Brutal assaults and disorder fill Thames district courts
The report details multiple street assaults including a kick from Magnus and a sailor who attacked a woman with a poker. Witnesses, including two Petticoat Lane Jewsesses, testify to the uproar as magistrates warn against drunken violence. Several defendants face fines and short imprisonments, while police complaints rail against gin dens and disorder in Shadwell and Ratcliffe High Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnus
Petticoat-lane
Thames
Justress
Clerkenwell
Newgate
House of Correction
Central Criminal Court
John Smith
Greenwood
Mary M.kiddy
Shadwell
Ber
Tarpoor Worean
Munder
Chilinn
Edwards
Broderip
Arist
Kr. Greenwood
Wwilliam Green
King-street
Deptford
Charles Felconer
Queen’s Head Alley
Wapping
Falconer
Ann Smith
Mary Pay
Lascar
Sayre
Sowerby
Lewsby
Rateliff
Derry
Rateliff-high- Wey
Green- Wood
Ray
Truwk
Cacke
Nestor Hotel
Worthing
Messrs
Henry
Hudson
Insolvent case ends in eight months imprisonment for preference
In a Court of Requests proceeding, the insolvent is jailed for eight calendar months for preferring one creditor and improperly disposing of property. The case notes payments totaling about £450 to creditors and a £1,064 claim with a refused 8s 6d in the pound composition. The judge condemns the act but cites good faith and intends toward creditors as mitigating factors. A separate misfit shoe dispute at Whitminatax Court of Requests ends in a humorous shoe exam scene concluding with payment for the shoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Hadaen
Cooke
Commissioner Bowen
Huccon
Whitminatax Court OF Requests
HorNcastle
St. Crispin
Diate Court
Comarmissioners
Dane
Lapstone
T. Lamie Murray
J. Elliotson
M.D
F.R.S
George Langley
Eag
Charles Farebrother
Kenneth Mackenzie
Bay
H. Gordon
John Rawson
Robert Holland
Joseph Thompson
Ritchie
L.L.D
F.K
Wheatstone
F.rs
Symes
Mesera, Wright and Go
S. Meusrae
Life Assurance
la O& Present
Muteal Assurance Societies
Brutal Assaults Lead to Heavy Fines at Greenwich Sessions
John Wilkinson alias Patten Jack faced magistrates for a brutal attack on James Smith leaving him insensible. In Greenwich, Catherine Casey Kitty Casey and Mary Cleary brutalized Maria Poole after an election, tearing her hair and ears, with eye injury. they faced fines of 50 shillings each and two months hard labor if unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rensiteglow Fpurky Shsszons
John Wilkinson
Patten Jack
Messrs. Barlow
Pilkington
James Smith
Smith
M.coerraick
Cumberland Anns
Highstréc
Kensington
Cormick
Auterae
Greenwich
Catherine Casey
Kitty Casey
Marah Cleary
Maria Poole
Lewishem
The
Pitts
Marie Povle
Attwood
Daniel O'Connell
Susannah Bray
Maidstone
AW Tnter Kasi National
Provident
Gyase Eveeses Sur Lessees
Avital
United Kingdom
T. Lamia Murray
Society
Cornhill
Wright
Inquest Blames Poor Law Change For Infant Deaths
A coroner's inquest at St George's workhouse reveals a infant death linked to nourishment neglect. Jury censures the mother and attributes death to poverty under the Poor-law Amendment Act, citing desertion by the father and lack of support. An Islington inquest into Esther Roddis, aged 20, followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. George’s
Minutstrest
Borough
Payne
Fuar Tacn
Thomas Fryer
Borough-road
Southwark
Union Street
Borough Road
Hooper
Hennc Wright
Robinson
Islington
Esther Roddis
Tragic inquest details drownings and suspicious deaths
An inquest at the Blue Bell Inn Burton on Humber into Catherine Foster 21 died after taking arsenic amid jealousy. London area deaths include James Read age 28 drowned saving another, Henry Bird 11 fatally beaten by a coal porter, and a North London Hospital bleed case likely causing mortification from erysipelas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Field
Cloudesley-square
Liverpool-road
Islington
Blue Bell Inn
Burton-on-Humber
George Marria
Catherine Foster
Hull
Rockingham
Thames
Crown
Longacra
James Read
Royal Humane Society
St. James’s Park
Samuel Raile
George Rara
Waterloo Bridge
Middlesex
Rarn
Ram
Lambeth
Carter
Henry Bird
Samuel Osborn
Bryant
Kennington-common
Richard Harford
Harcourt-street
Marylebone
Kennington-gate
Corsner
Elephant and Castle
Camden-town
Stirling
Elizabeth Broadhead
St. Pancras
John Broadhead
North London
Edward Taylor
North London Hospital
Witcesa
Thomas Burton
Taylor
Sarah Walker
Fatal lightning deaths in Montagu Forests
Navarre reports four woodcutters killed by a lightning strike in Montagu Forests while clearing land. Their hut burned. bodies described as severely mutilated with preserved feet and hands, while various iron pots remained untouched. The piece also critiques Hahnemannism and medical uses of bark in treating fevers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lientaine
Navarre
Gorzing
Montagu
Bigs
Hahnemann
Lizel
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Matthen
Cxrass-nvoKk
R. Phillips
Sherwood
Gilbert
Piper
Holborn
British Museum
Atte Aha
Glaasez
Aites Sine
Nea
Us Pola Fraray
Noweewncer
Wescosmanas Mandard
Eevseeee
Saest
Ces Pivceniethrams
Vance Bot Bizck Buffalo Hern
Areang
Karn Cutts
Itis
Zenon
Warren
Robert Warren
Strand
London
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J. W. Stirling
High-street
Whitechapel
Sanger
Hannay
Oxford Street
Jolnstone
Harvey
Great Surrey-road
Hornblower and Norton
Great Surrey-read
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Eesence
Bigha
Mairety
Treasury
Grinstones
Grimstone
Broad-Syrart
Bloomsbuvy
Lachfield
Herlaceoun
J. G. Gurgris
Uthvis
Ve. Grimetexe
Urcan-street
Mocmabury
Lavy Acre
Grinstone’s Eye Sea
Corws
Bunteeng
Cummins
Paul
James Paul
Blackmars Road
Franks
Joseph Henry Green, Esq
Royal College of Surgeons
St. Thomas’s Hospital
King’s College, London
Joseph Henry Green
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Copaiba
George Franks
Blacktrarn-road
Brandreti
Ceg
Hola
Kinason
Acdersgate-street
Zifa Assurance
National Loan Fund
PP Assurance Society
Cantral
His Grace
the Duke of Somerset
J. Eliatson, M.D
W.S
Woolhouge
F.R.A.S
W. Milbourne James
Rotterdam
J. A. Sharwese
Bishopsgate
R. Wright
Charles Asten Key
Guy’s Hospital
A. Key
Zaccheus Hunter
Webber-row
Brecktriars-road
United News
A. Hawkes
Dudley
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