Impostors Detained as Mendicity Officers Crackdown at Guildhall
In Guildhall justice room two beggars named James Dray and Thomas Allen faced Lord Mayor charges after a Mendicity Society officer described their group as impostors. The court committed them for one month and ordered certificates of conviction to be pursued. The session also covered cases of theft, disorder at Adelphia Theatre, and assaults on police with ensuing fines and dismissals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Dray
Thmas Allen
Mendicity Society
Princes-street
Magglebone
Bridewell
Brand
Alderman Copeland
Stockham
All-Hallows-on-the-Wall
Narshalman
Hamblin
St. Luke's
Mary Dodd
Compter
Mr. Hobler
St. Luke
City Union
St Luke’s
Bow Street
Jarriet Goulding
Jane Smith
Drury-Isne
Charles Carpenter
Phillpot-lane
Ashley Anderson
Oxford-street
Regent’s Park
James Ledger
Adelphia Theatre
Carpenter
Johno Shaw
F. Roe
Marlborough Street
Christiana Douglas
Dyer
Morgan
James Payne
William Payne
Vivien
Adamson’s
Haymarket
Matthews
Great St. Helen’s
London Conveyance Company
Bardell
Sutton-street
Society For the Suppression of
Hatton Garden
Torrington Square
Messrs
Bennett and
Burrell
John Kent
Cleveland-street
Fitzroy-square
Henry Frederick Powell
Warren-street
Mar Snd
Bennett
William Read
Christopher Kent
Benett
John Rouse
Alexander Smith
Frederick Hopall Paine
Rockingham-row
Kent-road
Laing
Burrell and Benett
Duke
George Alfred Paine
High-street
Bloomsbury
Paine
Dr. Paine
Drummond
Mr. Mallett
An. Burrell
Paul Pry
Mr. Burrell
Mr. Benett
Brentypord
Harry Blaff
William Hallett
J. Sharp
B. J. Armstrong
Elizabeth Walters
Mr. Armstrong
Uxbridge Road
Rabbit Factory
Leach
John Bannister
James Avery
Armstrong
Daniel Whittle Harvey
Southwark
Hancock
Hammersmith
Pei
Begging Charge Shocks London Father of Large Family
George Wilkes, 66 B division, was charged with begging in Grosvenor Place by Constable Jones. He admitted the offense and said he was the head of a large family left behind in High Wycombe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Square
George Wilkes
Jones
Grosvenor Place
High Wycombe
Starving Man Seeks London Aid After Pledges Fail
An impoverished man from Wycombe travelled to London seeking parish relief after exhausting all means to support himself. He pledged all possessions but still could not obtain aid, and, facing starvation, sought assistance from St George Hanover Square authorities as his last resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wycombe
St. George's
Hannover-square
Withart
Mary Faukener
Potts
Wallsall
Staffordshire
Chelsea
Walsall
Slone
Faulkener
Gregorie
Morgan
Sloan
George Noble
Charles Donoghue
Lower Eaton-street
Pimlico
Duke of Gordon
Walham-green
Etton-square
King's Road
Prosecutor
George
Mr. White
John Morris
Belgrave Street
Surreyplace
Blackfriars Road
Central Criminal Court
Bridge
Quin
R. Curling
Stafford-place
White
Ann Fy
Catharine Murray
Anne Boyd
Hannah Brown
Tothill-street
Westminster
Joy
Wworship-Street
Thomas Goldsmith
Philip-street
Kingsland Road
Broughton
Church of England
Mr. Broughton
Dragoons
Martha Goldsmith
Groughton
John Goldsmith
Mager
Attfield
Peisoner
Holland
Bourne
Little St. Andrew-street
Middlesex Hospital
High-street
Kensington
Amelia Liddle
William Fordyce
George Itl
Rowlett
Rkensington-Square
Vivares
Church-street
Soames identifies pawned clothes as prisoner’s
At the assizes, Soames, a pawnbroker, testifies the prisoner pawned a suit. He identifies the man by a forehead scar after noting a second dark man in the passage. Mr. Combe commits the prisoner for trial. Benjamin Faulkner faces charges of neglect and cruelty toward his children amid neighbours’ testimony of beatings and begging. Bail is set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames
William Godfrey
Combe
John Tingay
Henry-street
Limehouse
Tingay
Godfrey
Upsall
Gee
Thomas
Soames
Mr. Combe
Benjamin Faulkner
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Warding
D.P.C
John Hall
Rupert-street
Chambers
Peacock
Salisbury-square
Alderman Gibbs
John Barlow
Abraham Brown
Benjamin Banfield
Grove
Brown
Duff
Spitalsquare
Elizabeth Coe
Humphreys
Stanbridge
Hoxton
Messrs. Leake and Co
Wood-street
Cheapside
Dudley
Gerrard-street
Soho
Barlow
Coe
O’dudley
Griskell
Woodstreet
Bir
Teakle
Thomas Morris
House of Correction
Lambeth Street
John Digenhart
Hendrick
Blackwall
Messrs. Hardwick, Garford
G. F. Young
Ean
Harvey
Pelham
Christopher Tennant
Castle and Falcon
Aldersgate-street
Limehouse-bridge
Britannia
Hardwick
Mr. Tennant
Tennant
Britannia Tavern
Gane
Stind
Edinburgh Courant
Robert Meyrick
H. Campbell
Gloucester Place
Campbell
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
Portman-street Barracks
Secon
Black Hole
Alanming
Christopher Land
Duke-strect
Westminster Road
Mary Crowley
Monmouth-street
Seven Dials
St. Katharine Dock
Greenwich
Willoughby
Benjamin Unworth
East Riding
Afr
Robert Locking
Cottingham
Haworth
Locking
Fork Chronicle
Union Hall