Court Proceedings and Insolvency Appeals in 19th Century London
Reports from the Court of Queen's Bench and Insolvent Debtors Court detail a rule against the Middlesex sheriff to pay over libel damages in Stockdale v Hanstock, and Lord Edward Thynne's insolvent discharge. Additional items cover cab drivers fined for conspiracy, and multiple thefts and recoveries linked to Emanuel Myers and accomplices in Belton Street, Longacre, and surrounding districts.
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Westminster
Torspay
Epward Tuygxe
Edward Thynne
Lord Edward Thynne
Fleet Prison
Cooke
Woodroffe
Southampton
Nichols
Samuel B. Hamer
Henry Smith
Messrs
Burghardt and Webb
Nicholson
Y Bowen
Alton
Alresford
Commissioner Bowen
E. Thynne
Exson
Bowen
M. Basso
Hotel Delaporte
Ghent
Mgr
Mr. Cooke
Drummond
Lord Cawdor
Lord Ashburton
Mortimer
Jackson
Edward
King’s Bench
Wood
Marten
Joan Joserx
John Joseph Stockdale
Messrs. Hansard
Middlesex
Stockdale
Samuel Chamberlain
Great Newport-street
Chamberlain
Lincoln's Innfields
Victoria
Cap Conspiracy and a Theft in Bow Street
In Bow Street a cab stand dispute triggers a hackney carriage case with drivers fined for leaving unattended cabs. A thief, accused by Complainant John Jaggers, is tried and released after dubious evidence amid a chaotic testimony scene. Regulations of the Poor section records collier Esk master William Pescod fined £3 for breaching river pool rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple
Pickett-street
Adolphus
Gower-street
Templebar
Mr. Adolphus
Pocock
Division of Police
Belton Street
Longacre
Emanuel Myers
Abrahams
Myers
Long-acre
Levinson
Haymarket
Goulding
Baker
Shayers
Piccadilly
Joseph Lynan
Charles Cosson
Wilkins
Regent-street
Lynan
Strand
John Jaggers
Timothy White
Rose and Crown
Mr. Dyer
Bob
Dyer
Solchern
William Pescod
Esk
Broderip
Corporation of
City of
Fisher
London
Greenhithe
Martin
Natural death verdict in workhouse inquest at Wapping
Ann Webb aged 19 died after a reported poisoning plot involving Mrs. Carter and others. Medical testimony found natural causes, with the jury returning a verdict of natural death amid rumors and distress in the neighborhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porsontve
Baker
St. John’s
Wapping
Ann Webb
Matthews
Brook-street
Ratcliff
Mrs. Carter
Stepney Board of Guardians
Brown
Carter
Sincular
Cumberland’s Head
City Road
James Page
Smart
Chiswell-street
Leeson
Dorset-street
Liverpool-road
Richard Gould
Barnsbury Castle
Williams
F. Woolley
Duke of Brunswick
Barr
Serene Highness
Terra Firma
Burr
Mr. Williams
Suscipe
W. Carter
Surrey
Crown Inn
Dulwich
Edward Simmonds
Holloa
Marylebone Workhouse
Walters
Marylebone
Heath
Warwickshire
Camberwell
Clerk
Kingston
Chartists Brought From Bow Street In London Arms Case
A group of twelve Chartists from Denmark Street and Bethnal Green faced magistrates at Lambeth Street and Bow Street after arrests for arms possession and violent language at an Abbey Street meeting. Prisoners were remanded. Mrs Neesom granted interview with her husband after a bench hearing chaired by Mr Norton with Mr Pearse present.
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Bow-street
Thomas Rennard
Thomas Clarke
Charles Neesom
John Cheng
David Williams
George Swing
Joseph Williams
Denmark-street
Abbey-street
Bethnal-green
Denmark Street
Jerse
Division of Police
Spitalfields
Pearse
Spitalfield
Lambeth-street
Wooller
Norton
Neesom
Wooler
Augustus Fitzclarence
William Sutton
William Wimble
David Evans
George Trenn
Trades Hall
Spitalfields Station House
Bricklane
Friar
Scotland Yard
Williams
Hall
Jardine
Lord Augustus Fitzclarence
Daniel Byrne
Thomas Clark
Thomas Renard
Thomas Hope
William Wilkins
The Lord John Timber-Laden Vessel in Severe Strait
News notes the New Brunswick bound Lord John Russell Hubert reporting a December voyage misfortune near lat 42 37. The crew faced starvation after storms destroyed provisions and gear. The Toronto rescued them with bread and beef. seven crew were sick. Halifax hosts anti starvation law meeting urging repeal of the corn laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
John
Russell Hubert
New Brunswick
Liverpool
Hubert
Ingleden
Western Isles
Toronto
Griswold
New York
London
Halifax
Leeds
Elland
Sowerby
James Hargreaves
Halifax Express
James Farrar
Prussia
Tariff
England
Bolton
Comber
Page of Reflections and News Fragments
A compilation of literary excerpts and notices surveys poetry passages on virtue memory and love, with essays on Wordsworth Hazlitt and Coleridge. It also includes travel sketches from Nimrod in France and Denmark and short items on poverty, pubs, and military discipline.
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Hazlitt
Wordsworth
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Bow Street
Marlborough Street
Thames Office
The
Feltham
agisely—Brothers
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Thomas Fuller
Ave Maria
Lane
Cheapside
Waltham
Essex
Fuller
Sfantley
Lucilius
Julius Crsar
France
Phadrus
Nimrod
Colburn
New Monthly Magazine
Sadi
Frederick VI
Europe
Bremner
Landor
Coleridge
Piper
Standish
United Service Gazette
Cyril Tourneure
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