Case of obstructed wharf by Orion captain and cruel child case
In a London court, Alderman Thompson sues the Orion's captain for blocking his waterfront by mooring near the Commercial pier. Damages put at £200, jury awards twenty shillings. Separate sessions convict Charles Foster for cruelly ill treating his infant Mary at Camberwell, with the child saved by a workhouse diet. Foster sentenced to twelve months, his wife Eliza to six months. Early in Hitchin, Burke is fined for horse cruelty in a racing match. In Bristol, Reily sues for harbouring his wife, but the case ends non suited. in Dublin, Radcliffe and Jane Hunter are found guilty of conspiracy to corrupt a child.
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Teespar
Tromreox
Suarren
Alderman Thompson
Orion
London
Ipswich
Butt
E. James
Laintiff
Commercial Pier
Londonbridge
Bse Et
Aeunne Greenwich Company
Fisher
Dreaprut Cavetty
Thomas Puckle
Charles William Foster
Mary
Camberwell
Board of Guardians
Wallinger
Charnock
Thomas Clifford
Inspector Campbell
Westmoreland-place
Campbell
Brixton
Charles William John Foster
Wright
Witness
Philanthropic Society
Mr. Todd
Eliza Foster
Hitchen
G. B. Bloomfield
Alexander Burke
Thomas Burke
Thomas
Royal Society For
May
National Animals’ Friend Society
William Hand
Shefford
Burke
White Hart
Henry Milbourne
Holloway
T. Spring
Castle Tavern
Holborn
George
Welwyn
Finchley
Barnet
Powell
Bristol Tolzey Court
Reily
Mesars. Drake, Tanners
Matilda Hillyard
Christ Church
College-street
Mr. S
Harmar
Baker
Frederick Watkins
Baber
Ellen Reily
R.porter
Carter
Stoke’s-croft
Baker’s
Wine-street
Crocker
Council House
Dublin
Thomas Radcliffe
Royal Marines
Jane Hunter
Long-lane
St. Nicholas Without
Celia Hunter
Brewster
Queen's Counsel
Plunket
M.kane
Messrs.Curran and
Walsh
J. J. Murphy
Townsend
Radcliffe
Marines
Hunter
Kildere
Mary Farrell
Jane Hanter
No. 10
Long Lane
Therisoner
Captain Radcliffe
Longlane
Mrs. Hunter
Miss Hunter
Police Reports From Mansion House and Guildhall Crime Notes
On Tuesday three boys and a distressed woman were brought before the lord mayor at the Mansion-house. The youths demanded to see the lord mayor, avoided the relieving officer, and threatened to smash more glass. The lord mayor sentenced each boy to three months hard labor and warned against further window breaking. At Bridewell, the woman faced fourteen days as punishment. At Guildhall, Susannah Brissenden aged 19 faced theft charges after fabricating a burglar, sending letters of threat, and later revealing the hoax. The case involved testimonies about her troubled past and a possible accomplice. Bow Street reports cover Charlotte Scott forging a savings bank signature to defraud, with ensuing proceedings.
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Mansion House
M‘arthur
Cannon-street
Peckham
Bridewell
Compter
Kincaid
Susannah Brissenden
Teralli
Bishopsgate-street
Alderman Johnson
Alderman Joohnson
Barry
Spital-square
Soho Bazaar
Deceptive depositor charged with forgery and reckless driver punished
At Marlborough Street the depositor was charged with forging a signature to draw £60 14s 3d from a bank after learning Ann Lee had died. The prisoner claimed the deceived, marked signature sufficed. In a separate case Joseph Brown, a licensed driver, was found guilty of furious driving after colliding with a cart, seriously injuring two horses. Verdict included a £10 penalty, £3 damages to the horse owner, and license revocation.
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Ann Lee
Holmstead
Twyford
Sarah Martin
Joseph Brown
Maltby
Piccadilly
Petty
Whicher
John Petty
Edward-street
William Greenaway
Clerkenwell Magistrate Probes Butcher Lansdowne Case
A London court hears a sensational inquiry after Magnus the butcher reports dead calves at Lansdowne sausage makers Cow Cross premises. Inspectors find two quarters of beef deemed unfit for consumption and the man concedes to skin calves for knackers. Lansdowne claims the meat was for German sausages and asserts the inspector would agree. The case raises public health concerns and leads to a decision to remove the meat to knackers.
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Broughton
Magnus
Lansdowne
Cow Cross Street
London
Epsom
Dorking
Mr. Broughton
Excise
Bishop Agate-Street
Coles and Boyson
Baylis
Waddingston
Mr. Lansdowne
Newgate
John Kedgell
Clerkenwell
Mr. Harnett
Mr. Combe
Mr. Mould
House of Correction
Mr. Cooksey
Dyer
Combe
Perring Stabbing Case Remanded After Charged Self Defense Claim
Jane Perring a manly woman is charged with stabbing her husband Police Constable George Perring in Leigh Street Red Lion Square. He testified he heard murder cries, saw Perring flee claiming he was dead, a bloodstained knife on a table. Perring said her husband beat her and offered no denial of stabbing, citing excitement.
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Horin
Cooksey
Cuance
Stanpine
Jane Perring
George Perring
Leigh Street
Red Lion-square
Perring
Jury locked up at York castle after short trial
In Mr Justice Maule's court Sayear and Tattersfield faced burglary charges but the judge cut the case short after three witnesses. The jurors were committed for the night to York castle, raising concern over keeping jurors overnight during the assizes. The Fork Gazette notes the inconvenience to jurors and public duty. A separate item describes extensive robberies in the metropolis and Thorne, Yorkshire, with a bank note theft totalling near £2000 and a burglary at Mr Wm Priestley's house. A suspect named William Sales is described as tall and muscular with ink initials on his left arm.
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Justice Maule
York Castle
Fork
Messrs
Bush
Mullers
Metropolitan Police
Thorne
Yorkshire
Wm. Priestley
Knaresborough
William Sales
Snake Charming at Cairo in the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review
A detailed recounting of a Cairo scene where three snake charmers tested their craft in a house upper room. They performed incantations, produced a four-foot snake, extracted teeth from its mouth, and demonstrated apparent control over serpents. The crowd witnessed multiple tests, including snake seizures from behind doors, and a final display in a roof chamber with a large snake. A servant proved invulnerable in a street trial, and several snakes were later collected from Armenian houses before witnesses dispersed. The account notes all snakes appeared nonvenomous and similar in form.
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Cairo
Mye
God
Solomon
David
Snoadi
Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review
A good servant at Duke of Marlborough rent audit note issue
A rent audit at Waddlesdon revealed a tenant paid a 5 Bank of England note issued thirty years ago bearing Henry Hase. The bank never reissues paper, so the note had circulated the entire time. Simple interest at four percent would be 46, compound 9, while the note cost the company nothing.
The Chinese Custom Of Memento Morality In Office
In a pointed remark the piece notes that Chinese practice of laying in a coffin at years of discretion parallels British ministers securing their own futures by hiring the hearse used by predecessors. The writer fears free trade may become a similar coffin for the late era and perhaps for the current administration.
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Seedy Coat and Blighted Heart in Tweed Verse
A Punch verse laments a seedy coat and blighted heart. The speaker notes exposure, social mistrust, and clever wittiness in a satirical love of a torn Tweed wrapper. The poem mocks fortune tellers and cash framing, ending with a plea that wearer and coat remain together.
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Doudney
Parish church mishap births baptismal error at service
A correspondent reports at a parish church in M that Sunday week a baptismal service began as a marriage rite with the question of taking a wife, before the mistake was noticed. Separately, a burglary at Edward Stephen Jackson’s home led to the suspect's capture, trial, and a ten year transportation sentence.
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Carnarvon Herali
Ignorance and superstition exposed by a Brabant sorcerer
A Brussels journal recounts Hertveld a traveling mage who duped a peasant family with a chest of tricks. He claimed pin cushions hid witchcraft, summoned a beetle devil, and promised safety for payments. The ruse failed when his illiteracy and sleight of hand were revealed. he was sent for trial alongside his magical book.
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Brussels
Uccle
Hertveld
Joseph II
Galignani
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Henry Lovell
Bingham
Thomas Wilson
Upminster
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George William Shurry
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Hellers
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Hackney Road
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Woolwich
Henry Tyson
Gladwin
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6Th Regiment of Foot
Castle Ruthin
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Edward Stephen Jackson
Lower Charles-street
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