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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 15, 1842

Page

2

Murder at Putney Park stables ends in conviction and death

At the Old Bailey trial a groom Daniel Good was found guilty of murdering a woman within the Shiell stables. Evidence showed postmortem mutilation, blood remnants, and a path of deceit with intent to conceal the crime. The judge condemned him to death, to be hanged, with details of the brutal act and subsequent attempts to dispose of the body.

Lord Denman Good Jane Jones Denman Daniel Good Susan Butcher Rose and Crown Susannah Butcher No. 13 Charlotte-run Woolwich June Jones Duke of Sussex Old Court Old Bailey Greenacre Courvoisier Blakesley Carver

Trials of Molly Good and Richard Gamble at Central Court

At ten o clock the trial of Molly Good begins with the attorney general arguing harbouring a murderer. The jury acquits Good after the judge notes possible marriage confusion. Mary Good is acquitted for feloniously receiving silk. Richard Gamble is charged with feloniously receiving gowns and shirts but is acquitted after denying knowledge of theft.

Molly Good Richard Gamble Baron Alderson Justice Coltman Old Court Good Adolphus Waddington Russell Gurmey Ballantine Daniel Good Spitalfields Mary Good Jane Jones Jane Ood Samuel Spicer

Alleged Death From Improper Medical Powders

In an inquest held before Westminster coroner Thomas Hiegs, a 13 year old girl, Clara Matilda Gooudrich, died after powders given by Wittenhoff, a nondoctor, amid scarlet fever. Post mortem found no medical agent cause. verdict stated death from scarlet fever possibly worsened by improper powders. Wittenhoff censured. A second inquest before Mr Wakley, at the Black Horse, Rathbone Place, reported Mary Watson, 56, found dead in her home, ruled temporary insanity after suicide with a razor amid threats to move from unsafe premises. daughter discovered her body.

Gardiner Lord Denman Thomas Oughton Russell Gurney Gardner Shiell Putney Park Lane Putney Park-lane Putney Park Lane Baron Alderson Robert Tee Roehampton Josiah Tye Adolphus John Busaitz Mr. Waddington Mr. Shiell No. 18 South-street John Oughton Susan Butcher Alfred Benjamin Allen Benjamin Ridge Putney Thomas Tatham Royal College of Surgeons Lord Denmen Thomas Sales Spotted Dog Mary Good John Bland Flower and Dean Street Soames China Stephen Ludlow St. Tonbridge Soner Duane Fanny Hester Thomas Hiegs Westminster St. Martin Dulke-street Adelphi Clara Matilda Gooudrich Wittenhoff No. 7 George Epps Ely-place Campbell Broadway Wittenhill Wakley Black Horse Rathbone-place Oxford-street Mary Watson

Conspiracy To Assassinate The French King Reported In Paris

Paris papers on Friday and Saturday reveal a new plot to kill the French king. Police seized petards arms and ammunition. Considere, twice linked to such plots, was arrested with seven others. Reports debate who betrayed authorities as conspirators. The note adds royal progress at Neuilly, and other European dispatches on rail lines and political press actions. The Times also notes a theater riot in Toulouse and Madrid commemorations of May 2 1808.

Louis Philipr Paris Neuilly Considere Rue Montmartre Quenisset Hher Nemours Courrier Des Theatres National Presse Russia Figie de Quest St. Malo Granville Theatre Des Varietes Toulouse Madrid Toledo St. Isidore the Royal Upper Germany Prince Metternich Spain M. Pageot Barcelona Dave Ucci Vna Ste Medora Chesapeake Lee Watchman Font Rit Hill China Murdrr Mr. Ewing Monte Orleans Picayenne Mobile Ewing Hamblin Uyeyers St. Louis Cate Sonny

Geneva Deputies Return Shows Conservatives Lead Majority

The Universal Swiss Gazette notes Conservatives 77 Liberals 22 Radicals 45, an absolute but not 80-seat majority. It classifies 144 deputies into four categories by prior council service. Geneva’s constituent assembly advances revision of the federal compact and drafts a new constitution declaring Geneva as a sovereign canton in a representative democracy. It proclaims equal rights, press liberty, education freedom, universal suffrage, and jury trials in criminal matters. Separately, Sémaphore reports Charles Albert of Sardinia ordered expulsion of Jews from Savona and their forced assembly in Genoa, amid harsher era tactics.

Universal 2D Instant Great Council Constituent Assembly of Geneva Republic of Charles Albert Sardinia Savona Genoa

Transatlantic News From Liverpool and Washington

Liverpool arrivals report the New York packet and Great Western steamer reaching port marking an alternating Bristol run. In Washington, debates on the foreigner scope of the removal bill, apportionment, and the loan bill’s passage are noted alongside praise for the English tariff and Ashburton’s mission. Boz and family head to Niagara Falls then Montreal and New York. Morpeth returns to New Orleans.

New York Great Western Liverpool Bristol Washington M‘leod Cheate House Senate United States America Lord Ashburton England John Quincy Adams Boz Cleveland Niagara Falls Montreal Lord Morpeth Havannah New Orleans Solway Europe Girard Bank Philadelphia Lord Aberdeen Her Great Britain U United States Everett Tigris

Quiet quarter as governors move on Canadian affairs

Dispatches describe Governor Bagot leaving Kingston to found a college in Toronto before heading to Hutifay to meet his wife. Toronto papers praise his arrival, calling it brilliant in British America, while Lord Sydenham's will leaves large Canadian lands to Poulet Serna. Trade in Canada is described as improving and relations with Hogan are noted as tender but regrettable.

Bagot Kingston Foundation College Toronto Hutifay British America George Lord Sydenham Poulet Serna Canada Lan — Hogan Hill Stochdale Counter Hogan

Santa Anna's Loan Negotiated and Texan Invasion Fears

Reports from Vera Cruz say Santa Anna secured a multi million pound loan from England and ceded Californias until repayment. Yellow fever claims several daily while commerce sinks. Texian privateers keep casting gloom on Vera Cruz trade. About twenty thousand troops guard the capital with thousands at Xut and Vera Cruz. Emigrants flood Texas with arms and money as invasion seems likely this summer. General Houston plans patience until a tangible target appears, while 400 men at Casa Rancho and many furloughed at Antonio are noted and readiness along the Rio Grande remains uneasy.

Vera Cruz Santa Anna England Xut Texas Kendall Ius Mexico Guadaloupe Houston Casa Rancho Antonio Rio Grande

Vacancy in the County Council at Metropolis

A vacancy in the county council arises from the death of Mr Barker, wine and spirit merchant of Bistips Street. Four candidates enter the field, Matthieson radical Allan liberal Tozer liberal. The latter was ousted at the St Thomas’s day election for being too rabid.

Brisgorscite Cor Barker Bistips Street M Matthieson Allan and Tozer Story Stel St. Thomas's Axp Foreroy Schoor Society Societ Exeter Hall John Russell Bist Norwich Lord Worsley M.P Labouchere Abel Smith Chai Norsk Labouchere J. Abel Smith

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