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SUICIDE OF THE BOLTON SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE

... S&ICIDR OF THE BOLTON S.HUPRI.N TEN- JDENT OF POLICE. Tuesday an inquest was held at Liverpool, touching the death of Hiram Simpson, late superintendent of po- lice at Bolton, and formerly an inspector in the Liver- pool police force. This event, from the circumstances connected with it, and from the respe!t in which the deceased was held by all who came into contact with him in his capacity ...

Published: Sunday 29 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2628 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... GUILDHALL. A Common Cheat On Wednesday a respectable-looking man, between fifty and sixty years of age, who calls himself Thomas Colein Cooake, was brought before Mr. Alderman Lain- son, charged with being a common cheat. The alder- man recognized him as soon as he was placed at the bar, having been charged last week with defrauding the land- lord of the Harrow, on Primrose-hill, Salisbury ...

CORONERS' INQUESTS

... CORONERS' INQUIESTS. u- CHARSGE OF MURDER AGAINST A WH5OLE FA ?? MILY.-On Wednesday afternoon an investigation p, which lasted nearly four hours, took place at the Red ch Lion, Princes'.street, Westminster, before Mr. Gell re assisted by Mr. Higgs, relative to the death of Johi d, Yates, aged Gd, a costermonger, who died under circum c- stances of so extraordinary a nature as to warrant th t- ...

Published: Sunday 15 March 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

FIVE MORE POOR LAW MURDERS!

... An inquiry has been instituted into the cause of the death of four children at Manchester. Englishmen! read the horrible details, and say whether the sanguinary Poor Laws shall remain on the Statute Book. Upon the investigation, it appeared that, the earnings of the four victims and their father, whose name is Hardy, amounted to no more than 4s. 6d. per week, out of which he had to pay for ...

THE BLOOMSBURY CASE

... THE -LOOIMSSURY CASE. , - . , o ?? ?? Mr. Ridsdale's action against the Earl of Lichfield was tried at Liverpool on Thursday, before Mr. Baron Maule and a Special Jury. The declaration stated that a cer- tain colt, afterwards called Bloomsbury, was entered for the stakes at Ascot Races ; that he was improperly des- cribed, and therefore disqualified. The defendant denied that there had been ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... ASSIZE INTELLICENCE. CHESTER ASSIZES. Peter Mfurray M'Dozzall, surgeon, of Ramsbottom, near Bury, and Joohn Bradley, clog-maker, of Hyde, were indicted for having, on the 22d of April last, at Hyde, attended an unlawful assembly, which was calcu- lated to excite to a breach of the peace. Mr. Hill, Attorney-General for the Palatine, Mr. i Jervis, and Mr. Welisby appeared for the prosecution. I ...

Published: Sunday 25 August 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 10482 | Page: Page 15, 16 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SUMMER ASSIZES

... SUMM ERIASSKZER -- LIVE3POOL.-CaowN sz. -vAu. 24. This morning t, Chartistsc imnplicated in ihe ate proceedings at Manbester, Bolton, Asbton-under-Lynes W other place, In this county, were arraigned. Their number is very great, amounting 'to seventy, -or eighty, at least. On arraignment, fiur pleaded guilty, viz. two persons named Bardesley, Coi, and Wlardel. Of the remainder, the greater ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1594 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTELLICENCE. GUILDHALL. A ' Mudlark.' * divard Eveling was brought up on Monday, charged swith attempting to steal two pieces of iron from a barge off Crawshay's iron-wharf, Thames-street. The evi- deisce was not conclusive, and Mr. Crawshay did not attend to prosecute. The prisoner is what is called a * mudlark,' or raker in the inud, at the mouths of the sewers in the Thames, and ...

Published: Sunday 08 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5135 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... MANSION-HOUSE. Coring In for CThirds. 'wo men, nauted Bishop and Headland, were sum mooned befoxv the Lord Mayor, for having refused t 1low : young man named Marshall to participate i v assrd of 201. which had been paid by a gentlema Iei- e restoration of a lost pocket-book, containing su ?? ?? said that on the 21st Nke v.met as lie was izl his master's smack, a perso ?? was in another part ...

Published: Sunday 22 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6965 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... ASSIZE INTELLICENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-NOTTINGHAM, John Driver, aged 29, was charged on Friday week, I upon the coroner's inquisition, with the wilful miirder of Anne Hancock, at the parish of Caunton. Mr. Clarke conducted the case for the prosecution. It- appeared from the evidence that on the day of the evening on which the murder was committed, Driver, in the com- pany of two or three others ...

Published: Sunday 28 July 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4304 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE MANSION HOUSE. Impudent Thieves. Two young men, named Cleaver and Coxr, were charged with having broken into the house of Mrs. Blundel, Rose and Crown-court, Half Moon-street, and stolen a quantity of clothes, and other property. The prose- cutrix stated that Cleaver had formerly been her appren- tice, but she bad been obliged to get rid of him on ac. count of his bad ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 9015 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... -ASSIZE .INTELL1CENCE. 'MONTGOMERYSHIRE. The commission was opened on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Pattison. The grand jury were summoned for ten o'clock oss Monday. Great interest appeared to have been excited by the approaching trial of the parties charged with the disturbances, multiplied. into a variety of technical legal offences, which have lately transpired at Llanidloes and Newtown, ...