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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Belton-street
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George Wilson
Buckeridge-street
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Welsh
Tur Pappixcton Boarman
Holden
Harrow-road
Joseph Hammersley
Paddington Canal
John Barker
Messrs
Jeremiah Kinder
Maida-hill
John Coe
Grocer
Salisbury Street
Lisson
Barker
Thomas Tilsey
Messrs. Kinder and Co
Carter
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King’s Arms
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Surrey Canal
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Pellatt and Green
St. Paul’s Church-yard
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Duke of York
Camberwell New Road
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Brown
East India
Molucca Islands
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Banda
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Fort Victoria
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Strand
Exeter Hall
Scott
Brett
Drury Lane
Henry Brett and Co
J. Evans
King William-street
London Bridge
Petersham
Doudney and Son
City Clothing Establishment
Lombard Street
NG WA
Super Longeloth
Coppock’s
Buc
Kehouse. . & S&sd
Skingham
Agid Hassan
W. Day and Co
Gracechurch-street
Hannay and Co
Oxford-street
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Messrs. Nash, & Co
London
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Webber-row
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London-bridge
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British Museum
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Roya College of Surgeons
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Blackfriars’road
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