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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 25, 1839
Page
6
At Hyde assizes Peter M Douall and John Bradley faced trial for attending a 22 April gathering described as a public meeting with banners and bands. Witnesses testified to inflammatory speech, calls to arms, and alarming rhetoric. defense argued the event was lawful and not tumultuous.
The report covers a May assizes sequence with M Douall and others convicted of conspiracy and attending unlawful meetings. Sentences include twelve months for Murray Doual and eighteen months for several others. further traversers remain for next assize. In Liverpool, Robert Lockey is convicted of stabbing a policeman Fazakerley. the judge sentences him to transportation for 15 years.
A Central Criminal Court record lists sentences from transport to hard labour varying by term, with names including J Smith, G Harris, J Miles, and many others. It notes acquittals, guilty pleas, respited judgments, and remands, concluding with an adjournment to 16 September.
A seven to eight year old girl Elizabeth Cash was placed with blind fiddlers Clarke and Cassidy after losing her parents. The case, brought by Inspector Harrison, centered on competing claims to guardianship and a proposed life as a musician’s helper. Elizabeth described her past with the first fiddler and asked to serve Mr ene. The lord mayor noted the child appeared well cared for.
The lord mayor orders care for the abused orphan after Clarke defends parental intent and indicts implied blows. A separate report covers three destitute women from a Birmingham area who faced exploitation in France, with the City of London Union arranging return home and aid.
Edward Hayward is brought to court for obstructing Queen Victoria in Hyde Park while riding with a letter to her Majesty. A Foreign Office theft sees Matilda Barnard and Kitty Griffin charged with breaking a despatch box and stealing £45, amid witness accounts and forensic purse identification.
The defendant, perceived as passive, stated no objection to the course before the magistrate. Colonel Clitheron said, with fear of imprisonment, it was his duty to come to the office and state what he knew. The defendant was then removed.
Jane Jacques Courben a French resident of Haymarket faced a charge for a savage assault on Augustus Goussenheim. He allegedly jabbed a walking stick at the eye, smashing it from its socket, prompting remand until Monday. Witnesses described a deliberate, diabolical act. the defendant claimed self defense and accidental contact.
On Tuesday Mrs Jane Ridley faced Mr Codd charged with robbing lodgers Mille of valuables from their rooms. Pawnbrokers duplicates traced items to the prisoner who was remanded. Also Andrew McCaffrey, accused of stabbing Patrick Murray, was examined. surgeon Leeson testified to a near fatal wound and the prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial.
On Monday magistrates at Thames police office committed Edwards a prostitute for trial on a charge of stabbing another woman in a brawl at a public house. Kensington petty sessions heard how Peter and John Rock assaulted and wounded Mr Caton and beat Wren after quarrel. Peter Rock struck Caton with a bone and robbed him. surgeons treated the wounds. Peter admitted using the bone in self defense. The bench noted the offence could exceed summary reach. Rock received 40s or two months, in default. John Rock was discharged.
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