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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 10, 1848
Page
5
Testimony reveals a large black wig and a cap found at Potash Farm linked to the murder case. Witnesses describe distraught scenes at Rush’s home and disputes with Mr Jermy amid an ongoing police search for a pistol. Adjourned inquiries await magistrates next week as Mrs Jermy slowly recovers from injuries.
Proceedings describe Rush resting under police care from six to nine, with ten minutes away, while magistrates record that he may have shielded the accused. Reports note Stanfield Hall search yields no pistols. Jermy improves, Chestney’s condition remains grave. Witnesses claim Rush fired the pistol, and more pistols found nearby are disproved. At Potash Farm, Rush bought the property for Mr Jermy and later mortgaged it. Jermy aimed to foreclose, stirring tension between Rush and the family.
The murdered gentleman’s funeral was held Tuesday with shops closed and many in deep mourning. A mourning cavalcade from Stanfield Hall, including two hearses and coaches, delivered coffins to the new vault near Wyom haw church after a solemn service. Chief mourners included Thomas Preston, Sir Thomas Beevor, T Seovar, among others, with family doctors, domestics, the coroner, and the jury attending.
A letter from Augustus Stafford discusses Irish Poor Law reform, arguing against shifting burdens to towns, calling for rate in aid limited to unions, and detailing farm burden, employment, and landlord roles. The piece contrasts Irish and English practices, with Stafford recounting personal experience as a farmer and board guardian in Oundle and Cratloe.
William Baldwin, a picture monitor formerly at a Covent Garden printworks, demonstrated paper splitting at Pamphilon’s coffee rooms. He split a morning paper and an illustrated London News, leaving one side of each black. The Bank of England invited him to test with an old £1 note. he returned with a perfectly split note. The directors paid him but withheld his methods. The finding is deemed significant for currency handling. Also a correction request from W N CuamBans denying his own reported death.
Vienna reports Emperor Ferdinand I resigns in favor of Archduke Francis Joseph, with Francis Charles and Schwarzenberg confirming succession. Separately, Marlborough Street hears of Louis Philippe heirs seeking restitution over near 40,000 pounds of Neuilly palace property, amid detailed testimony on stolen jewels from the Chateau de Neuilly.
Royal decree dissolves the Prussian National Assembly convened for a new constitution. Ministers of State are entrusted with its execution. A constitutional framework includes Habeas Corpus, inviolable domicile, press freedom, two chambers, and universal suffrage in the second degree. Berlin chambers to convene Feb 26 with primaries Feb 22 and Feb 8 second degree elections. Belgium mediation talks move toward neutral Brussels seat with Tocqueville, Ellison, and Ricci representing France England Sardinia.
An experimental trip introduced a new patented steam carriage called Fairfield on the Great Western line from Paddington to Swindon. The single-frame engine carriage to ease branch-line costs, with 10 ton total weight and 48 passenger capacity, attained speeds up to 49 mph despite weather and a boiler leak.
Over six to seven days heavy rains and sleet brought lakes and rivers over their banks in Cumberland and Westmorland. Floodwaters damaged low grounds, stranded mills and livestock, and forced residents to upper rooms. No human fatalities reported. fears remained for bridge stability on rivers Eamont Lowther Eden Caldew and others.
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