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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 09, 1836
Page
3
John Davies a former ward watchman, moved for malpractices, faced the Lord Mayor on theft charges after a tumbler marked Long was found in his hat at 1 Cannon Street chop-house. Prosecutor’s servant testified glasses vanished regularly. Davies claimed a rival framed him. Davies committed for trial.
James Meredith a paragraph writer faced Alderman Slarmer on fraud charges for presenting a false bill in a reporter’s name. The Morning Advertiser publisher noted this was the third such case, with the porter William Jackson named as the actual maker. The cashier and porter denied Meredith’s involvement. the bill was unsigned and forged, leading to Meredith’s remand for further evidence.
At Bow Street a bedstead-maker William Bladding faced Mr Halls for assaulting two police constables. A second case involved four civilians dressed as military men accused of drunken disturbance. bail was set for two captains and two other men, with security posted and later discharged after furnishing sureties.
William Price appeared before Mr Laing charged with sleeping in the open air at Islington. He admitted the charge, saying he slept rough due to unemployment. An ironworker by trade, he had worked for Maudslaus but refused to continue under the present conditions.
Price reports ill treatment by the Union and refusal of work. He states workers want a ten hour day instead of ten and a half, with weekly earnings from 26s to 30s. Laing says leaders should not intimidate. Price wishes for work, notes Liverpool prospects, and agrees to attend the office as Birmingham plans are considered.
In a Marylebone office investigation, Constable John Jolly and Constable Roderick, both intoxicated, assaulted Harriet Gallant at her home after a knock and entered in plain clothes. Jolly was fined £5 with two months' imprisonment if unpaid, and Gallant's husband intervened during the attack.
James Selcombe and William Briggs faced charges over concealed ale tins and Spanish style skins. A sergeant halted their smuggling ring. Briggs gave a sketch of work histories while Selcombe claimed porter duties. A second case concerned illegal pawning and plate theft from Newton’s house, with magistrate Conant skeptical of enforcement.
Charles Jreeks, conductor of the new Odd Buss omnibus between Mile End Gate and Chelsea, was charged with wantonly assaulting George Dry. He defended by alleging provocation over passenger space. witnesses testified to a savage, wanton attack. He was convicted and fined five pounds or two months' imprisonment.
Early 19th century court notes report fines on Ellen and Catherine Connor for placing fruit baskets on Parliament street pavements. They pleaded and had part of the fine remitted, paying 2s 6d each after declaring they had little capital left. Another case concerns a Mary Plant described as destitute, with an infant, charged with soliciting arms in Eaton Square Pimlico.
Abraham Moggley Thomas Smith and James Palmsley bone button moulders faced the bar with a mob for an assault on the police in Union street Spitalfields. Constable 1139 and others testified to resisting arrest and being aided by fellow officers. The trio were fined 60s each or six weeks, while Maria Fuller was jailed a month for drunken disorderliness and attempted suicide in her cell.
The Christian's Friend Society expelled 29 year member Littlefield over a black eye and scratched propensities not tied to rules, while magistrates ordered six shillings weekly and questioned the harsh action. Dixon the workhouse claimant breaks windows to seek gaol rather than workhouse on protest.
Elizabeth Nagle and Martha Raine faced Clarkson on a charge of dropping a child in the streets. Elinor Doyle testified she found the scene at 42 Tanner-street Shadwell when the two women claimed to bring a child from Bow and would not take it back. Nagle spoke harshly and the elder woman insisted on leaving the child.
A report describes an engagement between his Majesty's ships the Wolf and Zephyr and a piratical fleet. Fifty sailors in three boats inflicted grapeshot damage on seven hundred pirates, with several boats sunk or damaged, and the pirates believed killed or wounded. The article also notes quay fortress repairs, mining lamp innovations, and insurance losses from a great fire.
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