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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 20, 1839

Page

7

Governesses and guardians in scandalous embezzlement case

Witnesses allege a governess embezzled funds from a workhouse, with girls forced to deliver meat and gin to Hewitt at the governess's direction. Accusations include beating children and keeping money, leading to guilt findings and penalties for the accused.

Iate Sarah Anne Feox An Hewitt James Hewitt Iyes Mmre Smith Harwood Witnegai Waverness Finch Magistee Blackheath Pri Anne Leste Harboise Aeem Tiewitt Ainstead Atprhews Mgr. Finch Patthews Caucerhiairmian Mary Higgins Higgins Geo Gee Ehadirman House of Correction Matthews Sire Thackeray Anid Adalde Francisco Matilda Aradice Catherine Moriarti Ean Edwards Hargrave Ann Edwards Ann Francisco Alandit Dene Harriet Higgins Anne Francisco Harriet Hicelus Watcr

Desperate Destitute Woman Dies After Street Hardship

An inquest at the Guy Earl of Werwick public-house Belton-street Long-acre into Elizabeth Sheppard 45 died after long destitution and exposure. She slept in a St Giles lodging house with others and declined parish aid before dying from malnutrition and disease. A verdict of natural death was returned.

Drata Wanst Guy Earl of Buckeridge-street St. Giles’s St. Marylebone Burgesy Lascelles-place Bloomsbury Brinewater Bridgwater North Street Hutching John M’carthy Lenyth William Kege Wand Pees Fryern-street Miers China

Infanticide Suspected in Somers Town Case

A woman named Winter living in Seymour Place Somers Town has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her illegitimate infant. The infant's body was found Sunday morning in a soil-covered water closet. Medical exam shows the child was born alive. coroner's inquest to follow.

Buckland-hill Great Western Ramway Her Majesty's Stag Hounslow-heath Eaper Tattersall Dawley-wall Hayes Uxbridge Tekenham Pinner Waxlow Greenford Southall Southall Park Gnemesne Hounslow Great Western Railway William Duncombe Finsbury Armstrong Lloyd Major Lloyd North Star Maidenhead Sir William Ellis Nonder Amon West Drayton Paddington Hanwell Twickenham Loyal United Craven and Nelson Lodge of Odd Fellows Rose and Crown Inn Salisbury John Milbank Bart Pocock Mackay Wheeler Sir John Mr. Sharp Mr. Pocock Sir Joan Clark Currier-street St. Giles’s Darine Rogonerres Gill Frederick-price Hampstead-road Ruffey Dorset-terrace Clapham-road High-street Borough Dreath Bartholomew-close Alice Brook Kingsland Road Shoreditch Church Winter Seymour-place Church-way Somers Taylor John Taylor Commissions de Lunatico Inquirendo The Chronicle

Canadian Prunes: Habeas Case Goes On At Westminster Hall

The twelve prisoners from Canada face a high profile habeas corpus review in London. The court weighs whether a single judge could issue the writ in vacation and whether the transportation orders to Van Diemen’s Land were legally proper or tainted by colonial authority and lack of proper conviction. Proceedings resume with arguments about warrants, convictions, and governance.

Igaada Finley Malcolm John Grant John G. Packer Robert Walker Pau Bedford Randall Nixon Leonard Watson William Reynolds Lyons William Miller James Brown Ira Anderson William Alves Newgate John Rant Hill Lord Denman Nagara Jonas Jones Her Majesty’s Court of Queen’s Bench van Diemens Land Upper Canada Quebec John Colborne Ross Liverpool Toronto John Beverley Robinson van Diemén’s Lands England Bill van Diemen’s Land Mr. Hi Mr. Hill Watson Mr. Roebuck Charles Jr George HI Onslow J. Hobhouse Blackstone Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Coleridge Charles Common Law Coleridge Justice Littledale House of Correction Oliver John Hobhouse Sir John Hobhouse House of Commons Justice Litedale Meris Croley Lord Eldon Swanston Court of Charcery Justice Littedale Sergeant Onslow Wilmot Iris Solicitor-General F. Pollock Wizhtman Westminster Hall Halliburton Nova Scotia Hume House of Lords M. D. Hill van Diemen's Land Thia Efe Fle Ir. Hill Canada Bermuda Armhur Upper Lower Canada Ros Arthur Batchelor Crown Ler Denman Tie Roebuck Sir John Colborne Sir George Arthur Cape of Good Hope
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