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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 12, 1842
Page
6
An in-depth account of Mr. Gundry’s examination before magistrates and doctors, detailing his delusions about conspiracies among tailors and police, claims of madness in the family, and threats against authorities. Witnesses describe extreme uncleanliness, cold endurance, and weapons in his possession, while Gundry challenges the legality and propriety of his confinement and jurors.
In the hearing Mr. Gundry claimed his servants' actions cost him £1200 and said police exist to oppress liberty and prop up the aristocracy. He mocked the police during questioning, refused to answer whether he was married, and bowed out with Mr. Sergeant Shee as Stock closed the commission's case.
The Queen v York ruled a lease contract between Bridgwater town council and a lessee bank partnership counted as a contract by or on behalf of the council. The court held such a contract violated the Municipal Corporation Act and disqualified the defendant from councillor rights. Judgment for the crown.
The Court of Exchequer considered whether premises by old London Bridge fell under the city or borough land tax. A jury found for the plaintiffs. In Insolvent Debtors Court, James Heath faced dispute over stabling and rent, with remand for nine months. another insolvent, Sedgley, faced multiple creditors and a dramatic past but the hearing adjourned sine die.
In a London hearing at the Central Criminal Court, James Hopkins was tried for abducting a girl under fourteen under false pretences. The jury found him guilty on two indictments, including assault on the child, with a six months hard labour sentence followed by transportation for life for the main charge. A separate count noted the suspect’s alleged debt-related conspiracy and a related six months’ term.
A man posing as a half pay officer wooed a prosecutor’s sister at Greenwich, planned marriage, and moved to Peckham. He borrowed £5, then pried open a chest, stole valuables, and pawned them at Hawgood’s Old Kent Road shop claiming he was Lord Waldegrave with vast income. He denied gilts, faced trial, and was jailed for seven years' transportation.
A man nicknamed the Baron de Behr duped Miss Dickson and Mr Rich by posing as secretary for foreign affairs. He promised letters from Mrs Snow and manipulated funds from Rich, obtaining 50 and 50 twice and a 160 bill of exchange. Witnesses testified to his false pretences and seduction of Miss Dickson. He was found guilty and sentenced to seven years transportation.
At the end of today’s sessions several prisoners faced judgment or sentence revisions. Transportation for life was imposed on William Yates and John Atkinson alias Smith, the latter to be kept at hard labour for six months in the House of Correction before expatriation.
The document records sentences of hard labour in the house of correction for various offenders across counties. It lists individuals by name with terms ranging from four months to two years, including multiple entries for long lists and ending with the court adjournment to Monday the 28th instant as sessions for March begin.
Elizabeth Davis aged 19 is charged with attempting death by her own action after jumping from a recess on Blackfriarsbridge. She says she hails from Farnham and has lived in town about a year, wishing to enter an asylum. The alderman admonishes her and asks the chaplain to notify her friends by Thursday.
John Thorpe and John Hensley faced drunk and disorderly charges after a night of clashes in the Strand and at Temple Bar. A coffee-house dispute over soup and salad costs sparked the fracas, with police stopping the melee and magistrates fining each man ten shillings or five days in jail. The coffee-house keeper later sought 3s 10d for broken glass, and the case closed after payment.
Thomas Carter a stout labourer lacking coat and hat was charged with stealing a scaffold pole about thirty feet long. Police constable 173 B saw him Sunday morning with the pole and rope in Marlborough Road Chelsea claiming he found them near a sewer and planned to carry them along the road to keep warm. He was remanded until Wednesday.
Thomas James, a destitute youth, was charged with improper conduct at Mile End workhouse. He refused to dress, tore his clothes, and claimed he preferred prison to the workhouse. The master, Mr Wilson, sewed torn garments and provided a shirt. The magistrate ordered him kept at work for a month, with potential aid if he behaves.
Fragmented verse describes a mother’s devotion and visions of three images of a queen, one dear one gorgeous and one divine. The speaker mourns a possible wrong, then awakens to a muse born as a golden ray and a princevery early scene shows a mother’s bed, a blessed birth, and the quiet joy in a pale yet happy mother as she gently consoles with sighs and smiles. The imagery centers on tender motherhood and the newborn princely boy.
In Paris at the Foreign Office a private secretary and M Guitzot discuss the search treaty. The cabinet faces a split: France fears maritime harm and national honour, while England presses the pact. The chamber and public are uneasy as Guizot weighs ratification and alliance options.
A fragmentary satirical poem accuses a premier of misconduct at Downing Street and recounts a deluded virgin and the deceased Duke Bucky. It describes the premier’s drinking, visions of the duke, and a midnight scene where the spirit chides the premier for the deceased duke’s fate. The piece ends noting the duke’s hoped-for afterlife and a concluding stanza praising the farmer’s friend.
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