Obituary of J. D. Hume prominent custom official and thinker
Long memorial outlines the life work of J. D. Hume a leading official at the Board of Trade and chief promoter of life insurances and the Atlas company. It praises his deep knowledge honest public spirit and influence on commercial policy while detailing his retirement struggles and family ties. He died on 12 June 1842 after a lingering illness.
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Times
Baron Bulow
Morning Chronicle
Court of Queen's Bench
Lord Birkenborough
Pinner
Customs’ Annuity and Benevolent Fund
Customs
Hume
Board of Trade
J. D. Hume
Jane
Lent Assizes and Court Sittings Across Several Counties
A lengthy notice lists Lent assize days and venues across Hertfordshire Essex Kent Sussex Surrey Oxford Worcester and other counties with judges Patteson and Cresswell and dates from Feb 23 to March 30. Also details sittings of the Exchequer after Hilary term including Middlesex common juries revenue causes and special juries, plus Queen's Bench cases and certiorari proceedings in the Great Western Railway inquest and other criminal information matters.
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Home Criscurt
Shrewsbury
Herefordshire
Hereford
Monmouthshire
Monmouth
Gloucestershire
Gloucester
City of Gloucester
Weston Cracouit
Southampton
Winchester
Wiltshire
Salisbury
Dorsetshire
Dorchester
Devonshire
Exeter
City of Exeter
Cornwall
Bodmin
Somersetshire
Taunton
Birmingham
Coventry
Warwick
Court OF Exchequer
PRIUS
Middlesex Common Juries
London
Middlesex Revenue
Queen’s Bench
Banco
Central Criminal Court opens fourth mayoralty session
The Central Criminal Court began its fourth session under the present mayoralty with 244 prisoners listed from London, Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Surrey. Most cases concern larceny, while the judge noted potential rises to about 300 names. notable charges include bigamy forgery a stabbing and alleged poisoning. Archibald Leslie, 25, faces indictment for obtaining clothes and money by false pretences from Michael Henry Hart after being introduced by a liaison to a third party.
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Central Criminal Court
James Duke and
Kelly
London
Middlesex
Essex
Kent
Surrey
Archibald Leslie
Michael Henry Hart
Payne
Ballantine
Ratcliffe Highway
Fraud and forgery in Portuguese claim case at Newgate
A jury convicts a man of fraud after he and an accomplice forged documents to collect a large sum from a prosecutor over a claimed Portuguese award. Evidence shows altered figures, forged certificates, and a bogus magistrate's signature. The trio exploited Bouch’s name. the defendant faced life transport on related charges amid extensive testimony.
Man and wife cases and multiple bigamy convictions
The court heard witnesses on three marriages by the same man Emma Fox in 1823 and Margaret Turner Thompson in 1837 and Hannah Butlin in 1840 with accounts of cruelty and deception. He was found guilty of bigamy and transported seven years. Separate theft cases followed with robberies of bread and valuables and later rapes and burglaries. Multiple defendants were convicted and sentenced to transportation or hard labor.
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Davis
Church of St. Chad
Eaton
Emma
Manchester
Phillips
Bell
William Barnes
St. Chad's
Shrewsbury
Emma Fox
Yarrow
St. Leonard’s
Shoreditch
Margaret Turner Thompson
Mr. Phillips
James-street
Buckingham-gate
Palace
Fleet Street
Hannah Butlin
St. Peter
St. Mary, Newington
Turner
St. Peter’s Church
Walworth
Butlin
William Bradcutt
John Toe
Henry Wilson
Jeep Gardner
James Commish
George Allen
Henry Church
Cannon-street
Bradcutt
Toe
Wilson
Gardner
Cornish
Allen
Mansion House
Cannonstreet
Church
Justice Cresswell
Central Criminal Court
Baron Alderson
John Luterich
Jane Keep
Hanway Street
Oxford Street
Clarkson
Marrenr
Price
Hopkins
Joseph Payne
William Thomas Webb
William Metcalfe
Alfred Hastings
Thomas Cheveley
Payne
Jubilee-place
Stepney
Hastings
Charles Brock
William Kitson
Prendergast
Raymond Biddle
Henry Francis Gadsden
Wagg
Lds
Gadsden
Jeremy
Parcels Delivery Company case and prison sentence
A judge questions the nature of a company as a trading partner while juries convict a fifteen year old for stealing almanacs and goods from the London Parcels Delivery Company. The prisoner receives six months hard labour with solitary confinement for multiple indictments including theft and a separate charge for stealing a letter with a sovereign. The report includes a summary of Newgate commitments totaling 298 prisoners.
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House of Correction
Justice Williams
James Duncan
London Parcels’ Delivery Company
Michael Jerdein
Phillips
Knowles
Raymond
Putney
Jerdein
Richard Woodward
Justice Illiams
Witnness
Therisoner
Newgate
Thames
Prisoner Remanded After Inquiries Into Parchment Lease
Mr Maltby questioned the prisoner about parchment skins and a lease of a pene re Acton issued by Hon Hely Hutchinson to Frederick Bevin The prisoner said he acted as a commission agent for glaziers and bookbinders The lease came from a parchment lot he bought from a bookbinder A tumbler found in his possession was said to be a sample The constable noted letters bearing Mr Beville’s script found in the prison The prisoner was remanded until Monday and alleged indiscretions in Regent's Park Alpha Cottages were mentioned by the constable.
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Thomas Slee
Beville
Badcock
Marylebone-street
Regent-street
Charles Clarke
Brutal Assault at St Giles House Leads to Charge
Ann Dowling a St Giles housekeeper was charged with severely wounding Michael Neale at her residence. Witnesses described Dowling wielding a carving knife after Neale refused to leave, the struggle ending with Neale wounded and taken to hospital. The court remanded the prisoner without bail, with a Saturday hearing planned.
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Fitzgerald
Pers
Michael Neale
Nuala
Neale
Thomas Jones
Lawrence Jane
St. Giles’s
Humphreys
Greenwood
Begging and schooling in the Thames street court
Ulysses Crissy, an eccentric lecturer and language tutor, is arrested for begging at Waterlow Bridge. A police sergeant finds 6d on him after nabbery, Crissy defends his poverty with a tale of literary work and teaching, seeks character references, and is sentenced to five days in jail despite pleas of mercy.
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Bow Street
Don Juan
LanauacEs
Ulysses Crissy
Hall
F Division
Waterlowo-bridge
France
Crozier
British Museum
Savage murder case at 22 Brunswick street London
William Henry Taylor faces a charge of causing the death of Charlotte Weatherfield a prostitute at No 22 Brunswick street Commercial-road East. Police describe extensive facial neck and temple injuries with the deceased dying next morning from a brain bleed connected to the blows. The case rests on witness Ann Lovett and medical testimony from surgeon Joseph Suttin and Mr Gurney. Taylor is remanded pending coroner's inquest results.
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Lambeth Street
William Henry Taylor
Henry
Charlotte Weatherfield
Donnigan
Division of Police
Brunswick Street
Commercial-road East
Ann Lovett
Red Lion
Ann
Joseph Suttin
No. 22
Batty-street
Mr. Suttin
Gurney
Society of Friends
Suttin
Lovett
London Ship Boy Charged With Stabbing Cook
Alfred Light, a sailor boy aboard the London, is charged with stabbing Charles Swainson the cook after a quarrel over iron bars. Swainson, wounded under the shoulder, is in hospital in a dangerous condition. Light claims self defense as the cook struck him with iron bars. Light remains in custody as authorities plan further inquiries and a Wednesday remand.
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Thames
Cuance
Stannina
Alfred Light
Charles Swainson
London
Newcastle
Light
Wood
Towerhill
Symons
London Hospital
Broderip
Leadley
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Melbourne
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Erle
J. Bayley
Thesiger
Cleveland
Junius
Herald
Philo.Junius
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Mr.Thesiger
Sheriffs’ Court
Tugspay. Crim
Kine
Stacey
Burchell
Stammers
Thomas John King
Ponder’s End
Enfield
Taylor
Sutherland
Rter
Gladstone
Torrington
Mardon
Cook
Gladstoney
Humfrey
Monnay
Charles Wilson Baker
Olympic Theatre
LAW
Court OF Queen's Sench
Tue Qusey
Great Western Railway
Talbot
Richard Woolley
Charles Williams
Lord Denman
Northamptonshire
Morning Herald
William Bouch
Donna’ Isabella Fr
Portugal
Bouch
Robert Williams
Maltby
Barrow
Peter Click
Church-street
Lisson-grove
J. Duke
J. Johnson
John Hopkins
Frederick Spear
Elizabeth State
Waterloo Road
W. Yates
Dodd
Trangley Priory
M.W. Filmer
Messrs. Drummond
Mr. Dodd
Edmund Filmer
Matthew Filmer
E. Filmer
Messrs
Foundling Hospital
Quren
Rosiyson
Starkie
Mr. Payne
Amicus Curie
Maria Robinson
The
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Waimesas
John Finch
Police Court
Greenwich
Clereebwhell
Marylebone
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