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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 23, 1842
Page
6
In Balderson's beer-shop a quarrel between two brothers led to a fatal scuffle. The prisoner drew a knife, they grappled, and the brother was left badly injured. A surgeon testified the wound was two inches long, not a deep stab. The jury found common assault. six months hard labour.
Details from a House of Lords session on Mrs Sewell and Major Sewell's divorce case reveal residence secrecy, evidence of adultery by Mr Farmer, and the lord chancellor's readiness to advance the bill. The Barons De Rode case returns to the Vice Chancellor's Court over a demurrer, with a question of perpetuating witness testimony in a crown action. The Ilford petty sessions report covers the Roxsers Cave raid, a highway robbery gang found in Epping forest, and the ensuing police confrontation with seven men forming a desperate group. several suspects are identified and prepared for trial.
The judge labeled the prisoners as notorious robbers, noting multiple prior committals to Tiford jail. They claimed they were lured into a cave for beer by escaped men. The bench found them guilty of robberies but remanded them to Hford jail for three months with hard labour, ordering police to pursue accomplices.
Thomas Fisher faced the lord mayor on a charge of attempting to pluck out John Ogle's eye amid a feud between rival street vendors near London Bridge. The case described a violent street confrontation over newspaper sales, with Fisher held to bail as the mayor warned against such assaults.
In a London court, Richard Charles Savage faced cruelty charges for driving horses with raw shoulders. fees of 40 shillings were imposed after the judge criticized the conduct. Separately, Mrs. Brooks fought with lodger Mrs. Bridges over a household counterpane leading to scratches and a 10 shilling fine. Islington workhouse dealt with 40 to 50 able bodied paupers demanding relief, some tearing clothes. ringleaders were jailed for 21 days with hard labor.
A London court heard a summons against Thomas Cooper a tunster chimney sweeper for allowing a servant to ascend a chimney under the Chimney Sweepers Act. Evidence showed the defendant directed the job and used rods to lift a cleaning machine but failed to prove a violation. the summons were dismissed for lack of evidence. Two other summonses were postponed. Indecency case against Robert Lewis a Blackfriars tailor led to a 40 shilling fine after he allegedly made obscene remarks about Mrs White in a train carriage despite denying the charge.
A man named Thomas Casey faced a charge of causing his wife’s death after a troubled marriage begun at Easter. Testimony described repeated abuse, a nose injury, and eventual lockjaw leading to death at the London hospital. Casey claimed intoxication and vowed to suffer if found guilty. He was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.
A lament in verse on the death of the Duke of Orleans seen through French royal mourning and foreign sympathy. The poem intertwines images of family grief, national sorrow, and hope for a stronger France under a future heir. France, England, and Belgium are invoked as mourners, with the orphaned heir as the focus of national destiny.
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