30 Sep 1848
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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 30, 1848
Page
1
The piece critiques sedition prosecutions and details the Old Bailey trial of Chartists, noting the use of informers and the ethics of government spies. It then reports the Welbeck Abbey inquest into Lord George Bentinck's death, describing witnesses, evidence of a fatal heart spasm, and the verdict of death by visitation of God.
In Grouckston two Kent children Fanny and Sarah Ann died after inexpensive white powder ingested as gruel tested to contain arsenic. An inquest heard testimony from neighbors, surgeons, and relatives detailing contaminated food, a paper bag of white substance, and suspicious home conditions. The coroner adjourned for further evidence as officials pursue chemical analysis.
The Duchess of Northumberland departs the river carrying many emigrants to Australia. Among them are four young men from the adult class at the Grotto passage Ragged School on Marylebone Street, selected as worthy olds with their wives and children, totaling eleven, funded by a committee for passages and outfits to Port Phillip. The committee plans two more departures next week.
A Dublin correspondent renders a Bermuda letter from a Methodist laywoman who tends to convicts on the island. It states John Mitchel remains in tolerably good health though depressed. He has a private apartment and a servant, with humane treatment. asthma troubles recur but are milder due to climate.
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