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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 11, 1836
Page
3
A string of cases unfolds at the city court with Noble and Debense accused of late night handling of public property, including watches and plate, while others face charges of fraud by counter checks and cattle market cruelty. Witnesses describe divisions of spoils and false identities, with multiple traders harmed and the accused remanded for further evidence.
James Reid a clerk for contractor Mr M Intosh in Bloomsbury square was charged with stealing a letter containing 75 pounds in bank notes. The letter entrusted to him to post failed to arrive and £55 in notes were found at his lodgings, identified by Mr Roberts as part of the missing sum. Reid offered no defence and was remanded for further examination.
William Molamer of Cleveland Street accused John Casey conductor of Jones's Battersea omnibus of assault over fare. Molamer and a young woman alleged they were charged eighteen pence despite offering one shilling. Conductor refused, seized Molamer, police detained both. magistrates advised settling privately to avoid further action. Witnesses debated false imprisonment vs assault. Settlement urged. Separately a swindler suspect, posing as Major Willans of the 12th Lancers, visited tradesmen including Hayes of Bond Street, seeking £300 furniture on false claims.
A demure middle aged man in blue livery advances to the Bench seeking to file an affidavit. He explains his character is at stake and presses for permission to proceed. Mr Rawlinson demands concise details rather than speechifying before ruling.
A petitioner swears to purity of water for his master amid comic exchanges with Mr. Rawlinson. The piece segues into adjourned Marylebone Local Act nuisances, police cases, and public notices with fines and remands for harbouring constables, impostors, and a series of assaults.
Elizabeth Dickson alias Smith faced a felon’s bar charged with stealing items from John Dickson and wrecking his glass and crockery. The complainant, a journeyman baker, noted her prior burglary conviction on Boxing Day and a death sentence that was commuted to six months. While in custody he aided her, but she later plundered him and fled with goods, destroying about twenty shillings worth of wares. Mr. Combes convicted her, sentencing 20 shillings or six weeks, with much recovered.
Mrs Floate, a tradesman’s wife, testified her servant girl had been with them about a month. The money £9 was taken from a chest in the parlour while the witness slept, and the prosecutor’s wife implied the prisoner’s guilt before reconsidering the charge after illness left her unable to press it further.
William Spencer, starving with wife and three children in Kingsland road, admits to selling two cut panes for bread after a long unemployment. Mary Dennis faces arson charges linked to a fatal infant fire at Clifton street. A second man is found under a Stamford street bed amid suspicious visits. A Shadwell case sees a captain’s purse theft in a tavern, and Amelia Brown dies after delirium in police custody. magistrates urge parish relief and police accountability.
The witness stated the mistress’s bed room door was open so she could hear the child awake. She sat in the kitchen listening for the crying and said no one could go upstairs unseen. The prisoner left the house about five minutes before a fire alarm and was found at her mother’s in Mile End. The prisoner wept and offered no explanation. A coroner’s inquest was to be held on the deceased infant.
The wife of a famed composer survives a near death when struck by a carnage pole crossing Boulevards. She suffers a shoulder contusion expected to heal in days while the vehicle driver faces punishment for negligence and insult. The item notes a local inquest and a public breakfast for Fergus O Connor in Newcastle as Reformers gather later.
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