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Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 06, 1839

Page

3

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thames William Godfrey Combe John Tingay Henry-street Limehouse Tingay Godfrey Upsall Gee Thomas Soames Mr. Combe Benjamin Faulkner

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