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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 13, 1840
Page
5
The Newport court heard murder charges from a riot incident with John Thomas and others named as defendants. A coroner's inquest described fatal brain injury and a death caused by an old injury, with multiple suspects linked to the attack. The trial proceeded with testimony from witnesses, including Alfred Tibbs and witnesses connected to the riot. The panel returned a verdict of Wilful murder against the named defendants.
Northern Circuit court in Liverpool heard an action for libel by John Hawley a beer-house keeper at Greenhedge near Manchester against Wagg a Staveley police officer. The Manchester Courier and Derbyshire Chronicle article alleged a gang depredations and led to Hawley’s arrest. Jury awarded £20 damages.
Mary Ann Haley and Ann Bennett, two young women, face re-examination on charges of concealing a birth. Moss, a slopmalkers' tailor and employer of Haley, is in custody with similar accusations of disposing of his employer Mr Hurrex’s property. Witnesses describe Moss corrupting young women. Haley, aged about 10 at birth last July, took an abominable substance believed to be provided by Moss. The infant’s coffin was burnt after a registration dispute and the body dumped in a garden at Cambridge Heath, drawing neighborhood alarm until Kemp, a police constable, intervened.
In a Bethnal Green inquest, Kemp presented a parochial officers’ certificate confirming the body’s discovery and a coroner’s depositions. Bennett, recently arrested, indicated the exact shot where the body was discarded. Hurrex noted theft of clothing by Moss and others under his influence, while Moss admitted pawning his employer’s property. Moss faces summary disposal for property theft. two women are to stand trial for concealing the birth, with Bethnal Green parochial authorities pursuing the prosecution.
At Brentford Petty Sessions Thomas Weedon keeper of a Southall beer shop faced information for keeping his house open at 2:15 am on a Wednesday with 12 people present and coffee cups on the table. Magistrates adjourned decision two weeks. In HoBRox Petty Sessions Molly Russell and Kitty Carty quarrelled, a comic melee ensued with Ned Brennan as arbiter. They were ordered to keep the peace and Brennan received 1s 6d for his trouble after a chaotic division of shared goods.
A blaze swept through the Lucifer match factory workshops on Ever Street Gravel Lane Southwark destroying the premises and dangerous contents before fire engines arrived. The ignition arose from spontaneous combustion of Congreve matches composition. Two inquests at St Bartolomews Hospital heard accounts of a fatal crane accident involving ironworker Robert Howe and a fall from a window leading to a child’s accidental death, both resulting in verdicts of accidental death.
A storm of misfortunes fills the week with shipwrecks and near disasters. Iris steamer passengers escape sinking at Brunswick Gardens pier. London and Westminster incidents include a driver collapsing, a self-harm case in Meath hospital, a bridge jumper, gas explosion at Nichol and Pellutt, and multiple railway and scaffold accidents. Fatalities include workers, a river drowning, and a Beaumort Square collapse. The Arabian mutiny at sea reports loss of crew and several passengers, with several survivors.
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