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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hannah Wright
Trail
Newberry
Peckham
Southampton-street
Camberwell
Priso
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