Law. Bail Court Case on Cigar Sale Dispute
In a Nisi Prius sitting before Mr Justice Patteson a tobacconist sued for 2 7s 0d after a clerk mistook foreign cigars for Havannahs. Evidence showed retail Havannahs cost 18-40s, with disputes over prices and credit terms. Jury found for the plaintiff, damages 2 7s 0d, and costs debated amid costly legal steps.
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Branpon
Newmeron
Nisi Prius
Justice Patteson
Strand
Newcourt
Temple
Petersdorff
Boville
Sheriffs’ Court
Ward
Havannah
Petersdorf
Mr. Petersdorff
Pearce
Piccadilly
Wyatt
Oxford Street
Cross
Bovill
Court of Requests
Court notices and dissents in 1843 landlord debt cases
The session lists hearing days for appeals from revising barristers under Victoria law, with hearings on November 13 16 20 and 23. A replevin case, TEMPLETON v CHADWICKE, resulted in a four guineas verdict for the plaintiff amid claims of erroneous distress by an heir to Sir Andrew Chadwicke. An Insolvent Debtors Court session involving Ebenezer Jacobs discusses debt claims totaling about £13,000, Irish estates, and vexatious defenses, with adjournment for an account from Mr Little and notes on vesting orders more than three years old.
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Victoria
Sheriffs’ Court
Templeton
Chadwicke
T. Kennedy
Poland-street
Oxford-Street
Andrew Chadwicke
Golden-square
Smith
C. Jones
Mary Maccormick
Mr. C. Jones
Middlesex
Lancashire
Weporspay
Ebenezer Jacobs
Dungarvan
Little
Wexford
Deighton
Ireland
Cooke
Elford
Great Pulteney Street
John Ross
Sir John Ross
Blake
Woodruffe
Distressing cases mix with old Boulogne case at Mansion House
A Boulogne editor seeks lord mayor’s help in disposing of an elderly British woman living at his house for fourteen years without support. Meanwhile at Marlborough Street magistrates hear a string of petty crimes and distress cases, including theft of law books, a street fight by a crossbowman, a treadmill sentence, and a lodging assault with a Croydon woman who was beaten in Wardour Street.
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Boulogne
Signet
Mr. Kerr
Warrington
Kerr
John Wilkinson
Castlebread
Bromboo Hall
Bradley Iron Works
Rue du Mont
Cordon
Boulogne-surer
Franklin Kerr
Theoulogne
Castle-street
Leicester-square
Rainey
Mendicity Society
Singuran
Maltby
Croydon
Barnet
Oxford
Wardour-street
Lester
Bolton
Desperate Assault by Fire Brigade Fireman Case
Irish labourer Barney Thornton is charged with a savage assault on T Cooper of the Whitechapel fire brigade. Cooper testified that during a fire alarm in Britannia court Golden Lane the prisoner aided attackers who kicked him down stairs and shattered his helmet, while two other men joined in the violent act. Alderman Copeland ordered bail and vowed prosecution while noting the danger to firefighters.
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Barney Thornton
T. Cooper
White Cross Street
Cooper
Britannia Court
Golden Lane
Andrew Mallet
Alderman Copeland
Fire Brigade
Thruth
Mr. Gatehouse
Miller
St. Sepulchre’s
Copeland
J. Johnson
Book theft case at Kemp and Maxwell chambers
The prisoner admitted stealing books from the chambers of Kemp and Maxwell and selling them to law booksellers near Chancery Lane. Kemp identified the books after they were traced through Sweet Butterworth and Lamiley shops. The prisoner was committed for trial on two charges, and the judge urged caution among booksellers about purchasing from young people amid suspicions.
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James Walker Stevenson
Hall
Kemp
John Young Kemp
Southampton
Maxwell
Mr. Maxwell
Stevenson
Witness
Henry Sweet
Chancerylane
Manning and Grainger
Hill
Goswell Road
Gentleman's Law Library
John Kelly
Mr. Hall
Mr. Stevenson
Messrs. Kemp and
Chancery Lane
Sweet
Butterworth
Lamiley
Pocock
New Cross
Law
Maniac in Court Detained Over Attempt to Interrupt Rolls Court
George Poole a cooper about thirty was brought before a magistrate on Wednesday charged with trying to interrupt Rolls court proceedings. A constable said Poole entered the Rolls court in a House of Commons committee room at about 11 30 am seeking a solicitor to present a petition to his lordship on the bench and appeared hurried and incoherent, suggesting mental unsoundness. The officer attempted to remove him after further conversation.
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George Poole
Rolls’ Court
House of Commons
Man Escapes Police Custody After Exchequer Fraud Hearing
A man described as mentally unstable at Bow Street jail is taken to Queen Square and then St Margaret's workhouse after presenting a rambling petition about Exchequer bills fraud. He declares not insane, questions Langdale, but escapes custody near Westminster Abbey before return to custody.
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Bow-street
Queen Square
West India Docks
Pound
Buckingham Palace
Murder trial of journeyman bricklayer at Newgate
Robert Price, a bricklayer, was brought for final examination on a charge of assaulting 18 year old Norah Kelly. The girl, severely injured, lay in London Hospital after a brutal attack described by Mary Wormleighton and others. Doctors report extensive head wounds and brain concussion but gradual recovery. Price's insanity claims and wild declarations were noted before committal for trial.
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Robert Price
Norah Kelly
London
Combe
King-street
Brick Lane
Bethnal-green Road
Mary Wormleighton
Blackman
London Hospital
Kersey
Hood
Prince Albert
Newgate
Attorney’s clerk sued for brutal abuse of wife in Clerkenwell
James Thompson, a clerk at No 6 Hallett's Place, was charged with violently assaulting his wife Margaret after returning home drunk. The record details repeated blows with fists and a stick, injuries to her arms, abdomen, and body, and similar mistreatment of their child. Thompson claimed insanity. magistrates fined him £5 or two months, and he was committed for nonpayment. The assault on the daughter referenced for future action.
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James Thompson
Hallett
Greenwood
Suspicious tale of a decently dressed petitioner on Lambeth Street
A well dressed woman asks Mr Norton for help after describing a troubled past with her husband, Corfu Malta and a voyage on the Despatch brig. She claims destitution in London after being sent home by merchants who funded her passage. Norton questions the husband’s role and sends for the captain’s account to verify the story.
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Norton
Her Majesty's
Corfu
Malta
Corfa
England
London
St. Katharine’s Dock
Somerstown
Stealing Through Distress at Limehouse Court
An old man Thomas Griffiths and his daughter Eliza Griffiths faced a charge of stealing feathers and a blanket from a bed at Jane Shearn’s lodging in Ropemakers fields Limehouse. The pair, living in a furnished room for 3s 6d weekly, drew sympathy as the magistrate weighed the case amid evident poverty and frail health.
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Thomas Griffiths
Eliza Griffiths
Jane Shearn
Limehouse
Blanket Pawned to Buy Food in Dockside Court
In a petty case, a daughter admits pawning a blanket to feed a starving father. The court notes his irreproachable character and remands to a more comfortable prison while considering further light on the matter. A separate Paris correctional tale ends with Gabriel Pontois’s eight days and a thirty francs fine for drunken disorder and assault.
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Paris
Gabriel
Gilbert
Gaabriel
Father Guilloteaux
Guilloteaux
Mr. Pontois
M. Pontois
Inquest on a Newington Drinking Death of a Child
A three year old, William Abraham Brown, died after drinking from a kettle at home in Portland Street Newington. An inquest found accidental death with the mother distraught and seeking medical help too late.
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Carter
William Abraham Brown
Portland Street
Newington
Paris
Seine
Galignani
Australia
Nubia
Biddle
Port Lincoln
Driver
Schurmann
Moullin
Irons
Rebecca
Antipodes
New South Wales
The
Maitland Mercury
Statistics of savings banks abstract for House of Commons
Abstract of the first return to the House of Commons on savings banks for the recent session. It notes no prior similar statement on charitable institutions and references resolutions entered on the notice paper dated August 1, 1843.
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House of Commons
Lth
Angus
London Savings Banks expenses and officer salaries request
The passage notes that management expenses for the Savings Bank of Burton upon Trent were covered by subscription and that 1842 profits differed from the balance in 761 deposit accounts. It details 1842 British savings banks expenses totaling 82,481 12s 1d and London banks’ expenses, and requests a supplementary abstract showing specific salaries paid to each officer in London establishments.
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Savings Bank of
Burton Upon Trent
Great Britain
London
LBA Ty Vaaleetie Dan Ener
Treland
Ireland
Misidentified guests at Alton Towers stir royal visit
A Liverpool paper claims the Duke de Bordeaux will meet at Alton Towers with the world famed Beranger, a clash of names suggests the writer confused Beranger with M. Berryer the French lawyer. The piece notes such republican verses would not please Louis Philippe.
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Liverpool
Alton Towers
Duke de Bordeaux
Beranger
England
Charlemagne
St. Louis
Louis Philippe
M. Berryer
When Spring Returns to Find Our Withered Flowers
A lyrical meditation on the cycle of seasons and fading youth. The speaker recalls bright spring flowers that promised joy, laments aging hearts, and imagines spring’s return as a renewal beyond life’s end. The refrain frames autumn as the year’s final bow and winter’s gloom.
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Bnet
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