Fendall versus Noakes over coffee house bill in Langford case
In a missing persons case the landlady Mrs Fendall sues attorney Mr Noakes for £35 incurred when witnesses in Lord Langford v Barnett were entertained at Exchequer Coffee House Palace-yard before the trial. The judge Bosanquet directed liability on the attorney. the rule for nonsuit is granted after testimony and defence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cendall
Noakes
Justice Bosanquet
Sessions House
Bergeant Atcherly
Abraham Thornton
Shaw
Sergeant Atcherley
Lord Langford
Bail Court Admits Somerset in Fatal Timber Waggon Case
The Queen v Henry Somerset recalls a verdict of guilt by coroner's inquisition for deaths of George Jones and Margaret Evans on a Flint county highway ride. The case centers on alleged speeding by horses after his mother Lady Somerset's carriage passed. Proceedings challenge the inquisition's validity, noting jurisdictional and sworn juror issues and the coroner's Denbigh county involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Somerset
Flint
Lady Somerset
George Jones
Margaret Evans
Somerset
Jervis
Richards
Justice Coleridge
Denbigh
Police Reports From London Courthouse Murders and Forgeries
The report covers a series of incidents including a break in at the Mansion-house justice-room with theft of £30 to £40 from Mr Hobler, forgery involving a cheque purporting to be from Mr William Peart, and related bank and commercial felonies. It also details disturbances in Hanover Square and actions at Bow Street and Marlborough Street with arrests and inquests into manslaughter at the Two Blue Posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice-Room
Hobler
John East
John Forrester
Messrs. Hankey
William Peart
Abbey Hall
Bexley
Messrs
Bush
George Green
Daniel Forrester
Lawless
Gilbert and Piper
Foster
Prisoner Charged Over Libelous Street Parade and Disorderly Scene
A shabbily dressed man named William Dexter was seized in Holles Street for parading with a large insulting placard about the Marquis of Downshire. The board and smaller bills denouncing the Downshire family led to a civil injury view. Dexter was discharged with orders not to repeat the offence. In a separate incident, George Gale and Henry Julian, self described organ builders, caused damage at a shop on Tottenham Court Road by spilling crates of seafood and breaking a glass pane, then paying for damages and fines for drunkenness and peace bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlborough Street
Opera
Waterloo Road
Edwin
Jfilliam Daly
Chambers
Hanover Square
Marquis of Downshire
Reittenhoffer
Downshire
E. Hill
Marylebone
Thompson
J. Reittenhoffer
Daly
Fagnoit
Jones
Teuten
Mr. Chambers
William Dexter
Pionatitt
Rawlinson
Marquis of
John Henry
Hanover-square
Holles Street
Gratis Ag
Marquis Downshire
Marquis
Baron Sandys
Marcus Hill
George Hill
J. Reitterhoffer
King’s-road
Chelsea
Mr. Rawlinson
Drurylane
Fism
George Gale
Henry Julian
Tottenham-court-road
Jupp
Cleveland-street
Fitzroy-square
Julian
Gale
Disorderly conduct and theft cases heard in court
Prison scenes include a Wilful Damages Act conviction after a dispute over knockers, a precautionary reprimand, and a £5 fine. A purse-snatching attempt led to three months hard labor. a shawl and lace veil theft resulted in remand after the alleged culprit denied the act and claimed surrender to a lodging-keeper.
Highway robbery gang at St Luke's and Spitalfields cases
Elizabeth Richardson, part of a St Luke's gang, robbed Hill in Golden Lane and fled with silver and a cord. Hill was injured. James Leeson and others faced charges over a Hippodrome watch theft connected to Spitalfields weavers raising funds. Isabella King and Mary Burney faced infant death suspicions. examination cleared King for lack of evidence. Other incidents include Desmond Purcell’s multiple charges and smuggling cases against John Mace and William Brooks. Bourne’s deception for work. and robbery of Sheridan by Croydon railway workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brenner
Davies
Hill
Spitalfrelps
James Leeson
Spitalfields
Hippodrome
Messrs
Codd, Grove
Broughton
Whyte
Yte
Bayswater
Golden Wart
Phoenix-street
Robert Holmes
James Slater
Accidents and Offences Chronicle London Docks and Town
A sequence of late night and early morning incidents: Mr Ward a Cock-hill blacksmith drowns after falling from a plank by St Katherine's Dock. William Hoole tries to murder his wife in Peter Street. A coals barge swamps off Rotherhithe due to Duchess of Kent steamer swell. Two Southampton Railway workers are fatally injured by a rope accident. A Knightsbridge assault on Colonel Campbell prompts police inquiries. A servant girl drowns a pond tragedy while aiding children near a brickyard. A Beeching family suffers similar distress as children are lost then recovered. An accident at the Royal Nassau Balloon site fractures a worker's jaw. A Tottenham Court Road fire at 42 London Street endangers residents, many women in night attire escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honora Sweeney
Hughes
Attwood
Ratcliffe Cross
Kilkenny
Ireland
London
England
Warren
Limehouse
Ratcliffe
Purcell
Silvester
Thames Police
Sweeney
Greenwood
Chance
House of Correction
Purcel
Rutherford
Customs Solicitor’s Office
Crown
Langham
Brooks
Thames
George Ellis
Mace
John Moore
Thames Police Doaler
Rainham
Essex
Red-bridge
Moore
Mr. Ballantine
Ellis
Poplar
York
John Frederick Mace
Carman
High-street
James Fogg
Her Majesty’s Customs
William Pulley
Queen’s Warehouse
Army
Navy
Marines
Customs
Excise
Mr. L
Price
Barons of the Exchequer
Ballantine
Court of Exchequer
Symonds
Fogg
Chelmsford
John Mace
John Fred. Mace
Ward
Cock-hill
Ratcliff
St Katherine’s Dock
William Hoole
Peter Street
St. James’s
Charing-cross Hospital
Davy and Pegg
Duchess of Kent
Rotherhithe
Southampton
White Hart Inn
Knigsbridge
Ebury-square
Pimlico
St. George’s Hospital
Campbell
Knightsbridge
Stephen Beeching
Tunbridge Wells
Sarah
Mann
Kirdford
Petworth
Charles Harris
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Jervis
London-street
Tottenham-court-road
Bruce
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LAW
Tee Rita Atea
Farrant
Sandrock
Commissioners of Police
Calley
Minshull
Mansion House
Bow Street
John Calley
Red Lion
Hart-street
Covent-garden
Selway
Cross
Metropolitan Police Acts
teds-Beaugh
Honsd
Saranseiae
Sith Jee
Souter
Stirling
Laystall-street
Clerkenwell
William Norris
Robert Souter
William Brown
Adlow-Street
Brunswick
Aquaré
Pentonville Road
Clarendon-place
Great Coram-street
Judd-street
Mary&ebone
Rogers
Thomas Teel
Ann Collins
Baldwin’s Gardens
Gray’s Inn-lane
Hattonwall
Mary Mahony
Louisa Davies
York Street
Regent’s Park
St. Giles’s Church
Lambeth Street
Isabella King
Blue Anchor-lane
Bethnal-green
M‘craw
Mary Ann Burney
Sarah Debnish
Barney
Thames Office
Richard Purcell
Dr. Greenwood
John Warren
Stepney Union
Nea
Union Halx
Bourne
Johnson
South Lambeth
Drewe
Binmingley
Mc. Johnson
Bletchingley
William Potter
Philip Brown
Croydon
Sheridan
Nunhead
Kent Road
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