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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 15, 1842

Page

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The Colliery System and Cruelty to Children and Women

An overview of the official 1840s inquiry into child and female labor in British coal mines. It outlines ages and conditions, the use of apprenticeships, and widespread abuses. Witnesses describe early mine entry, nakedness and exposure, brutal discipline, parent pressure, and moral injury, with regional variations across England, Scotland, and Wales.

North Somersetshire Mr. Fletcher Lancashire

Cork Election Petition and Reform Debates T

Appointment of hon members to try Cork County petition against O Connell and a select committee chair chosen for the Touck System inquiry into worker frauds in Bradford. The Sudbury borough bill proposes barring burgesses from Parliament over bribery and corrupt practices.

Tar Cork General Committee O’connell John Guest Dickinson Collins Granger Hugh Cholmondeley Lawson Lord Ashley Bradford Yorkshire Sudbury Suffolk France Paris Versailles Vitacy San de Naples Spain Madrid Count de Las Navas Prince Albert Epsom Claremont Downs Earl of Roselyn Ascot Duchess of Richmond Chichester Duke of Richmond William, Arthur Sussex Lennox Earl of March de Ros T. Cecil F. Berkeley P. Maitland L. Peel W. Tighe Goodwood Duchess Dunpas Beechwood Herriot's Row Edinburgh Reid Robert Dundas Marsied David Dundas Catherine Whyte Melville ScotLeTt Skipsey A. Smollett Robert Peel Execrox Flintshire E. J. M. Mostyn Sergeant Wrangham Austin Mostyn S. R. Glynne Lyme Regis James Powell Robert Farrant D. O'Connell E. B. Roche Brighton Fleming Thomas Roberts Liverpool Chronicle Court of Common Council Charles Pearson Sergeant Merewether Pearson Birmingham Greenwich Hull and Selby Gloucester Eastern Counties St. James’s Park Pate Buckingham Palace Hemburg General Steam Navigation Company Caledonia Hamburg Fire Department of the Sun Office London Aborizines Protection Society Statistical Society Willis M. Guenepin M. Vaudoyer Jeffery Woolwich Horticultural Society Chemical Society Geological Society Society of Arts Royal Institution Lindley Botanical Society Pontefract Lord Pollington Hertford Lord Salisbury Thos. Duncombe, Esq Hircutx Joseph Margetts Pierson Hertford Reformer Ware Cooper Baker Ireland Limerick Cooghla County Limerick Lord Stanley Walsh Doon Cappamore

Frightful Versailles railroad disaster deaths rise

France reports daily deaths and injuries from the Versailles railroad catastrophe. Madrid and London papers note royal travels, court duties, and public notices, as well as parliamentary committee actions, financial market quotes, and local fires and accidents.

Attempted acid attack on husband ends in prison

At the Central Criminal Court Sarah Dowdell aged twenty four was found guilty of feloniously throwing corrosive acid at her husband Charles Dowdell in Kent-road. He has lost sight in one eye and faces possible further injuries. Sentenced to three years hard labour.

England Wales Yorkshire Lancashire Scotland South Wm. Pickard West Riding Edward Newman Barnsley Silkstone William Flood Margaret Westwood Emroyd Flockton Charles Littlewood Mary Holmes Mealhill Hepworth Ebenezer Healy Halifax Susan Pitchford Elland Patience Kershaw Mary Barrett Lancashire and Cheshire Betty Harris Little Bolton Aed Betty Wardle Coa East of Scotland Jane Cumming Agnes Moffatt Sister Margaret Ayes Margaret Drysdale Ellspee Thompson Central Criminal Court Aidle Baron Alderson Justice Coltman Sarah Dowdell Charles Dowdell Kent-road Bull Public House Guy's Hospital Clark Wood Marylebone York James M‘kenzie Colonnade Charles-street St. James's Kenzie Suffolk Pall-mall Lang James Sutherland M‘kenzie Mr. Long Long Susan Price Islington Worship Street Staton Kingsland Drew Stoke Newington Taylor House of Correction Union Hall Roncern Henry Deathen Red Lion Walworth

Mysterious London Scams and a Crushed Newborn Mystery

A north countryman meets two strangers at London Bridge Wharf who deceive him and steal wealth. Separately a woman in Holborn Hill delivers a brown paper parcel containing a live male infant’s body to a grocer, triggering an inquest. investigators seek the culprits, with few clues as yet.

Monument Bank, &c St. Martin's Court Ludgate- Hill London Black Horse-court Cox Bennett’s Hill Doctors’commons Stephens West London Brooks Payne

Trial of Daniel Good for the Manchester murder case

The Central Criminal Court opens with intense crowding to hear Daniel Good charged with murdering Jane Jones now known as Good. Proceedings include postponement requests, detailed identity and weapon evidence, and the case against Mary Good for harboring the suspect.

Daniel Good Jane Jones Bulloch Lucas Copeland Thomas Wond Adolphus Waddington Russell Gurney Duke of Sussex Baron Alderson Hurry Hestot Bodkin Mary Good Good Denman Columan Thomas Cooper Pearance Wandsworth South Street Manchester-square Jones Brown Jane Good Red Lion Hammersmith Suspension Bridge Woolwich Putney Kent Hey William Gardiner Adelphus Oehampton Samuel Smith Dagnall Collingbourne Exeter

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