Central Criminal Court opens with heavy calendar of offences
The eleventh session before the lord mayor opens with 278 cases listed including murder rape manslaughter robbery burglary and embezzlement. Judges discuss jury powers under new acts and consider cases spanning perjury theft and suspected consipracies as proceedings proceed.
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Vine Recordiot
Grand Jury
Charles Thresher
L Division
Adolphus
Samuel Sidebotham
Division of Police
King
James Smethurst
Leonard Buck
Nicholas Edwin
Union Hall
Mesers
Traill
Jeremy
Thresher
Buck
Darlington Place
Surrey Theatre
Smethurst
Clarkson
Commissioners of Police
London Dock
William Napier
London Docks
Adelphus
Bodkin
Phillips
Henry Cole
London
Willimot
Excise Office
Excise
Wheelright
Jones
Craon
Aeviz
Thomas Whiting
Customs
Mr. Clarkson
Custom-house
Customhouse
Ranger
Bisig
Cole
Carlton Club
Richard Ryder
Indicted for Gravel Theft Acquitted in Camden Town Case
Dr Edward Delany Robert Miller and Robert Neskey faced indictment for stealing half a bushel of gravel from Camden Town commissioners. The defense argued no felony intent and prosecutors pursued a warning aim. The court acquitted the three men, with counsel noting legal doubts over felony charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Delany
Robert Miller
Robert Neskey
Camden Town
Prendergast
Delany
Mr. Heston
Boy chimney sweep charged with drunken ness and injury
John Chandler a twelve year old chimney sweep was found drunk in Charlotte street and taken to the station. He testified other sweeps forced gin upon him and Cox the master admitted giving gin. Cox paid twenty shillings to the boy for injuries and was discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cox
Palmer
Williams
Kirkman
Lawrence
Inspector Jervis
Jeant Davies
Mr. Combe
Jervis
Skeleton found in city sewer sparks inquest at Ship tavern
An inquest at the Ship tavern Essex Street Strand investigates the discovery of a human skeleton in a sewer near Temple Bar. Witnesses describe finding the skull and bones, related clothes, and the missing man believed to be Robert Stoddard, a pearl and diamond setter last seen April last. The jury returns a verdict that the skeleton is that of Stoddard.
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Ship Tavern
Essex Street
Strand
Higgs
Templebar
Thomas Late
Labour-in-vaincourt
Old Fish-street
Thames
William Mullins
F. Division of
Police
Merni
Temple-bar
Alfred Walter
Charles-street
Drury-lane
Ann Hearn
Jerusalem
Clerkenwell
Joseph Hearn
Robert Stoddard
Clerkenwell-green
Bethlem Hospital
Bell-alley
Bellasley
Mary Stoddard
Conziarox
Gazelle Hull
Greenwich
London
Royal Victoria
Scotland
Victoria
St. Katharine’s
Waitreewaret
Danby
Whitechapel
Wellclose-square
Puits Neuf
Cote Thiomiere
St. Etienne
North Bridge
Edinburgh Evening Post
Wakley
Queen’s Arms
Harrow Weald
Harrow
James Randall
London and Birmingham
Charles Kempton
Harrow-road
Eastlane
Randall
Joseph Fife
Fife
George Hodgkinson
Middlesex Hospital
Birmingham
Tring
Great Western
St. George’s Hospital
Jones
Downton Castle
Herefordshire
Poet jailed for disturbing Westminster Hospital fire
The Central Criminal Court case centers on a shabby poet who attempted to enter Westminster Hospital seeking warmth and a fire. A police constable testified the man, though not drunk, caused a disturbance while claiming to write plays and a book. He received discharge with a warning and promised a pamphlet on currency.
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Central Criminal Court
Gadler
George Gregg
Ishman
le Sistaire
Bas
Westminster
Mr. Burrell
Westminster Hospital
Tommy Attwood
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Frederick’ Ross
Docks
Alexander
Anderson
London Sessions
Sharpe
Silverton
Chambers
Hobler
Farebrother
Johnson
Portsoken
George II
Harmer, Farebrother
Thomas Wood
Woolwich
Royal Military College
W. Toader
Artillery-place
Arthur George St. John Mildmay
Mildmay
Royal Artillery
Royal Academy
Hill
Colquhoun
Teader
Samuel Watte
Toader
Fead
Biildmsay
The
Ordnance
Seba
Rey
Max
Herman Hoffman
Zug
Gunno
Texas
Ganno
Mir
Steiffeln
Steiffela
Vaterland
Hhis Banda
Herman
der Steiffeln
Creara
Sterlin
High Jarmany
Gottingen
High Jar
Gurne
Marlborough Street
John Scales
James Hare
Dyer
Maitland
Conduit Street
John Wayte
West-street
Hare
Wayte
Vallance
St. Leonard-street
Vauxhall-bridge-road
James Isaacs
Queen Square
Burrell
Lydia Davie
Thomas Davis
No. 1
Palace
Cambride
Thomas Starman
Cambridge Police
Cambridge
Newgate
Charles Wright
Eagle
Reallone
Bagle
Cape
Joshua Judge
Metropolitan Thames Police
Taylor
Ballantine
Roallons
Lambeth Street
Deap Autve
Margaret Morris
James Morris
Lesa
Limehouse
Lea
Beadle
Hardwick
Jeffery
Variouc
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