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Chartists plotted town hall take and arson in Sheffield trial
Witnesses described armed plans by Holberry Booker and others to seize the town hall and Tontine, burn targets, and clash with troops. Evidence details include daggers pistols pikes grenades and arm inventories, with police, magistrates, and dragoons guarding the proceedings. Holberry and Booker are committed for high treason after findings.
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Bosker
Tod Hadcock
Holberry
Nichol
Parker
Corporal Bradfield
1St Royal Dragoons
Glossop-road
Carver-street
St. Phillip’s Road
Bennet-lane
Thomas Harrison
Arundel-street
Earl-street
Drake
Palfreyman
Parker Rose
Cooper
Booker
Sheffield
William Bailey
Crookes Moor
Brooke
Springhill
Samuel Hotson
Nether Hallam
Robert Marshall
St. George’s Terrace
Samuel Powell Thomson
William Parker
Pond-forge
Peter Foden
Fig-tree-lane
Holberg
Association
Dewsbury
James Boardman
Saint Philip's Road
Birks
Duffy
Thomas Bradwell
Nottingham
Frost
Boardman
Mill-lanes
James Marshall
Caplagit-lune
James M.ketterick
Spring-street
Valentine Denison
Bridgehouses
Wig-tree-lane
Marshall
Bradwell
Lambert-street
M‘ketterick
Duffey
Anothing
Rotherham
Wolberry
Tontine
Toutine
Attercliffe
Railway Tavern
Albert Smith
Mr. Parker
Snighill
M. Woolhouse
Albion Hotel
Mr. Ward
Church-street
Yeardley
West-bar
Mr. Naylor
Forge-lane
Mill-lane
Council
Waterlane
Birks’s
Wateringlane
Crookesmoor
Eckington
Joshua Mitchell
Wells
Thomson
William Wells
George Wolstenholme
Rockingham Works
Chartist Association
Fig-tree Lane
Peter Folden
Wales
Fargate
Blast Lane
William Drake
Samuel Holberry
Thomas Booker
York
Holberry Agyured