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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 29, 1837

Page

6

Central Criminal Court Session Opens with 248 Prisoners For Trial

The twelfth Central Criminal Court session began before high officials with 248 prisoners awaiting trial. The Recorder warned of eight new criminal acts, reforms reducing capital punishment, and changes to treatment of burglary and violent offences. A summary of current prisoners and their crimes followed, including theft, robbery, forgery, and murder, with totals by region and a note on the heavier October calendar.

Central Criminal Court Alderman White Lummer Dwalt Brown Gardiner George Hodson Thompson Tottenam Middlesex Clarkson Tottenham Edmonton Totterham Newgate London Essex Kent Surrey T Tal State OF Her Majesty’s New Gates Aighe Bbs Iel

Lord Mayor Tackles Persistent Ady Impostor Letters

A London court hears communications from Portuguese ambassadors and Joseph Ady as the Lord Mayor investigates a flood of nuisance letters. Record includes Ady’s price list, a letter from George Kennedy, and the case of a cabman charged with driving while drunken.

Maneionw Heinz Hammersmith Joseph Ady M. Carvalho Moncervo Mon Portugal York-street Pest Joserph Apy Baron de Morcorvo George Kennedy Tullamore Ireland Ady Kennedy Galway Bay Straits of Dover GroxgEe Kennepy Davis King William Street Lombard-street Cadman

Drunken and criminal cases flood Westminster sessions

A long list of arrests and trials follows, including a purse theft with a £100 note, a drunken railway constable fined, multiple street crimes in Westminster and Whitechapel, victims and defendants named, and a pregnant woman assaulted by a man who beat a police officer during apprehension. The report also spans Irish victims, pauper shipments, and a violent assault in Surrey Sessions with guilty verdicts.

Minshull Boyle Brownlow-street Drary-lane Covent-garden Market Robert Douglas Duke-street Lincoln’s-inn Mr. Minshull Middlesex Hoapital Tottenham-street Tottenham-court-road Faucit Moore Ann Faulkner Mary B.rien Faulkner E 120 Dudley Charles Blucker Walker Huntley-street Ueoee-Street Bayswater-road Bank of England Wiggins Wright Edwards Place Manchester Newgate Bartroop William Pullen Lend London and Birmingham Tring Boxmoor Roslinson Bedford Rawlinson Regent’s Canal Mr. Rawlinson Mr Rawlinson Hatton Gauudon Amelia Seward Mr. Laing White Conduit Waterford Laing China House of Correction Ellen Cosgrove O’brien Hieralfi New River Sadler's Wella Theatre Agar Kenton-street St Pancras Sue Sume Inapeetor Penny Louis Ball Bailli Louis Francis Spemette Dominico Balli Southampton Elliott and Sculthoek Swell Rob Mr. Curtis Swan Islington Eliott Seultheek John Owen Martha Peare Frederick Fletcher Wotton Lownde Pimlico Gregorie William Kirkhing Grenadier Guards Cragg York Street Westminster Horse Guards White Surrey Sessions John Redding Dennis Ward Thamas Ryan William Roberts Jeramstt Limehouse Redding Hoor Proscutor Draycott Princes Street Londin Rand Dey Maning Amonzet

Middlesex Session Probes Parish Rentals and Irregular Assessments

The court, chaired by Mr Erith, met to hear from parish officers missing last Tuesday about parish rental records. An overseer testified the Cranprol return was correct as far as he knew, but the chair demanded oath verification. Similar challenges blocked petitions from Hendon and Finchley overseers.

Lambeth Streayt James Houle Slias Pepjoy Chelsea Mr. Tubbs M‘cleary Vauxhell-road Tubbs Suess Hendesberg Julius Jackon Ald Ifvuch Burridge Greysing Guilthall William Woolridge Crown-price Clerkenswell the Blues Horse Guards Hyde Park Corner Goding William Weed Kentishtown Thomas Smith Carman Holditch Bankside Southwark Deanstreet Westminster Thomas Parker Sman Allen's Horse Repository St. Martin’s Lane Longlane Smithfield Parker St. Bartholomew's Hospital R Goslen John Street Pentonville Coleman-street St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Goslen Mr. Coats James-street Covent-garden Jane Harbert Regent-street Lambeth Middlesex Erith Cranprol Hendon Finchley

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