbed him of between £8 and £9 before fleeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holmes
Stamford-street
Blackfriars
Humorous Tax Return From Islington 1812
A satirical letter to the district assessor complains of income tax rules and declares possessions and income to be nil. The narrator mocks foreign securities and taxes on rents, revealing an empty castle in Air and reversion estates not yet taxed, ending with a formal return lodged in Islington on August 8, 1812.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Islington
Ireland
Great Britain
England
Sky
Air
N.B
Yighbury-place
The Saint Cross Hospital and Viatican Tradition
The Hospital of Saint Cross near Winchester offers a daily charity to travelers. Poor visitors receive bread, cheese, and beer from the porter, a practice attracting curious outsiders. The garden includes a notably large apricot tree. As railway traffic shifts, the institution’s use by pilgrims may decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hospital OF
Saint Cross
Saint Croix
Winchester
Southampton
Sovereign Remedies and Household Cures in Abridged List
A compact list of remedies and household hints including gout care with toast and water, hopping-cough, ipecacuanha, bile, exercise, corn relief, easy shoes, blue devils, employment, rheumatism, new flannel and patience, toothache relief, extraction, debt retrenchment, love and matrimony.
Keeping Up Monuments Gift From 1642 For Allhallows Church
Richard Cambden by will in 1642 left to the church wardens of Allhallows Lombard Street two hundred pounds in trust. The condition required yearly payments to the parish sexton for maintaining his uncle Christopher Tolderley’s monument. The churchwardens could use the funds to buy gloves or spend at a meeting as they saw fit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Cambden
Allhallows
Lombard.street
Christopher Tolderley
The Income Tax and Punch's Clever Arithmetical Challenge
The excerpt humorously critiques income tax administration with Punch's wit about assets stored in a hat and the 21 day period to determine income. It notes Water loobridge shareholders facing tolls and taxes, the Hammersmith bridge tollman paying into the treasury, and ends with Lord Morpeth at Niagara and a poem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punch
Waterloobridge
Hammersmith-bridge
Greenwich Observers Face Museum Rivalry On Hill
A Punch inspired note recalls rival pensioners at the Greenwich observatory offering miniature natural history displays and quirky telescope views. Visitors pay a pennies sixpence for access to cockchafer experiments, a Windsor castle glass spot, and a tree seen through chandelier drops. Authorities plan remonstrance over these impertinent exhibits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich
Windsor-castle
Observatory
The Shakers Dance Parade in Colonels Run Through the United States
The six men and six women form a circle and dance round the room with raised hands and precise time. They perform popular tunes and jig with dustman steps, finishing with a galoppe that evokes ridicule and nausea in the observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhian
Nancy Dawson
Colonel Maxwell
United States
The Last Adventure of Sir Walter Raleigh Fragment
Fraser's Magazine presents a fragment of a ballad praising Sir Walter Raleigh. The verse blends mythic praise with shipping imagery and calls to sail toward glory and gold as a rallying literary wartime style homage. The piece frames Raleigh as heroic mariner, poised to challenge Spain and seek lands of light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Raleigh
Spain
Land of Light
Fraser's Magazine
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LAW
Adams
Gatehouse
Soner
John
Thomas Cook
Taplainant
Ion-House
Pri
Hovus
Angel-alley
Mr. Gardiner
Mr. Ing
Mr. King
West-end
Lord Mayor
Mrs. Gardiner
Mrs. King
Lord Manger
Frederick Shakesford
Goddard
Wood Street
Beaumont
Maidstone
City of London
Butherland
George-street
Mansion-house-street
Cork Stuffing Company
Brighton
Whitecross-street
Herman Geiger
Alderman Wilson
John Forrester
Forrester
Green
Messrs. Hart
Fenchurch Street
Travis-street
Dickenson and Co
Messrs. Cooper and Co
Messrs
Samuel Dickenson
Dickenson
Wilson
Bow Street
Marylebone
Ronseny
James Carter
Chaplin and Horne
Barker
London and Birmingham Railway Police
Rawlinson
James Poynter
Chaplin and Co
Camden Station
John Michael Regan
Messrs. Durant and Co
Copthallcourt
City
Worship Street
Dubois
N Division
Bingham
William West
Bane
Matthews
West
Horry
Nelson-street
Shoreditch
John Smith
Deacon
William Simmonds
Britannia-street
Thames Office
London Dock
Benjamin Tubby
Thomas Hall
Price
Union Hall
Croydon Police
Samuel Makepiece
Mitcham
Reid, Currie
Lucas
Croydon
Makepiece
Metropolitan Police
Town Hall
Racits
Dean
19Th Regiment
Simpson
19Th Foot
Henry Smith
Elmes
Smith
Soloman
Elwes
James Graham
Lord Morpeth
Niagara
Morphid
Britannia
Morrera
Charles O'Malley
Ipswich
Charles IT
Buckingham
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