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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 29, 1842
Page
6
A lengthy courtroom sequence recounts convictions for perjury and related offenses. Martha Grover and others faced transport sentences for similar charges while a key witness was acquitted. The trial spanned four hours with numerous cross examinations and debating legal points over perjury, assault, and resisting arrest.
In a crowded court room the prisoner faced charges of aggravated assault with witnesses detailing a quarrel and a weapon threat. The recorder warned of punishment and the jury returned a verdict of aggravated assault, sentencing the prisoner to one year with hard labour. Other cases included a conspiracy charge over an attempted forcible entry, with two defendants acquitted and two found guilty of common assault, plus a separate trial where a Jew defendant was acquitted amid character testimony from police and locals. A nightly tally showed 41 new prisoners since the first publication, bringing the total in Newgate to 329 with various charges listed.
The telewing abstracts the business of the Court of Chancery and Common Law Courts for Michavimas term starting Wednesday, detailing judgments, demurrers, and remaining rules. It lists figures for Vice-chancellor hearings, Queen's Bench rules, and Crown paper cases with limited hearings and trials.
A London lord mayor inquiry scrutinizes a British American Emigration Association amid claims of garbled press statements and broken contracts to Prince Edward Island. Silent disputes involve Captain Campbell, Mr Halden, and Duke of Argyll aligned figures. The vessel readiness and emigrant arrangements are questioned while complaints about payment and location persist. A separate case recounts a horse theft inquiry with Lloyd and Collis over a gray mare and related transfers, ending with possession returned and potential civil action.
Midday sessions reveal Louisa Way cocks accused of robbing the Marquis of Northampton and others after a year in service at Castle Ashby and other houses. Evidence shows stolen plate and books linked to the crime. apron tied to Mrs Bates’s housekeeper. Committed for trial.
In a Dublin style proceeding, Miss Biddy Ryan pretends with theatrical plaster makeup to claim a beating. Nesbitt the usher exposes her ruse byRemoving the adhesive strips, revealing a flawless face and sparking laughter. The magistrate dismisses the case, advising Miss Biddy to attend court without a mask.
A man died when his head struck the kerb and the prisoner, who lamented the accident, stated the deceased was not killed by a blow from him. The prisoner was remanded.
In Croydon a woman named Jane Brown faced the Court of Requests on a begging charge. The old gentleman near Norwood claimed she and others exploited him for money, but the bench discharged her after hearing that the man himself did not file a complaint and that the alleged nuisance was mainly rumors among neighbors.
A fragmentary page blends moonlit verse imagery with a dated admonition on social ascent. It hints at celestial blessings from blossoms under moonlight and urges associating with the highest circles, noting ascension as difficult from lower ranks. The text presents poetic lines and a stray, transitional note about social mobility.
A child from Cape Coe suffered a nasal polypus with foul discharge for three years. After ineffective treatment a covered vest button was expelled during a sneeze while attempting to lodge the polypus with forceps. The relief ended brief and the patient is not fully well.
October insect record notes common moths and silvery butterflies. mentions Pater Longipeds at dusk and Death's-head moth rarity. Skippers and Swallow tails seen on Thames. greed of October entomologist to secure grubs for winter. Also reports enormous Tay eel weighing 364 pounds caught at Inchyra, sent to Perth. poem notes autumn's arrival and harvest hymn.
A Victorian miscellany offers tips for seafood and pastry styled dishes with humorous faults and misprints. It includes cockles boiled to flavor liquor, bubble and squeak guidance, gooseberry fool prep, collaring salmon, drying herring, and a spoof trifle method. Also notes a drink, melted butter, and dry toast methods, plus a curious rat incident at Mathock Bath.
A jumble of quips and verse on jokes about thieves, a Yorkshire schoolmaster, and Paris drama. Lively lines recall lovers and a teasing Nell with comic asides and bawdy innuendo, ending with a comic aside on a pinch that halts rising passions.
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