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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 24, 1846
Page
4
A dense montage of legal proceedings, insolvencies, and petty disputes from 1846 including a murder accusation, a false imprisonment ruling, a church rate appeal, and a clerical misconduct case. The text threads through police actions, insolvency schedules, and a Windsor riot inquiry, with identities like Sir Peter Laurie and Lord Mayor cited amid crowded courtroom scenes.
In the Northern Division of Lancashire the court appoints by Justice Yalleson and Justice Coleridge the fixed days for holding trassians in the eoxpective counties. The Castleef Yous Syubtike Ganildbosd district sets the lamcaster sessions with terms on Monday and Saturday for the veasting.
A Bristol solicitor wins £5000 damages in a crim con case. The Manchester free trade meeting extols Cobden's vision of a unified human family. Across towns like Manchester and Newport, reports detail a tragic coal mine explosion at Russell Colliery with 86 dead and 4 horses, the probe delaying to February, and calls for stricter mine safety and accountability of mine owners.
A Leigh couple, sworn to temperance, faced a trial when the husband returned home from a night out, drunk. His wife recalled the pledge and destroyed the cards and other items, baking a cake from remnants, effectively consuming his own warning. This curious domestic tale reflects temperance zeal and social pressures of the era.
A court report recalls a letter from Ady to Sir Peter Laurie critiquing acts of Parliament and banking partnerships. It cites a lithographed copy of a contract act and lists donors and subscribers, warning about clergy admitted into partnerships and the risk to the Union Bank of London.
University student James Hudson and barrister William Steele were charged with wilful damage to iron railings at houses on Marchmont and Everett Streets after police observed them pulling down railings and shop showboards. Total damage about £3 10s, with fines or one month’s hard labor proposed. Hudson disputed the amount and was admonished for disrespect in court.
A prisoner named D G gives a long confession detailing repeated thefts on railway property. He describes methods, partnerships with Maynard and others, bribes, evasion, and eventual arrest, claiming years of operation across various lines and attempts to escape justice.
A coal miner named Janes Hotrex was found burnt to death in a chimney at Mr Dearden's colliery Birtie Bamford after a night in which he was seen intoxicated. Workmen tried to pull down the chimney but his body was almost a cinder. It is believed he slept in the cabin and, finding the door fastened, attempted to descend the chimney, becoming trapped.
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