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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 21, 1841
Page
5
An account of Blakesley’s last days shows a calm, unmoved demeanor before the scaffold. A staged madness was dropped, his remorse claimed, and the crowd jeered while the crowd’s appetite for spectacle persisted. The post mortem notes a brain pattern cited to confirm insanity.
The Court of Chancery transfers Exchequer equity jurisdiction to regulate writs of distringas on Bank of England stock. It sets steps for filing, sealing, and enforcing such writs, with fees and actions allowed, and outlines conditions for discharge and costs to be borne by the seeking party.
Lord Langdale held the defendant should be charged with full rent due to neglect of duty but would not oppose a postponement. It was agreed the matter be mentioned next Tuesday.
In the bail and ecclesiastical matters at the Old Bailey, a writ of contempt against Tomas H117 was challenged as defective for misdated citations and improper form. The court granted a rule to show cause and discharged the defendant from custody. A separate Common Pleas action involved Pierce and Pearson v Glenny over printing debts of 57 pounds 10 shillings, with verdict for the plaintiffs after the editor was deemed liable. Also heard were cases on false imprisonment in Westminister and a light criminal docket at Westminster Sessions.
In Guildhall a boy named Thomas Cook faced Sir John Key for pocketing near the Old Bailey while a man in Marlborough Street, Dennis Martin, faced a severe assault charge for beating his wife of fourteen years. Polish refugees Alfonso Mackray and Anthony Bernardhoff were fined for drunken disorderly conduct and assault on police in Haymarket. At Queen Square Eliza Wilton was charged with breaking prison windows and threatening turnkeys at Tothill Fields.
Sir Peter Laurie questions James Harris and his wife Maria as they appear in court charged with drunkenness. Harris boasts of his sobriety despite reports of gin, rum, and ale consumption. Paterson of Cheapside confirms Harris’s long tenure, and Laurie releases the pair, urging moderation in the future.
John Richard Packard Joseph Packard and Thomas Kennett faced magistrates over bail for the killing of Sheriff’s officer Michael Aunger. Kennett offered £100 plus two £50 sureties after hall pledged to accept them. Kennett discharged. Packards remanded due to existing executions against a brother. all to Newgate for trial.
A 16 year old girl named Sarah Smith appeared before Mr Rawlinson in Marylebone on suspicion of stealing a silver spoon offered for pledge at Hail pawnbroker in High Street. She said she came from Wootton-under-Edge, lived in Paddington, fled hunger and poverty, and was tempted by a well dressed woman to pledge the spoon. The owner did not press charges. Rawlinson provided food and lodging and offered to fund transport to Bristol to join a brother awaiting her.
A defendant, at about nine thirty in the morning, broke a window with a loaf stuck in the glass. Mr Burrell said he would require securities for her good behaviour for a year. The prisoner grew violent and had to be restrained by six constables and placed back in her cell.
Monday at Clerkenwell sessions detailed Richard Jones a barman accused of robbing his employer with £4 found on him after a short service. Fathers prosecuted sons in theft cases including a 14 year old, and two other youths named Keyte and Hay. Suspected housebreaking cases saw Davis and Fielding charged. Fielding remanded to workhouse, Davis discharged. Italian Joseph Cette accused of false pretences in the glass trade, with prior Leeds conviction. sentenced to twelve months at York Castle and continuing depredations after release.
A young shopman Thomas Boaks is charged with robbing his haberdasher employer in High Street Shoreditch. A female customer and a young man named Frederick Neale are charged with receiving stolen goods. Separately a tailor named Kidman faces trial for attempting to cut his daughter’s throat amid alleged insanity amid family troubles.
A magistrate hears a distressed account as Holland questions the accused about a blunt instrument and threats toward his child. The accused, suspected of attempting to destroy life, is remanded until Monday while the mother and others testify on the state of mind.
Lieuten Archibald Campbell, repeatedly jailed, was again brought before Mr Henry after a tumultuous period. Mrs Campbell testified he had been released from Clerkengell Prison, sent to the Fleet, then to Portsmouth’s Queen’s Hospital, with further violence at home in Stepney and Spitalfields. He had prior lunatic hospital confinements. the judge urged medical certification and potential lunatic asylum detention. Campbell has a pension and 10s a day half-pay.
Ellen Cogh, wife of a coal-whipper, surrendered to answer a charge of throwing boiling water from a yellow jug at Mary Clarence in Ratcliffe. Clarence, badly burned, has been in London Hospital since last week. Prisoner pleads innocence. bail set at £40 with two sureties of £20 each.
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