Harrow School insolvency case adjourned sine die
Rebecca Crane keeper of a Harrow confectionery haberdashery faced final examination for insolvent dealings with the school’s young gentlemen. She allegedly lent unlimited credit, transferred her property to a relative, and destroyed books to hide debts, adjourned for further explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bane
Harrow School
Rebecca Crane
Harrow
New York
Joan Caspar
Guernsey
Colls
Thompson
Richard Lees
Bucklersbury
Edward le Batt
Mincing Lane
Tvzspar
Stowell
Cooke
St. Martin’s Imperial Mint Stock Loan Society
Woodroffé
Turner
Westley
Bier
Central Criminal Court Sees Broad Range Of Transportations
The Central Criminal Court sentenced numerous defendants to transportation for varied terms including fifteen, fourteen, ten, and seven years for different offences. Imprisonment with hard labour was ordered for others with sentences up to two years. Dozens faced shorter terms, private whipping, or acquittal, as the court adjourned to next October session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Jeffs
James Smith
William Smith
James Spurre
Alexander Munroe
J. Brown
Wm. Bottomley
J. Smith
Jeremiah Rogers
J. William Berry
Michael Savage
Mary Haroy
J. Franklin
Thomas Martin
Edward Jones
Cecilia Inman
W. Jones
Joseph Cook
William Jones
W. Smith
Georges Wood
J. Horne
W. Wyatt
Abraham Titmus
W. Chiffney
W. Scott
J. Hinge
J. Howard
John Comber
Alias Marchant
George Jenkins
James Williams
William Cox
Daniel Welland
Mary Briant
Ellen Campbell
Mary 4Inn Pope
William Goodwin
John Winford
William Sanders
Edward Sherrett
John Green
John Howard
Ann Simmons
Rowland Owen
J. Sculthorpe
J. Ashman
Thomas Hewitt
Mary Ann Epps
J. Williams
Francis Fraser
George Haré
J. Hensley
W. L. Sales
Joseph Long
W. Ash
Houses of Correction
Robert Tidman
William Sharp
William Wells
Mary Ryan
D. Lloyd
Mary Hughes
Charles Phillips
Richard Parsons
W. Gray
James Potter
J. Horsey
J. Wright
James Sallow
Thomas Smith
Ann Smith
William Lynn
Elizabeth Dixon
Mary Ann Swift
Elizabeth Dalan
Ellen Cullen
Ann Campbell
Margaret Ford
W. Thompson
W. Bradbury
James Watson
John Lowe
Charles Hamilton
J. Sanders
William Hollingdale
John Jones
W. Lee
Henry Hall
John Round
George Vernon
Thomas Sterne
David M.cue
John Andrews
Joseph Brown
John Brown
Richard Price
F. M'Donald
J. Chappell
N. Bowden
Frederick White
Thomas Edwards
William Johnson
John Sabberton
W. Ayres
Elizabeth Bamford
Caroline Lee
Mary Ann Hill
Mary Ann Oliver
Sarah Putterell
Sarah Thompson
Mary Sullivan
Mar Coleman
Eliza Jones
Elizabeth Wetherall
Catherine Reed
Elizabeth Paul
John Williams
Samuel Stone
Jos. Cooper
John Barfitt
John Birkett
Thos. Burke
Samuel
William Bailey
Mary O'Connor
Joseph Isaacs
Police Reports From Billingsgate and Guildhall
London police briefs detail James Baker a Pearson and Co omnibus conductor charged with assaulting Mrs Moss at Whitechapel and dragged her from a Royal Exchange bound for trial. John Tomlinson youth Drapers Hall and Allan’s St Pauls court house charged with stealing silk handkerchiefs. Sarah Charlton independent of Harrington Street Hampstead Road charged with drunkenness obstruction and assaulting a constable. Louisa Norton described as desperate faces a knife attack on a man in Drury Lane. her date and trial set for Newgate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxnitus Burriansen
James Baker
Pearson and Co
Fulham Omnibuses
Moss
Royal Exchange
John Tomlinson
Messrs
Hall
Elghock
Jasagar
Bow Street
Lapy
Sarah Charlton
Harrington-street
Hampstead Road
Bennet
Warwick-street
Charing-cross
Evan Lewis
Vauxhall Street
Lambeth
Mr. Hall
Charles-street
Drury-lane
Laurence
Smith’s Court
Reynoldson
Matilda Griffiths
Trial notes and indecent books case in London shop
Witness testimony covers a young man’s alleged theft from a shop and the search of a residence while a separate case details a small bookseller surrendering over indecent pamphlets. The court debates evidence under the Vagrant Act and commits the defendant to the House of Correction for a month, while another man is bailed after a handkerchief theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humphreys
Nathan Fox
No. 10
London House-Yard
Flower
Alderman Humphery
St. Paul's Churchyard
Alderman Lucas
James M‘danell
Charter-house-street
Long-lane
Clarkson
Society For the Suppression of Vice
Her Majesty
Wontmer
Alfred Charles Smith
Roseman Street
Kershaw
Society
Wontner
Charterhouse School
Continent
House of Correction
William Johnson
Richard Wilson
Fleet Street
Wilson
MARYLEBONE THEFT AND AVERTED OFFENCES IN LONDON AREA
Henry Harris was charged with stealing a silver watch from Thomas Draper of Drummond-crescent Huston-square after lodging with him. Harris confessed to a bar, was committed for trial. James Molley, a tailor, faced a charge of violently assaulting Cecilia Tragan at a wake. he was committed on the capital charge. John Smith and two accomplices were implicated in stealing furniture and deeds from a loft in Crown-street Soho. all three were committed. A boy named William Mattel, found begging in the Broadway, appeared before a magistrate and was remanded.
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Marylebone
Henry Harris
Thomas Draper
Drummond-crescent
Huston-square
Marlborough
Street
Barxz
James Molley
Hardwick
Cecilia
Tragan
William Webb
John Vine
John Smith
Ploughtyard
Crown-street
Soho
Smith
Queen
Disrapssen
William Mattel
Geo. Holding
Trail
Mills
Trimuer
Ipswich
Holding
London
Islington
Gamner
Cheam
Surrey
Jones, Page
Milbank
Messrs. Pontifex
Shoelane
Jones
Payne
Taz Lamneth Gaye
Thievees
Brown and
Lewis
Lambeth
Paradise-street
Poor family aided after distressing London journey
The report recounts a blind father and his family of six traveling from Glasgow to London seeking medical aid, with the eldest child, 13, in charge. After generous donations, magistrates arranged free steerage to Leith and £12 10s remained for the family’s subsistence, while other cases include a pawnbroker conviction and assaults in Hatton Garden.
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London
Guthrie
Alexander
Laurence
Scotland
Gregorie
Algernon Smith
Smith
Brockelbank
General Steam Navigation Company
Milan
Leith
George Ravener
Queen’s Row
Brompton
Humphreys
Charles Wyatt
Wyatt
Man Charged With Dog Fare Fraud At Lea-bridge
James Dowd a young clerk from Wellclose square faced charges for refusing to pay a shilling fare for his dog on the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway. Conductor Claudius Bennett testified Dowd paid ninepence for himself but not the dog and later refused to settle at Shoreditch. Dowd claimed the dog belonged to a London dock director and was small enough to pocket, but was fined one shilling plus fare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricar
Chancine
Dogs Ox Railways
James Dowd
Wellclose Square
East India Docks
Northern and Eastern Counties Railway Company
Lea-bridge
London
Claudius Bennett
Ihim
Shoreditch
Walthamstow
Jondon Docks
Barker
Bingham
Mary Ann Gibbons
Mary Ann Smith
Mary White
Emma Fletcher
Elizabeth Ferguson
Sarah Ballard
Elizabeth Robinson
St. Luke's
Gibbons
Inito
Siony
Esture
House of Correction
Thomas Smith
bin ‘Ham
Wamed Wiliam
Delia Dobell
Assaults in Holywell Lane Lead to Prison Sentences
A man named Smith attacked a woman and her husband in Holywell lane Shoreditch, leaving the husband severely cut and bruised. Henry Newman tried to rescue Smith and incited a crowd. both were arrested. Smith jailed four months with bail on peace, Newman fined £3 and six weeks in jail.
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Holywell Lane
Shoreditch
Henry Newman
Smith
Newman
Holland
Bingham
Smuggling cases before Mr Broderip in Thames office
John Aylmore from the East Indiaman lowther charged with smuggling 16 pounds of cigars and fined £100 with imprisonment. Wm Jarrett from Jupiter charged with 12 pounds tobacco on a similar information. tobacco found concealed on board and in bundle. Defendant pleaded not guilty and claimed innocence. officers testified about the discovery and handling of the contraband. Broderip noted no power to reduce the fine but hinted at merciful consideration if first offence or initiation circumstances. Also a summons against shipowner Thomas Ward for £38 total to seamen for shares of a voyage aboard Zephyr in 1837-8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Jarrett
Jupiter
St. Petersburg
Robert Grey
Scotia
Henry Morgan
Custom-House
Tin Cannister
Grey
Broderip
Sea of Customs
Thomas Ward
Ratcliff
Joseph Henry
Thos. Boyd
Hedgeon
Ward
Brentford Petty Sessions: Tailor stabbed horse near Hanwell
William Fuller a 50 year old tailor of Hanwell was charged before magistrates with stealing and stabbing a horse owned by Daniel Rackliff of Ealing. Witnesses testified Fuller led the injured pony toward town and attempted to sell it to a slaughterer for 30 shillings, claiming the wound was non fatal. He was committed to Newgate for trial at the Central Criminal Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brentford
William Fuller
Hanwell
G. Baillie
Daniel Rackliff
Ealing
Drayton Green-lane
James Lamb
Kilburn
Lamb
Paddington
Roxeth Common
Mortimer
Newman
Moritimer
Mr. Mortimer
Guildhall
Rackliff
Lawrance
T Division
Newgate
Central Criminal Court
Distressing death by her own action at Jermyn Street
An inquest at Black Horse, Jermyn Street, on Miss Mary Harrison of No 4 Jermyn Street, dress maker and milliner, found dead by hanging in her bedroom. The coroner reported temporary mental derangement as the cause after a period of despondency following her sister’s marriage. Two additional legal items followed regarding four suspects in a sheep stealing case, with most tied to Wilson.
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Black Horse Tavern
Jermyn-street
St. James's
Higgs
Westminster
Mary Harrison
Ilford House of Correction
William Pierce
Charles Edward Wilson
Whitecross-street
Henry Putteck
Smithfield
Coleman
Beardsmore
Daniel Maidwell
Leatherhead
Smithfield-market
Boers
Kingston
Wilson
Rogers
Tsoners
Barking-side
Essex
Stringer
Romford
Aspector Richardson
Barkingside
Brentwood
SmithGeld, Market
Jones
Brennan
Division of Police
Colonel Cater
Dreadful incidents at Blackfriars Bridge and surrounding deaths
The report covers multiple self harm attempts at Blackfriars Bridge with rescues by locals and the river patrol, naming Sahy Ware and John Ware among those aiding. It details two suicide attempts, one by a young woman on the Surrey side and another by Elizabeth Ballard, plus an inquest into a thirteen year old boy’s death by hanging, a miraculous fall from a height, a cab collision near Bridge Street, and several other accidental deaths and inquests from the same period.
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Sutcips
Blackfriars-Bridgp
Sahy Ware
Surrey
John Ware
Christchurch
Humane Society
Elizabeth Ballard
Saffron-hill
William West
Black Horse.com
Compter
Baker
William Clark Boyd
Upper Homerton
Hackney Church
Wm. Boyd
William Boyd
Harvey
Bridge-Street
Blackfriars
Taglioni
King’s-cross Avi He Elephant and Castle
Te Friars Bridge
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
At Us
Higgs
Red Lion
Princes Street
Westminster
John Fox
Canning
J. H. Eent
Berkeley-street
Bryanstone
Square
Stohen Road
Case
Adams
Ayons Pe
Danesitine Suicipe
Grosvenor Arms
Richard Mallen
Encourince
Steven
Singuran Deata
Greenwich
Wakleyynesday
M.P
Jerys
Duchess of York
Royal Elcapitagnihs
Thomas Freeman
Lhem
Battersea-fields
Crownscourt
Royal Hospital-row
Ee Bieki
Br. Williams
Payne
Kennington- Bradshaw
Regent Mason
Geo Bee
Walkley
Cortspont Montpelier Arms
Montpelier Square
Bromp
William George Hackett
la Carpenter
Montpelier Place
Anderson
Verdic
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Aan
Hatton Garden
George Storey
Laura Elphinstone
Southampton-row
Russell Square
Aoliceman
Greenwood
Samuel Beswick
Wells-street
Gray’s-inn-toad
Samuel John Westbrook
Great Ormond-street
Brunswick-square
St.George the Martyr
Furnival’s Inn
Holborn
Great Ormond St
Rascal
Mr. Greenwood
Mr. Westbrook
Lambeth Street
William, Jackson
Richard England
William Hill
Richard Brown
Robert Lewis
St. James New York
St. Katharine Dock
G. C. Norton
John M‘mahon
Phenix
East Smithfield
John Thomas
London Hospital
Samuel Sedden
Richard Maroney
St. James
Jackson
England
Thomas Ponsonby
Phcenix
Thomas
Hill
Alexander Robertson
Emma
Dundee
Phoenix
Lawrence Levy
Catherine Connor
Norton
Nextorman
Martin Moss
Charlotte Taylor
Thomas Taylor
St. George’s-in-the-East
Abbott
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Singapore
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Court of Admiralty
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