Murders and public trials unfold at assizes in Kent and Nottingham
At Tonbridge Wells Jeremiah Shears and family faced charges of wilful murder and manslaughter in a case tied to Daniel Horrigan. Lord Abinger acquitted the minor count while dismissing the major charge. In Sussex William Ruck was convicted of firing a pistol with intent to murder Josiah Durnford, injuring Vallach. Nottingham's assizes opened with chartist cases, releasing several defendants on recognizances after admissions of riotous assembly and other proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maidstone
Manzca
Wange
Murper
Lord Abinger
Jeremiah
Jones
Murporn
William Ruck
Josiah Durnford
Andrews
Thesiger
Bullock
Coast Guard
Wroth
Deal
Sandwich
Vallach
Correneree
Theatrical bankruptcy case at Drury Lane Theatre
In a crowded bankruptcy court at Essex Street Strand the estate of William Jonx Hammann, lessee of Theatre Royal Drury Lane, faced claims by actors for season salaries. The commissioner deferred decisive action, allowing assignees to assess damages while noting low prospects for dividend. several performers proved salaries totaling thousands of pounds. Kingston petty sessions followed with Ponnall’s case, a former East India Company lieutenant, found to have stolen union clothes and jailed for two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jonx Hammann
Bankreptcy
Fane
Mondey
Essex-street
Strand
Theatre Royal
Drury- Jane
Lewis
Fiat
Thomas Wood
Burgess
Drury-lane
van Landau
Fisher
Theatrical Corps
Drury Lane Theatre
W. E. Elton
Elton
Vandenhoff
Bunn
van Sandan
Mr. Lewis
Commissioner Fane
Kemp
Kingston
R. Frederick
C. Western
R. Sharpe
H. Jenkinson
Ponnall
Board of Guardians
Kingston Union
East India Company
W. Smith
Union Workhouse
Plymouth
House of Correction
Disputed Fleet Street printing case and Irish crime scenes
A detailed London police docket covers a Fleet Street dispute between Henry Parry and Mr Vizetelly over time deductions for pressmen, plus multiple petty crimes. It includes a forged Dutch note case, an attempted body theft at Westminster Hospital, shoplifting, parish relief drama with Biddy Brick, tavern robbery linked to a Bedford Arms counterpane theft, and a watch theft case involving a sailor and a suspected officer aiding the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Parry
Vizetelly
Fleet-street
Wooller
Alderman Harmer
Bennett
St. Luke's
Biddy Brick
Greenwood
Biddy
Ireland
Broughton
Beadle
Cripplegate
Mr. Greenwood
England
Charles Carter
London
Bedford Arms
Old-street
Brownsmith
Hayward
Hilditch
Brydges-street
Covent-garden
Coroners Inquest on Neglect of Child by Mother in Newington
An inquest held before Mr. W. Carter at Lion Street Newington viewed the body of five month old David Rolfe. Jury found the death caused by gross neglect of the mother leaving the infant in charge of an 11 year old. verdict accidental suffocation. Also reported are inquests into a destitute man’s death by self harm, a boy run over by a delivery vehicle, a drowning suspected case, hospital disturbances, a tobacco yard accident, a fatal razor wound, and a willful murder in the park reservoir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Gurney
James Owen
George Thomas
Dobell
William Ellis
Lambert
Christina Collins
Rugeley
Sergeant Ludlow
F. W. Lee
Godson
Yardley
Beadon
Stafford
Orgill
London
Liverpool
Messrs. Pickford and Co
Musson
Owen
Preston Brook
Stoke-upon-Trent
Stone
Canal Company
Hoo-mill-lock
Colwich-lock
Brindley’s Bank
Collins
Fazeley
Wm. Harrison
Headborough
Joseph Orgill
Saul
Thomes Callanan
Westminster Hospital
Thomas Nelson
Danie Callannan
Mr. Burrell
Wilson
W. Carter
Lion Lion-street
Newington
David
Rolfe
William Surrey
William Rolfe
Elizabeth Hosier
T.ion-street
Ng 9
Lion-street
Edward Thomas Edmonds
William
Jenking
Spitalfields
Eight Bells
Robert R. Shaw
London Parcels’ Delivery Company
Cantors
Wakley
Charlotte Mawson
Thomas Hobbskin
Holloway Road
Worstminster
Gell
Patrick Callan
Holt
White
Callan
Crew
the Beadle
Payne
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
William Elder
Green
Lraganalley
Snow-hill
Hartley
Upton
Messrs
Graftom and Rippon
St. Bartholomeww-close
Travers
Higes
Charing-cross
John Beacham
Jintao
Emaall Camp Murpen
Reid
Green Park
Bolton
Terrible assault case at Palmer's Folly court
Jane Welch, a notorious woman, is charged with a brutal assault on Betty Fitzgerald at a Ratcliffe highway brothel. The victim suffered severe injuries including head and ear damage after repeated beating and biting. A sailor and a police witness described the grotesque attack. The magistrate remanded Welch for sessions after hospital evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terabies
Frick
Hornets
Jane Welch
Mir
Ballantine
Betty Fitzgerald
Hales
Palmer's Folly
Ratclif Highway
Swainesborough
Also Mentioned on This Page
Assize Intelligence
Nottingham
County Criminal Court
James Tarrett Woodhouse
Jonathan Barber
Thomas Wright
Thomas Levg
Lord Denman
Bevan v. Unwin
Unwin
Mansfield
Duke of Portland
Secretary of State
Mr. Unwin
John Russell
Sutton
Pitt Keithley
William Woodhorse
John Barley
John Legge
Demman
Isace Stephensor
William Slidge
Allen
F.W. Lee
Newcastle
Stoke
Middleborough Pottery Conpany
Yorkshire
George Jervis
James Everill
Macclestone
LAW
Court OF Bankruptcy
H. Waylett
A. Croft
H. Mapleston
C. Marshall
C. Jones
Jerrold
W. Bennett
A. Leffler
T. ‘Archer
G. Yarnold
H. Compton
W. Dowton
Attwood
E. Daly
A. Mordaunt
Duruset
Marlborough Street
Catherine M‘ginn
Long
Ebenezer Fox
Frithstreet
Richard Hawkins
Phoenix-street
St. Giles’s
Birmingham
Queen Square
Estreet
Mary Watson
Grove
Edward Lloyd
Messrs. Baillie and Co
Shoreditch
Lambeth Street
Roppery Py
Dunnel Hays
Hardwicke
George Duffield
Nancy
Shields
Duffield
Caroline Tully
Senet
Pak
Volice
Fov. H 9S
Tully
Ploughalley
Wapping
Dutfield
Norman
Foy
Mr. Hardwicke
Old Bailey
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!