Train collision inquiry notes and expert testimony
Detailed inquest testimony reviews Brunel and Saunders on line safety and train placement. Discussions cover night watchman duties, slip drainage, spoil-bank distances, and the reason luggage trains carry passengers near the engine. Jury verdict cites accidental death with company blame and need for more watchmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matty Nese
Sonning
Bertram
Mr. Bertram
Heve
Slough
Wright
Saunders
Brunel
C. Russell
M.P
Bilind
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Bulley
Hnrards
Richard Woolley
P Ook
John Pook
Higgs
Panton-street
Haymarket
London
Exeter
Stoke Canon
John
William
Asa Kent
Mary Poox
Bridgwater
Accident on the London and Brighton Railway
An inquest at Sussex on the body of John Clegg, 34, a sober quarryman, found dead after a railway accident. Witnesses described the collision with a train near Worley-bridge, noting injuries and relations to drink, with a verdict of death from natural causes accelerated by the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London and Brighton
Sussex County Speeta
F. H. Gell
Sussex
John Clegg
Richard Radcliffe
Yale-bridge Viaduct
Thornton
Oak
Worley-bridge
Common
James Chandler
Whitehouse
Sussex County Hospital
Insolvent Sturmer Granted Bail as Hearing Nears
The Rev Frederick Sturmer sought discharge on bail until his hearing on February 3. He reported debts totaling £3360 since January 1 1839. Bail was accepted after questions about his acquaintances and support from his attorney Mr Manning. In separate cases Elijah Creasy was remanded twenty months for fraudulent disposal of property. Frederick Bull faced a breach of trust finding over £150 and related costs, with discharge ordered after eight months in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenvvesnsy
Frederick Sturmer
Clemitt
Old Bailey
Sturmer
Mr. Clemitt
Manning
Mr. Manning
Elijah Creasy
Ipswich
London
Central Criminal Court
Commissioner Law
Frederick Bull
Woodroffe
Lambert
Cooke
Deptford
Drunken theft at the Old Harrys Head masquerade
A young man James Senior was charged by Barnet Isaacs with stealing three half sovereigns and a sixpence after a masquerade at Red Lion street Whitechapel. The case featured witnesses Mike Samuels and Alderman Gibbs and ended with the prisoner being discharged. Also, Mrs Eliza Bradbury accused Mrs Anne Robinson and Miss Anna Robinson of assaulting her at Waltoncourt, with a noisy magistrate scene and contested lodgings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Senior
Barnet Isaacs
Red Lion-street
Whitechapel
Aldgate
Jim
Alderman Gibbs
Mike Samuels
Mike
Barney
Mr. Samuels
Weill
Gibbs
Eanother
Posterrick Rowsery case before Twyford at Bow Street
Richard Horton, a London post office letter carrier, faced final examination for stealing a letter containing a sovereign addressed to Alden of Brewer Street. Inspectors traced handling and concealment, a search found the sovereign and silver in his pockets, and he was committed to Newgate for trial. The report also covers cautions at Wor ship Street over multiple robberies by Mary Ann Gifford and her husband, detailing extensive property thefts and arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bow Street
Posterrick Rowsery
Richard Horton
General Post-Office
Twyford
George Reynold
General Post Office
Alden
Brewer Street
Brill
Somerstown
Cook
Truro
Burgess Cook
Havin
Brewer-street
Richard Alden
Raines
Matthew Peake
Ports Office
Newgate
Queen Square Police Threats and Desperate Lover Case
Edward Conolly, a known troublemaker, faced a magistrate after threatening police constable Smith with a knife in Royal Hospital Road Chelsea. He urged men to fight, drew a clasp knife and shouted I'll stick this into your heart's blood. He resisted arrest, was detained at the station, and fined 40s or one month in jail. Also Charles Groom faced charges for threatening to stab Caroline Morris, with details ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Squaere
Peanits
Edward Conolly
Smith
Royal Hospital
Row
Chelsea
Charles Groom
Caroline Morris
Man Threatens Woman with Knife After Refused Visit
A woman, six weeks into service, fled when the defendant refused to leave and brandished a knife. A policeman intervened as she escaped to her father’s home. The man claimed they had kept company but she would not accept his promises. bail was set. Separately, SHopurrine, Toomey, and Eliza Burgess were examined for stealing handkerchiefs from Charles Roope in Chelsea. The female snatched fabric while the man created a distraction. both were committed for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iriba
Richard Toomey
Eliza Burgess
Charles Roope
Sloane Street
Chelsea
Randall
Magistrate Rules Support Payments In Marital Case
In a strange conjugal dispute the magistrate found concealment of an intended marriage by the wife aimed at evading family responsibility. He ordered the defendant to pay 4s 6d weekly for his wife’s support, declaring the mother’s conduct nearly fraudulent and suggesting she join the workhouse if not received. The wife, a pretty young woman, sobbed as she left the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ann Gifford
Alphonso Gifford
Perry
Voriland-Piase
Jones
Linendrayer
Benton
IG Division
Burnell
Coleman-street
Barns
Philadelphia Place
Hackney-road
Attenbury
Watson
Whitecross-place
Pickford
Barton
Tae CiaxpesTiInz
Henry Monke
Bingham
St. Matthew, Bethnal
Gréen
Humphreys
Christie
Bethnal-graen
Church-street
Bethnal-green
Bow
Mr. Monks
Hiahiller
Omnibus robberies and a violent Morgan Street disturbance
A Mile End omnibus robbery sees solicitor J Rose lose £30 and gold after noting a well dressed man may be the thief. The court hears claims that omnibus conductors and cabs are linked to thieves, and a Mint report is hinted. In Morgan Street, John Cox Cross faces charges for threatening a stepdaughter and family dispute escalates with a large spring clasp knife and violent threats amid a possible murder plot involving Mary Cope and her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maatstaats
Omnibus Conducions
Cas
J. Rose
Great Prescott Street
Goodman’s Fields
Rose
Whitechapel
Chancery-lane
Mr. Rose
Henry
Mr. Henry
Davis
Powell
Field
Mint
John Cox Cross
Morgan-street
Commercial Road
East
Mary Cope
Thomas Robinson
No. 1
Morgan
Commercial-road
Whitesmith
Isoner
Edward M.conluff
Witnas
Man Held Over BurglaryPast Conviction Linked to Escape
James Atkinson alias Aldridge, once convicted of housebreaking at the 1828 Surrey assizes and transported for life, is re-arrested after a quarrel with his brother led to police identification. Officers recovered a full set of skeleton keys, and witnesses recall transporting him from the county gaol to Chatham. He denies the prior conviction before the magistrate and remains in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iit
Burridge
James Atkinson
Surrey Assizes
Chatham
Greenwich Police Alarm over Poison Plot by Masgiep Man
William Robinson of Greenwich was brought to court on a capital charge of administering poison to his wife Maria Robinson with intent to kill. Witnesses described oxalic acid in gin and water found at the house and tested by chemists, with the husband denying the accusation as remand was ordered for further testimony from the wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Robinson
Greenwich
Jeremy
Maria Robinson
Elizabeth Clark
North Pole Place
Riches
London Street
Thomas Riches
Mgr
Fire at Broad-street dwelling ends in rescue and ruin
A blaze at Mr Rowland the carpenter at No 2 Dufo urs place Broad street Golden-square gutted his premises and damaged adjoining cloth-pressers Beloe and Warren. Mrs Mancell leapt from a window and was saved by a bystander sergeant Frazer. A cook’s accident left a servant injured by fork prongs in the head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowland
Mrs. Mancell
Marshall Street
Messra
Beloe
Mr. Rowland
No. 8
Warren
Friegtron
Elizabeth Macintosh
Pettifer
Cleveland Street
Fitzroy-square
Deaths from want and misfortune in Bromley area inquest hears plea for relief
An inquest at the Rose and Crown Bow, Bromley, into Henry Bristow’s death, reveals his family’s destitution and lack of relief. Other Bow Street notes report a wide burglary, Christmas Day thefts, and a string of accidental or undetermined deaths including a child in Bermondsey and Lewisham self harm cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Rose and Crown
Bow
Henry Bristow
Haydon’s Buildings
Devon's Lane
Bromley
George Burrows
Kow Road
Union House
Poplar
Burford
Skingsley
Bow Street
North Wilts Bank
Awdrey
Wraxall
Bradford
Wilts
S. D. Peshall
Oldberrow
Worcester
Payne
Guy's Hospital
Ellen M‘kenny
Fitzgerald
Wright
Spa-road
Bermondsey
Ireland
Witess
Charles Roberts
Lewisnau
Hope
Loampit Hill
Lewisham
Carter
Thomas Edward Blaker
Aldgate
Georgiana Charlotte
Ann Town
The
William Town
Mary Jones
Death
Samuel Brown
Middlesex
Harleyford
Sunbury
Richard Todd
Jamaica
Dreadrut
Isleworth
Charles Gurney
John Poole
Edgbaston Pool
Birmingham
Green
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
James Anncreau
Spitalfields
London Hospital
Perry
St. Bartholomew's
Scott
George Weeks
Shoreditch
Amy Wilson
Protests and Class Tensions in a Drawing-Room Comedy
Readers are treated to a satirical scene in which servants and nobility clash over wine, manners, and gentility. The dialogue treats Irish guests, Protestant stereotypes, and colonial sentiment through witty digs, revealing tensions between masters and staff, and among different social strata.
Statistics of the Catholic Church in Great Britain and Wales
A historical listing totals churches and chapels by county in England and Wales, Scotland figures, districts, and monasteries. It notes eight Catholic colleges in England, one in Scotland, missionary priests totals and a grand total of 711 from the 1842 Catholic Directory, followed by a medieval aside on Twelfth Century chess and other skills of an Orkney earl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
England
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derbyshire
Devonshire
Dorsetshire
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Middlesex
Monmouthshire
Nortfolk
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Northumberland
Oxfordshire
Shropshire
Somersetshire
Stafordsire
Sufdk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Westmoreland
Wilshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire
Isle of Man
Greersey
South Wales
Brednockshire
Glame
Banffshire
Caithness-shire
Dumbartonshire
Dumfriesshire
Edinburghshire
Forfarshire
Inverness Shire
Kincardineshire
Kircadbright
Lanarkshire
Linlithenshire
Morayshire
Peeblesshire
Perthshire
Renfrewshire
Ross-shire
Stirlingshire
Wigtonshire
Scotland
St. Edmunds
St. Peter's
St. Paul's
St. Gregory's
Stonyhurst
St. Mary's
Staffordshire
Ushaw College
St. Lawrence's
Orkneys
Kali
Kohr
Dean
Chess Chronicle
F. Madden
Aristocratic Trade Guild of Boston Women Printers
A critical essay excerpt discusses Boston women printers and compositors employed in city presses. It notes their skilled labor, ascendant social polish, and preference for trades over domestic service, portraying a self-constructed female trades aristocracy that exerts influence over male colleagues and upholds dignity through printed work.
Silk Garments And The Monopolists Chain In A Transcribed Column
The piece notes ancient silk lore from Median Semiramis to Roman times and then pivots to a Liverpool Mechanics Institution boasting 3,300 members 7,350 pupils in day schools 600 in evening classes with 50 teachers and a £5 000 salary bill. It ends with a poem denouncing monopolists and calling Britons to action against economic restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool Mechanics' Institution
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Mansion House
Eliza Bradbury
Waltoncourt
Anne Robinson
Anna Robinson
Bradbury
Miss Bradbury
Penelope
Lambeth Street
Greenwich Police
Garrick
Castle of Dublin
Philip
Kitty
Slarr
Bab
Minga
Ald
Vortescue
Duke
Melbourne
Peel
Lord Chestertiel
Niger
Mulgrave
Barteserte
Sugden
Mungo
Odiiv
Paddy Lim
Huis
Faron J
Newcastle
Pepian
Hunter
Syria
Ghbouring
Alfred
Hawarden
Flintshire
Corbin of
Alfred Becer
Amicus
Independent Press
Bostonian
Washington
Madame Victorine
Rue Vizienne
Iostonian
Grund
America
Semiramis
Asia
Europe
Alexander
Tiberius
Aurelian
Heliogabalus
Mit
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