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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 30, 1841
Page
6
The Central Criminal Court docket lists charges from murder to embezzlement and highway robbery. Judges Abinger and Gurney preside as juries convict William Street, John Jones, and others. sentences include transportation for 15 years, seven years, and hard labor plus prison terms.
The report details a case where Charles Chillingworth, a confectioner, was charged with ring dropping after a woman, Ann Conway, described a stranger who found a brass ring claiming a real wedding ring was worth 12 shillings. She bought it for 10 pence, later learned it was brass, and police found rouge in a cleaning packet on the man. The magistrate discharged him amid questions about the trick. Additional incidents include Harriet Willinghan’s alleged cab fare scam and a salvo of public-house disputes over prostitution and licensing at Piccadilly Saloon and Leicester Square salons, with varied outcomes and fines.
Mr Thomas Linfield a builder of Stanhope Street Hampstead road faced charges after being found in the back parlour of Mr Dawkins at No 52 Clarence street late Saturday night. Evidence showed multiple extraordinary assaults occurring between eleven and twelve o'clock, with the prisoner brought before the bar on Monday.
In Regent's Park a man attacked Mrs Dawkins and husband, delivering severe blows before being fined five pounds for both assaults. In Paddington a 12 year old boy faced charges for two school robberies, admitting theft from a box and later stealing from a second box, leading to committal for trial.
Long report covers multiple criminal cases from London courts including John Scott a chimney sweep charged with intent to commit a felony at Colonel Vaughan 19 Rutland Gate Chelsea and similar proceedings against John Coulton the dairyman and others for burglary robbery and assault with details of witnesses and magistrate rulings.
The report describes a violent assault by a married man on a complainant and his subsequent arrest, with police testimony and a £3 penalty imposed. Separate items detail William Charlton’s disorderly conduct and assault on a policeman, and horsebreaking arrests at Union Hall involving Castle and Johnson with stolen plate and keys.
A survey notes about 187 manufactories near Moscow, led by Alesandrofsky Zavol six miles from the capital. It cites 3,000 free workers and 14 Foundling Hospital children, with textiles and machinery produced but steam engines imported more cheaply from England. English superintendents run operations. The remainder blends political verse and garbled travelogue about Garrat, reform, and corn debates, mixing brigading rhetoric with stray impressions of Britain and Russia.
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