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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 18, 1847
Page
6
The Dagenham police cases center on Sergeant Parsons and constables Kimpton and Hickton. Witnesses place the defendants at the scene late on the night of the crime, with one admitting lies to shield Parsons. The jury finds Kimpton and Hickton guilty of conspiring to defeat justice while Parsons’ fate hinges on separate indictments and a potential writ of error.
The court considered that if the first conviction stood, further indictments were unnecessary. After discussions between counsel and Mr Clarke, consent led to no further proceedings on the indictment for perjury. The prisoner was then brought up for judgment and sentenced to a fine of 18, a week in prison, and transportation for seven years.
In a Chancery hearing the plaintiff’s counsel protested a last minute order halting proceedings over an unendorsed brief. Verbal exchanges grew heated as Mr Bethell and Mr Cooper clashed on conduct and fairness, with the judge noting a hot day as part of the scene. The matter paused while the court considered restoring the case.
Principal sentences paused at the late session include transportations of numerous individuals for seven years led by Elizabeth Williams and others aged from 13 to 42. Riders ordered to hard labour in city and county Houses of Correction for varying periods up to eighteen months, with a long roll of names. Not Guilty declarations and other court actions noted, plus overall prison counts.
Report covers multiple cases in the Central Criminal Court and local magistrates. Includes details of a £1000 jewel robbery from Leadenhall Street, forged banking offences, assaults in Whitechapel and Piccadilly, arson set in Spitalfields, a murder confession at Caledonian Road, and a public disturbance stemming from overcrowded Thames steamers. Names include John Daniel, Marianne Smith, Mr. Caley, H. G. Baugh, and James Bruce, with references to Lord Mayor and various police officials.
At a fancy fair near the Licensed Victuallers Asylum the complainant accused two young men of robbery. Landlord Henry Brown testified the men were at supper at the White Hart until midnight and could not be involved. A female prisoner was found with a half crown at the station. Police noted the others alighted by a Greenwich omnibus opposite the White Hart. The magistrate discharged the two young men and remanded the female prisoner for further examination.
Excerpt reports Isaac Solomons, a Jew, charged with stealing gin from Mr. E. St. Parton at the Bedford Arms in Commercial Road East. Evidence shows a hidden taproom gin vat and a flap used to siphon gin, with Solomons observed lifting the flap and filling a bottle. A woman later collected the bottle. Solomons denied guilt. Yardley ordered trial at Clerkenwell Sessions.
John Taylor a Camberwell gardener faced Lambeth magistrates on a reexamination for violently injuring three or four people during a disturbance under his window after his wedding. His counsel urged provocation as the cause, describing the ruckus as loud rattling causing his bride to faint, and the attacker was bailed to a future date. A separate inquest reported Joseph Bart’s death by immersion in a pail of water at Bishopsgate workhouse, deemed temporary insanity. An Inverness accident killed a young woman and a horse, with several family members severely injured after a carriage mishap near a bridge while traveling to the Fall of Foyers.
A New York Herald column recounts a Boston advertisement and a Sixth Avenue street performance about a couple turning a dinner into farce. A husband’s frustration over a stock dip erupts into a night of clattering crockery, smashed furniture, and a police escort as MPs intervene, highlighting old drama’s view of marriage as comic misrule.
In Troy town Rochester last Friday a girl, found without parents, approached a deep well and fell in while attempting to rescue a child. She descended by rope to 83 feet, grasped the child, and neighbors pulled them both to safety. The infant is much better. the girl is praised for her bravery. Also noted is a report on Mormonites preaching in open air seeking permission to use Lancasterian space, which was refused.
The Journal relates a Paris incident where a car hat of M de Rothschild caused a railway delay as the train halted to recover the precious headgear. Passengers debated the risk to money markets while the station master ordered a stoppage and later resumed at speed. The episode sparked reflections on public security versus commerce and the high status of the financier involved.
A Scottish newspaper notes proposed changes to infantry officer dress including forage caps with black bands and badge, full dress lace on skirts and trousers, a gold sash, and a black leather helmet with horns. It also recounts John Knox’s Bible provenance and a farmer’s weather description for harvest progress.
June auction in Weimar town sells Schiller house for 5025 dollars, nearly double value, sparking hopes for renewed local patriotism in Statford ree Avon and reflecting on regional sentiment. The item appears among other dispatches on slavery in the United States and Baalbeck temple destruction.
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