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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 06, 1838
Page
2
The piece details a heated session in the Chamber over a royal communication, with ministers mobilizing supporters as debates raged. It covers diplomatic maneuvers in Spain and Russia, assorted arrests, Basque and Polish unrest, hints of royal marriages, and armed movements across Europe, including Austria, Belgium, and the German Diet.
A barge man employed by Parker and Forster was crushed when his hand was caught between the boat and the beat while using a hauser near the wharf. He received immediate surgical care and was moved to Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.
A young elephant aboard a carriage to the Manchester Zoological Gardens at Broughton caused great violence during the journey, damaging part of its enclosure and delaying arrival before being moved to the zoo. The report also notes various local incidents and accidents including a fatal fall in Moorlineh and a severe boiler explosion in Stockport with multiple injuries.
The Northampton Mercury reports the resumed inquest into the Braunston murder of Ann Crown a single woman of about 46 lived on the Green. Evidence details wounds methods thefts and a large cash hoard found in trunks. No murderer named though John Stancor has confessed involvement and a government reward of 100 pounds is offered.
In a Chester Chronicle report, Lord Somerset and his son were riding in a carriage when horses lashed from the jacke y caused a thread of events leading to Jesse and a publican's wife being crushed under a wagon wheel. A coroner's inquest returned a manslaughter verdict. the lord fled on hearing it.
An inquest inspected the body of William Dennis a 42 year old former attorney who died May 28 in Whitecross Street Prison. Witnesses including Dr Wade Governor Barrett and others described his declining health mental distress and solitary confinement before death from consumptive wasting. A verdict of natural death was returned with notes on his erratic conduct letters to dignitaries and alleged martyr complex.
The Animals' Friend Society caused William Watson to be committed for fourteen days for beating a horse so ill it could not rise. Three men and three camels were fined by Messrs. Jeremy and Traill for cruelty and driving. The report also notes a bequest of Lord Farnborough pictures to the National Gallery and describes an extraordinary Bermondsey churchyard incident where a buried infant's coffin was found moved and later reburied amid public uproar.
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