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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 26, 1837

Page

6

Forgery and multiple petty crimes at the Guildhall and Bow Street

A wide range of small crimes unfolds from the Lord Mayor court to Bow Street. Elizabeth Harris is committed for forging a pension claim worth £873 on a dead beneficiary. A boy and an exciseman dispute trial procedure over contraband bladders. A desparate rescue attempt, two forged bills, an amateur theft of sugar and a postal letter theft case are heard, plus a case about a public sugar pilferer and street obstruction dismissals.

Elizabeth Harris George IV Graham Greenwich Stocking Jeremiah Bryan James Hick Newgate-street Cheapside London-bridge Joynerscourt Tooley-street Bartholomew Bryan Mr. Hobler Exciseman Lord Mayor England Hobler George Smithers Thomas Jackson Heath Chancy St. Paul’s Churchyard Queen-street Frederick Ware Hill Little Moorfields Alderman Scholey Hart Union-street Spitalfields Carrier Rigoner Eaton Wilson-street Richard Fryer Tyrrell Cradock Perry London Bridewell Old Bailey Alderman Venables Line Addlestreet King’s Arms Philip Lane Yorkshire Wilkinson Lellan M‘lellan Compter Bow Street Lutren-Sterling William Charles Todd William Upham Peacock Post Office Harris King and Queenstairs Rotherhithe Devonport Shute Bankside Meadows Sarah Todd Hancock Hosier Pearce Camberwell Nmarylesone Frederick Udel David White Royal Horse Guards Rawlinson Lord Montfort Charles Sprake Duke of Clarence Munster-street Regent’s Park Farrell White George Terry Bohay Thomas Farrell Udell Richard Halse Adam Kirsh Baines Northumberland-street Marylebone Adam Marlborough Street Conant and Dyer Henry Benton Albemarle Street Carter Digby Footway Conant Richard Curtis Woodroffe Curtis Star Blackman-street Borough Ower Swift Manchester Lewis Thomas Watson Thomas Elsworth Cooke James Shaw, Bart City of London Thomas Dean James Shaw Lencon Wilson Dean London Road Bishopsgate-street la Verite Newgate Charles Wood Nichol Warnham Mosely Jones Rolfe Messrs. Gordon Deptford New-street Covent-garden Messrs Gorden Ridge Wood Varnham Gordon Mr. Rolfe Moseley Heinrich Kleimmann Prussia Breslau Lange Cresswell West End

Anarchic London courtroom scenes and lunatic asylum cases

The report details a crowded London magistrates court with a Cork Street tailor and a Cork Street doctor in an assault warrant, comic exchanges, a religious mania case at St Pancras, a drowning and bail for Mary Ann Rickson, a violent husband case in High Street, a Tower Hamlets street preacher seeking police protection, a watch theft linked to Captain Morton, and multiple insolvency proceedings with Curtis and Wilson’s Charity. It portrays petty crime, domestic strife, public disorder, and political-legal theater in a bustling 19th century metropolis.

Conant Cork-street Moroces Tylor Clarendon Square Somers Town Lynch James Abbott Somers h—Il Abbott Queebn Square Mary Ann Rickson John Bridget Rickson Watson Park Street Westminster Thomas Smithers Bachelor Sloane-street Gregory Tower Hamlets Mr. Combes Hardwick Tickell Combes George Morton Don St. Katherine’s Captain Morton Brunswick Blackwall Bank of England Poplar Brunswick Tavern M‘lachlin East Smithfield Morton Tower Hill Pek

The Workhouse and the Prison Disorder Case

Mary Moore a young pauper in St George's workhouse Southwark was charged with disorderly conduct and using abusive language to the master Mr Robinson the master stated a growing dissatisfaction had prevailed among the inmates and staff

Brixton James Hillary Pegg Bankside Smith Lambeth Strert Mary Moore St. George’s Workhouse Southwark Robinson

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