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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 19, 1837
Page
3
A Thursday fire at Crighton’s Peasance mill drew a large crowd as three engines arrived. The blaze raged about an hour, injuring a girl who escaped via a roof window. The incident is blamed on a spark from shaken tow. Insurance covered the property.
A dreadful Monday evening murder of an elderly widow, Mrs Anderson, in Limerick is investigated at an inquest. Mary Cooney, a former servant, is held under suspicion as details emerge of the victim found in a closet with throat cut and a bloodstained gown. Coroners and witnesses describe bracelets of purses, a large quantity of hair, and a knife. the inquest adjourns to continue testimony.
At Limerick assizes Mary Cooney faced trial for wilful murder in the death of Anne Anderson. The jury found Anderson died from a knife wound on the neck delivered the night of the 8th. Cooney pleaded guilty but withdrew and pled not guilty, with the trial postponed to next assizes.
Friday report details how Kearney formerly in India service attacked John Loch deputy chairman with a Malay knife at the India House. Loch survived a severe cheek wound and the assailant was seized and remanded after magistrates heard testimony from East India Company officials and messengers.
The quoted letter satirically argues for aggressive church influence in Ireland. It mocks critics of church power, endorses coercive, coercive conversion, and likens church rule to a domineering army. The piece cites Barbier de Serstie and Henry II to frame a provocative editorial stance.
A series of inquests in Southwark Middlesex and Westminster report on Elizabeth Passion a 27 year old wife of a Punch and Judy showman found dead in bed after drinking water with dry bread amid poverty and starvation. Jeremiah Geary a 34 year old brewer’s dray driver dies after being tripped by a spur stone and crushed under wheels. Thomas Hailes 49 an unnamed coachman dies by his own hand after a period of low spirits. Rev Frederick Grant M A 35 dies at Westminster Abbey after heart palpitations and sudden collapse. Jane Curry 21 dies after arsenic poisoning in tabloid style details and statements of distress. Verdicts range from natural death to accidental death and temporary derangement.
A long note on Samuel Jessup the grazier who died after a life of intense pill use and vast apothecary bills, followed by a wild account of the Royal Grys temperance society linked to Edmund Kean. Reports mention Sir Charles Vaughan in Constantinople and local licensing in the city with a dramatic failed licence appeal near Stithfield.
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