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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 02, 1836
Page
3
A sweeping London police report covers Joseph Holmes and Mary Crane detained on silk theft charges at a Regent Street silk shop, plus a sheep theft case in Hornchurch, arsenic soap concerns, a fatal market fight, a bigamy hearing at the Lord Mayor’s court, a milk dispute case in Tower Street, a theft by Martha Hennessy and a comical watch recovery episode with Mrs Murphy, all heard at the Mansion House.
In Guildhall two youths John Charles Hodges and Thomas Taylor faced Alderman Venables on charges of stealing a silk handkerchief from solicitor Mr Elkington near Furnival's Inn. Although denied, both were chased, searched, and a life preserver was dropped near the St Donatan's watch-house. Taylor sentenced to two months, Hodges fourteen days. a wounded man remains in hospital after defending against a thief. A separate case notes Susan Barker's theft of admittance to the workhouse, and she is sent to Bridgwell for seven days under the Vagrant Act.
A nearly 40 year old woman Mary Ann Roberta was brought before Mr Minshull on a charge of unlawfully pawning a blanket a pillow a flat iron and other items belonging to Mr William Goodridge of Wild Street Lincoln’s Inn Fields. She claimed extreme distress saying she cared for ten children with Mr Roberts at the Adelphi Theatre and had pledged the items to feed them. Authorities released the goods to Goodridge and provided the woman with food and aid from the parish poor box after confirming the hardship and the boy’s emaciated condition.
An elderly man aged about seventy six, calling himself Tae Warek AstoneA, was charged by a Menicity Society constable with selling matches under false colours on Marlborough Street. He exhibited a stump arm and claimed his beggar trade, saying many kind people give him money when they see his crippled state. The defendant asserted he only sells matches and that he is an old man with a wife, thirty two years married, and no other support. Mr Chambers warned he has been here before and may be sent to prison if the begging continues.
A crowded Westminster court hears tales from a veteran swearing under war time service, a brutal omnibus attack leaving a fish seller bloodied, and multiple drunkenness cases. The docket includes a sailor’s plea about workhouse life, a thwarted romance, and a notorious Lord Chancellor figure jailed for intoxication.
A servant Ann Fitzgerald, in the Dovan household at Stingolane New road, faced charges of causing her master's infant’s death by locking the baby in a bedstead but was discharged when the death was deemed accidental. Separately two foreigners Castanos and Calligana faced a lengthy shoplifting case linked to jewellery seals and various valuables found at their lodgings, with evidence from multiple witnesses. they were remanded for a week.
A prisoner, intoxicated, was found with a rope grip on his hands and face blackened on the Saffron Hill broadroad. He was assisted to the station house where Mr. Laing questioned him about his condition.
In Whitechapel at the Coach and Horses public house High street three well dressed men named Williams Fela Tarizsana Raki faced County Magistrate Gambes charged with stealing a gilt sixpence by passing a gilt coin as a half sovereign. The plan moved from bar to counter ending with discovery of the deception.
At Union Hall a man claiming to be solicitor Henry Wakeany faced cab fare allegations by a driver from Waterloo Road. The driver testified Watson, intoxicated, alledgedly refused to pay five shillings. Witnesses described Wakeany pressing for custody, while inspector noted Watson's extreme drunkenness. The dispute concluded with the fare paid after a brief exchange and laughter at the office.
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