Legal contest over mortgage proof and will costs at Doctors Commons
In an appeals court session at Doctors Commons the mortgagees faced questions over proving for 21,000 pounds against a Vauxhall Gardens debt while part of the estate had already been realized. The court corrected the commissioner's order to prove only for the deficiency, and dismissed the petition with costs. The session also covered the Wood will probate dispute and related costs, a consistory court case on conjugal rights, and insolvency proceedings for James Mathews, noting examinations of creditors and property details before discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald
Vauxhall Gardens
Appeals Court
Doctors Commons
Tourspayy
James Woop
Gloucester
Daubeny
Matthew Wood, Bart
Osborne
Chadborn
Surman
Judicial
Buckton
Hitchens
J. Wood
Longden
Toto
Mr. Buckton
Mr. Longden
Wood
Mr Buckton
Tuarzsnar
Cuantes
James Maraews
Coventarden
Alexander Logie
Charles Mathewe
Lewis
Mathews
Lambeth
Commissioner Reynolds
Lucas
Cook
Logie
Madame Vestris
Lewis Levi
Victoria Theatre
Willis
Piazza
Coventgarden
Olympic Theatre
America
Planche
Cooke
Mr. Willis
Josiah Robert Mitchell
Gravesend
Ascot
Mr. Lewis
Mr. Cooke
London Court Scene Ends With Two Months Hard Labour
In a London court, Mary Mason faced trial for robbery against Captain Semper and was sentenced to two months hard labour in Bridewell after a chaotic hearing. The captain struggled to testify in French, an interpreter required, and the case revealed a string of petty thefts including five sovereigns and a Bank of England note. Meanwhile Eliza Gosling attracted repeated detentions for drunken conduct, and Mary Ann Thornton was identified as the woman behind a long-known case involving inheritance claims and partner abuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smeer Rossery
Mary Mason
Peter Laurie
Semper
Austria
Peter
Sir Peter
Trench
Fleet-street
Bridewell
Newgate
Bank of England
Paris
Stanfield Jackson
Dunn
Burdett Coutts
Fleet
BOW STREET SESSIONS HIGHLIGHT STRANGE CASES AND ASSAULT
In Bow Street two women and a medical student faced charges. One woman, with a shovel bonnet and gypsy look, was found wandering in Lincoln's Inn Fields and sent to St. Giles workhouse after a puzzling mental state. In Marlborough Street, a medical student attacked Lieutenant Colonel Baron Osten with a blunt ebony stick in Dover Street, and the defense claimed self defense while a surgeon warned of possible fatal results. A separate case involved a woman attempting suicide by drowning herself in a water-butt, remanded for reexamination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Hall
Lyon’s-inn
Surrey
Stepney
Oliver
Richmond
Frederick Pridham
Maltby
Baron Osten
James Sudbury
Doverstreet
Piccadilly
Sherrard
New Bond Street
Witners
Dr. Pridham
Lord Tenterden
T. Fines
Malaby
Ann Heywood
Collins
Crownstreet
St. Giles’s
Clerkenwell Bridegroom Pledges Watch Theft Charge
Matthew Burton 35 a stone mason faced a charge by Ann Panter 19 with obtaining from her a silver watch and other property. She testified he wooed her while posing as a widower corn chandler from Hull, asked for money and gifts, pledged the watch at a pawnbroker, and sent a dubious letter from Acomb. He was convicted of pawning and faced a three month hard labour sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Burton
Platt's Terrace
Sumera-town
Greenwood
Ann Panter
Little Brook Street
Newroad
London
Acomb
Yorkshire
Terisoner
Ann
M. Burton
P.S
Waddington
House of Correction
New Move or Wind. Raisine THE WIND James Hughes charged
James Hughes a young man described as a porter faced Mr Broughton charged with obtaining trifling sums from tradesmen by false pretences. He sent orders for goods for a bridal entertainment using varied addresses and received small gratuities. Tradesmen testified he visited shops in Finsbury and elsewhere, including Shearman in Shoreditch. He impersonated a porter for the Eastern Counties railway and fled with orders and cards. The police found 22 visiting cards in his possession. Hughes was remanded for a week to await officers from multiple divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hughes
Broughton
Finsbury Pavement
Shearman
Parkplace
Shoreditch
Eastern
Featherstone
Park Place
Kensington
Lambeth Street Brutal Assault Case at Hicks Hall
Thomas Rouse cab proprietor faced a charge of violently assaulting his wife Harriet Rouse. wife testified Rouse tracked her with Gouldie, a man she said her husband accused of improper conduct. Gouldie admitted relationship with Harriet. Defense revealed, case sent to quarter sessions. Rouse bail set at 80 pounds with two sureties of 40 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Rouse
Henry
Harriet
Pelham
Taylor
James Gouldie
Cannon-street-road
Gouldie
Limehouse Church
Geary
Hicks's Hall
Expectable shoplifter at Henry Tune shop in Blackfriars road
Caroline Davis a well dressed married woman was charged with stealing a pair of ladies shoes from Henry Tune boot and shoemaker in Charlotte street Blackfriars road. She was committed but bail was proffered and accepted for her appearance at the sessions. Also noted were separate cases of a seaman breaking a gas lamp and a young man found hiding under a bedstead in Kent road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A &Rr
Union Hall
Caroline Davis
Cottingham
Henry Tune
Boost and Shoemaker
Charlotte Street
Blackfriars Road
John Snow
Southwark Bridge
Liverpool
Newfoundland
Londen
Ratger
Samuel Putman
Kentroad
Mary
Stabbing case at Hanworth leads to Newgate remand
In Hanworth near Hounslow Middlesex Thomas Shores 24 faces capital charges for stabbing his brother John Shores in a pub scuffle on May 22. John, weak from loss of blood, forgives him but court advances to jury trial after surgeon's testimony. Shores remanded. Nearby Croydon case concerns Ruth Crick stepmother accused of brutal cruelty to a young girl. magistrates issue warrant and Crick is ordered to pay a 40 shilling fine or serve one month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kensington
Hanworth
Thomas Shores
John Shores
Hounslow
Middlesex
G. Clive
Clive
Lawn
Newgate
John Shore
Croydon
Usace
Collier
Reid, Adams
Lucas
Ruth Crick
Sutherland
Crick
Good
Jones
John
Fire at the Eagle Tavern on City-road
Early Monday morning a fire broke out at the Eagle tavern City-road known as the Grecian Saloon. Fire engines arrived quickly and confined the blaze to the firework room which burned out. Damages about £150. Proprietor Mr Rouse is insured with the Licenced Victuallers' office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Tavern
City-road
Rouse
Victuallers’ Office
Phrenology of a murderer Good head analysis
A letter from Dr. Elliotson in the Medical Times examines the head cast of the executed murderer Good. The piece details alleged phrenological traits including strong appetites for danger and a lack of higher moral feeling, supporting guilt and providing a dramatic portrait of his character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Medical Times
Mourderer
Elliotson
DR. Elliotson
Good
Cuckoo Tales At Midnight Inquirys And Reflections
A letter from May 31 1512 laments lack of sound education in middle and high classes and urges rational virtuous living. A separate Minute item reports a Gloucestershire tale of hearing a cuckoo at midnight, noting disbelief among a social circle before confirming a local sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tn Tumain &E
Joan Evriotsox
Conduit-street
Battle Between a Tom Cat and Three Throstles
A tom cat in a town garden faced three throstles that mobbed him from a branch above the yard. The birds pecked and hissed as they drove the intruder toward the stable door, while servants feared eye injuries. The cat retreated, cowed by the feathered chorus and the birds sang their victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grimalkin
Witchcraft in 1842 at Newton Abbot case ends
In Newton Abbot a Denbury woman was blamed for a witchcraft attack after a shoemaker from Teignmouth posed as a white witch. He directed a ritual running exercise that coincided with the girl’s death, leading villagers to accuse a nearby old woman before authorities intervened. The witch fender admitted his imposture. he was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton Abbot
Denbury
Thomas
Teignmouth
Fender
G. Garrow
Monro
Garrow
Ghostly prank at inn ends in coffin fright
A jolly old inn patron is tricked by friends in a drunken gag. He wakes inside a coffin and faces a white dressed spectre who declares him dead a week, then a fortnight, prompting laughter as he bargains for drink and realizes the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacchus
Immense Nelson statue stone shipped to London
A thirty ton free stone block from Granton quarries is prepared for the Nelson statue in Trafalgar Square. The block was moved to Granton pier for transport by a vessel arranged by the Admiralty. The labor required was heavy, and the total cost, including placement, is expected to exceed £300 according to the Caledonian Mercury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
Duke of Buccleuch
Granton
Lord Nelson
Trafalgar-square
London
Granton-pier
Admiralty
Trafalgars Ysl
Wild Man of the Woods Reported in Rural France
The Courrier de Lyon says a man, about 35, born at Ponte-Vaux in the Ain, who had lived in the woods for months, is now in Villefranche. He subsisted on roots and scraps, slept in cow houses at night, and wandered out by day. Weak, frostbitten, and torpid, he appears savage with a shaggy beard. Rumor says he once practised medicine. the cause of his social withdrawal remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courrier de Lyon
Chantray
Riscue
Procureur du Roi
Villetruuche
Villefranche
Parker
Ponte- Vaux
Ain
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Augusta Cripps
Edward Cripps
St. Pancras Church
Gloucestershire
Augusta Callington
George-street
Hampstead Road
Thomas Garth
Queen's Advocate
Jenner
Tps
Mr. Mathews
Mary Ann Thornton
Eliza Gosling
C Division
New Broad Street
Eliza
Mr. Hardwick
Bow Street
Marlborough Street
Clerkenwell
Lambeth Street
Casei
Harford Buildings
Drury-lane
Casci
Brucciani
Russell-street
Clapham
Sullivan
Gall
England
Courvoisier
Highley
Flet-Street
Aise
Saeed T
Piadas Ketead
Pas
Robertson
Newnham
Staffordshire
E.caminer
Marseilles
Toulon
Nice
Leghorn
Hy¢res
Malbec
M. Malbec
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