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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 11, 1843

Page

5

Swineshead Man Found Guilty Of Murder After Forged Theft Evidence

The case centered on a murder linked to theft where the prisoner admitted buying a handkerchief and spoons as his mother's items. Prosecutors proved the items belonged to the victim and the death resulted from acts during a felony, leading to a guilty verdict and a death sentence.

Tebb Swineshead Croft Boston

Trial of Joshua Jones Ashley for club robberies ends in transport

Central Criminal Court heard Joshua Jones Ashley aged thirty five, once an agent and banker in Regent Street, tried for larceny of four spoons and a fork from the Junior United Service Club and later for eight spoons stolen from the Army and Navy Club. Evidence showed initial verdict of guilty on identity only, leading to transportation for seven or more years as the court found insufficient proof of house ownership but upheld the theft of club property.

Joshua Jones Ashley Max Day Recorder Johua Jones Ashley Earl of Clarendon Clarkson Bodkin Prendergast Howse Charles Burgess Goff Allington Pimlico United Service Club Pearce Gardner’s-lane Rawlinson Allington-street Goff Benjamin Bullen Mr. Bodkin Emmett Holborn-hill Hannah Storey No. 3 Thompson William Andrew Mgr John Howse Prent Braithwaite Clarkssa Johan Howse James Watson Army and Navy Club Page Jeffries Stockbridge Terrace Regent-street Mr. Prendergast John S. Barton Francis Ferguson Matthew Daniel Colwell Regent Stree Athenauw Union Carlton Reform Clube RicHago Simpson George Stacey Ballantine Simpson Mr. B Felix Booth TreEsnay Tre Alf Naughton Payne Catherine Williams James Messenger Tash Street Gray's Insane Parna Baronets Bergeun Chambers William Everett John Guy Marlborough Street Carrier Kensington Cole Baronet Mr. Clarkson Sir F. Booth Smith Tesidence Worcester Doane Stacey John Ashley F. Roe T. Ledbitter Staple Inn Robert Smith Worcester T. Allen Kidderminster H. Saunders 3. Harvey Bristol F. J. Tomkins Cheltenham R. Sergeant St. Swithin T. Jones Spetchley Worcestershire W. Lester J. Stone W. Thompson Mary Field No. 2 George-street Grosvenor Square E. Markham Marylebone-street Allen Gulby and Allen F. Rae Messrs. Clarkson

List of Names and Sentences from Newgate Imprisonments

The document lists numerous individuals with durations for which they were jailed for short terms at Newgate, including six months to life in some cases, across multiple names and groups. It then enumerates two to six week sentences, one month to four months, and concludes with varying smaller terms and a series of fines and corporal punishments.

Prostitution, Assaults, and Lunacy in Police Sessions

Multiple cases from London and Halifax magistrates describe assault by two prostitutes on a barrister, a printer quarreling with a misinformed madman, and various pickpocket and obstruction incidents. A yacht of trials follows, including a dangerous lunatic request and a woman obstructing MPs. Halifax reports child cruelty and indenture cancellations, with master Joseph Whiteley accused of brutal abuse of a boy, seen by doctors and magistrates as a brute, and orders to re‑apprentice the boy and pursue prosecuting the master.

Halifax Joseph Whiteley F. H. Holroyde Ali Holroyde Parkin Hinz Mitchell Dodgson Whiteley Lown Pollard Bairstow

Jeweller Benjamin Lawson Attempts Suicide at Shore Ditch Inn

On Monday morning Benjamin Lawson a jeweller lodged at a Walthamstow coffee house attempted to cut his throat. Unemployed for about a year he had lately separated from his wife and voiced thoughts of self harm. The landlord forced entry found him bleeding. Surgeons attended and he was taken to St Bartholomew's hospital with slim chances of recovery.

Benjamin Lawson Walthamstow Shoreditch Sedgwick St Bartholomew's Hospital

Another Trial and Another Act of Innocence in St Martins Lane

Henry Hubertit aged 14 faced charges of stealing two oranges and two Spanish chestnuts from an elderly stall in St. Martins Lane. Three policemen and a passerby testified to the theft, while defense witnesses argued insanity linked to school life, obsession with being watched, and odd behaviors. The jury returned not guilty. The judge lamented overcrowded courts and adult crimes.

Henry Hubertit St. Martin's Lane John Canem Aclerephos Jane Maresnest Dolly Ordinges Svithout Leavin Sy Cittal

Whys and Whens and Hungerford Bridge Report

A humorous set of jokes on common comparisons runs alongside a Punch report about the Hungerford Suspension Bridge. The weekly reading notes the works progress, a timber pile remaining stable, a rammed log needing stabilization, ongoing geological inquiries, and a penny dividend with ten shillings per share urged as subscriptions.

Hungerford Suspension Bridge Father Thames

Barracks at Bolton and Peter Ainsworth MP clash in Parliament

In a heated exchange Peter Ainsworth assails the Tories while defending barracks and troops. The piece condemns neglect of the poor and highlights a parliamentary paper about silver imports from China, mint profits, insanity statistics, and Irish illicit distillation data with multiple figures.

China Conway Mathison Treasury Portsmouth

Lines Written After a Battle Poem Fragment

A fragmented verse by an assistant surgeon of the nineteenth century recalls a fallen warrior. The lament laments stiff muscles dry skin and a silent thorax while the epiglottis remains still and life ends in battle. The piece preserves archaic spellings and training language.

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