Robbery and assault trials dominate 1842 court docket
A London courtroom heard a robbery with violence case in which Henry Watson described a lodger’s theft attempt in Stanhope Street with threats to shoot. The jury found guilty of robbery with violence. The session also covered Churchill and Newstead Stringer assault controversy and a bigamy trial. Transportation sentences followed for multiple convicts including Stringer, Fitzgerald, and Newstead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bodkin
Therisoner
Clarkson
Henry Watson
Heene
Tam
Cow Cross
Southampton-street
Strand
Drury-lane
Stanhope Street
Thad
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Susanna Watson
William Hodson
Stankhope Street
Ann Lewis
Bartholomew's Hospital
Robert Samuel Roberts
Stanhope-street
William Hill
Chandos-street
Aaron Rolfe
Baron Rolfe
Churchill
William Stringer
William Fitzgerald
Mills
Charles Newstead
Smith
Nell Gwynne
John Ellis Churchill
Messrs
Messrs. Ellis and Everington
St. Paul's Churchyard
Wynn Ellis
Great Marlborough-street
Oxford-street
Hyde, Park
Kensington Gardens
Oxford Street
Newstead
Kensington
Stringer
Park-lane
Grosvenor Square
Lower Brook Street
Mivart
Davis Street
Berkeley-square
Vine-street
Messrs. Sheppard and Co
Sheppard
Fitzpatrick
Striner
Mesers
Sutton
Sheppard and
Stinger Wrs
Charles Wallace
Hyde-park
Fitzgerald
Toften
Cross-esaw
Ned
Teerning
Willen Thornex
Wimes
Tose
Mir
Guukin
Kbroad-Street
Pridoners
Charing-croas
Cross
Broad-street
Hoxton Street
Travers
Handcourt
Park Jane
Secon Stringer
Thomas Davis
Thomas Plume
Davis
T'Imer
Holland
Mr. Clarkson
Horne
Marlborough-street
Foster-lane
Clack
Peisoner
Charles William Fitzgerald
Strained Marriage Ends in Transportation for Seven Years
A court heard details of a troubled marriage in which Mrs Roberts alleged ill treatment by her husband a man of education and standing. He was found to have misled her about his finances and position, prompting a seven year transportation sentence after the recorder urged a harsh penalty. The case noted the family property arrangements and the dispute over assets and restitution.
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Proprietary Grammar School
Gravesend
Susannah Wren
Islington
Combe
Maria Williams
Ashby-street
Clerkenwell
Wren
Lambeth Street
Henry Clotheer
Ellen
Henry
Wellington-place
St. George's
Whiskin
Excise
Mr. Henry
Indictment Over False Vote by Bristol Clergyman
An 1841 Bristol election case centers on Rev. William Lacy a dissenting minister charged with giving a false answer to the polling questions. Witnesses recount the voting scene at St. Augustine booth with register readings, while counsel urge acquittal arguing uncertainty of right to vote. The court directs a verdict of acquittal as evidence remains inconclusive.
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Bristow
Aug
Tony Paoseourieux
Lisenal
Leev
William Lacy
Itritus
Barstow
Butt
Lucy
Lodge Street
Lodge-street
Jarmay
Berkeley
Miles
Wi. Fripp
Vaughan
Taylor
Stapies
Fripp
Gme
John Rowley
Bristol
W. O. Hare
St. Augustin
Thomas David Taylor
Staples
Mr. Lucy
Dong
Sergeant Boumpas
G. Smith
Police Records from Guildhall and Kennington Common
A report covers Henry Quick accused of arson at Walker’s Seacoal Lane warehouses after being dismissed. witnesses include William Pithouse and Harriet Baker. It also details an incident at Kennington Common where constable 334 DP and others allegedly assaulted Sun reporter J Cameron during a chartist meeting inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notting-hill
Seacoal Lane
William Pithouse
Weymouth
Street
Kent
Walker
Harriet Baker
Bishop’s , Court
Amnson Hall
Kennington-Common
John Cameron
Traill
J. Cameron
Sun
Strand
Constane
134 P
Mr. Cameron
Mr.Traill
Kennington
Cheeseley
Cheesily
Cameron
Cheesely
Trail
Mr. Traill
Gufondant
Crimeron
Sun Office
Man Charged With Outrage Against Police In Marylebone
Edward Lowrie cabman faced magistrate Rawlinson for fierce assault on Inspector Black Sergeant Burke and constable Berry in Baker Street. He bit and kicked officers, nearly bit Olivier's finger, and damaged a bystander. Fined 50 shillings and jailed one month for police attack. stricter punishment limited by law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker Street
Inspector Black
Sergeant Burke
Burke
Ollivier
Rawlinson
Ink spill dispute ends with 20s fine and glare
In a court scene Mrs Wren clashes with Mrs Williams over ink stains on clothing. Mr Combe questions intent, suggests lemon salt remedy, and fines her 20 shillings plus costs. Mrs Wren pays a sovereign, leaves angrily after magistrate’s decision noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Combe
Mrs. Wren
Mrs. Williams
Peculiar Russian Language Slang Among Children
In a column on Russians in the article titled Russia and the Russians, JG Kohl describes how Russian children mix languages with English French and German tutors. The piece notes a rich set of endearing diminutives and nicknames, such as Duschinka and Druschka, used across families and even by foreigners living in Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Feedor
Burl
Nikola
Nana
Rudy Sa
Atkomj
Koko
Nikela
Sa Frese
Sage
Mihloi
Nikela - Zi
Bibi
Kikola
USA
Isa
Lubesnyj
Wilinko
Paduschka
Russia
Jg, Kohl
Fragmentary dialogue on natural history and philosophy in museum text
A garbled excerpt shows Dr Shaw the naturalist in a British Museum scene where a Dutch author writes about a butterfly. The dialogue mocks the voluminous dissertation and ponders origins of mind, with mentions of Watson Llannaff and Dr Jarraid and a bishop philosopher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ir. Shaw
Veliae
British Museum
Watson
Llannaff
Richard Watson
Dr. Jarraid
Opening of the tomb of Sir John Hanbury at Hanbury church
In Hanbury Staffordshire workmen temporarily moved Sir John Hanbury’s alabaster tomb to repair the south aisle. The slab revealed a decayed skeleton and bones, possibly Sir John’s, with no coffin or relics found. The bones will be reinterred when the aisle is rebuilt. Also notes a Worcester suitor’s witty missive seeking a wife with a postscript about “somebody else in my eye.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hanbury
Staffordshire
Hanbury Church
W.H. Archer
Paris
Fradgley
Uttoxeter
John
Worcester
A Classical Horticulturist at Sutton Berkshire
A village sign near Abingdon announces Thermas Cullum an arborist and horticulturist. The notice touts his skills in floristry propagating culinary vegetables exotic trees shrubs plants and training of fruit trees. It promises geometrical plantings laid out on scientific principles on short notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton
Abingdon
Berks
Thermas Cullum
N.B
Mortality Gap Between Bachelors And Married Men
The report notes higher death rates among bachelors than married men in ages 39 to 45, with 27 percent versus 15 percent. For 40 year olds the ratio shifts to 78 bachelors per 48 married men, widening with age. By 70 years only 27 bachelors remain for 9 married men, and at 80 years 3 bachelors survive for 9 married men, per Jr. Caspar. of Bertin.
Immense sea serpent captured near Baton Rouge
In Purasnetinta on August 14 a 50 foot water serpent was shot and captured by a large party under Lt. Crookes of the U S Navy in the Mississippi near Baton Rouge. It had devoured cattle frightened negroes and terrified passengers aboard the steamer Plageurine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purasnetinta
Crookes
United States Navy
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
Whimsical Calculations and a Mormon Row
A fragment discusses absurd weight based voice scaling from grasshoppers to humans, imagining a man’s voice audible at 1000 miles and leaping across the world. It then covers Nauvoo rumors with Sidney Rigdon and General Bennett, detailing Bennett’s quarrel with Joseph Smith and wild charges of licentiousness and exposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jericho
New York
Cochin China
Nauvoo
Jo. Smith
Sidney Rigdon
John C. Bennett
Bennett
Nauvoo Legion
Nauvoo City
Smith
The Ruling Passion and Other Quips
A garbled Victorian miscellany surveys anecdotes of Brillat Savarin Jefferson and Washington, a yarn about a virtuous woman and spinning, Sir Thomas More’s warning, French cookery pride, and a comic folk ballad on catching a salmon with trout tackle in a florid, humorous travelogue of old world wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Brillat-Savarin
Court of Cassation
America
Jefferson
Washington
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John George Aphold
Wilson-street
Finsbury
Miss Morse
Witness
George Morse
Montague
St. James's
Red Lion-street
Albion-terrace
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Poole
Morse
Gill
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Norwich
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Whitecross-street
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Lettin
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Will
Hiv
Alymarse
Aldpouse Hs
Sarah Stroud
Michaelmastern
George White
J. Whittle
Basten Ment
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G. White
W. Stringer
H. Taylor
J. Wilson
C. Newstead
J. Norman
C. W. S. Fitzgerald
G Edwards
E. Gifford
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J. Connell
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T. Sable
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E. ‘Thomas
J. Bedle
P. Cooper
H. Hedigree
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J.ee
J. Tyler
J. Robinson
Howell
W. Ladd
J. Slern
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Ellen Guyon
G. H. Lyne
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J. Wright
J. Venables
Jane Wilson
John Pitta
Govans
J. Ninale
F. Wilson
T. Williams
J. Power
J. Murray
RB. Brooke
W. Dean
E. Guimey
S. Dickinson
3. Willington
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G. Townley
T. Leather
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Joseph Hughes
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Wm. Henderson
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T. Brown
C. Brown
BR. Brown
Patrick Horne
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H. Gosling
Stepien Gale
Alex, Howe
H. Gompertz
S. Tompkins
B. Wood
H. B. Cooper
J. Walker
F. Hughes
Pom Brown
J. Palwer
Thomas White
W. Trucman
S. Walker
Ffty
Assize Intelligence
Mr Walker
Alderman Johnson
Bishop’s Court
Old Bailey
Mr. Mann
William Mann
Hutchings
Mann
Sharp
St. John’s-street
Goswell-street
Holburn-hill
Newgate Market
Newgate-street
Old-street
Newpate-street
Martin
Baker
Bow Street
Bow-street
Marlborough Street
Thomas Addy
Robert Slyde Eddy
Henry Bellamy Webb
Queen-street
Lincoln's Inn-fields
Hemming’s Row
Castle-street
Leicester-square
Plume
Castlestreet
Mr. Webb
Hall
Marylebone
Anteen Wistep
Coleridge
Thomas More
Chancellor's Garden
Chelsea
Henry Void
Prater
Gel al Ho
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