Not Guilty by Insanity in Post Office Frauds Case
The trial centered on eight forged money orders and related acts by James Samuel Brown. Witnesses linked handwriting to the prisoner and police later found cash and valuables. The jury returned a not guilty verdict by reason of insanity. he will be sent to Bedlam for life.
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Son
Peraone
Wolf
Anbties Wightman
Justice Wightman
Justice Cresswell
James Samuel Brown
Elizabeth Blundell
Camberwell
London
Witness
Sittingbourne
General Post Office
Robert Porter
Wells
Blackfriars Road
Brougham
Kennington
Clapham Road
Islington
Sadler's Wells
Marsh
John Reeve Kenney
Patrick Rowland Jackson
Charles Frederick Armstrong
Matthew Peak
Ast
Bowstreet
Mary Anne Brown
Catherine Brown
Branscombe
Amyette
Sutherland
Phillips
Macmurdo
Lord Lowther
16Th Lancers
Bedlam
Edward Leader
Lauring Leader
Alleged Murder on the High Seas Trial Not Guilty Verdict
On October 20, 1841, Phillip Partridge master of the Jarrow faced a murder indictment for the death of Jose Maria Bainger at sea. Prosecution witnesses described brutal flogging and starvation aboard the Jarrow near Prince of Wales Island, but the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty after defence argued the captain’s actions were necessary for vessel survival.
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High Seas
Justice Wightman
Justice Cresswell
Philip Partridge
Jarrow
Jose Maria Bainger
Adolphus
John Fisher
Waddington
Liverpool
Benin
Prince of Wales Island
Jose
Prince's Island
Prince’s Island
Joseph Fisher
Cross
Clarkson
Crown
Ghey
Santa Cruz
Cape of Good Hope
Cork
Falmouth
Peru
Teneriffe
Henry Allen
Samorella
Lamorella
Witness
Lamprela
Lamorelle
Samo‘Tella
Castle
Mr. Clarkson
John Gorman
Charles Washington Teacorrie
Sumorella
William Tate
Jones
Not Guilty and Riot Trial At Great Western Terminus
A detailed court report covers a contested case where a prisoner claimed self defense against a police constable. The recorder and jury weighed intent to stab, common assault, and riot charges, leading to acquittals for Checketts and Munday and a one month sentence for Checketts on a separate count.
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Bin
Mr. Ballantine
Recorder
Ballantine
Ile
Wm. Checketts
Samuel Munday
William Checketts
Chambers
Checketts
Great Western Railway
Munday
Prendergast
Marylebone Pirate Robbery Case Before Mr Rawlinson
William Dew is charged in Marylebone with stealing a substantial quantity of silver plate valued at about £100 from his employer Mr Barandon where he lived as footman. A pawnbroker shopman testified that Dew pawned twelve dessert forks and eight tea spoons on the 15th for £3 10s, and initial discrepancies were noted between the plate and the owner’s name. Dew claimed to need cash for a country journey while denying ownership of the property.
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Jvcterary
Frederick Hawkes Nottage
Broughton
John Hancock
Fenimore Cooper
Bulwer
Sowerby
Chiswell-street
Sir George Couper
Duchess of Kent
Duke of Argyll
Musprett
Miller
Liverpool
Price
Finsbury Pavement
Marylebone
William Dew
Bristol
Rawlinson
II’. Barandon
Carlton Villas
Edgeware Road
John Robert Dry
Loveday
St. Alban’s Place
Mr. Rawlinson
Mr.Rawlinson
Old Bailey
William Chilcott
St. Augustin’s. Place
Barandon
No. 5
Broad Street
Tower-street
Broad-street
London
Pledge Fraud Trial At Bristol Pawnshop
Witnesses describe a suspect named Barandon who offered six table spoons and six forks for pledge claiming they were his own and left by an uncle. The pawnshop keeper, William Chilcott, identified the falsehoods and detained the man until police arrived. The prisoner was committed.
Assault by Butcher Over Family Feud At Shepherd's Market
Elizabeth Molloy testified that James Booth the butcher struck her in her home after pursuing her from his shop alleging insult to his wife. Judge Hardwick fined Booth 40 shillings plus costs as witnesses described a swelling on the girl’s head. Two men also complained of losing money to a register office operator named Wright in Heming's row Charing Cross. The court cautioned that people must verify legitimacy before paying for services.
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Patrick Callaghan
Hall
Father Mathew
Mr. Hall
Mr. Hull
Pat
Mike
Dowling
Weekly Chronicle
John Philip Crantz
West
John Simmonds
Simmonds
Crantz
Pentlow
Hatton
Mary Ann Young
Cottingham
Ellen Neal
George East
Camberwell
Elizabeth Molloy
James Booth
Shepherd's Market
Mr. Hardwick
Regiter Orvick-KeerEns
Nlardwick
Wright
Heming's Row
Charing-croas
Martin
Rushton
Richard Houghton
Davenport
Irish Defendant Tells Courts of Cork to London Journey
In a London magistrates court the defendant from Cork speaks comically of his eight days in the city. He jokes about origin King William the Fourth and claims he came to London to fulfill any situation for his benefit, preferring bricklayer’s clerk work. He admits heavy drinking since arrival, then bows and thanks the court as he leaves.
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London
Cork
Mr. Combe
William the Fourth
Hodman
Farrin
WANDSWORTH EXCISE SEIZURE AT SUGAR MAKER'S FACTORY
In Bolingbroke row Battersea Thomas Green and partners faced an excise information with six counts for offences against the excise laws. The premises yielded 45 gallons of low wines and 33 gallons of wash, with a converted evaporating tub and a fired boiler found. The defendants blamed ruinous duties and admitted the facts. magistrate imposed a 100 pound penalty.
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Wandsworth
Thomas Green
Young Green
Richard Wright
Bolingbroke Row
Battersea
Druce
Robert Francis
Metheringham
Bolingbroke-row
Tang
Payne
Excise
Wright
T. Green
Benjamin Metheringham
Puyster
Alleged Horrible Outrage on a Boy at Kensington
John Webber of 26 Suffolk Street Pall Mall remanded for further examination on a charge of committing a most horrible outrage on Thomas Dawley, a boy aged 13 or 14. The witness Thomas Dowling described the shocking sequence from lodging inquiry to confrontation in the kitchen.
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von Triat
John Webber
Suffolk-street
Pall Malleast
T. Paynter
Thomas Dawley
Wontner
Jennings
Thomas Dowling
Patrick Dowley
Jenning
Bering
Witness
Thomas
James
Elopement of Miss Agnes E sparks royalite in London
In the morning a wealthy merchant’s daughter Miss Agnes E. elopes with medical suitor Mr A. after courting with a noble heir. They marry at St Mary Padlington Green and travel by glass coaches toward Brighton, with plans for India. The incident shocks families. ironmasters later discuss price advances and orders.
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Mr. A
Mr. E
Miss E
Queen Square
Great Ormond-street
Agnes
Papa
St. Mary
Padlington Green
Bristol
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Westminster
Barefoot
Reginald James
Westminster Hospital
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Clerkenwell
Clive
Combe
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St. Sepulchre's
Peter-street
St. James’s Park
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Wales
St. Sepulchre
Frederick Norris
New River
An Tristaan
Lennox
Patrick Mulcahy
Isle of
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Shamrocks
Gray’s Inn-Road
Rowling
Union Hall
Poligeman
H . James
Wontie
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