Island court rules niece not competent witness
In a 1813 case the court faced shifting jurisprudence on witness competency. Ann Dam was charged with breaking a box and stealing bank notes, with Pierre Desbrodére and family called as crown witnesses. The court ultimately ruled the niece was not a competent witness, prompting debate over consistency and potential legislative change.
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Ann Dam
Pierre
Desbrodére
le Sueur
France
Central Criminal Court opens eleventh session with 169 prisoners for trial
The eleventh session at the Central Criminal Court convened at ten o'clock in the Old Bailey. The recorder explained duties to the grand jury as cases range from forged instruments and post office robberies to a high seas murder charge against a captain for seamen deaths. The court impanelled petit juries amid lighter excuses and heard a mixed docket including a guilty verdict for Fuller and Chamberlayne in a banking and theft case, and a case of a man marrying twice.
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Mownpar
Central Criminal Court
Old Bailey
Thomas Wood
Rogers
Newgate
High Seas
Percival Hamilton Chamberlayne
Mary
George Fuller
Jane Sophia Matilda
William Napier Reeve
Thomas Alley Jones
Messrs
Bodkin
Doane
Chadwick Jones
Messra
Phillips
Clarkson
Ballantine
Chamberlayne
Taxspay
Fuller
Regent-street
Laurence
Jones
Kensington
Reeve
New Court
Frederick Hilder
Frederick Hilder Holditch
Eliza Seal
Maria Hilder
Olp
Henry Bellamy Webb
Payne
Great Queen Street
Lincoln’s Innfields
Baring Brothers
St. Martin's Place
Piazza
Covent Garden
St.ames Street
Stringer
Fitzgerald
Ewntead
Bow-street
Newstead
Im ‘Etterlane
Assaults and embezzlement trials at Bow Street and Marylebone
In London, trials proceed at Bow Street and Marylebone with verdicts on assaults linked to protests and riots. A man accused of felonious assault on a police constable is found not guilty after witnesses place him among a mob, while another case centers on embezzlement from a straw-hat maker with partial payments and a bail request for health reasons. Meanwhile a footman named Barandon is committed for stealing silver plate valued around £100 after absconding with the items.
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Vieri
Webb
Payne
Justice Wightman
Therisoner
Bodkin
House of Correction
Mretiner Lincoly
Edward Sweeney
Edmund Sweeney
Longacre
Bow Street
Bow-street
Ballantine
Charles James Snitch
Thomas Wolf
Chambers
Police
Queenstreet
Lincoln’s Inn
Felda
Long-acre
William Warner
Warry
W. Warner
Great-alley
Sweeney
Wolf
Weeney
Prscer
Warner
Sykes King
Hey
Marylebone
Rosseay
William Dew
Bristol
Rawlinson
F. Barandon
Carlton Villas
Edgeware Road
John Robert Dry
Loveday
St. Alban’s Place
Mr. Rawlinson
Old Bailey
William Chilcott
St. Augustin's
Place
Barandon
Broad-street
Tower Street
London
George East
Camberwell
T. Paynter
Thomas Dawley
Wontner
Jennings
Thomas Dowling
Patrick Davey
Jenning
Witness
Thomas
James
Aentleman
Cross
Mr.Wontner
James Street
Mr. Paynter
James Dawley
Swaine
Kensington
Dawley
Tigonor
Newgate
Wandsworth
Thomas Green
Young Green
Richard Wright
Bolingbroke
Row
Battersea
Druce
Robert Francis
Metheringham
Bolingbroke Row
Excise
Mr. Wright
T. Green
Mr. T. Green
Wright
Benjamin Metheringham
Blackfriars
Tower
England
Ethiopia
Police Reports From A London Court Scene And Clerkenwell
A report recalls a drunk and incapable Irishman Pat, a Dublin style confession, and sentences about labor, drink, and a single capture. It notes Dowling the Weekly Chronicle collector facing embezzlement charges with witness testimony. A death in Old Pye Street draws a coroner’s case, with postmortem findings and doubts of manslaughter. In Clerkenwell a man with suspected insanity is detained at a workhouse after being found disoriented and refusing nourishment, with a family history offered by a workhouse landlady.
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Patrick Callaghan
Hall
Father Mathew
Mr. Hall
Pat
Mike
Dowling
Weekly Chronicle
Eekly Chronicle
John Philip Crantz
Squalry
Tp Munpen
James Kirk
Old Pye-street
Westminster
Barefoot
Reginald James
Westminster Hospital
Mr. Barefoot
Catherine Seymour
Taylor
St. Sepulchre’s
Assault by a butcher in Shepherds market ends in fine
Elizabeth Molloy testified that James Booth the butcher chased her into her house and struck her head, claiming family ties justified the act. The court deemed the blow unjust and fined Booth 40 shillings plus costs. Separate case: two men accused Wright of taking half crowns under pretence of arranging jobs. judge warned applicants to verify legitimacy before paying.
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Ax Asnault
Elizabeth Molloy
James Booth
Shepherd's Market
Mr. Hardwick
Hardwick
Wright
Heming's-row
Charing-croas
From Bow-street Toan asylum and Irish drunk verdicts in Bow Street
The report details a man chased by royal carriages in St James's Park and sent to parish care after claiming to wish to speak to the Queen. It also recounts a boy suspected of attempted drowning in the New River, rescued by a bystander, with stern moral reflections from Mr Clive. A third item features Patrick Mulcahy, an Irishman charged with drunkenness, whose sad, humorous hearing ends with lenient remarks and his departure after a light moral.
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St James's Park
Bow-street
Captain Davie
Therisoner
Wales
Patrick Mulcahy
Isle of
Shillelahs
Samrocks
Waddington
Cumbe
Gray’s Inn-Road
Rowling
Mr. Combe
London
Cork
William the Fourth
Defendant
Mr.Combe
A Lirenany Character Charged With Theft of Books
Frederick Hawkes Nottage described as an author faced a magistrate for unlawfully disposing of several sets of novels owned by John Hancock's circulating library in City Road. Evidence showed he pledged books at a pawnbroker after claiming author status and receiving subscriptions for a forthcoming work. He was remanded.
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Worship Street
Frederick Hawkes Nottage
Broughton
John Hancock
City Road
Fenimore Cooper
Bulwer
Sowerby
Chiswell-street
Sir George Couper
Duchess of Kent
Duke of Argyll
George Couper
Musprett
Price
Finsbury Pavement
Miller
Alleged Outrage on a Boy in Kensington Trial Preparations
Mr John Webber of 26 Suffolk Street Pall Mall East appeared for further examination after previous remand on the alleged outrage on a boy case. The court adjourned proceedings to a later date as investigations continue.
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Kensington
Comuitra
John Webber
Suffolk-street
Pall Mall-East
Veteran butcher's lad retires from long service in Yeadon
William Peate, aged 94, resides in Yeadon Village and has spent 20 to 30 years with his current employer. He earlier served as a butcher's lad, delivering feast beef to customers and collecting orders as part of his daily rounds.
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Lonceviy
Yeadon
William Peate
Snowdrops and courtship in a long old verse tale
The fragmentary prose and verse pieces mix rhymes of courting snowdrops with urban wit and travel vignettes. Readers meet a quixotic letter of devotion with green tabarded sprigs, a Cockney observational joke about a waterman, and a French dinner table misunderstanding, all set against a parade of quirky anecdotes including a Parthenon note and a mice-in-a-case post story.
THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD AND LONDONERS AND LIONS
A Cambridge union poor-house visitors’ book note praises a visiting schoolmaster. A Punch item mocks London theatre patrons and Carter’s lion, suggesting danger draws crowds while a Worcester Journal item jokes about a tiny profit in income tax returns.
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Cambridge Union Poor-House
Union
Cambridge Chronicle
Extraordinary broccoli grows six feet high in Welsh garden
In Aberdylais a cottage garden shows four broccoli plants of the French variety reaching six feet six inches. No flowers have appeared yet, and bloom is not expected before Christmas, according to Cambrian observations.
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Aberdylais
Fishing Bears in Kamtschatka Rivers
During peak salmon season in Kamtschatka bears easily catch fish and prefer heads and backs. Kamtschatkales say a large bear can spoil from 25 to 80 fish in a night. As the season progresses and fish lessen, their selects become less choosy.
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Kamtschatka
Kamtschatkales
Spitalfields Weaving Portraits In Silk For Duchess Of Kent
A new silk weaving method produces portrait hangings in Spitalfields. The first piece portrays the Duchess of Kent and Prince Albert, woven on Jacquard with about 4,000 cards, cost roughly £100, and will be presented to the Duchess this week.
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Spitalfields
Duchess of Kent
Cochran
Joseph Dean
Gretton-place
Bethnal-green
Dean
Prince Albert
Jacquard
Extraordinary Apple Report From Devonshire Garden
A Devonshire Independent note records an extraordinary apple picked on the 16th at Mr. Brett’s garden in Higher Anderton near Millbrook. It measured 14 inches in circumference and weighed 193 ounces, marked as remarkable.
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Brett
Higher Anderton
Millbrook
Devonshire Independent
River Elbe Dried Up Reveals Ancient Saxon Inscription
The Elbe waters have fallen so low that waters mills stand idle near Pirnga. A bare square stone bears Saxon patois inscription dated August 1629, promising tears for the next observer. A French observer praises gastronomy as a vital discovery ahead of stellar conquest.
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Elbe
Pirnga
A Sentimental Sonnet to a Sick Elephant
A verse in a Punchesque mood laments a captive elephant in Ceylon. The speaker condemns confinement, compares the wild forests to a narrow cage, and reflects on the beast's suffering and longing for freedom until death releases it. The piece blends royal imagery with critique of enclosure and human dominion.
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Ceylon
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John Smmonds
Simmonds
Crantz
the Weekly Chronicle
Ree
Liverpool
Martin
Rushton
Richard Houghton
Davenport
Towera
Parthenon
Acropolis
Western Mail
Bridgend
Glamorganshire
Fiddler
Mam
Carter
Scott
Mr. Carter
Jeu D'Esprit
Hanley
Worcester Journal
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