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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 20, 1838
Page
5
The seventh session opened in Old Justice Hall with the Lord Mayor and officials. Jurors heard on changes to sit hours and costs, while trials followed including a manslaughter verdict in Plaistow marshes, embezzlement, a highway robbery at the Opera, and transportations for theft and violence.
A young Cornwall tin and lead plate merchant clerk named John Kidd faces forgery and robbery charges in a London court. Witnesses describe drafting blank orders, cashing a £386 7s 9d draft, and possessing ninety one sovereigns, bank notes, and valuables at York Hotel. The total loss was about £401 7s 9d. Kidd denies wrongdoing and is remanded.
Nicholas Jackson, secretary of Hoxton District Temperance Society, was found drunk in Redcross Street and fined after admitting a lapse despite an 18 month sobriety and a pledge made with medals bought for sixpence. The incident sparked questions about the validity of self-awarded temperance medals and the society’s discipline.
The court hears statements from Mr Teyfoe and Mr Forbes on the offence of misappropriating a book. The prosecutor argues for a two month hard labour sentence as a deterrent, while the prisoner admits fault and pleads for mitigation, intending to return the book after reading it.
In Marylebone Sarah Reid and her mother Sarah Palmer faced charges for stealing plate gold and silver snuff boxes and eight sovereigns from John Sadlett a flute professor of Orchard Street Oxford Street. Reid fled with items including royal gifts and spoons while Ware the pauper aided by Ann Hughes provided corroboration. The pair were remanded. Also charged were Danine Burchary Edward and George Harding John Elliot Jane Gadd Jane Noon and Martha Bull in a separate Portman Market burglary at the Carpenters Arms Princes Street. Robson the landlady’s foreman linked the male suspects to the break in with dial spoons forks a lucifer box skeletal keys and other tools found. the males were remanded. A further case saw a Bryanston Square livery-stable keeper’s servant defraud his master of 47 pounds 16 shillings by forging a bill and receipt to Mrs Arnold Nottingham Terrace. The prisoner confessed and was committed to Newgate for trial.
Reports from Marlborough Street Hatton Garden and Union Hall detail final examinations and custody for thefts and robberies. Cases include jewellery theft connected to Mrs Ghost and son Wolf, robberies linked to Sir George Rose and others, disorderly youths, a furious cabriolet driver Harris, and a shoplifting spree by Matilda Dunn with multiple items recovered. A 17 year old M Cullen and others face related charges.
Clerkenwell officials hear cases against two men for theft of timber and absconded loans at The New Amicable Loan Society. A youth is sent to eight days for gambling at Chelsea church and a Scots seaman is fined for a brutal assault on a lodging house keeper. Henry Dyer faces possible relief as poverty pushes him toward self harm.
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