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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 09, 1836

Page

6

Inquest on Mrs Smith and Infant Deaths at Clerkenwell and Wilesden

A long inquest at the Spotted Dog Inn Wilesden green Middlesex investigated the death of 76 year old Mrs Smith found dead in her home with a noted odd habit of isolation. Separate proceedings at Clerkenwell Bowing Green Lane focused on a female infant’s death amid allegations of neglect and impropriety involving midwife Harriet Potts and others with testimonies detailing nourishment concerns and a potential stillborn misreport.

Olp Lapy Spotted Dog Inn Wilesden-green Middlesex Sarah Smith Henry Elliot Jane Chandler Jemima King Pound Irs Moruin Stirling Clerkenwell Cherry Tree Bowling-geen-lane Spa-fields Itlarriet Larwell Potts Samuel Potts Little Gray's Inn-lane East Corporation-lane Ann Collins Thomas Collins Whiskin-street Beadle Collis Spaefields Burying Ground Clerkenwell Church Jaror Webb St. James's Church Hall

Inquest Reveals Flighty Witness and Natural Death Verdicts

An inquest at a London room hears Mrs Hall accused of false statements about a stillborn child and the coroner orders her removal. Other cases include Samuel Stewart’s self death on mental distress and John Goulding’s canal accident with an accidental death verdict.

Macclesfield Arms Tavern Baker Michael Burke Macclesfied Regent’s Canal Hall Webb Clayton Sarah Hall Prince Regent Kennington-street Walworth Wm. Carter Samuel Stewart Miss Stewart Peckham Elliott

Calamitous coal pit explosion at Audley losses eleven lives

An explosion at the Bignall hill colliery in Audley, Staffordshire, followed a gas ignition as 18 to 19 miners descended. Eleven men died, others were severely injured or saved by candles and narrow escapes. An inquest returned Accidental death for all victims and a subscription was opened for families.

Audley Newcastle-under-Lyne Staffordshire Bignall-hill John Wedeweed Bignall Rowley Riley Thomas Cartwright William Riley Thomas Lawton James Proctor John Hilditch Thomas Riley Elijah Billington John Johnson Charles White George Riley John Chambers John Wedgwood

Shipwreck of the Marshall Macdonald survivor’s letter from 1836

Thomas Goodwin of Limerick recounts the disaster after sailing from Quebec in November 1836. Twelve crew lost overboard near St Paul’s Island. ten endured exposure atop the maintop. After months in harsh quarters and frostbite, amputations followed at St John’s. A clergyman aided him, while authorities criticized local care.

Marshall Macdonald Limerick Portsmouth Quebec John Clark St. Paul’s Wm. Cronan Jack Newton Carpenter Cook St. Shotts St. John’s Kilkenny Tripasay Syms Mr. Bridge Thomas Goodwin

French Military Scandal and a Polish Patriarch Headline

Reports from Paris describe noncommissioned officers confined in Abbaye prison for diverting cartridge ammunition to secret societies. A Polish nobleman aged 105, with a large blended family, is noted for vitality and multiple wives. At Compiegne, Louis Philippe’s review saw over 2000 troops forming a vast circle with strict spectator bans. The Journal de la Haye recounts Madame Malibran’s fatal brain hemorrhage after a fall and a hidden deposit in the brain explains the death.

Paris Abbaye Procureur de Roi Malachowska Palatinate of Lublin Joseph Sr Louis Philippe Compiegne Gazette de France Journal de la Haye Madame Malibran

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