Infanticide and mysterious infant death in London inquests
A long page reports coroner inquests from Belton Street Long Acre to St Pancras and Cobham. Cases include a suspected smothering infant found dead in a mother’s bed, a newborn found in a coffin in Calthorpe Fields, and a poachers attack on gamekeepers in Surrey. Other inquests cover a sewer accident at Paddington, a penitentiary death from illness, and a clothes fire death at St George's Hospital with verdicts of accidental death or natural death where evidence was inconclusive.
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Belton
Long-acre
Stirling
Elephant and Castle
King’s-road
St. Pancras
Calthorpe Fields
Joseph Ginger
Calthorpe-fields
Gray’s Inn-lane
Eastcott
Surrey
Cobham
Chipps
Weekly Chronicle
Middlesex Hospital
William Bailey
Trongate Wharf
Paddington
J. W. Gell
Millbank
John Grady
Daniel Nehill
York
Portsmouth
Central Criminal Court
P. Wade
Morris
Lavies
St. George’s Hospital
Hyde-park-corner
Higgs
Emma Clarke
Mary Woodham
Effects of Opium and Debtors Prison Noted in Inquest
In Galway street St Luke's an inquest heard that death was caused by opium not exceeding nine grains though the deceased habitually took up to a half ounce to relieve a cough. A separate report from Canterbury Court of Requests notes William Sedgwick’s 40 day imprisonment for a debt of £4 3s 6d, raising questions about the debtors' act amid parish relief for his family.
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Galway Street
St. Luke’s
Canterbury Court
William Sedgwick
Westgate
Bridge
Kent Herald
Harvey Combe
Cobham Park
Thomas Chipps
Messrs. Brown
Devonport
Cobham
Hill
White
Ripley
Cartier
Parker
London Dock
London Dock Company
Sydney
Hobart
The Royal Hunt at Windsor and Surrey Enjoys Royal Attendance
The Windsor Express reports a three day Surrey hunt with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Augusta present on Monday. Deer were chased from Coombe Farm to Godstone with Errol as master. A Tuesday Wexham meet anticipated the Queen but she postponed. a Mile House gathering featured the royal cortege and a long deer hunt ending near Gerard's Cross.
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Winsor
Surrey
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Augusta
Earl of Errol
Coombe Farm
Kingston
Cheam
Morden
Carshalton
Beddington
Whaddon
Croydon
Epsom-downs
Walton-heath
Margery-grove
Gatton
Reigate
Red-hill
Godstone
Leatherhead
Banstead-park
Ewell
Epsom
Gilbert Heathcote
Headly-hill
Fetcham
Bookham-common
Wexham
Windsor
Dudley Stuart
A. Fitzclarence
Colonel Anson
Fulmer
Pickeridge
Gerrard’s Cross Common
Alderman Bottom
Haw Wood
Southland’s
Uxbridge
Cowley
Hurstwood
Drayton
Mile-house
Salt-hill
Bath-road
Two-mile Brook
Miss Murray
Baroness Lehzen
Quentin
Melbourne
P. Thomson
Terrington
Colonel Buckley
G. S. Byng
Major Keppel
C. Greville
Brand
Henry Wheatley
G. Quentin
Poly Phaetons
Marchioness of
Davis
Joshua Aldridge
Her Majesty
Suite
Salthill
Chalvey
Datchet
Eton
Gerard’s Cross
Windsor Express
Fearful attempted murder and poisonings headline chaos
The report recalls a July murder attempt by Picker ing on two charcoal burners at Sap ling coppice near Buildwas, where a stake attack left victims believed dead and robbed. A suspect was captured in the Forest of Dean and jailed for assizes. Reports also detail a London distiller robbery and a Colsterworth inquest into arsenic poisoning, with a willful murder verdict against an unknown assailant.
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Pickering
Buildwas
Glocestershire
Forest of Dean
Shrewsbury
Back
Eagle and Back
London
Newark
Sleaford
Lincolnshire Chronicle
Murper
Colsterworth
Ingram
Mary Hodgkin
White Lion
Jesse Ingram
Lincoln Mercury
Chelmsford Union
Poor Law Commissioners
Children’s Friend Society
Home Secretary
Chelmford
Fire at Bellaport hall farm in Shropshire prompts inquiries
A large fire broke out at Bellaport hall farm in Muxton parish, Norton area. Tenants and Market Drayton fire-engine helped suppress it, with two incendiary signals heard and investigations ongoing. The blaze endangered nearby grain stacks and led to insurance for the tenant.
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Shropshire
Bellaport-hall Farm
Hugh Ker Cockburne
Norton
Muxton
James Blockley
Bellaport Hall
Market Drayton
Whitchurch
Woolwich
Gravelines
London
Nore
Medway
Thames
Gravesend
Onoard
Geneva
Queen’s
Thames Police Office
Greenwood
Ansell
Board of Customs
Braintree
William Wakeling
Chelmsford Chronicle
W.L. W. Samwell
Upton-hall
Northampton
George Harrison
James Bailey
William Bailey
George Williams
Herpole
Ball
Crow
W. L. W. Samwell
James
E. Bouverie
Northampton Herald
Scotch-street
Armagh
Graham
Boylan
Ain
Sheffield Iris
Canton Hospital Founded by American Missionary
An American surgeon and missionary Rev. P Parker has established a gratuitous relief hospital in Canton for Chinese afflicted. The piece notes high excitement among locals over early operations and suggests potential broader ties, while cautioning about past regional surgical portrayals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
England
Celestial City
Canton
P. Parker
Ano
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The
Royal Hunt
London Free
Tom Jones
Hunny Fren
London Free Press
B.D. Cousins
Bake-street
Lincoln’s Inn
Fields
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin the
Youncer
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Yorkshire
Lancashire
United Kingdom
Lord Lowther
George Armitage
Hull
Liverpool
Queen’s Ministry
Leeds
Alice Mann
Central Market
Heywood
Manchester
Hetherington
Strand
Berger
Holywell-street
Cleave
Shoe-lane
Fleet-street
Non Publishing
Verybody
Holbein
Landells
Jac Callot
Sherwood, Gilbert, Piper, & Co
Paternoster Row
Morrwine Cmenicon
Morison
British College of Health
Hamilton-place
King’s Cross
Janes Morison
New-road
King’s. Cross
Woland
Yoland
Anne Spillane
Bedford-street
Blackwall
Christopher Tatham
Poplar
Holborn
Ear Furnivals Inn
Cooper
H. Ley
McLlery
Clark
Green
Hannay and Co
Oxford-street
Graham and Co
Helborn
Furnivals Inn
Johnstone
Cornhill
Corday
Golden Star
Stones 324
Borough
Kidd
Tavistock-street
Covent-garden
Kean
Scholar and the Gentleman
IDD
Lonpor
George
Robert Cruikshank
Seymour
Bonner
Dover
Brighton
Worthing
Hastings
St. Leonards
Margate
Ramegates Broadstairs
Herne Bay
Bognor
Little Hampton
Eastbourne
Isle of Wight
Southampton
Tonbridge Wells
Gurozs
Natgat
W. Kipp
Tavvistock-Street
Boulogne
Cruikshank
France
Paris
Calais
Monsieur Hautensamses
Hotel du Roi
Morning Post
Linzs
Froears
Barts, &c
Hamms, &T, &ci
Literary Gazette
Caroline C
C. K
Robert Seymour
Thompson
Europe
Quarterly Review
Athenium
New Monthly Magazine
Athenaeum
Ido
Melan
Choly
Casey
Archer
Aimwell
Price
Metropolitan Magazine
J Entertainment
Hous
Buikshane
Morucco
Cotio
Rel Gazette
J. Nomars
Fetter-lane
Xolumzty
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