Law court scenes and m
London court reports show a Wednesday session with mixed matters. A rule to stay Wright and Others v Newton is granted for discussion. parties claim no consent or authorization. A Queen v indecent assault moves for certiorari. judge rules no special jury needed. Middlesex Sessions cover rate disputes over fixtures. magistrates stress proper process and levy a small increase against 21 inhabitants. A brutality case ends with a prisoner remanded for sessions after admission of abuse toward a child. authorities plan further action and protection for the child.
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Court OF Common Pleas
Uxavt
Tindal
Chambers
Central Criminal Court
Jardine
Bow Street
Justice Patteson
Middlesex
Sergeant Adams
Grand Junction Water Works Company
Poor-Kate
St. Mary Abbotts, Kensboroy
Thkr
Bence
Hill
Ballantine
Jervis
Q.C
Clarkson
J. South
J. M.gregor
Toer
Altaugh
Charles Lee
Forest
Jewelers Refiner Case Leaves Prisoner Committed For Trial
The Weekly Chronicle reports on a dishonorable case linking a refiner shop with thefts as Mr Combe discusses the dangers of shop facilities. The witness explains melting gold and silver for working jewellers, earning modest remuneration, and keeping a furnace burning. The prisoner left with £2 value of gold. he has been fully committed for trial, with the refiner’s shopman bound over as a witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weekly Chronicle
Hammond
Mall on Snowhill and Farringdon Street Robberies Describe Assaults
A London police court heard charges against Sarah Smith Mary Anne Booty and John Griffin for assault and robbery at Snowhill and Farringdon Street. Griffin denied the accusations claiming confusion with a man named Paul Clifford while witnesses described the female defendants seizing a man and his wife and stealing a bonnet and coat. The alderman ordered three months on the treadmill for each prisoner and further proceedings ensued.
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Psu
Sarah Smith
Mary Anne Booty
John Griffin
Alderman Kelly
Robert Beech
Crown Street
Soho
Snowhill
Miss Smith
Smith
Griffin
London
Maidstone
Scholefield
Farringdon
Windsor
Kelly
Paul
Paul Clifford
Marlborough Street Intsa Assault Court Scene
A sick Irish labourer Michael Moran faced charges from Kitty Underwood in a crowded Marlborough Street case. He claimed illness but admitted kicking her downstairs over rent disputes amid a chaotic hearing. witnesses spoke of threats with a brass candlestick. Moran was fined 10s plus costs as he left wearing fewer coats.
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Intsa
Kitty Underwood
Mr. Maltby
Michael Moran
Mrs. Underwood
Ballyrag
Ballyragging
Hanner
Kitty
Corney
Mike Moran
Malthy
Expatriate Somerville in Clerkenwell Court Scene
In Hart-street Bloomsbury ex-patriot Alexander Somerville faced defiant remarks from the magistrate over a public-house disturbance. Bail set at £10 with one housekeeper. Somerville paid a sovereign to the poor and departed. A separate case involved a theft attempt at Skinner-street and clerical distress marked by the judge. A woman and two men were later remanded on burglary charges tied to a Kensington residence and stolen plate.
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Alexander Somerville
Combe
King
Bulls and Mouth
Hart-street
Bloomsbury
Somerville
Mr. King
St. Giles’s
Hoxton Square
Mr. Combe
Thomas Gammon
George Hammond
Skinner-street
Clerkenwell
Jerusalem
Jones
Wynyatt Street
Witness
Hammond
Attempted suicide case amid domestic abuse in Whitechapel
Elizabeth Zehler a middle aged wife of a German sugar baker faced charges for an attempted self destruction after ingesting four pennyworths of laudanum. The court heard the husband beat her with a rope prompting the act and ordered her to prison briefly before releasing her into her brother’s custody. The magistrate condemned the sale of poisons to desperate persons.
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Elizabeth Zehler
Broughton
Mary-street
Whitechapel
London
Remarkable case of attempted suicide by laudanum
William Toole a 32 year old cigar maker faced magistrate for attempting to end his life by taking laudanum. London Hospital staff recounted numerous recent self poisoning cases and the prisoner’s sustained care under artificial respiration and supervision. A farewell letter to his wife indicated a troubled mind and possible recent loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landanum
Wm. Toole
Broderip
John Macmeikan
London Hospital
Thomas William Brown
Red Lisa
Batty-street
Commercial Road
Tripe
Mr. Broderip
Mr. Brown
Woman Charged With Throwing Husband From Window
A Deptford woman, Charlotte Blogden, is charged with assaulting her husband Thomas Blogden with intent to do bodily harm. The case rests on a nine year old son's testimony and police accounts of the husband being hurled from a window. magistrate remands for a week as the prosecutor cannot attend due to injuries.
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Ovut
Wixbdow
Charlotte Blogden
Giffen Street
Deptford
Jeremy
Thomas Blogden
Arthur
Giffen-street
Thornet
Griffiths
Gipsy Song and Garrick Benefit Bill from 1747
A fragment recounts a gipsying pastime with damp meadows and spoiled tea, reflecting on past folly and a vow to tea properly now. It is followed by a 1747 Drury Lane bill for Mademoiselle Violette later Mrs Garrick, noting special seating and ticket purchase at White’s Chocolate House.
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Punch
White's Chocolate House
Tragic death mystery in Bromley Kent shocks village
A Bromley woman Harriet Monkton aged 23 was found dead in a water closet near Bromley chapel. Coroner and jury heard post mortem show traces of prussic acid in the stomach and a five month pregnant fetus. Inquiry adjourned to pursue where poison came from and whether a second party was involved.
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Bromley
Kent
Carttar
Harriet Monkton
Bromley Chapel
James Knott
Bromley Union
Field
Festus
Richard Field
Bell-Founder
Fieldgate-street
Whitechapel
London
Maria
Mr. Field
Harriet
P.S
Phipps
Verrall
Hackney College
Arundel
Draper
Aldgate
George Whiting
Great George-street
Westminster
Miss Williams
King
Assault on a servant ends with remand to gaol
A man dressed as a sailor named John Wilson faced Mr. Reid at the town hall on a charge of attempted murder against Carey, a chemist's servant. The victim was so shocked she fainted and cannot testify. she was moved to the workhouse infirmary while the magistrate remanded the prisoner for further examination.
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Witheas
Jardine
Seasions
Bufrian
John Welch
Edward Smith
Margaret Callaghan
Short’s Gardens
Drury-lane
Queen Square
Mary Anne Hopkins
Bond
Thomas Edward Caish
Weedon
Chancery-lane
R. Peel
Thomas Sheppard
Frome
T. E. Caish
Holborn
E. Frederick Fitzherbert
E. T. Caish
John Wilson
Reid
Carey
Mears
Neville
Collier
Cooper
P Division
Croydon
Death of an Infant from Starvation in Chelsea Inquest
An inquest resumed on Wednesday into the death of five month old Thomas Fennell in Chelsea. Mary Nolan testified she, the mother, was deserted and suffered extreme privation, leading to the infant's starvation. Medical proof confirmed death by exhaustion due to lack of sustenance and common necessaries. The jury returned a verdict of death from exhaustion, and authorities admonished the infant's father for brutality and neglect.
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G. J. Mills
Prince of Wales
Exeter-street
Sloane-street
Chelsea
Thomas Fennell
Board of Guardians
St. Luke’s
Mary Nolan
Morer
Nolan
Fennell
Journal Des Debats
Holland
Pegasus
Fern Islands
Grace Darling
The Nelson Column on View Before Elevation
The statue of Nelson was shown briefly to the public before its final placement. The prevailing view praises the sculptor’s finish, notes the missing arm as the best feature, and highlights the left eyebrow as showing exceptional chiseling.
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Nelson
Electrot yped flowers by Linnean Society exhibitions
At a Linnean Society meeting N Brown presided as Professor Forbes showed electrotyped orchid flowers. The process did not change shape or characteristics, and the specimens retained their formation in a remarkably perfect manner.
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Linnean Society
N. Brown, Esq
Forbes
Modern Barbarism and Antiquities in Paris Debacle
The Univers laments a magnificent Pagan sarcophagus and the Temple of Diana frieze brought from Salonica and Ephesus rotting at the Louvre footpath. Paris’ climate wrecks them, costing hundreds of thousands of francs and seven lives, including painter Clement Boulanger. Also notes Frisby’s 97th Muggletonian lecture on Shakespeare praising Casca as a landlord and Othello ditties, plus Singing for the Million class opening with two entrants and retreat from the stairs landing.
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Univers
Salonica
Ephesus
Diana
Louvre
Paris
Clement Boulanger
Muggletonian Mechanics' Institution
Frisby
Shakspeare
Julius Cesar
Casca
Medalsome Mathewite and Moral Sonnets
A satirical verse noting temperance virtues and domestic bliss in a medalsome tone. It parodies pious themes and includes poems on honesty and moral behavior. A profiled critique references Romish controversy, clerical discipline, and a light moral anecdote about honesty through a borrowed umbrella.
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Mathewite
Ferch
One Police Officer Rules Herne Bay With Self-Inspection
An extraordinary report from Herne Bay describes a single police officer acting as sergeant and self inspector each day and week. The officer, known as A No 1, orders duties by looking in a mirror and is praised for impartiality and handling royal birthday events. The piece notes local debates over funding and a missing stretcher at the station. The mayor seeks Magna Charta in London amid locals' humor over government parsimony.
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Herne Bay
Lilly
Prince of Wales
London
Runnymede
Punch
Erratum Extraordinary and City Laughter at Adultery School
A council meeting sources a bizarre exchange over a plan for an adult school, mishearing as a school of adultery before correcting to an adults school. The piece lampoons officials with captions of ceremonial items and expenses for the town’s pageantry and regalia.
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Toulon
Brothers of the Christian School
Brothers of the Christian Doctrine
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Victoria-road
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Richard Blackman
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Knightsbridge
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Dunbar
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Paynter
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Seager
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