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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 03, 1841
Page
5
A hearse carries a deceased officer from the Heights barracks to the guard-room and grand shaft burial site. The 54th and 34th regiments, artillery, grenadiers, and bands join the procession. Shops close, crowds exceed 7000, tolling bells mark sorrow as the coffin is interred after religious rites. Columo commands the garrison, with officers nearby.
A detailed Marylebone hearing recounts James Dutton's examination for extorting money from George Lane Blount Esq. over supposed obscene accusations. Blount testified about letters from Durrox and Blount's payment of two marked sovereigns. Dutton awaits further committal to Newgate for trial. The report includes other crime items from Marlborough Street and surrounding districts with multiple minor offenses and public notices.
Multiple inquests reveal four year old Clara Smith and 33 year old Sarah Fox died from accidental burns after fires in homes. A two year old Mary Ann Butler also perished in a similar incident. Other cases note accidental deaths from a fall, box mishap, and a self-inflicted gunshot by a Wexford magistrate amid financial distress. A Gravesend steam-boat fire destroyed the Fiddler, and wrecks off Morthoe claim four lives. a public-house theft concludes with a salt beef theft.
A brief note outlines cabalistic calculations linking cipher sums to historic monarch falls. It traces a path from the accession of Louis XVI to later events, asserting successive year additions predict the fall of Robespierre, Napoleon, Charles X, and Louis Philippe, with garbled OCR remnants surrounding the sequence.
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