Trial recounts inquest and prison sentences from historic case
The report details a cold case where a woman described a stabbing, noting the assailant’s alleged paroxysm of madness and the jury’s verdict of guilt on a capital charge with transport for 15 years. It also covers William Morgan’s wounding case where the prisoner, an uncle, was acquitted on insanity grounds and ordered to safe custody.
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Baron Gurney
William Morgan
John Parks
Her
Charity scheme for Blind Man's Friend funded by Day's will
Law reports detail a petition for approbation of a scheme creating a charity fund from £100,000 trust, to provide annuities to blind people. The court approves extending the charity to the United Kingdom, despite objections to limiting to England.
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Rolls Coouurt
Croft
Day
England
United Kingdom
Scotland
Ireland
Bankruptcy Court Torsmy Gurant and Grant proceedings
Fiat issued in 1783 shows debts of £16,455 1s 3d with 20s in the pound paid at intervals. Official assignee later cleared £1,035 18s 10d, listing eight dividends from 1791 to 1840 and a dormant fund used to reach 208 in the pound plus interest reserves. Proclamation of outlawry issued against Charles Garrard Enguisu after 42 days without surrender. hotel keeper in Jermyn Street, St James's, now believed to be in America.
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Torsmy
Gurant
Graham
Benkermphcyan
Jermyn-street
St. James's
America
Fifth Session Opens at Central Criminal Court Moxway
The recorder to the grand jury cautioned on a heavy docket with many prisoners added since the calendar. He highlighted murder and manslaughter cases, including a fatal blow to a woman struck by a man who followed her from a street encounter, with intoxication noted and no legal fault found in the act.
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Moxway
G. Carroll
Vagrants in tatters before Alderman amid court drama
Ten young vagrants aged eight to eighteen appeared before Sir Claudius Hunter in a striking scene as they stood in rugs with no hats or shoes after destroying their clothes. Edward Cheeper explained they wore only rags, while the alderman debated punishment and release, ultimately sentencing some to month’s hard labor and addressing Kitty Welch’s repeated Bridewell history.
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Claudius Hunter
Tom
Coriolanus
Rome
Schee Field
Edward Cheeper
East London Union
Aldersgate Street
Cheeper
Alderspate-street
Smaski
Thev Union
Alderman
Farrer
Bridewell
Kitty Welch
Kitty
Scholefield
Bridewel
Welchman
Printed Papers Delivery Director Faces Post Office Charge
Isaac Hewitt, director of the Printed Papers Delivery Company, was summoned to answer to four counts alleging illegal delivery of letters and packets under the post office monopoly. He pleaded guilty but argued the items were printed circulars, not letters, and sought the magistrate’s ruling on the act. The post office solicitor cited the law granting exclusive conveyance of letters and noted penalties for noncompliance, detailing Hewitt’s receiving houses and a circular offering rapid distribution of printed materials within three miles of a post office. Hewitt claimed ignorance of the law and asked the court to accept that parcels of printed matter could not be treated as letters under the act.
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Bow Street
Post-office
Privi
ecEs
Isaac Hewitt
Printed Papers Delivery Company
Jardine
Victoria
Court of Justice
Mr. Peacock
I. Hewitt
Postmaster General Eyes Forfeit Over Open Parcel Practice
In a court session Mr. Peacock argued the postmaster-general must protect revenue and would act if informed of misconduct. The defendant admitted sending open end parcels as letters, money being paid for them. The judge, noting the offence, proposed a £5 penalty per offence, but the post-office favored leniency if the conviction sufficed and no further payments were pursued. The case closed as parties left the court.
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Mr. Peacock
Mr. Jardine
Jardine
Peacock
Fatal Assault in Islington Oyster Shop Traced to Death
Frederick Jones stood charged with violently assaulting Richard Symons, oyster room proprietor in Chapel Street, Pentonville, leading to the death of Symons. Witnesses described Jones entering drunk, arguments over payment, subsequent violence, and a fatal collapse. Coroner’s inquest returned a verdict of manslaughter, with Jones remanded for trial after evidence of private settlement.
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Frederick Jones
York Terrace
Barnsbury Park
Islington
Combe
Richard Symons
Chapel Street
Pentonville
Humphries
Sarah Symons
Messrs. Preedy and Paget
Hallon-garden
Wakeling
St. John’s Square
Clerkenwell
Ft Wag
Symons
Greenwood
Northamptonshire constable charged after canal man assault
Robert Jones No 12 of the Northamptonshire police faced magistrate Mr Broughton on a charge of dangerously assaulting and wounding canal boatman William Phillips on City Road Bridge Weedon. Phillips, bleeding and hospitalised, risked death if leaving, while Jones claimed self defence after being taunted. Phillips, a key witness in two Northamptonshire assize cases, remained in hospital as the magistrate remanded Jones and considered pay compensation. The magistrate condemned the violence but allowed the constable’s release after arrangements were discussed with the prosecutor.
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Robert Jones
Northamptonshire
Weedon
Mr. Broughton
William Phillips
London
Benford
City Road
Dick Wisdom
Phillips
Shackell
Broughton
Northampton
Young
Northamptonshire Police
Goddard
Pauper assault case at Christ Church workhouse
Four young men were brought before Mr. Cottingham on a charge of breaking the windows of Christ church workhouse after being refused admission. The porter testified that the previous night upwards of 30 men, mostly countrymen and with no parish settlement, knocked at the gates seeking admission as casual poor, prompting the ward to act.
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Cot
Cottingham
Christchurch
Riotous youth in Chelsea grove arson bid brings boy to court
Benjamin Humphries a 16 year old resident of Chelsea grove Little Chilsea faced Mr Paynter charged with riotous acts and wanton fire setting against Elizabeth Amor at No 8 Chelsea grove. A mob of about 100 youths joined in burning straw and rags near the door and window of her home. the case was remanded to Wednesday with bail set at £200 for Humphries.
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SixerLaw
Bursine
Benjamin Humphries
Chelsea-grove
Little
Chilsea
T. Paynter
Elizabeth Amor
Chelsea Grove
Easy Bridger
Parkwalk
Chelsea
No. 8
Chalked walls and street brawls in a disorderly street row
Serjeant Hobson brings five or six youths before the lord mayor for disfiguring walls with white chalk and roaring in the streets. The tale unfolds withbboyish schemes to duel, a chalked wall note exchange, and a late admonition to fight in smaller, quieter groups.
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Hobson
Sim Stroud
Bill Waxal
Waxy
Sim
Snowhill
Jim Parley
Jim
Mother Popkin's
Old Tom
James Parley
Peter
Ack Robison
Jack
Robison
Walton
Isaak
Joe Buggins
Dragoons
Mitch
Archdeacon
Jim Ley
Izaac
Jack Robison
P. B
Peter Cam
Mr. Robison
J. Ropison
Peter and I
Your Lordship
Four weeks ending February 26 1542 weekly statement
The record shows a period covering four weeks ending February 26 1542 with totals in the thousands and notes an increase since 181 on the four weeks letters. It parallels similar figures for the district and references 1889 values.
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London
Prgt
Curious Advertisements and Co. Offer Peel Portrait Utensil
Curiously worded notices announce new chamber utensil with a Peel portrait for delivery at their City basin wharf on Saturday March 5. The item, pitched as a daily tribute to Sir Robert Peel, appears amid varied ads and a long propaganda on tailoring, clothing, and embroidery services by Stutz and Mappox, with claims of superior forms and health benefits.
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Nice
and Co
Afginis Chronicle
Loporxes
Chevenium
London
Maddox
Stulz
Her
Ansious
Bristol
Enormous eel sighting at Gosford coast museum display
In a Caledonian Mercury report, Vincent of Amisfield and the Earl of Wemyss's huntsman found a six foot conger eel weighing about 76 pounds stranded in shallow water near Gosford-house. The eel was transported to the Earl and ordered sent to the College museum as a remarkable specimen from this coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent
Amisfield
Earl of Wemyss
Gosford-house
College Museum
Mortality in the Metropolis for Week Ended Feb 19 182
The registrar general reports results from a weekly table of mortality in London districts showing deaths from all causes. It lists districts such as West Kensington St George Hanover Square St Martin in the Fields and more with weekly totals, weather readings and barometric data for the period.
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West—Kensington
St. George
Hanover-square
Westmnster
St. Martin In the Ticks
St. James
St. Marylebone
St. Pancras
Islington
Hackney Central
St. Giles and
Strand
Clerkenwell
Holborn
St. Luke
East London
West Londons
City of London
Outa
Shoreditch
Whitechapel
Bethnal-preen
St. George In the
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