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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 18, 1839
Page
6
A Lancashire assize panel heard a damages claim by a Lane-end carrier against a mill owner over a liaison with his daughter and resulting pregnancy. The Barons charged chartists with riot and conspiracy, while a Preston murder trial saw James and Julia Lacky found guilty of manslaughter in a brutal assault over a debt dispute.
In a 18th or 19th century trial, prisoners James Lacky and a young woman are sentenced to transportation for life. The condemned man pleads for mercy while a judge and the crowd react, and the woman wails for her children as she is led away.
The tenth session opened with 235 prisoners named including cases of bigamy burglary larceny and murder. The recorder noted two main murder questions one involving a husband accused of poisoning his wife and another boy charged in a fatal street fight. A libel case against Captain Bray ended with a guilty verdict for publishing a false statement.
The recorder sentenced the prisoner to six weeks in the Penitentiary after a trial judged malicious and without foundation. The court found the prisoner aimed to extort money from Cepts Bray and confirmed the verdict as just.
A deranged woman calling herself Flora the Virgin of Spring appeared before Mr. Barlow at Sensington petty sessions seeking to have neighbors seized. She spoke in a florid, incoherent manner about pink incense flowers, sun over her son, and her residence in Hammersmith, then left when the magistrate dismissed the matter.
A well dressed man named Josephs faced the lord mayor on charges over stolen £5 notes from Dr. Adams of Chertsey linked to a Cutler Street trader in a burglary. A separate case involved Eliza Chandler, a servant who bore a child and disposed of it, with inquest unclear on survivability, prompting calls for legal change. Bronterre O'Brien was also brought before Newcastle magistrates on sedition charges and released on bail.
In a tense session the lord mayor orders the surgeon to testify about the infant found dead and commits a gravely ill defendant for trial. Mrs Peggy Flynn, drinking and quarrelsome, fights with a publican and throws a brick through a window injuring a bystander.
A 16 year old Mary Ann Gibbons faced a police court on theft charges after two gold brooches a veil and other items were found in her possession from a prosecutor's home. The case includes disputed conduct at the station house and summonses against the accuser's mother and Roberts. Also in court a bootmaker faced a dagger incident with chartists and a boy injured by a brewers yard accident, plus burglaries in Newington with skeleton keys and a horse slaughterer fined for delaying slaughter.
On Saturday near Stonehouse point Long Reach Mr Pellatt pulled a young man from the bulwark as he hung over the side. The hat was lost and the man said it would be all the same when they reach London Bridge before he suddenly jumped overboard and disappeared. The boat halted but could not reach him. Separate notices report a boy drowning off Wapping and a dredger dying after a quarrel with his son, verdict accidental death and death by the visitation of God.
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