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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 19, 1847
Page
4
A fragment from a 18th or 19th century account discusses defending the public from wrongs and the protection of law. It notes a Thursday formal step in the Commons to test the doxy or the case of Dr Hampden, focusing on legal limits and individual rights in a historic debate.
At Much Woolton assizes Judge Baron Alderson and Mr France Coltman preside. William Shewill, 20, stabbed Jeremiah Pooley in a November incident after an intoxicated tumble from a public house doorway. Jury convicts of common assault. six weeks imprisonment without hard labour. Judge stresses drunkenness as cause and urges separate imprisonment for the prisoner.
Frances Whitfield, a girl of about ten or eleven, sues her uncle Edward Whitfield for a pianoforte, a music stool, and a Canterbury, claiming wrongful possession. Evidence traces the piano from Mrs Fosbrook to transfer by gift and a forged receipt. Trial reveals family intrigue, misused funds, and accusations of deceit as to ownership. Damages discussed at end.
In a jury trial before Sir F Pollock the plaintiff, a supervising architect, sued for fees for transforming the Oval Kennington from a market garden into a cricket ground and tavern complex by 1845 46. Trustees approved plans. defendant paid £20. Jury returned verdict for the defendant.
Lord Mayor cites Sailors Home correspondence praising the act against desertion and detailing objections to advance wages notes. Directors report savings bank usage and urge abolishing advance notes to improve sailor prudence, discipline, and future earnings.
Evans reports meeting the prisoner in Old Street with the screaming child then finding her in Radnor Street where she fell, the infant crying, and a warning to take care lest she kill it. The mother claimed she was sober, kept the child in clothes, but the child died overnight. A post mortem was ordered. Thammmis Offson. Asaadt and Roupeny. Two thieves Campbell and Shandley from Rosemary Lane gang assaulted Francisco Pignatelli and robbed him of a purse containing gold and a Spaniard half doubloon after a local pub sale. Campbell grabbed the purse. a struggle ensued with injuries to Pignatelli. Shandley struck and Campbell fled. both prisoners were committed for trial.
At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday before Baron Rolfe and Justice Williams Thomas Sale a cooper was charged with wilful murder of John Bellchambers by an iron bolt. George M Coy, Thomas Doyle, and John Lloyd faced charges of felonious presence aiding and abetting the crime, with Davis indicted as an accessory before the fact. Witnesses described the barroom encounter, the bolt, and an at times intoxicated state of the deceased. After defense arguments and a lengthy trial, the jury found Sale and M Coy guilty while Doyle, Lloyd, and Davis were acquitted or not found culpable on the main charge. The judge sentenced as appropriate in the Crown, with uncertainties remaining over the precise act.
Fragmentary OCR from a 19th century page includes a mock bishop’s name list, odd mottoes, a joke about a farmer and apples, a death at sixty, plus a humorous sanitary report on privy drainage and a translation note from Bury Lancashire spelling. The text preserves quirky local tone and antiquarian wordplay.
A fragmented verse and prose items on a scarecrow allegory and church safeguarding, plus travel notes from Italy. The entry lampoons ecclesiastical authority, then shifts to a passport anecdote, a boast penalty tale, and mock commentary on Sir Robert Peel noting influenza, cholera, and a Downing Street scene with Punch style satire.
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