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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brixton
James Hillary
Pegg
Bankside
Smith
Lambeth Strert
Mary Moore
St. George’s Workhouse
Southwark
Robinson
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Mansion House
Worship Street
Thomas Maule
Allen Scott
Highstreet
Whens
Jane Shore Court
Broughton
Scott
Mr. Broughton
Sarah White
Thames Police
George Pitman
Broderip
T. Bott Burford
Ratcliff Highway
Regent’s Canal
Burford
Regent’s Canal Dock
Kennedy
House of Correction
Union Hall