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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 03, 1841
Page
6
The London case recounts a slander action where the plaintiff, a potter from Fulham, accused a widow of false engagement, while the defendant argued the remarks were untrue. The jury found for the defendant. Other entries describe bankruptcy trials and police assault cases with mixed outcomes.
James Burgess a drunken man employed to carry an election placard was charged with assaulting a boy. Edward Moore a cab master faced a purse theft charge but was discharged after witnesses vouched for him. James Ager was committed for trial for stealing a breast pin from Mr Thomas Haffonden during the city election polling.
In Marylebone a group including Tur Swern Man On Wednesday Thomas Jenkins James Gregory and James Robson faced barroom charges after a crowd surge near Portland Place during candidate nominations. Robson passed a purse to Gregory before both fled toward Devonshire Street. Jenkins and Robson were linked to earlier Woolwich packet thefts during the Trafalgar launch, with Jenkins found with £3 4s and Gregory with a silver watch and 6d. all claimed innocence. A separate assault case in Warren Street ended with the defendant discharged, while a cab driver Benjamin Simmons faced neglect of his cab near the Duchess of Gloucester’s residence after removing his horse’s bridle and leaving the cab unattended for half an hour.
A French woman Catherine Deutch and Paul René faced charges of stealing a pocket-book containing £50 and checks totaling about £706, tied to a Jan theft. Prosecutors traced a £20 note stopped at a shop, luggage found at Liverpool and Birmingham station, and witnesses linked the couple to a St Martin’s Street residence. Mr Maltby remanded then discharged the pair after evidence deemed insufficient.
A man named John Dean was charged with attempting to break into No 2 Ebury Street Pimlico. Inspector Taylor found him hiding in a vault after breaking a kitchen window glass. Dean claimed he was larking with friends and had no home reference. He faced three months hard labour. In a separate case, Augustus Chippendale was fined five pounds and bound to keep the peace for six months after violently assaulting Giles, an assistant to surgeon Mr Glennie, at Brompton-row.
A crowded Hatton Garden case reports William and Philip Nolan Cornelius Donovan James Macarthy John Hackett and Elizabeth Nugent all Irish jailed at the bar for a violent attack on police in Caroline Court Saffron Hill after a late Sunday row. The magistrate sent them to the House of Correction for three months.
A stream of magistrate proceedings includes bail refusals in a manslaughter case, a burglary and robbery at Mr Wright’s oil shop, and the committal of two robbers after evidence of cellar entry. Other items cover a suspected accomplice Drew, wage disputes from Guildhall signals, a drunken assault case, and a smithy burglary with three youths committed for trial.
An inquest before coroner W Carter at the Swan Inn Brixton-road considered Arthur French’s death by suicide at 79 after a long ship chandler career. Other inquests include Jane Trace’s accidental death in Lisson Grove after leaping to escape a trunk dispute, George Bailey found drowned in the Thames, Mary Battle dying of apoplexy after Ber mondsey workhouse neglect, a sickening destitution case in City Road with a starving family, Frederick Besant’s death in Bermondsey tied to political work, and additional cases of natural death from brain effusion after sudden collapse.
The article traces early London water supply from 1592 with Peter Morris’s artificial ford to 1608 1612 milestones. It details Morris waterworks on the Thames arches near St Magnus and near Broken Wharf, later Middleton’s grant by Elizabeth and James I to build the New River from Hertfordshire. The first works began February 20 1608 with Islington cistern and a grand 1613 inauguration.
A miscellaneous column recounts chalk insects with a note on their vast numbers and possible European distribution, then shifts to anecdotes about notable figures and quirky customs. It mentions a German critic, Oxford scholars, and a Northumberland horn ritual, followed by Milton Comus manuscripts and a poetic obituary of a child.
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