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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 07, 1844
Page
5
Mr Justice Patteson discharged the prisoners after ruling that separate orders and commitments were required and that the claim lacked evidence details. He warned that a conspiracy indictment remained possible despite discharge, and noted questions whether the order and statute applied to the contract, with absence possibly due to illness.
The court heard interim orders for a cigar dealer insolvent from Sun Street and examined a bankrupt French woman with a tainted carriage and stolen items. Arguments over letters, guardians, and misconduct led to adjournments and a five month stay for the insolvent. A separate trial involved conspiracy to defraud Austin Friars merchants, resulting in a twelve month sentence. The January sessions at the Old Bailey also covered a bigamy case and a debtors attendance dispute.
The January Epiphany sessions for Surrey opened at Newington St Marys with over sixty magistrates present led by Thomas Puckle. The chairman praised police activity and juvenile reform through the Surrey Society which operates an asylum for under 21 prisoners, offering trades and religious education after imprisonment.
In a London court, Mrs. Bacon testified of concealing £300 in gold over eleven years, admitting she kept sums for family use while her husband denied knowledge. A later injury case saw Omnibus drivers acquitted. other defendants faced theft, assault, and transportation sentences with juries delivering mixed verdicts.
London lord mayor cites severe street filth and warns contractors over failed regimes. A grocer named George Bromley assaults Miss Walshe in Hatton Garden, leading to a sharp magistrate’s warning and potential summary trial. Clerkenwell parish figures face embezzlement allegations surrounding John Scott as parish funds and accountability are debated. A Lambeth Street case details Nehemiah Shakespeare charged with causing a catastrophic boiler burst endangering seventy workers and damaging property at Gloucester Street works.
Two canal boatmen, George Patmore and Robert Jerram, were brought before Mr. Rawlinson charged with brutal assault on Mary Roddy of Lisson Grove. Roddy described Patmore striking her at the door, then kicking and beating her in the passage, while Jerram tore clothing and roughhanded her. Roddy’s son and police corroborated the attack as others testified Patmore was heavily intoxicated.
Eliza Dutton, a repeat offender, was charged with drunkenness and an attempted death by self harm in her cell at the station house. She tore her dress waist band and tied it around her throat, nearly suffocating herself before relief arrived. she was committed to the House of Correction for a month, with guards placed in the lock up to prevent further attempts. Matthew Thomson, a groom, was fully committed for trial for stealing beans from his master’s stable.
In a London court the youth Vicomte Michel aged 44 living on Gilbert Street Oxford Street faced charges of threatening his father and assaulting his brother. He claimed multiple names and spoke of a girl named Godfrey while insisting the Queen favors him. He ranted about money, his acting ambitions, and threatened to reveal the case to Parliament. Police had to remove him naked after struggle as he shouted for his girl and the Queen.
The exchange centers on a security deed for ten thousand pounds signed under duress. The complainant claims duress to regain liberty, while Clarkson questions prior accusations of parish theft. Combes finds no evidence to convict and discharges Mr Pascal, offering a certificate to bar further proceedings. parties depart.
Henry Robinson and John Davis alias James Blythe faced charges for lengthier break ins at Leaf Coles Ward Sturt and Ward stores and Storer silversmiths. A shut-back roof entry and a peculiar four shirt clue linked one suspect to the crimes along with a unique shutter cutting instrument and numerous burglary duplicates found at their lodgings. Another case describes Patrick Caniel's assault on James White at St Luke's workhouse with a heavy tailor's tool, leaving the victim in danger and the prisoner remanded for trial. A separate inquiry recovers a stolen child after a search of Great George Street and detains a woman named Eliza Mary Jones, with the genuine suspect identified as another woman, who held the infant briefly before disappearance.
A Nottinghamshire newspaper recounts a prison break at Nottingham County Gaol on Sunday night. Guards were overpowered. a warden struck. five men escaped in prison dress with a reward poster issued for captors.
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