Croydon Assizes Manout Greenwich Railway Trial
At Croydon Assizes the case Shillibeer v Tan Guepnwics Railway faced Lord Chief Justice Tindal and a common jury. The plaintiff, injured when passengers walked the line after an accident halted a Greenwich train, claimed damages. Verdict for the plaintiff with damages of 25 pounds.
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Croydon
Greenwich
Shillibeer
Tan
Platt
Peteredorff
Thesiger
Mr. Wallinger
Blue Anchor Road
Bermondsey-streat
London
Tindal
Central Criminal Court Assizes Scene and Not Guilty Verdicts
The Central Criminal Court met on Monday with several cases. Peter Durkham was tried for an assault on Henry Homewood linked to a Whit Monday procession. he was found not guilty after witnesses questioned his identity. Others, including James Desmond, John Mayne, and Jeremiah Donovan, pleaded guilty to assaulting a police constable and were sentenced to hard labor, with two others given prison terms for related river thefts and a later burglary. A roving set of cases followed, including transportation sentences for Blagden, Wood, and Savage over theft from a river lighter and a later assault case resulting in heavy penalties. The docket also covered breaking and entering, felonious theft of silverware from William Abbot, Esq., and multiple testimonies detailing the chain of custody and identification of stolen items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trevoral
Peter Durkham
Henry Homewood
Ryland
Ballantine
Prendergast
O'Connell
James Desmond
John Mayne
Jeremiah Donovan
Dennis Denny
Samuel Jenks
Gray’s-inn-lane
Cope
Newgate
House of Correction
Serjeant Arabia
George Wood
Henry Blagden
Thomas Andrews
John Savage
Clarkson
Prenderrast
Wood
Savage
East Moulsey
Page
Blagden
Francis Nash
Stannard’s Wharf
Ye Wharf
Fogg
Rotherhithe
Henry Collin
Warring States
St. George’s Church
Zervat
Ailseisig Sreiclen
Heine
Thomas Granty
William Abbot
Thomas Body
Edward Knight
Abbot
Aresceulon
Wm. Glabill
Maddox
Bir. Ballantine
Hatton Garden
Horace St. Paul
Stoke Newington
Hathaway
Broad-street
Combe
James Church
Carman
Yardley
Pickhard
Turner
No. 17
Broadstreet
Bloomsbury
Felonious child theft and related trials in London
A London jury found Ann Chambers guilty of leading away a child under ten with intent to steal and stealing apparel. Other cases include Be ff, Foot and Errington on counterfeiting and abusing a child, Rice and Hughes for stealing sarsaparilla and receiving stolen goods, Ranger’s marriage fraud, Walklate and wife accused of shop theft with wife acquitted, Lawguten Bradford manslaughter trial, and Brown sentenced for pickpocketing tricks followed by transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildren
Ann Chambers
Thomas Newsom
Finsbury Market
Jay
St. Luke’s
Corrie
Justice Erskine
Coleridge
Wm. Beckwith
Harriet
Foot
Erskine
John Errington
Susannah Hoskins
Bodkin
West
James Rice
Hughes
Clarkson
Phillips
Rice
George Jones
Meters
Sutton and Co
Bow
Messrs
John Roe
Sutton
Bicamy
George Ranger
Elizabeth Lucia Ensom
Sarah
Miss Ensom
Lea
Kent
Therisoner
House of Correction
John Woolf Walklate
Eliza
John Alsop
St Paul’s Churchyard
Allsop
Srcoxp Epirion
Tae Cacexpa
Maxi LawGuTen
William Bradford
Ann Bradford
Espinasse
Margaret Miller
Black Swan
Rosemary-lane
Thomas Maynard
Wentworth-street
Wittness
George Brown
Thomas
Manchester
Fleet-street
Chancery-lené
Seopa
Warrington
Liondon
Vale
Talaigin
London
S.the Soner
Sfety
Ballantine
Creas
Family in Surrey Square Mourns Death by Suicide
Sunday morning the family of Mr. Wil Stone of No 1 King street Surrey square Newington faced heartbreak after the discovery that Mr Stone hanged himself in a shed adjoining his house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sulerpe
Wil ‘Stone
King-street
Surrey-square
Newington
Stone
Thorn and Thorn Bigamy Case At The Old Bailey
Old man John Charles Thorn is charged by his wife with refusing maintenance and a bigamous marriage. The proceedings reveal a long, stormy marriage with drinking, jealousy, and accusations of a second wife. Thorn pleads provocation as Mrs Thorn presses ahead with the case, while witnesses and church records are cited. Thorn remanded for committal to trial amid a lively Bartholomew fair debate and other city matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DD Caares
Bicamy
John Charles Thorn
Mia. Thorn
Thorn
Hollow
Hell
Tommy
Devil
Mrs. Thom
Mrs. Thorn
John
Bailey
William Easter
St. Mark’s Church
Old Bailey
Bartholomew Farr
Smithfield
Alderman Wilson
Markets Committee
Wilson
Richardson's Booth
Richardson
Snd
MARYLEBONE DUEL FEARS AND BANKER ARREST ON WARRANTS
A London magistrate court heard warrants sought against George Stone and Thomas Knox for meeting to duel. Stone, a banker, was released on bail after recognizances were set. Other cases include a drunken cabman at the Opera House fined, a harsh stepfather sentenced for beating a child, and a disturbance between cab and cart drivers at Marlborough Street. A Frenchman threatened Cresneau oil refiners and was held to bail with a poison bottle found. Emma Essey slept in a cart and received help at the office. Additional notes cover a Hatton Garden road incident and a 16-year-old apprentice theft case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Stone
Mr. Long
Poor boy seeks aid as hunger and ruin push him to beg
A 16 year old, in torn clothes, pleads before Mr Broughton for help after learning his parents were dead and his father killed during Frost's Newport disturbances. He says he and his family traveled from Wales for work, the father dying from a blow with a pickaxe. The magistrate sends the boy to the Marine Society's School and grants small relief from the poor box while arrangements are made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broughton
Frost
Newport
Wales
Marine Society
Prisoner in Court Over Deadly Wounding and Stabbing
In a brutal incident at a room bed scene Driscoll fell and Sullivan slashed his throat with a knife or razor. Sullivan, unable to defend, bled severely and remains in hospital in a week condition. Pearce alias Jubilee Pearce faced a stabbing charge after boasting in a Poplar beer shop and injuring Henry Deal.
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Driscoll
Sullivan
Tatham
Francis Pearce
Jubilee Pearce
Henry Deal
Beershop
Popler
Deal
Broderip
Tri
Foreigner pretends to collect £15 at General Post Office
Lambeth street report outlines Kearl Hartman a foreigner charged with obtaining a letter for £15 by posing as Towape George Perzi. He accompanied a companion from Paris to London and was remanded after admitting receipt of the letter and money while fearing a repayment dispute. Conflict with other stories follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearl Hartman
Henry
Fr General Post-office
St. Martin’s-le. Grand
Paris
London
Oxford-street
White Swan
Ian
Vienna
George Perzi
John Jones
Harris
Waterman on peace warrant over attempted drowning incident
In Bensington James Tickner faced a peace warrant for threatening to drown James A. Smith after a dispute at a boat house. Magistrate Paynter remanded him on bail of 20 to keep the peace for twelve months. In Wandsworth Thompson, a known thief, faced final examination as Elizabeth Merritt testified to a plate theft involving four spoons and forks found on the prisoner. The case was fully committed for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogpery
Thomas Frog
James Duke
Cyril Vidocq
Mademoiselle Norman
George
Hanover-square
Charles Cordient
Recom
Hillman
West of England Insurance Company
Bridge-street
High-street
Lambeth
James Tickner
Mr. Paynter
James A. Smith
Chiswick
Rosbery
Pig
Thomas Francis
Hemere Specus
R. Paynter
A Winter Bird Lesson and World Fragments
A mixed manuscript excerpt notes a bird by a winter pool teaching patience, then shifts to filial duty described in Ching, Herodotus cites, a Brunswick brass mortar of 1814, Newtonian abstractions with odd anecdotes, beer combating scurvy on west coast voyages, and the Gambia fish diet. Distinct entities include Edward Lord Thurlow, Herodotus, Brunswick, Newton, Capes Belcher, and the Geographical Society journal reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward
Thurlow
Brunswick
Capes Belcher
Africa
Gambia
Geographical Society
Style and Satire on Language and Tea
A fragmented 19th century style piece mocks wordiness and pedantry, contrasting Bulwerian phraseology with comic misreadings. It weaves literary allusion, mock dialogue, and odd observations on manners, geography, and tea consumption, alleging cultural contrasts and social pretensions.
Advertisement Oddities inboarding and lodging notices
A collage of 19th century classified ads and notices about lettings and lodgings. Items describe a Surrey lodge by the river Mole, furnished houses to let near Haymarket and Finchley, and various travelers and servants roles. Wording reflects era language with terms like companions, country apartments, and travel willingness.
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Surrey
Mole
Haymarket
Finchley-common
Hanover-vark
Peckham-rye
Great Britain
Royal
Prince Albert
Foolish Imitation in 1614 Paris Ladies
In 1614 English ladies in Paris showed a craze to imitate French women by flattening their bosoms, even resorting to violent means that harmed their health in a desperate effort to erase natural charms valued by nature.
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Paris
Inquest on Mr Toussaint Waxchandler King Street
An inquest at the Golden Lion on Mr Toussaint aged 40 wax and tallow chandler of King Street St James's, finds insanity after a worker reported a suicide by hanging. Surgeons note constitutional illness. family history cited. verdict insanity. Another inquest at Limehouse on nine year old Joseph Underhill drowns. coroner urges river improvement. Third inquest at Kennington on 76 year old Thomas Abberley dies after a fall, verdict apoplexy brought on by intoxication.
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Metsacuouy Svuicioz
Mr. Toussaint
Waxchandler
King. Street
St. James’s
Golden Lion
King-street
St. James's-square
Higgs
Goneeh Brecknell Toussaint
Wax and Tallow-Chandler
St. James's
George Tapley
Stewarton
Tapley
William Carter
Surrey
King’s Arms
Kennington-lane
Thomas Abberley
Lambeth
Carlisle Chapel
John Harris
No. 8
Mansion-house-street
Lamb and Hare
Kennington Lane
Wagstaff
Amelia Abberley
Harris
Microscope View of the Fly and Tycho Brahe’s Nose
A miscellany piece surveys the housefly eye with 8000 hexagonal lenses for precise vision, notes Tycho Brahe’s nose prosthesis after a 1566 duel and death threat, and recounts royal wealth, literary and railway electricity topics in a brisk, period voice. It covers science curios, a historic injury, papal wealth, authorship musings, and rail electrification theories.
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Assize Intelligence
Central Criminal Court
Mansion House
Marlborough Street
Maltby
Mr. Maltby
Ierrene
Mr. Altby
Canchy
Hopera
Randy Penny
Queen Square
John M Ronneos
Raper
Golden-square
Astley’s
Fenee Sooning
Ivesyminater-Bridge
Westminster Bridge
Soner
Gregorie
Westminster-bridge
Charles Dodd
Buckingham Street
Adelphi
M. Cresneau
Milbank-wharf
Milbank
Mr. Gregorie
Inspector Taylor
Taylor
Joseph Getten
Mobank
Monsieur Cresneau
Dodd
Bentleman
Oila
France
England
Jean de Clos
M. Creaneau
Dockyard
Westminster
Earl of Guildford
Burford
Poplar
Driscolls
Ireland
Townsend
Street
Union Hall
Bensington
Wandsworth
le Comte
Herodotus
Newton
Lady
Kang Ra
King
Phy
Adystery
Hamlet
Mr. Ferguson
Jess
Sol
Circassia
China
Lewenswerk
Tycho Brahe
Witemberg
Enderupius Pasberginus
Manderupilla
Tycho
Noge
Clement V
Papal Palace
Rebiake
Lady Chstisrtons
Lisa
M. B. Stephenson
Stephenson
Chatterton
Bristol
Prometheus
Jossra Janes
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