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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jul 23, 1837

Page

6

Arson and murder trials in Sheffield area court

Trials report multiple cases including Thomas Shaw found guilty of arson against Wa. Stones property and given severe punishment. Elizabeth Reid acquitted by reason of insanity in a boy’s murder case at Waddington. Thomas Williams found guilty of murder in a Sheffield shop death with death sentence. Hennah Maude convicted of manslaughter for long abuse of her illegitimate child with seven years transportation. Norfolk circuit covers highway robbery with death sentence. slipstream notes on a waterman slashing incident and Spanish Legion officer case at Tower stairs with discharged defendant.

Yorx Thomas Shaw Sheffield Dreaprunt Nonour Elizabeth Betty Reid George Burgess Waddington Thomas Williams Thomas Froggart Moore Insuman MU G. Dryden Norfolk Robert Cartwright J. Osborne Chicksand Wood Kelly Spanish Legion Tower Stairs Meyer Crouch Jones Lord Lyndhurst Legion Spain London Hobler Queen-Square Burrell White Thomas Brown John Mumford Horse Guards Finsbury Square Samuel Abbott Blackford James Brook House of Correction James Churchill William Brown Watson St. Pancras George Lloyd Langley George Ball Sarah Matthews Charles-street Westminster

Felsted Stabbing Case Ends in Guilty Verdict

Edward Childs was found guilty on a count charging wounding with intent to do bodily harm after an assault in George Smith's Felsted beer shop. A knife was recovered. the prosecutor suffered a 5 inch thigh wound. The Lord Chief Justice called the crime very violent and said death would be recorded, though possibly not carried out.

Chelms FORD Edward Childs Thomas Swallow Felsted Wordsworth George Smith Childs Dunmow Alderman White Brewer Masterman’s Holt Catharine Barrett Martin Felmington Groves King Street Covent-garden Mary Rycroft Marlborough Street Patrick Jerry Callaghan Conant Downey King-street Nhat Dyer Currie Regent-street Hawarden Fazakerly Thomas Hawarden Fazakerly 2D Life Guards Sas Whitecross Street Bertman Gillebrand Perdon Mr. Currie Duke of York Life Guards Cooling John Elder Lord Kenmure Gillebrand Hall Wiz Pole-Atred Kelly James Smith Thomas Fenn James Wallis Rubhiuas Greenwood John Harrington Barber Harrington James Crawley Crawley Mr. Kelly Broderip James Purvis Demerara Greenwich Charles Rowland Fearnley Ryland Corporation Thames Rowland Rotherhithe London Wich

Mysterious correspondence leads to Government reference

A private examination before the Lord Mayor reviewed a misdelivered packet of letters from Germany addressed to a foreigner. Enclosed material involved high-level affairs with the French Government, prompting the Lord Mayor to refer the case to the Secretary of State for Guildhall.

Germany Hobler

Dreadful explosion at lucifer match factory on Worship Street

A blast at Mr. John Seabrook's lucifer match factory causes a shop collapse. Six boys and a man are freed from a coalhole by police officers. Seabrook, badly burned, is taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital. The cause remains undetermined.

John Seabrook Worship Street Worship Stenson Burbkara Mr. Seabrook Parker Pitfield-street St. Bartholomews’ Hospital Seabrook Aheve Williamson Pentonville Upper Islington Holyorke Birmingham Police Office Grand Junction Railway Warwick Oxford Green Man Oxford Street Jones Middlesex Hospital Wandsford Kilkenny Castlecomer Mount Brown Stevens’ Hospital

Thames Police Graceful Persecution In London Riots

Magistrates Brode rip and Bir Greenwood investigated complaints by John Jeremiah Kelly coal merchant and tavern keeper in Lower Shadwell. Kelly dismissed many unstable workers for neglect and causing abuse and violence to the elderly and well behaved. police investigated, several rioters mainly Irishmen fined and bailed.

Thames Police Broderip Bir Greenwood John Jeremiah Kelly Lower Shadwell Trishmen

Distress of Huddersfield Fancy Weavers Hits 50 000

Report shows 8 000 weavers in fancy waistcoats trousers and nets with over 50 000 dependents. 20 000 have been in distress five months. only a few firms provide work. Other manufacturers abandon workers, prompting praise for George Senior and Son for humane relief.

Huddersfield Messrs George Senior

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