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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jul 11, 1841

Page

5

Medhurst Accuses Dyer in Middlesex Magistrates Meeting

A Middlesex magistrates session debated the conduct of Charles Henry Moreton Dyer charged with seeking to obtain Medhurst’s release from prison for money. Testimony from Chesterton and medhurst described a £3000 offer via Lady Normanby, with Lord Normanby and Lord Melbourne named in discussions. The court sought full disclosure from visiting justices and considered Dyer’s removal in relation to undisclosed letters from the lord chancellor.

Cyer Riety Manny Moreton Dyer Henry Cne Medhurst Bonne Ua Sergeant Adams George Farrant House of Correction Charles Henry Moreton Dyer Commission of the Peace Adams Dyer Armstrong Stock Col. Wood Edwardes Cold-bath-fields George Laval Chesterton Normanby A. Illingworth Thomas Fillery Francis Hastings Medhurst Fillery England Marquis of Normanby Lady Normanby Lord Melbourne E. Edwards Argyle-chambers Argyle-place Home Office Lord Normanby

Court of Chancery Maladministration of a Charitable Fund

Lord Chancellor dismissed charges against Bosanquet and Hill in a Broxbourne school case. Endowment funds and a shared room improved attendance from 6 to 50. The judge praised Bosanquet and Hill’s efforts, ordered costs against the relator, and warned against unfounded informations. Queen's Counsel appointments followed. Belroy v Warley ended with a verdict for the defendant perjury.

Court OF Chancery Monpar BosanQuet Hirr Broxbourne Hertfordshire Lucy Hill Turspay Queen's Counsel Bar Whately Godson M.P Oxford Baines S. Wortley Knowles Sutton Sharpe Chancery Bar Charles Austin Stuart Wortley Yorkshire Lord Abinger Belroy Vy. Warley Wakley

Sugar Duty Returns Show Revenue Drop and Monopolist Gain

The sugar duty for year ending 5 July 1840 totals £4,492,070 with last year at £3,909,677. A £582,393 drop in consumption plus 5 percent added duty since May 1840 suggests a net revenue loss near £780,000 due to high monopoly prices. Consumption fell to about 155,000 tons from 187,000. consumers paid extra price in bond benefiting monopolists, with potential revenue if consumption had matched prior levels.

Toanwar Uveas

Court ruling on Wrights bank and trust misapplications

In ex parte Burton and others executors of Plowden the commissioner ruled on proofs of misapplied funds from the Wright trust. Several claims against separate estates of Biddulph and John Wright were partially allowed or disallowed, with further inquiry into security implications and timing of loans. Surrey Sessions convicted Sarah Gardner and Mary Keats of theft, sentencing six months each with an eventual removal from the country implied.

Ccouurt Messrs. Wright EX Parte Burton Plowpeen Holroyd Plowden Anthony Wright Anthony George Wright Biddulph John Wright Anthony George Wright Biddulph John Brown Wright Messrs. Waterhouse and Co Thos. Wright the Elder Thomas Wright the Elder Thomas Wright

Central Criminal Court sessions open with murder and theft trials

The Monday sessions before the lord mayor and officials heard charges including two female murder cases one involving a Briggs related fatal wound and another a Woolwich soldier murder. Conspiracy to break Muskett’s warehouse led to a verdict of guilty for the Dover defendants though with suspended judgment. Teetotallers case ended with a guilty verdict for Hanley and Connell for assaulting a cabman during Whit Monday procession. Additional trials covered theft by false pretences, burglary at a Bloomsbury pub, and a marriage fraud case ending in not guilty. Transportation for ten years was imposed in a child theft, with further trials on Wednesday for a Woolwich murder by a soldier.

C. Marshall Briggs James Magarity Woolwich Magarity Philip Edmund Dover William Dover John Kendrick Michael Doyle Renry Lamb William Barrett Robert Page George Alfred Muskett Messrs. Phillips Clarkson Price Muskett St. Albans Finsbury Pavement Painter and Co Painter Leicester Square Philip Dover Dover Bretton Mr. Elkins Mr. Muskett Dovers Magistraw Mn ‘Maeliatt Musett Inisu Teetotallers Pustic Serjeant Arabia John Hanley Henley Thomas Bull St. Leonard’s Eastcheap Doane Ryland Bullock Lord Mayor and Corporation of London Temperance Society Mr. R Temperance Societies London Lawrence Lane Cannon-street Great Eastcheap W. Wright Total Abstinence Society Arabin Patrick Connell Connor Mr. Courthorpe Deptford Prendergast Courthorpe Fenchurch-street Mr. Prendergast Giles Winch William Brett Serjean John Groom Ann Cole Islington Bloomsbury Cross Portsmouth House of Correction Cuarce Or Breamy Sergeant Arabin Fanny Clark Jones George Robert Galloway Charles Clark Elizabeth Rogers Chatham St. Martin-in-the Fields Strrpine Bridget Doran George Evans Mary Witness Mary Evans Lord Abinger Justice Williams James Maranty John Rice Shooti i Adolphus Ballantine

Man and woman convicted of manslaughter in London public house

In a Bluegate Fields case, Mary Long and Hannah Covington were found guilty of manslaughter for a street assault that left Thomas Briggs dead from brain bleeding. Witnesses described a violent confrontation after Briggs challenged them, with lengthy post mortem testimony confirming fatal head injuries. Sentences: six months hard labor each.

Clarkson Lord Abinger Shapwelt Murpzin Mary Long Hannah Covington Thomas Briggs Espinasse Mary Williams Ann Hope Bluegate Fields Shadwell Long Covington Leng Hardy J.W. Bird Ratcliffes Highway Pretty Ratcliffe Highway Rose Bird Justice Williams House of Correction Srcoup Henley Giltspur-street London John Ballinger Charles Collins Sarah Clark Alias Williams Alias Blake Alias Latham John Smith George Williams J. Turvey Ann Quinlan Thos. Sweeney J. Moriarty Henry Lamb Charlotte Stone J. Meyrick Joseph Linton Geo. Drew John Sinnix John Brown Edward Hodges Joseph Wharton John Magarity Mary Gough Alias Smith John Cayton Ike Thomas Henry Thomas Jones Henry Thomas William Alsop Henry Try Hannah Sullivan William Smith Joseph Carter Charles Hyde Michael M.carty Emma Strange John Haddock John Terrell G. Platt Patrick Stanton Maria Willissee

Police Reports and Courtroom Dramas Across London

A spate of cases includes Catherine Reynolds and Mary Hobley charged with attempting suicide near Blackfriars bridge after domestic strife. Elizabeth Parry, an elderly inmate, and others similarly in perilous acts by the Thames. Also details a Chelsea manor fair nuisance case, riot against police at Vauxhall, and a burglary tied to Jamaica-place with seized stolen goods. Proceedings reveal police, aldermen, and witnesses detailing disturbing scenes, debtor troubles, and attempts at self harm.

Catherine Reynolds Farebrother Blackfriars Bridge W. Hambridge Thames German Sahier Mary Hobley Alderman Farebrother Elizabeth Parry Stepney Union Stepney Tzzetoran Chans Charles Nash

Scented contraband cigars sparkteetotal disturbance

The prisoner claimed some cigars carried scents from dock leaves foreign rhubarb cassia and ginger to scent them fine and pleasant. Other batches were odorless. Alderman Fare denounced teetotalism as smoke and urged selling cigars instead. He discharged the prisoner stating the fault lay with him for detaining.

Alderman Farebrother Placnet

Assault on a young female in Cavendish Square

A stylishly dressed young man Samuel Back faced a charge of entering a bedroom without rights. The 17 year old complainant, a servant of Miss Reynolds, described him waking by her bed at 2 am and replying to her cry for help. He denied the act. he was remanded to keep the peace with sureties. A separate case involved chimney-sweeper James Cayton charged with theft from Rev. Bentall. The evidence showed a watch pledged by Cayton and recovered, with both hands and a ribbon attached. he was committed to Newgate for trial.

Samuel Back Caroline Cox Samuel Miss Reynolds Wimpoele-street Cavendish-square Mr. Rawlinson James Cayton Geneva John Bentall Little Dean’s Yard Westminster Westminster School Walters High Rech Savory’s Cornhill Thornton Eleanor Anderson Bentall Newgate

Notorious burglar Hawkins faces assault and arrest in court

A famed criminal, Edware Hawkins, notorious for Newgate connections, stirred a case of highway attack and robbery. Witnesses describe him carousing, then assaulting a man on Grove Street as police moved to custody. The case, tied to old arrests, ends with a commitment to bail and possible penalty.

Lambeth Street Thief Faces Trial For Housebreaking

In East Smithfield a man of colour, Jahol Melville, was charged with breaking into a cabinet maker’s dwelling and attempting a felony. He threatened to shoot or cut the prosecutor, escaped with his cap and jacket, and left a partly emptied chest. Katherine Macarthy, a lifelong mud-lark, was charged with stealing coal from barges in the Thames. She admitted taking coal but claimed honesty. she was sentenced to six weeks’ hard labor.

Lambeth Street Jahol Melville Brown Bear Alley East Smithfield Henry Katharine Macarthy Broderip Kate Macarthy Thames Police Salisbury Wharf Messi Judkins Strand Grimstone Hi Sf Kate Macarthy Burne Del

Roosery in a Sewing Room Case of Theft

Hannah Wright a suspected sempstress faced Trail on a charge of stealing a gold watch and several sovereigns from a Lady Newberry of Peckham. The evidence showed the watch missing after Wright’s visit and later a tin box with sovereigns vanished from the same room. A blacksmith’s shop visit and payment for breaking the tin box linked her to the crime. Wright was committed.

Hannah Wright Trail Newberry Peckham Southampton-street Camberwell Priso

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