London Police Probe Pigs in Remote Markets Scandal
Deputy Hicks leads inquiry into a cattle sale scheme at Scotch wharfs with 26 live pigs aboard the Marl Grey. Lord Mayor orders minute investigation into distant consignments to ensure fair value in city markets amid suspected private yard sales. Also, a separate lamp theft and sweeping fraud case with James Ward alias Wilson and his accomplice Denby ends in remand as more victims come forward.
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Wapping
Hicks
Yue
Stephen Hall
House of Correction
Murder charge after wife’s death shocks Oxford street
Jonathan Bayley, held for murder after his wife died during remand, was committed to Newgate for trial at the Central Criminal Court. In a separate case, Perry caused a public disturbance at gambling houses in Titchborne street and Leicester Square, with a mob forming and the magistrates demanding bail.
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Munper
Oxforp Street
Jonathan Bayley
Conant
Newgate
Central Criminal Court
Perry
Lord Montfort
Titchborne Street
No. 14
Lepman
Leicester Square
Penruddock for assault and commitment at Newgate
Reports from Guildhall and Hattons Garden detail the commitment of medical student Penruddock for capital assault on examiners at Apothecaries Hall. Also covered are cases of pickpocketing linked to Mrs Alexander and a youth stabbed with scissors by his apprentice, Poole, with medical updates and remand decisions.
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Smithfield
Alexander
Field Lane
Holborn Hill
Waller
Bailey
Old Bailey
Hatfonsgarden
Jane Alexander
John Richardson
Bedford Square
William Hum
William Thompson
Gray’s-no-road
David Poole
Thompson
Poole
Rogers
Whitmore
Clerkenwell
Marylebone Magistrates Hear Domestic Assault Charge
George Tillett a tradesman of 42 Oxford Street faced the Marylebone Magistrates on a charge of assaulting his wife Ellen Tillett. The complainant said he beat her the previous night breaking her bonnet and comb and she was knocked against the wainscot. He denied striking her last night.
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Marylebone
George Tillett
Oxford Street
Ellen Tillett
Hell
Marylebone-lane
Mr. Shutt
Worthy Magistrate Rules On Street Vendors At Shoreditch
A poor onion seller was charged by a Shoreditch street-keeper with obstructing the thoroughfare. Magistrate Mr. Simpson admonished the woman to move and pandered to her industrious livelihood, leaving the door open for her to walk while selling. A second case involved Theodore Henry Faux selling coronation medals with a hawker’s licence.
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Simpson
Twyford
Thomas Powell
Shoreditch
Mr. Simpson
Man Charged With Uttering Base Half-Crown at Tooley Street
Charles Green was brought by policeman M 99 to the Anti-Gallican and Star public house on Tooley Street charged by landlord Mr Palmer with uttering a base half crown. He reportedly bought gin with the coin, returned for more and was remanded until Saturday for Mint inspection after officers found no further base coins. Sir Peter Lauria urged remand, noting enough grounds to detain despite lack of direct evidence.
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Shutt
James Ward
Wilson
Clerkenwell
Rawlinson
James Alexander
Stevens
Thayer-street
Marylebone
Clarence
Great
Barlow-street
Henry Hoone
Lissom-grove
Carl
Crawford-street
Cayl
Hooker
Salisbury-street
Lisson-grove
Hoone
Cuatody
Denby
Smith
Edgware Road
Charles Green
M 99
Palmer
Star
Tooley-streat
Powell
Peter Lauria
Mussano
Albion
Dukestreet
Ann ES
Witners
Whitbreas
Jonathan Bailey
City of Hereford
Lichfield Street
Soho
William Pizzy
Elizabeth Howe
No.4
Upper St. Martin’s-lane
Witness
William Stuck
Hobson
Walter
Green Man
French Horn
Dean Street
Thomas Charles
White Hart
Bethnal-green Road
Thomas Clarke
Wood Street
Cheapside
King and Queen
Hare-street
Bethnal-green
James Stephens
Regent’s Canal
Thomas Mellish
Mile
Canal Company
Blackman Street
Southwark
White Swan
Dover-road
Newington
W. Carter
London Fire Establishment
Blackman-street
Tolfrey
Sun Fire Office
William Burnett Beetley
Walworth Road
Francis Tolfrey
Trinity-terrace
Dorough
Frances Raphel Palmer
King’s Head Inn
High-street
St. Giles’s
Stirling
George Masters
William Thomas
Buckridge- Street
Rosemary-lane
Buss
London Hospital
Mile-end-road
Baker
Elizabeth Sims
George Phillips
Phillips
No. 2
Savage Gardens
Tower-hill
Frost
Wine theft and smuggling cases in Thames police court
James Maloney, an Irish labourer, was charged with stealing wine from Mr. Shenton of the Turk's Head Tavern Old Kent Road. He and the master were found drunk, Maloney later dead in the road, bottle of wine in his possession. Also, Capt. Keloppenbury faced smuggling for two quarts of brandy in his hat from Maria Dorothy dock. A seaman Stephen Doyle stole five sovereigns from William Maddox at Sailors Home and was sent to Newgate for trial.
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Shenton
Mr. Wedgwood
Mr. Shenton
Clarkson
Mr. Clarkson
Bishop
Limehouse-hole
Scott
Stephen Doyle
William Maddox
Brunswick
Maddox
Naval Pension Office
Towerhill
Doyle
Phoenix
Upper East Smithfield
Ike
Lowe
Newgate
Meunier secrets and Belfast praise in late reports
The article notes Meunier’s alleged disclosures and lists of secret societies at Blanqui and Lamieus residences, mentioning a possible regicide link. It also covers Sharman Crawford’s Belfast reception praising his Irish Poor Law advocacy and calls for parliamentary action. It ends with scrutiny of a Spanish Inquisition claim in London and doubts about its credibility.
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Meunier
Blanqui
Lamieusseus
Pierre
Paix
Court of Assizes
Suanman Crawtonn
Ireland
England
London
Bow Street
Murders and suicides loom in multiple coroner inquests
A report of several inquests details Wilful murder accusations against Jonathan Bailey, temporary insanity verdicts, and a string of deaths by suicide, starvation, and accidental fire. Witnesses describe violence by spouses, poverty, and industrial hardship across London venues including Albion Tavern, Hereford public-house, and the Green Man.
Grand Reform Dinner Preparations at Drury Lane Theatre
The most active preparations are mating for the Grand Reform Dinner to be given in Drury Lane Theatre on the 23d instant. About five hundred stewards and 1 200 to 4 400 diners expected. Reform MPs from all parts of the country likely to attend and address the assembly at length. Earl Fitzwilliam at Northampton appeals for Ireland Corporation Reform and Reformers pledge to act, not just sympathize.
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Drury Jane Theatre
Reform
House of Commons
Reform Party
Northampton
Earl Fitzwillian
Ireland
Earl
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Town Hale
Theodore Henry Faux
Winchester
Worhey
Borough
Worbey
Corstorphen
Waterloo
King’s Arms
Broad-street
Bloomsbury
John Colyer
Richard Ethridge
Fowler
Laing
Hatton-garden
Campbell
Fryer
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