Courvoisier confession details murder and flight
A long Hutchinson style narrative recounts François Benjamin Courvoisier’s confession of murdering Lord William Russell, hiding valuables, and evading police from May 5 to his surrender. It covers his premeditation, concealment of gold and gems, prison observations, and reflections on guilt, faith, and repentance.
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God
Satan
Mrs Fedor
Lord W. Russell
Richmond
William
England
Switzerland
Camden-hill
Lord
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of God
Courvoisier
Jesus
St. Peter
Judas
Lamb of God
François Benjamin Courvoisier
C. Baur
London
Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus
Israel
Cope
Newsies
Carver
Clovermaet
Central Criminal Court
Thomas France
Henry Jackson
Phillips
Metropolitan Police
Globe
Jack Shopparp
William Russell
Jack Sheppard
Times
Newgate
W. Harrison Ainsworth
Duke of Bedford
Alan Evans
Middlesex
Morning Chronicle
William Evans
W. Hannison Ainsworth
Central Criminal Court Murpay Session Opens With Heavy Docket
The Central Criminal Court opened at Murpay with ninety prisoners listed from London, Middlesex, Kent, and Surrey. The recorder warned many cases were serious including cutting with intent to grievous harm and a possible murder by starvation. several defendants faced hard labour and capital assault verdicts were handed down, with one death sentence and others commuted or respited. The docket included a case of bigamy and various sentences ranging from four months to fifteen years, plus numerous acquittals and next-session continuances.
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Murpay
George Carroll
London
Middlesex
Kent
Surrey
Breamy
William Gore
Mary Ann Otto
St. Botolph
Bishopsgate
Ann
House of Correction
WerpvEs
Justice Patteson
Cornelius Sullivan
James Allen
Guacu
Geach
Frost
Adolphus
Bodkin
Queen's Bench
Drath
Constantine Sullivan
Mary Harris
Ann Somerfield
Caroline Storey
Wm. Price
John Wall
Ann Kennedy
Joseph Freeman
James Brown
W. Warre
David Barry
Mary Cunningham
R. Sims
T. Godfrey
I. Simmons
RB. Wailer
W. Goulding
W. St. Pierre
J. Smith
Mary Sutton
G. Butler
J.taylor
J. Carlow
Rice Bryan Jones
James Smith
John Smith
William Sims
John Garry
John Tyler
Mary Brown
W. Newland
W. Paplin
Wm. Lisk
R. E. Pitt
Henry Woodward
Anthony Ryan
Wm. Smith
M. Murphy
Thomas Johnson
Mary Ann Murphy
Mary Smith
William Woodward
J. Hodges
John Cocking
Benjamin Moore
M. A. Smith
Wm. Wendover
Elizabeth Holland
Charles Chepman
Mary Goldsmith
D. Rhearm
Henry Williams
John Brown
J. Suiter
Forde
Nixon
Field Lane
Hee
Poe
Anne Alstrope
Ri Oe Arms
Gray’s-inn-lane
Tees
Etisoner
James Scrivener
Beards
Ann Green
James Reynolds
East-street
Manchester-square
Scrivener
Leonard Hards
Bricklayers' Arms
New Quebec Street
Sophia Giles
Ellen Ward
de la Warr Arms
Oxford-street
Jane Foxwell
Black Horse
Hills
North Pule
Adduve
Aly
Broughton
Grove
Charles Green
Forgery case and street crimes from London police court
A detailed police court report records the forgery case of Rice Byron Jones linked to Masterman and Co. A suspect confessed to counterfeiting a £70 check and possessing stolen funds. The piece also covers multiple petty thefts, an attempted murder scare, a surgeon-like court scene, and a sprawling Kilrush PattY Sessions tale with humorous testimony.
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Forceny
Rice Byron Jones
John Forrester
Messrs. Masterman and Co
Vautin
Masterman and Co
J. Thompson
Bricklayers’ Arms
Kent-road
Masterman’s
Atl
Paddy Lyons
Crotty
Micky Crotty
Patrick Lyons
Fatal duel and multiple self‑poisoning cases reported
A six o clock clash in Kilburn fields between Antonio Garbonia and Nicholas Kechoff ended with Garbonia mortally wounded. Betting disputes at a Quadrant billiard table sparked the quarrel. Emma Brown died at the London hospital after taking laudanum in a quarrel with a neighbor, while Mary Brown neared death at the same hospital from oxalic acid. Louise Downham, 43, killed herself with laudanum in South Street lodging, a verdict of temporary insanity.
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Kilburn-fields
New North Road
St. John’s-wood
Antonio Garbonia
Nicholas Kechoff
Garbonia
Emma Brown
London Hospital
Mary Brown
W. Carter
Surreys
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Lord William Russell
Lord William
Tothillfields
Bow-street
F. B. Count
James Carver
Caamus Baur
Lock
Calcraft
Sheriff Wheelton
Gibb
Messrs
Evans and
Wheelton
Magnay
Kean
Edmund Kean
Thistlewood
Lord Powerscourt
Russell
Sheriff Evans
France
J. Carver
J. Wall
Mary Ann Smith
David Haythorn
Charles Chapman
John Watts
Charlotte Hilsby
J. Slater
Richard Geach
Robert Salter
James Durrant
Mary Durrant
George Crutchley
James Gibson
Charles Chamberlain
John Hunt
P. Hunt
Margaret Hay
Charles Johnson
Joseph Brown
Mary Carney
Emma Hasary
John Evan
John Dean
Edward Oxford
Hedger
Newington
Grand Jury
Spitalfields
Alderman Lainson
Bridewell
William Seale
Jane Williams
Mr. Harris
Sherborne
Jane
Old Bailey
Marlborough Street
Gilbert Alzard
Berners-street
Gravesend
Cornhill
Smart
Princes-street
Davis
Crown
Cranbourn Passage
Cranbourn Passage. Mr. Smart
Collins
Mr. Smart
Plume
John Davis
John Collins
Mr. Long
Philips
Chambers
Lung
Rawton Garden
Murper
John Edivards
Evans
Myddelton-street
Clerkenwell
Tieves
Caroline Williams
Combe
Edward Griffiths
Chapman
Tottenham-court-road
Atr
Highworth
Wiltshire
Williams
Great Russell-street
Bloomsbury
Ele
Wnrotessa le Ronsertes
Broderip
Roderick
Stith
Nash
Ann Forde
Green
Avary
Clutterbuck
Pentonville
Whiting-street
Waterloo Road
Minshin
Agin
Darby
Ezra
Paddy
Lyons