Youth leaps to death at London Monument tragedy sparks inquest
A fifteen year old boy, Richard Donaldson Hawes, is believed to have jumped from the Monument near London Bridge after visiting the wharfs and briefly climbing the structure. The corpse showed multiple fractures. his Bible note cited Bible verses urging humility and warning against rebellion. An inquest is scheduled as authorities consider securing the monument to prevent future deaths.
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Dias Eick
Bawecen
Stout
Londonbridge
Jennings
Richard Donaldson Hawes
St. Anne’s Society School
Brixton
Hawes
Theopohe
Oxford Street
Chelsea
Obbard
City Lands Committee
King’s Road
St. Ann's Society
St. Mark
London
London-bridge
Death at the Monument Inquiry Describes Fall From Rail
In four oclock Saturday proceedings at the Swan tavern London the coroner and a 19 member jury examined witnesses about the death of Robert Donaldson Hewes. Testimony described a party visiting the monument with a boy found below, suspicions of self harm, and evidence of a boy above and a lady and gentleman leaving before the fall. Witnesses noted the iron railing bent, no safety steps added, and Hewes appearing unhappy before the tragedy.
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Payne
City of London
Swan Tavern
London Bridge
Robert Donaldson Hewes
Coutan
Ward Beadle
St Ann’s Charity School
E. Hutchinson
Mile-end
Miss Moyes
Brady
Harvey
Kirby-street
Hatton-garden
Fish-street-hill
Coroner Warns On Monument After Tragic Death
In a coroner’s inquiry the end came as the jury found the deceased a 15 year old boy living with Mr Macdonald in Cavendish Square. The coroner urged destruction of a rope linked to the monument and called for steps to secure the site. Witnesses described his melancholy, violence in temper, and reading of self destruction. The monument's safety was questioned as the court of common council was urged to act. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.
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Contan
Macdonald
Sarah Stretcher
Marylebone
Croft
Fish-street-hill
Jack Sheppard
Bright
St. Ann’s
Brixton
Pewtress
Court of Common Council
Bleaden
Thames
Deputy Pewtress
Mathews
Self destructive acts and a large warehouse blaze in town
A young man named Daniel Cushion, heavily intoxicated, jumped from a three story window, surviving only to suffer severe injuries. In Westminster Road a man about 36 years old died from a pistol self-inflicted wound, with coroner's inquest pending. Also a major fire struck Mesars Philbrick at Kate's Grove, destroying bark stores and stock valued around £5,000, with extensive flames seen across the town.
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Hartcourt
Bermondsey
Daniel Cushion
Cushion
Pho
Guy’s Hospital
Westminster Road
Oakley-street
Crown
Stangate-street
Patel
Church of St. John’s
Waterloo Road
Great Fink
Reaome
Mesara
Philbrick
Katesgrove
Mesars
Newbury
Wolverhamptons
Berks
Man Shoots Self at Lambe Shooting Gallery Inquest
A man, described as a foreigner, shot himself in the ear with a loaded pistol at a Lambeth shooting gallery on Oakley Street. An inquest at the Hero of Waterloo heard witnesses recount his calm demeanor, despondency signs, and a note denying any noble connection. Verdict: destroyed himself by shooting himself in a temporary insanity state.
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Oakley-street
Lambe
St. John’s
Waterloo Road
Waterloo
Carter
Surrey
Molesworth
Westminster-road
Sullivan
Burrell
Westminster Road
Ferguson
Anderson
Beadle
Lambeth
Claude Hamilton
Marquess of Abercorn
Argylle House
Moorfields
Holland
Daniel Sullivan
Argyle House
Hamiltox
Murder in Newcastle leads to wilful murder verdict
An adjourned inquest in Newcastle on John Henry Mooney's death heard witness John Goodwin recount a night of beer at the Shades and a fatal fall from a third-floor window after a confrontation with two men. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against William Dwyer and Hugh Spark, who were committed for the assizes.
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John Henry Mooney
Newcastle
John Goodwin
Jesmond Vale
Mooney
Liverpool
Gateshead
Witness
Butcher-bank
Pilgrim-street
Bird and Bush Inn
Sarah Stoker
Stoker
Shades
John
Sarah Smith
Meeting House
Sarah
Meeting House Lane
Smith
Dwyer
Offooney
Spark
Goodwin
William Dwyer
Hugh Spark
Leeds beer-shop keeper’s double suicide attempt
In Leeds Southward a beer-shop keeper tried to end his life by hanging and roasting himself before the fire. He was alone when discovered suspended on the meat-roasting crane, clothes aflame, and severely burned. Though saved, he remains in a lamentable condition.
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Leeds
Bonnet Cleaning Dispute at Coville Cove Court
In Coville Cove a young Mrs Emma Floriés sues Mrs Wilson, a bonnet cleaner, over a cleaned bonnet said to differ in shape after cleaning. The court hears testimony about whether the bonnet was altered, with Mr Tracey and Commissioner Dubois weighing if it is the same bonnet, and the complainant leaving in a huff. Separately an ox wanders into a Southampton perfumer shop without damage, and Norwich Musical Festival organizers announce a charity surplus distribution.
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Coville Cove
Emma Floriés
Ina
Lashai
Dubois
Tremaine’s
Commissioner Dubois
Plaintiff
Tracey
Mr.Tracey
Mr. Tracey
Tremain
Florice
Lord Bayning
Jacob Astley
Norfolk Chronicle
Migration to New Zealand Free Passage Offered
The New Zealand Land Company invites applications for free cabin passages on the Bolton sailing from Africa on 5 November. Eligible Labourers are married, under 30, agricultural class only. Land-orders entitle selection of land after survey and free cabin passages up to 60 percent of purchase. details at the Adelphi office, 7 October 1839.
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New Zealand
New Zealand Land Company
Bolton
London
Adam-street
Adelphi
Joan Wann
Evencent Fire and Life Insurance Benefit Society
ENEVOLENT FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE and NATIONAL BENEFIT SOCIETY at 351 Strand offers life, deferred annuities, sickness allowances, and endowments with monthly instalments. Fire insurance covers small personal property with quarterly payments. Prospectuses available at 351 Strand or via agents. Henry Wilson, Actuary and Secretary.
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National Benefit Society
Strand
Carreat
Henry Wilson
Anti-Corn-Law Cir Circular Advertisements Begin
Arrangements made to use this Paper as an advertisement medium starting with the 15th number to be published October 29. Orders to publisher at Anti Corn Law Association office Newall's Buildings Market Street Manchester. First thirteen numbers sold over one hundred thousand copies. subscribers include leading merchants manufacturers peers and MPs. Printed for circulation in reading rooms clubs hotels nationwide. Advertisements must be sent by the Friday before publication.
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Rgxo
Anti-Corn-Law Association
Newall’s
Market-street
Manchester
Peerage
House of Commons
Cure of nervous complaints by Reverend Willis Moseley
An 8vo volume advertises a method for curing nervous and mental disorders from a Cambridge clergyman, Dr Willis Moseley. It claims 3000 patients cured in four years with twelve exceptions, promising most recoveries in six weeks. Contact Rev. Moseley and Co. in Bloomsbury for details and postage.
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Cleth
W. Wits Moserey
Ll.d
c.—Simpkin and Marshall
Cambridge University
Japan
Willis Moseley
American Miscellany Part I highlights and contents
In October 31 issue Part L priced one shilling spans ninety six pages with nine illustrations. Over seventy articles include Willis notes on London 1839 Barker Hillhouse Lee Child and others Longfellow American Notes Margat's Diary era Great Camp Meeting American theatre press statistics Mr Wallack’s Theatre poetry miscellanies and six high quality illustrations.
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NHE
Margat
America
Mr Wallack
Charley Chalk or the Career of an Artist declares new monthly work
An advertisement proclaims a new monthly publication priced one shilling tying to Pickwick and Nickleby by Boz. It promises a pleasing instructive tale about a roaming artist in pursuit of romantic picturesque and sublime scenes, with chapters on accidents mishaps and scrapes.
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Nickleby
Pickwick
Boz
Charley Chalk
Ladies Gazette of Fashion Monthly Price One Shilling
On the first of every month the Ladies Gazette of Fashion offers nearly fifty superbly coloured engravings of French and English costumes.
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Ladies Gazette OF Fashion
Cheapest Scientific Work Published
Advertisement announcing weekly and monthly parts of The Mechanic and Chemist, a 1839 periodical price sixpence, volumes I to II with eighty engravings and a steel frontispiece, sold by Berger Holywell Street and Simpkin and Marshall Stationer’s Hall Court.
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Berger
Holywell-street
Strand
Simpkin and Marshall
Stationer's-Hall-court
Hats at Half Price at 198 Strand Closing November 11
Large stock of fashionable hats at 198 Strand offered for sale with half price before the premises close on November 11. Country gentlemen are invited to take advantage of the cheap tradesmen’s hats. the sale ends after the stated date. Be timely. Two doors east of the Crown and Anchor near Temple-bar.
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Strand
Crown and Anchor
Temple-bar
Market Notes on Bond Yields and Shares Across Regions
A scrambled financial snippet lists prices for Exchequer Bills bonds and various global securities. It cites Danish three percent cons, Colombian and Mexican pairs, Brazilian and Belgian instruments, and UK entities such as London and Birmingham Rails, Great Western, Greenwich, Southampton, Westminster Bank, and London Joint Stock Bank with premium or discount figures and small percentage shifts.
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London Andirmingham Rails
Great Western
Lackwall
Greenwich
Southampton
Pea and Westminster Bank
London Joint Stock Bank
Insolvents and bankrupts in London and provinces
Insolvents include A E Shelley coal merchant of Lower Halliford Middlesex and J M D Kieffer of Southampton Street Covent Garden. Bankrupts listed: J Kidd coach carrier J A Reynolds hatter T Sawler stationer J Holt banker D Welch scrivener J Howie commission agent. Certificates dated Nov 8 include F Gwynne Carmarthen coach proprietor J Ralfs Covent Garden, R N Jenkins butcher Chapman drum? plus others. Partnerships dissolved cover numerous trades from Whitechapel drapers to Bristol pig dealers and beyond.
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London Gazette
A. E. Shelley
Lower Halliford
Middlesex
J. M. D. Kieffer
Southampton-street
Covent-garden
Akter
J. Kidd
Brownlow-street
Drury-lane
J. A. Reynolds
Birmingham
Hatter
T. Sawler
Manchester
J. Holt
Rusholme
D. Welch
Grosvenor Square
Haberdashers
E. M
A. Oakes
Sheffield
Viner and Bilton
Hungerford
Berks
Whitehead, Jun. and Co
Broughton
Lancashire
Torkington and Gibb
Halifax
York
Manchester and Leeds
J. L
G. G. Allanson
Insolvent and bankrupt notices from London Gazette
Insolvent S Coxhead of Westminster Bridge-road. Bankrupts J M Machin High Holborn J Blomfield Lynn Norfolk W James Malins lee Dawley Shropshire E Long Tavistock W J Horsell Aberporth Cardiganshire D Bickley Devonport H Martin Liverpool W Rudston Hull Newland H Tarboton Yorkshire H P Hutchings Hastings E Butler Alcester Certificates J T Buckley Liverpool T S Smith Liverpool J Cole East Stonehouse H Powell Newington Butts Partnerships dissolved O and J Thomas Exeter Clavell Brown Manchester Ogden Yates Manchester Tate Taylor Wisheach St Peters Cambridgeshire Booth Hollins Liverpool Wallis Ibberson Manchester Power Ingles Gibraltar Jones Beech Burslem Harvey jun Co Chacewater Harvey jun T and J Jones Cheadle Hunt Matters Park Co Preston Woods Wallis Howare Strangeways Walker Price Noah G and W Helder Clement's Inn Hunt and Matters Park and Co iron and brass founders Hartill Jaques Old-street surgeons Banks Phené Ryde Isles of Wight surgeons
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London Gazette
D. Bickley
Devonport
H. Martin
Liverpool
G. Rudston
Kingston-upon-Hull
Newland
Yorkshire
H. Tarboton
H. P. Hutchings
Hastings
E. Butler
Alcester
Warwickshire
J. T. Buckley
T. $. Smith
J. Cole
East Stonehouse
Devonshire
H. Powell
Newington Butts
Surrey
J. Thomas
Exeter
Clavell and Brown
Northampton-street
St. Pancras
bakers—Ogden and Yates
Manchester
Tate and Taylor
Wisheach St. Peters
Cambridgeshire
Booth and Hollins
Wallis and Ibberson
Power and Ingles
Gibraltar
Jones and Beech
Burslem
Staffordshire
Harvey, Jun., and Co
Chacewater
Cornwall
Mercers
Harvey
Jun
J. Jones
Cheadle
Keshire
Preston
Hardman
Rowbottom and Woods
G. Howare
Sheffield
Strangeways and
Walker
Price and Noah
Upper St. Martin's Lane
W. Helder
Clement
London Markets Corn Exchange Oct 21 23 Grain Pricing Report
London corn market notes a moderate land wheat supply with weather affecting quality. Foreign demand remains steady. fine samples price firm while red and secondary qualities are cheaper. Barley varies by quality. oats and white beans show mixed changes. Irish barley and new Irish crop perform poorly. Arrivals show English and foreign wheat, barley, oats, rye, beans, peas, and flour in varying quantities. By Oct 23 supplies of English corn small. foreign volumes rise. wheat steady, other grain sales dull. flour in demand though other types stagnant.
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Corn Exchange
Mark-Lane
Smithfield Market Report Notes Oct 21
Smithfield market statistics show cattle and sheep counts with 3,649 beasts 24,640 sheep and 103 calves 602 pigs. Beef prices range 3s 8d to 4s 4d per stone with a 2d rise. Mutton commands 4s ds and veal 4s to 58, pork 3s 8d to 5s 2d. Beef trade improves versus last. Prime mutton declines as high as 5s.
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Smithfield
Hay Market Prices Reported in Local Listings
Market notices show Smith FierLp hay at 4 to 4 5s, Clover 5 to 6 5s, and straw 1 18s to 2 per load. Huncerrorp quotes hay 4 to 4 10s, Clover 5 to 5 6s, Straw 1 18s to 2. Recents Parx lists hay 4 5s to 4 10s, Clover 5 to 5 5s, Straw 1 18s to 2.
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Smith FierLp
Huncerrorp
Coal price list with per ton delivery charges
Coal exchange lists add on charges of 10s to 12s per ton for delivery. Prices cover Adairs to Nevill's Llanelly with varied shillings across regions such as Hartley Ches ter Original Pontop Windsor and Wall's End. Ships arrived 113.
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Coal Exchange
Gosforth
Heaton
Hotspur
Killingworth
Northumberland
Riddell’s
Perkins
Belmont
Haswell
Lyons
Lambton
Pemberton
Russell's Hetton
Stewart's
Adelaide
Clarence Hetton
Gordon
Seymour Tees
South Durham
Tees
Tennant
West Hetton
Victoria Tees
West Tees
Llangennech Coal
Stavely Main
Nevill’s Llanelly
Births and marriages from Victorian notices in Dublin and Britain
Birth notices report several births including a son at the Under Secretary's Lodge Dublin and a daughter at St. Giles House Dorsetshire, with additional births at Purfleet and Whitehall Gardens. Marriage notices include a May-December extraordinary ceremony at Burton upon Trent, a Chief Justice's marriage in Bombay, and multiple matches in New South Wales and Chelsea among gentry families.
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Marrriage
Burton-upon-Trent
George Lane
Sarah Woodward
Bombay
John Awdry
Presidency
Frances
New South Wales
Wm. T. Evans
Admiral Evans
Annet
William Pagan
Curriestanes
Dumfries
Jonathan Shortt
J. Shortt
Wm. Baker
Old Ford
Chelsea
Wm. Hedges
Streathamhill
Surrey
Harriet
F. Butler
Cadogan Cottage
James
Advertisements and Communications Requested at No 987 Strand
Printed at No 997 Strand Middlesex by John Norris and published for the Proprietors by Charles Beree at No 987 Strand. Advertisements and communications are requested to be sealed. Sunday October 27 1839.
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Strand
Middlesex
John Norris
Fetterlane
St. Andrew, Holborn
London
Charles Beree
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Chester
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Swaine
Thomas Rose Swaine
the Grove
Highgate
Wm. Drake Irby
Hedsonlodge
Maidenhead
Lady Boston
Lord Boston
Countess of Orkney
Earl of Kingston
Hull-place
St. John’swood
Kingsborough
Ireland
Baron Kingston
United Kingdom
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