Leary murder case tied to Meagan shop and family ties
Victorian inquest report recounts Thomas Leary's death at shoemaker Michael Meagan’s Whitecross Street shop. Evidence shows Leary entered Meagan’s home after a christening, a fatal stabbing occurred, and Meagan with his wife and Catherine Singleton faced murder verdicts. Witnesses describe the quarrel, the weapon, and the torn alibis amid prison custody and police involvement.
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Pope
Leary
Meagan
Compoo
Whitecross-street
Greenland
Toig Baker
Darby
John Rice
Blesean
Regan
Mrs. Darby
Leavin Meagan
Cork
Ireland
Mesgan
R. Baker
Brewers-inn
Playhouse-yard
Worship-Street
Heritage
Thamas Leary
Whitecross Street
Ellen Meagan
Jane Darby
William Darby
Hense
Thomas Leary
Michael Meagan
Catherine Singleton
Meagans
Playhouse Yard
Chiswell-street
Tieft
Hannah Cotter
Mr. Heritage
Heaid
Parti Ucn
Cotter
Ohn
Mr. Bland
Rice
Baye
Degg
Catherine
Mr. Meagan
Mrs. Meagan
Jack Rice
George Olive
Old Street
Tom
Edward Wallis
Featherstone-street
Ellis
Featherstone Street
Tom Leary
John Clambold
Tgether
Ben Meagan
Trial of Miss Hamblin the Actress in Mobile
The trial of Charlotte Hamblin for the murder of her husband, Ewing, in Mobile, centered on witness Robert W. Heckle and the night of March 5, 1842. He described Hamblin's distressed denial, the dressing room scene, and two wounds to Ewing, with testimony on an aneurysm later rupturing the abdominal aorta. The jury returned Not Guilty after Judge Bragg's instruction, and Hamblin fainted.
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Alabama
Charlotte Hamblin
Mobile
Robert W. Heckle
Mobile Theatre
Ewing
Miss Hambl
Miss. H
Witness
Dever
Sevn
Prower
Piace
Retcliffe
Miss Hamblin
Madame Thielman
Andrew
Percy Walker
Messrs
Chandler
Childers
Dunn
Bragg
Dr. Levert
Loss of the Schooner Agnes Near Cromer and Brentford Fire Tragedy
Reports from Lloyds recount the total loss of the Scottish schooner Agnes after a collision with the brig Jennett near the Dudgeon light in the Cromer Flamborough roads. The Perth to London vessel sank, its crew saved by reaching South Shields. Also describes a fatal fire at Old Brentford’s distillery premises, where Mrs. Swan died after a blaze started by a distillery foreman and aided by neighbors and police, plus inquest results on a drowning tragedy at London Bridge and other late-18th/early-19th century notices from Galignani and periodicals.
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Lloyd's
Agnes
Perth
Dudgeon
Cromer
Flamborough End
Yorkshire
Pilbladdo
Jennett
South Shields
Old Brestronp
Old Brentford
H. Swan
Felix Booth
Thomas Davis
Marquard
Division of Police
Payne
St. Magnus
London-bridge
Joseph Aunis
London Bridge
Fishmonger’s Hall
J. Annis
Broadwall
Pawebroker
Charles Ogle
Dyer-street
Blackfriars-road
Hay’s Wharf
Tooley-street
Moss Daley
Cheap Jack
Gay's Hospital
Montely
Orleans
Galignani
Westminster-hall
Paris
Foola
Earl of Cardigan
David
Hume
England
Canis
Aries
Aquarius
Virgo
Arjea
Coventgarden
Buri
Teast
Francia Moore
Corkman
Stingley Nettles
Columbus
America
Napoleon
Vienna
Maria Louisa
House of Commons
Mert
Incoln’s Inn
Lucifer
Chub
Teddington-locks
Chubb
St. Paul's Church
London
Cattersea Marsh
France
Noblesse
Theodore Hook
Guinnesa
Dublin
United States
Marquis of Londonderry
Birmingham
Crispin
Linnans
Ines of Court
Inns of Court
Bass
Wales
Ostend
Punch
Punch Proper
Skeleton of a woman found in brickfield hole
Discovery at Tassell and Co. brickfields Thornbills reveals a buried female skeleton about six feet deep with a clasp knife and whetstone. The site, a former hop garden, suggests long burial as bricks drive excavation.
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Messrs. Tassell and Co
Thornbills
Alaidstone Gazette
Baker
Blue Anchor
Bromley
William Morris
Dogrow
Mile-end
Wo ‘Beker
Thistle
Great Peterstreet
Westminster
Tiggs
Pir
Hin
Teter Street
Kirkley Hall
Joho Saville Otte
Winchester
Ogle
Gateshead
Goopman
Nancy Holland
Julia
Little
Prescott Street
London Hospital
Summers
Proudfoot
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Frere
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Watlingstreet
Greyhound Inn
Croydon
Martin
Literary Chronicle
J. Hewlett
M.A
Hr. Colburn
Oxford
Varro
Simon Stuphins
Simon
P. P
St. Peter's College, Oxford
P.P
Sir James Murray
N.B
College of Surgeons
Peter Priggins
East India
Hy Son
Gmsgar
James Gilbert
Soneshow
Shakspeare
D'Almaine and Co
Queen Victoria
Captain Gray
Mammal
Harry
Mara
Belgrava Square
Adien
Elegro
Bibliopole
Woolwich
Thames
Great Britain
Murray
Longman
Bristol
Madley
Dar Dazaus
Charles Knox
J. Ollivier
Mason
Looien
Green
Soho-square
Poxell
Wellington-street
Strand
Britannia Institutes
Halley
Halsey
Tebert Peel
Radcliffe
Richardson
Magen
Buonaperte
Lyons
van Amburgh
St. Patrick
Father Mathew
Elizabeth