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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 09, 1848
Page
6
The passage discusses whether a marriage amounts to revoking a testator's will. The learned judge Fudge believed the question had been settled after many decisions, but Fox v Marston did not seem applicable and the judgment was deferred.
The Central Criminal Court hears John Benjamin Smedley charged with obtaining money from Mary Parr by false pretence but the case is withdrawn as there is insufficient evidence. Other matters include a verdict of not guilty for the attorney charge and the dismissal of a conspiracy case against stonemasons after a proposed amicable arrangement, with defendants who refused recognisances leaving the court. additional trials cover theft of velvet samples, embezzlement by a solicitor’s clerk, and sentences for letter carrier forgery and forger transport.
A distressing London police chronicle details Samuel Gander's arrest for brutal abuse of his children and public lodging house incidents. It covers a wide range from the Mansion House to Docklands, including assaults, distress warrants, and domestic conflicts involving various residents and workers across multiple wards.
The United Service Gazette reports that an official inquiry into the income and expenditure of the Ordnance Department is to be conducted by Lord Hardinge, Sir Willoughby Gordon, Sir Randolph Rooth, and Mr W Booth. The piece contrasts this with a Financial Reform Association inquiry, accusing it of仅 producing lengthy reports with little analysis of army estimates.
An assortment of historical era vignettes and oddities features Chancellor Kent’s misadventure with a recruiting sergeant, a Glasgow police court drunkenness mockery, a northern tale of steam liquor, an Austerrow scare with a chimney monkey, and light banter about proper sneezing etiquette from the New York to New Fork press.
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