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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 03, 1838
Page
7
The Mansion House hearing revealed concerns that French lace for coronation attire may be supplanting English workers. Lord mayor and officials questioned the scale, origin, and impact of lace imports. witnesses described trade patterns and potential harm to domestic manufacturers.
James Fenner, formerly a clerk for John Ledger of Horselydown, is in custody before Sir F Roe charged with stealing nearly £300 from his master. He allegedly received £141 16s. due to Ledger and a bank post bill, absconded, and was recaptured near Clerkenwell. Fenner claimed a Bow Street officer bribed him to flee. He is committed to Newgate for trial.
John Lee and William Hansell, footman and porter for G J Clifton, stood charged with stealing bottles of wine from their employer. A constable found four bottles in a bundle and another bottle on Hansell. Additional wines were found at Hansell’s Exeter Street lodging. Both men were committed to Newgate for trial. Charles Chatterton and Charles Robinson fined for extinguishing gas lights in Wigmore Street Cavendish Square. Frederick Broughton charged with cruelty to a horse on Hampstead Heath. an officer from the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals intervened.
Rawlinson called the defendant in chargé té a key arrest in a major case and urged the full penalty be imposed. He stated the defendant should face severe punishment.
In a Hatton Garden court, a husband is charged after his wife, beaten and nearly murdered, recounts nightly abuse and a brutal collapse. The injured woman, already recovering from a broken thigh, was whisked to hospital as the accused argues property disputes justify violence.
Elizabeth Hardinge, a middle aged servant, stood charged with stealing plate from Mrs Payne of 175 Blackfriars Road. A dealer in clothes testified she tried to sell spoons, claiming Mrs Payne needed money. she was committed for trial.
In London arrests followed riot at the Tower Spur-gate where Joseph Marshall and two others faced hard penalties for riot and assault on police after a 500 to 600 strong crowd formed. At Kensington two elderly sisters Tabitha and Dorothea Rancliffe were fined 40 shillings each for a violent room intrusion and threats against broker West and a beer-house keeper.
The defendant returned with companions and struck Ransom with a heavy blow on the nose. Ransom fell and struck the back of his head on a sharp edge of paper, sustaining a serious wound and temporary incapacity. The defendant was convicted and fined £5 or two months' imprisonment, with a stern warning for future conduct.
Thames officer trial of Thomas Odell and Robert Robinson for stealing 1800 pounds of coal from the bark Pilgrim. Magistrate Broderip convicts the captain of a misdemeanor and warns of tread-mill. mate discharged. Also Middlesex sessions feature a comic tail theft case ending Not Guilty and insolvency actions with seven months’ imprisonment for fraudulent depletion of assets.
William Munday and Richard Paine pleaded guilty to beating a donkey with a stirrup iron and stones on Blackheath. Henry Thomas of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals testified. Each man fined 40 shillings plus costs or 14 days hard labour. they paid the fine and were discharged. Also, John Gill of Fleet prison sought discharge as an insolvent debtor after years imprisoned on chancery attachments and related costs. He had earned 170 pounds by renting his room.
A woman named Vale was robbed of over thirty pounds after boarding an omnibus at Bank and disembarking at Surrey Street Strand. In St George’s East a coal brig captain was found badly beaten at a pub. suspect landlord linked to domestic jealousy. A German traveler Deshyver was attacked in Blackfriars Road, a note and coins stolen. the assailants used a crow bar. A fire in Poplar caused by a servant girl damaged an attic and spread to adjacent areas. owner insured.
An order to local registrars requires sofort forwarding of names and addresses of those refusing to disclose birth details, with public notice in the district. A separate item recounts a coach runaways incident near Tewkesbury.
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