Famine fears and dockside crime in London notices
London council hears plea to free foreign corn now in bond to avert famine prices amid crop failures. A court hears brutal assault by broker Hagarty on Police Hunter’s wife, with broker discharged. Cases of carpet theft, embezzlement, river petition and domestic violence are outlined with multiple witnesses and arraignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Court of Common Council
William Hagarty
Hunter
Pledger
Philpot Lane
Irish Row at Tash Street Station Disturbs Court
A drunken sailor and two gossips Bridget Maloney and Catherine Flynn clash with police in Gray's Inn Lane. Maloney and Flynn face bail after being charged with disturbing the peace and assaulting an officer. magistrate calls for higher receiving-boxes to curb nuisance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Plisant
Mr. Witham
Ryan
Tullighan
Mullighan
Ariah
Pat
Mulligan
Bridget Maloney
Catherine Flynn
Archer
Mrs. Maloney
Queen Square Robbery and Multiple Theft Cases
A Chelsea burglary leads to a committal for trial after plate theft from J Thompson’s Albion Terrace home. In separate proceedings, Bazil de Mair faces slaughter and theft of meat from a cow. additional exams cover a multi‑box theft tied to the Church Missionary Society and a large scale clothing and book larceny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Square
vJohn Vivian
J. Thompson
Albion Terrace
King’sroad
Chelsea
Tooting
Wandsworth Common
Battersea Bridge
Kingsland
Mellish
N Division
N 108
Kingsland Road
Dawkins
Tottenham
Swaine
Whitecross-street
Broughton
George Gove
Henry Smith
Alias Jones
Winifred Brady
Mary Williams
Ann Hibbert
Mr. Powell
Church Missionary Society
Smith
Brady
Attenbury
Sun-street
Bishopsgate
Peake
Stanard
Williams
Hibbert
Crouch
Waterlane
Blackfriars
Salisbury Square
Ceylon
Codd
Nuisance charge against costermonger at Osborn Street
David Evans, a costermonger, faced a nuisance charge for blocking a shop front on Lambeth Street near Osborn Street. He claimed a disease prevented movement and warned to remove him if repeated. A bystander later identified him as the offender in a two penny post box theft, with letters found inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlborough Street
John Ragsdale
Thomas
Ann Burton
Chamberson
Taylor
Tenterden-street
Dr. Money
Hanover-street
Chambers
Holland
Gilham
John
Joseph Holland
Mr. Chambers
Ragsdale
Newark-upon-Trent
Serjeant
Wilde
Serjean
Newark
Lambeth Street
David Evans
Combes Will
Oakley
Osborn Street
Multiple Fatalities and Accidents Shock London Suburbs
A London report details injuries from a High Holborn fall, a Paddington masons leg amputation, and a Ca vendish-square poison scare. Mitcham murder inquest, a widow injury death at Blackfriars-road, and a Harrow-road suicide follow. Post-boy drunken incident near Streatham, vitriol works fire, and an Bermondsey concealment of birth case conclude this disturbing summary.
Inquest Into Guard Thomas Port Death at Harrow
A coroner's inquest at the Plough Inn Harrow listens to details of guard Thomas Port's death aboard a London and Birmingham Railway train. He slipped while collecting excess fares, his legs crushed by wheels at thirty miles per hour, and died three hours after emergency amputation. A second report covers a devastating fire in Bishopsgate Street Camomile Street damaging King and Blackman properties with horses and sheep saved. no lives lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brown
Alderman Pirie
Kipling
Addle-street
James Tasker
Axe Inn
Aldermanbury
Hart
William James Wilson
Sweet
Chancery Lane
Alderman Kelly
Henry Johnston
Croft
King’s Arms-yard
Coleman-street
Smith
Stirling
Plough Inn
Harrow
Thomas Port
London and Firmingham Railway Company
Onleigh-Hall
Euston-grove
Thomas Lee
Diamond
Soho Square
Tue
King
Camomile-street
Bishopsgate-street
Mr. King
Blackman
Mr. White
Bishopsgate
Jeffrey-square
Whitecross-street
Braidwood
Watling Street
London
Camomile Street
Riot in Wigan Ends with Police and Military Guard
A Monday anniversary riot in Wigan saw lower Irish laborers assault a sick and burial society procession led by a mule rider. The mob used shillelahs pokers and bricks to attack clubmen and bystanders, prompting police and soldiers to seize about 55 suspects and detain many for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wigan
Preston
Scholes
St. John’s Catholic Society
Kerfoot
J. S. Heron
J. Aspinall
J. Woodcock
Millgate
Ackerly
Taylor
Bolton
Michael O'Rouke
Michael Heron
Thomas Brennan
John M‘nicholas
John Cavin
Anthony M‘quigley
Stephen Hughes
Thomas Farrell
James Brennan
Timoth Horn
Miles Foley
Patrick Flannery
James M.cormick
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Mansion House
Bov
Twyford
West- Minster
London-bridge
Blackfriars Bridge
Mr. Twyford
Riarvylebrowe
Joseph Allen
Fusileer Guards
St. John’s Wood Barracks
Hoskins
Thomas Brigdon
Kilburn
Portland Town
Abbey Road
Newgate
Hatton Garden
Dennis Cronan
Dowsing
Restiaux
Margaret Cronan
Buckeridge-street
St. Giles’s
Tie
Witham
Patrick Mullighan
Dennis Ryan
Paol
Mount Pleasant
Peacock
Post-office
Combe
Noble
High Holborn
Gray’s Inn-road
Stockinc
Great Western Railway
Paddington
St. George’s Hospital
Rivett
Ogle-street
Cavendish-square
Connolly
Mitcham
Mitcham Common
Brown
Foulkes
Balham-hill
V Division
Long
West
Kingston
Carter
Green Dragon
Mitcham-common
Marriott
Charlotte-street
Blackfriars-road
Harrow-road
Mr. Cooke
William Johnson
Johnson
Crown Inn
Croydon
Edward Sale
Streatham Church
White Lion
Streatham
Messrs. Ruardell, Richardson, and Co
East Lane
Hag
Dratra
Harriet Gilbert
Bricklayers Arms
Bermondsey
Gilbert
Jesnousy
Charing-cross Hospital
Connelly
Swartz
P. D. Blaquiere
Lord de Blaquiere
Marshalsea
Mullingar
Blaquiere
46Th Regiment
Dublin
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