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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 08, 1839

Page

6

LAW. CASES IN THE COMMON PLEAS AND CRIMINAL COURTS

Sewell and Cross sued for 29 pounds 13 shillings for furniture. dispute over alterations to a Bryanston Square room begun April 1838 and amended June 2. Jury returned verdict for plaintiffs. Equitable matter postponed. In Central Criminal Court two ten year olds convicted of two burglaries in one night. Transportation ordered. Other sentences listed. Tax relief case ends with workhouse admission for an Irish widow. Police act case fines for a dog attack.

Court OF Common Pleas Tussvar Sewell Duke OF Brounswick Cross Serjeant Bompas Joy Richards Bear Bryanston Square St. John’s Clerkenwell Equity Exchequer Tvrspar Kybut Marquis of Waterford Baron Alderson Sergeants'Inn Monmouth London Newark Central Criminal Court Juvenite Burelars James Casey George Helsh John Henry Robson Tower-hill Ryan Welsh Casey Robson Clark Mary Calahan Mary David Pikesley Joseph Henry Elizabeth Parker Elizabeth Mullens Thomas Kimbley Thos. Evans Mary Smith J. Sheen W. Brown H. Lambert J. Jennison A .Taylor J. Markie Ann Gywn T. Wiliams J. Brown W. Cotton E. P. Wood Hood J. Andrews

Stockdale Letter and Lord Mayor Fray At Gloucester Gate

An 1839 exchange at Gloucester Gate reveals Joan Stockdale writing to the lord mayor asserting posterity rights. The meeting included a brie and private talk about alleged duty faults, with Stockdale denying guilt and a councilor’s opinion deeming thePrivy Council link mere form.

Fleet Prison Joan Josurpx Stockdale Gloucester-gate Regent’s Park Stockdale Mr. Stockdale Bowins Privy Council

Assault and escape cases at Hatton Garden and police reports

Patrick Lockett is charged with brutal violence against his wife Mrs. Lockett after a drunken quarrel at their Saffron Hill home. The couple disputed, both intoxicated, and the wife defended forgiveness as the surgeon testified to extensive injuries. A separate case covers George Johnson, alias Tells, alias Jackson, an escaped convict linked to Old Jewry burglaries and prior transportation for life. Police reports from Mansion House and Lambeth Street detail omnibus regulations, Stockdale’s complaint against government actions, and the Eastern Counties Railway outrage inquiry with bail and witness accounts.

Dhrink Whitecross-street Messrs. Heath, Purse, and Co Jewry Compter Cheney Old Bailey Teakle Barker Rowland H Division Spital-street Spitalfields Needle Messrs. Heath and Co George Cheney Broughton Capper John Eveleigh Newport Home Office Mansion House Paddington Kensington and Chelsea Cheapside Ludgate-hill Fleet-street Commons United Kingdom Privy Council Privy Council Board Crown Lambeth Street Eastern Counties Railway Andrews Division of Police Cullum Eastern Counties Railway Company Norton Stratford Lumley Laytonstone Mr. Lumley Romford Willliam Swan Tavern Pelly Upton

London Docket Includes Abuse Accusations and Sailor Dispute

Magistrates hear a girl confess of exaggeration amid claims of chaining by her mother in law as father and relatives push for asylum. L lamp smashing and an attempted suicide case follow with a waterman saving a Parisian from drowning. A seaman versus a lodging-house keeper over wages ends in tentative referral to an attorney.

John Hunter Blair Hertford Street Mayfair Elephant and Castle Prospect Ron Westminster Bridge-road Cockspur Street Trafalgar Square Blair Scotland Phillips Mr. Jeremy Mr. Phillips Jeremy Michel Cilelle Paris L Division Thames Lambeth Palace William Byford Westminster Abingdon-street Usher Burridge Aranjuez Byford The Humane Society St. Pancras Sotl Crimps John Murgitroyd Hart Ratcliff Highway Murgitroyd Tavidd Heslop Chas Heslop Mr. Ballantine Margigitroyd Pelham

Drowning at a Mile End brewery inquest verdict

An inquest at Mr Mann's ale and beer brewery Mile End on Thomas Marryatt found drowned in a fermenting ale vat. He had recently lost his wife and shown distress of mind after supper with fellow workers. The jury attributed death to immersion with no evidence of self-drowning. Ale drained away per orders. firm expected to lose about £50.

Smautan Helsham Mann Earl's Court Kexsixotox Child Kensington Fata Buckix Guam Palace John Jones Richard Cobbett Northumberland Street Strand Buckingham Palace Jones Westminster Hospital Anthony Carlisle Old King’s Arms Kensington Road Mary Gibson Serpentine Mackey Wall Wolley Elizabeth Smith Russell-court Covent-garden Bristow Notting-hill Beadle Liverpool Albion EAGLE Glasgow Scotland Ballast Board Clontarf Dublin Monitor William Wheeler George-yard Whitechapel London Hospital Herts Cheshunt-wash Watford Barnet Birmingham Bushy Hudsden St. Alban's Bushymill Lane Vine Carter Stevens Leech's Mill Hadsden F. J. Osbaldeston Danixne Henry Brown Messrs. P. Watson and Co Silk-Mercers Ludgate-hill John Smith Guildhall Tulley Waller

The Mariners Hymn Poem Column

A column presents The Mariners Hymn a didactic verse urging a mariner to launch spellbinds faith and caution. The piece reads like a devotional sea ballad urging steadfast steering through peril and night toward safe harbor.

Washing Quilling and Blondes From Lace

A detailed domestic guide describes detaching blond from quilling, folding and scalloping, lathering with soap, rinsing, blueing, starching, and ironing short strokes to preserve color and gloss. It then notes a stage mishap where smoke from a fire in a provincial theatre interrupts Wagnerian performance and causes the tenor to flee.

Anecdote of Catalani and Goethe at Weimar Court

An amusing scene recalls Catalani at a Weimar dinner beside Goethe. Mistaking Goethe for a performer, she praises Werther and calls the tale a farce. Goethe feels mortified as Catalani laughs at a parodic Paris production, damaging her reputation at court. Venice fragment follows with vivid, lyrical musings on sights and ruins.

Catalani Weimar Goethe Giethe Werter Weber Paris Wetter Hogarth

Natural flowers in winter and coinage processes

Instructions on preserving flower buds for winter display by sealing stems and later rehydrating to bloom. Then a Brande's Journal note explains mint coinage presses at the royal mint, die life, casualties, and daily output. A short anecdote follows about cutting a Dutch cheese and a new ballad by T Moore.

Royal Mint Mushet Brande T. Moore

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LAW Marlborough Street Julia Pearl Mr. Long Owen Swift Jem Burn Tichborne-street Long Swift St. Giles's Queen Square William Hawkins William Kelley Cruen Easterfield Tolkemian Thames Office Heaven Southey Venice Barry Conxwat Luke Hoame Measter
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