Central Court Deals Harsh Sentences In Light Term Run
The Central Criminal Court opened with about 150 prisoners to be tried. Ann Cocking, John Cocking, Benjamin Buggy, and George Washington Mahdree faced extended transport terms after errors in prior sentencing. Esther James alias Silvester received two months for bigamy and fraud. A calf-wounding case led to a ten year transportation. Cases of thefts of carts and trucks culminated in seven and fourteen year sentences for repeat offenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reeden
Lainson
Sherif
Ann Cocking
John Cocking
Benjamin Buggy
George Washington Mahdree
Binamy
Esther James Alias
Silvester
John James
Richard Silvester
Newcut
Lambeth
Sey
Banns
Joseph Sinfield
Philip Cheat
Barking
Essex
John Capel
Cheat
Arabin
Lawrence Doyle
Samuel Hawkins Judsom
Whitechapel
Harrowalley
Church-street
Thomas Dudman
Lemuel Everett
High Street
Warwick
Big Ben
Messrs. Botterill
Judsum
Police court hears varied cases from theft to assault
A man named Thomas Downing faced Alderman Pirie for defrauding furrier Mr Poland. Other hearings cover brutal assaults by Sinfield and Eames, highway robbery by Johnson and Cronin, a drunken public-house incident with Mr King, attempted suicide, destitution of a boy, and multiple shop and cabriolet thefts with varied outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marylebons
Eames
Sinfield
Witness
New York
Richard Davies
S 193
S 54
Hoskins
House of Correction
Duarce
Hiaaway Rossery
Cronin
Johnson
Turnage
Magistrates heard plea over destitute woman Eliza Moore
Mr Stockdale presented a letter to the magistrate regarding the Refuge for the Destitute. Eliza Moore, alleged destitute, had been sent to the workhouse after a court inquiry. she claimed seduction by a man in Clerkenwell and no address was found. Stockdale offered aid from the Refuge. officials noted separate male and female establishments. The case proceeded with inquiries and potential parish support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. King
Palisades
Witness
Mr. Smith
Rowley
Witham
King
William Somers
Guildford-street
Clerkenwell
Hodges
Inspector Penny
Hubert Saunders
O’gorman
Liverool Road
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Islington
John Blackburne
Louis Reyton
Tottenham Court-Road
Curzonstreet
Mayfair
Jorge Brown
No. 1
Barton
G Division
Bagnigge-wells Road
Greenyard
Mr. Witham
Her
House of Correction
Stockdale
Eliza Moore
Mallett
Rogers
St. Clement’s Church
Strand
Charing-cross
Hackney
Hoxton
Dewing
G. Division
Queen Square Area Sneakings and Tragic Hoxton Case
Elizabeth Hurrell age about 50 is charged with stealing five shoe brushes from the Earl of Belfast at Belgrave Square. In Hoxton a 17 year old apprentice Thomas Chamberlain faces indecent assault charges connected to the disappearance and death of Sarah Collard, with testimony detailing alleged misconduct by the prisoner and the master Mr East, who is deeply affected as the coroner’s inquiry proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Square
Elizabeth Hurrell
Earl
Belfast
Belgrave Square
Henry James
Thomas Chamberlain
East
Turnersquare
Hoxton
Codd
Grove
Sarah Collard
Regent’s Canal
Lambert
Turner-square
Ann Smith
Thames Office: Toaitors and Pilotage Dispute at Gravesend
In a Thames Office hearing Alexander Volum of the brig Mary Hay faced Richard Ross over £4 12s 7d for piloting from Gravesend to London Docks. Ross claimed exemption due to law, while Volum argued the pilotage statute did not apply. The court ordered payment of pilotage and costs, noting no valid exemption was proven. Also reported, Edward Bundle faced charges for converting £7 2s 6d found in the street, after a sequence involving a lost check and bank counterfeiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames
Alexander Volum
Mary Hay
Richard Ross
Gravesend
London Docks
Ashe
Wes Indies
Rotterdam
London
Mr. Broderip
Channel
Baltic
North Seas
Broderip
Greenwood
Union Hale
Edward Bundle
Dare
Walworth
Jones and Loyd
Lombard-street
Elephant and Castle
London-bridge
Clapham
Howe
Prisoner in fraud case faces trial and remand
The trial details a man who cashed a found check for another in the street. The accused admitted finding the check and claimed no knowledge of the crime. Magistrates debated evidence from shop staff and a banker before remanding him for further inquiry and possible trial by the lord mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Traill
Dare
Richard Ricketts
Swabey
M‘kee
Hull
Bermondsey
London-bridge
Duke-street
Surrey Theatre
Sam
M’kee
Royal Horse Brigade accident and seaside wrecks
Reports from Woolwich common describe a gunner named John Scott sustaining a fractured thigh after a rear horse kick during field exercise. In Edmonton a gig collision killed Mrs Rowley and severely injured her son, while a young girl narrowly survived. Regent's Park police discover a dead woman’s body in the water and a gale throws several vessels toward St Ives Bay, with the Big Purl wrecked off the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Underwood
Yates
Fulham
Col
Arabin
Woolwich-common
Royal Arsenal
Dresprun
Manchester and
Liverpool
Newton-on the- Willows
Jones
Turner
Evana
Messrs. Jones and Co
Gretna
Joseph Dangerfield
Dangerfield
Samuel Appleton
George Fazakerley
John Dean
Thomas Price
John Parker
Wm. Wells
George Hough
Wm. Dane
Wilson
Newton and St. Helen’s
S. Tedder
Waterloo Bridge
Royal Artillery
Whynyates
CBKH
John Scott
Scott
Military Hospital
Rowley
Edmonton
White
Regent’s Park
Inner Circle
Marylebone
St. Ives Bay
Fires Flares Across London Slums and Estates
A series of fires terrorized districts from Old Kent Road to Lovelane and Copthall. At York Terrace a family fled a burning shopfront with neighbors blamed for denying entry. Water shortages hampered engines, but crews saved the rope-walk and numerous properties, though losses ran high including three hunters and crops at Colonel Conyers estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auago
Keyrtroop
Southwark
Kent-street
Blackman-street
Richardson
York-terrace
Old Kent-road
James
Brown
Dumbrill
Cowan
Southwark-bridge Road
Waterloo-road
Morgan’s-lane
Farringdon Street
Chandos-street
West of England
Baines
Messrs. Smith and Co
Lovelane
Shadwell
Messrs
Gale and Sons
London Brigade
Love- Jane and Child’s Place
Colonel Conyers
Copthall
Essex
Coroners Inquest into Captain George Goring’s Death
A coroner and jury inspect the body of Captain George Goring aged 32 at the Burlington Hotel Cork Street Bond Street. Witness Lieut Col Freeth testifies Goring, recently returned from Jamaica, spoke of low spirits and kidney pains and planned marriage in November. He sought medical advice before his death by suicide using a razor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gell
Burlington
Cork-street
Bond-street
George Goring
Bank of England
James Edward Freeth
Jamaica
England
Strand
Also Mentioned on This Page
Central Criminal Court
Alderman Pirie
Thomas Downing
Poland
Broadstreet
Martin
Joseph French
Bailey and Milner
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Bailey
Jackson
Paul
Mesers
Milner
Bodkin
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