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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 22, 1842
Page
6
Mr. Prendergast urged mercy for Gavan, while Mr. Payne opposed. The chairman noted harsher framing would have warranted severe punishment, yet the court, bound by law, sentenced the prisoner to six weeks in the House of Correction despite humane feelings. The depositions described cruelties that would chill any humane reader.
In a Middlesex court a 14 or 15 year old boy described months of confinement in a room with little food and a blanket for warmth. Neighbors and police debated neglect and possible abuse as authorities planned further inquiry and possible parish action.
John Shannon a twelve year old boy was indicted for stealing two pork pies from Isaac Jonas. Evidence showed the boy took the pies and fled. The chairman doubted the dual indictments and urged punishing a child lightly rather than sending him to court. The jury returned not guilty and the court refused expenses for the second case. Other cases lacked public interest.
Surrey Quarter Sessions heard license renewals for public amusements in the county. Licenses granted or renewed for Victoria Theatre Royal Gardens Vauxhall Castle Hotel Richmond Duke's Arms Stangate Jamaica Tavern Bermondsey and St Helena Gardens Rotherhithe. A license for Astley's Amphitheatre was granted to Cobbold and Batty. Brown of the Green Man Old Kent Road had license refused amid local opposition. A Peckham concert room license for Mr Baker was granted. East Sussex Sessions covered an affray at Long Gace's with acquittal of Thomas Harvey. court proceedings in Castle Street and Bristol were noted for various petty legal actions and upcoming Chancery reforms.
A prisoner from Islington faced examination with several cases linked to thefts from medical men in the area. Witnesses testified to stolen spoons, rings, a watch, and money, while a pawnbroker later identified the suspect. Police obtained summonses for further witnesses as the magistrate ordered continued proceedings.
The testimony identifies eight area signatures as those of prisoners and notes the known aliases of Charles James Rue alias Leeson. Witnesses describe Leeson, son of a second husband, and confirm family ties to the Leeson tailors. The court remands the prisoners for a week and commits Martha Ann Lavell for trial on a forged bill of exchange case.
At Union Hall a group of casual paupers, lodged overnight at Newington workhouse, refused to work the required four hours in the stone yard for bed and breakfast. Judge Traill commits eleven men to four days in the House of Correction, while a vagabond scene unfolds with a departing couple in custody and a grim portrait of destitution.
A Glasgow Chronicle fragment reports John Black of Dundyvan died within four hours after swallowing whisky as a wager. The tale also recounts a self harm case of Dr Peter Kenny at Seymour Street and Admiral Nugent’s thigh fracture after a fall near Trafalgar Square.
A solemn reflection contrasts storm power and inner fear with paying a note tomorrow. It then shifts to A Wheeling Article describing various figures as “sitting in a wheelbarrow, and trying to wheel themselves,” including a man entrusting clerks, a professed man chasing schemes, a lazy farmer, a helper mechanic, and a gossip seeker, all in self‑defeating wheelbarrow imagery from the Wheeling Gazette.
Lord Wellesley authored an inscription for the Duke of Wellington statue pedestal in London. The verse lauds Europe and Asia praising Wellington as invincible in war and worthy of civic tribute, as London citizens prepare the monument.
A village cobbler in Rockford Rock River Illinois paints witty lines on his sign praising his craft. The column also presents humorous rhymes about prudent marriage choices and Addison and Steele. It closes with a historical note on Virginia tobacco trade and women as brides in the early 17th century.
A humorous verse describing a horticultural show with personified flowers representing political figures. The Prince is a sun flower, exotics and natives surround a bright shrine, bishops are poppies, state lawyers foxgloves, and John Bull laments bankruptcy as Europe gazettes his fate.
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