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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 06, 1842
Page
5
Witnesses describe Gundry as violent and abusive in prison with fits of rage and delusions. Staff and a decorator testify to threats, foul language, and weapons found at his Albany home. A claimant awards damages for violence. prosecutors defer further action as the inquiry adjourns.
The report lists Lent assizes dates across Home, Oxford, Worcester, Midland and Western circuits with named judges Sir J. Patteson and Cresswell Cresswell and locations Reading Oxford Worcester Worcester Shrewsbury Hereford Monmouth Gloucester Taunton Exeter Bodmin and others. Also notes sittings of the Court of Exchequer after Hilary term with schedules of nisi prius juries and other chambers, and summaries of Queen's Bench actions including the Great Western Railway case, Cleveland and Junius letters, and a Trespass damages action and Insolvent Debtors Court appearance of a stage manager.
The Central Criminal Court began its fourth session under the mayor and officials. The calendar lists 244 prisoners across London, Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Surrey, with most cases of larceny. The grand jury heard few grave charges while many witnesses testified in the Portuguese claimants fraud case leading to a guilty verdict.
The court dealt with multiple cases including a life transportation for murder by oxalic acid, and depositions of a dying witness in a wife’s poisoning charge. Other trials covered bigamy, bread theft, rape acquittal, burglaries, and pulpit theft with verdicts ranging from guilty to transportation and hard labor.
A French speaker Henry Francis Gadsden case shows a witness proving the prisoner brought part of a pulpit frame to sell for 15s, claimed as his father’s frame. The verdict found him guilty. lenient two month hard labour sentence due to being a stranger and poor English. Additional items include a James Duncan theft of almanacks from London Parcels Delivery Company and a conflict over company understanding. A sequence of other trials notes theft, transportation sentences, oath refusals, and a stabbing verdict. 298 prisoners committed at Newgate. Regular court scenes include a delicate conscience witness, a transport sentence for a cash box theft, and a returning transport case.
In a London trial a man faced two indictments involving a young girl, her mother testifying to a plan to take the child to a lady in Southampton. The prisoner was found guilty on both counts, sentenced to eighteen months, with a second conviction for assaulting the child. A separate case saw William Livermore sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing from a sister of the prosecutor after posing as a half pay officer.
Ulysses Crissy a literature educator long active in bookselling was charged with begging near Waterloo Bridge. A police witness testified Crissy took alms while claiming to be a publisher and lecturer, and a shabbily dressed Crissy defended himself with a sharp talk of internal evidence. He was sentenced to five days imprisonment.
An elderly man named Thomas Slee or Beville was charged with stealing a Hambro sausage from Mr. Badcock’s Marylebone Street shop. He argued the counter’s display entrapped customers and that no removal from premises occurred, claiming no felony. The porter testified three sausages had been stolen that week.
In a courtroom examination Mr Maltby questions the prisoner about parcels of parchment and a villa lease linked to Bevin images. The constable reports letters bearing Beville’s inscription found on the prisoner. Maltby urges further inquiry as remand extends to Monday while authorities note prior possession of Alpha cottages and Rezeni’s park assets.
Alfred Light a sailor boy was charged with stabbing Charles Swainson the cook of the London a Newcastle trader off the Tower after a quarrel over cork. Swainson wounded and in hospital in dangerous state. Light remanded for further inquiries. Thames police inspector to attend hospital for deposition.
The Life of E C Lister Esq is attacked at his Fairfield residence around four on Wednesday morning. A man with an instrument tried to kill him but was knocked down and restrained by Mr Lister who learned the assailant was the butler. The culprit appeared deranged and was sent to York Lunatic Asylum. In another report a boy named Mussinu, age about twenty five, disappears from Melbourne area. A distillery fire near Archbishrop Street causes extensive damage with fire brigades responding and the firm insured.
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