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DREADFUL MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN BY HER BROTHER AT KEIGHLEY

... DREADFUL MbRDER OF A I OUNG WOMAN BY HER BROTHER AT KEIGILEIY. This retired town, whose name is little heard of in the dark records of crime, seated as it is on the far verge of the clothing district, and at the foot of the wild Ap- penine of England, was on Wednesday se'nnight roused from its quietude by, the report of murder-of murder not such as prompts the night haunting bandit, nor such ...

Published: Sunday 10 November 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2682 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE NEWS

... DESTITUTION. At the Mansion-house, a miserable woman, diseased and exhausted, was brought before the Lord Mayor, by direction of the commissioner of the city police, in consequence of the refusal of the relieving officer of the city of London union to give her an asylum or relief on the preceding night upon being applied to by a police officer. The policeman stated that he found the unfor- ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3947 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

MURDEROUS AFFRAY—TWO POLICEMEN NEARLY KILLED

... NIAL KKIL' RD. Frederick Hagger, a sailor, and William alget, a labourer, two fellows of notorious character, were brought up at' the Walthamstow Petty Sessions, under a strong escort of police, and placed at the bar, charged with a murderous assault, lendangering the lives of po. lice constables James Reynolds, of the Walthamstow division, No. 5, and William Lawrence, No. 6, on the night of ...

Published: Sunday 06 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1296 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... PoUICZE INflMLUCEISCL MANSION HOUSE.. Unawfu Fishing. Two fishermnea were on .31Wednesday ?? the assistant water-bailiff withihiaving poked or fish:in the nlew preserves at: HamnptoiL; It was proved that ?? de- foidaits were seerurwit Polk poking the fi4h out of the preserves into the streain~ where they ere prepared with .nets to catch them. ...

Published: Sunday 13 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6263 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES AND THE CORONERS

... At the conclusion of an inquest held on Tuesday ?? Mr. Baker, a juror, who said he was a rate- per, addressed the coroner and his fellow-jurymen. ) thought this a fitting opportunity to notice the very extraordinary conduct of the Middlesex magistrates, who, after fixing a table of fees, in compliance with the aht of Parliament, had lately complained of the expense of the coroner's court, and ...

Published: Sunday 20 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1258 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... BOW STREET. An Irish Direction. A decentlY dressed Irish lad, accompanied by a respect- able.looking man, presented themselves before Mr. Twy- fofd, to ask for advice under the following circumstances: -The lad, it appeared, had lived for five years in the service of a Mr. M'Namarg, a young gentleman who was not yet of age, but who had estates in Ireland, situate in Clare and the Queen's ...

Published: Sunday 03 February 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5011 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE WARWICK GRAND JURY CHARGE

... I Mr. Justice Littledale's charge to the grand jury on the opening of the assizes at Warwick, is one of the most flagitious things it was ever our chance to read. That a judge of the 'land should volun- tarily transform himself into a locomotive political zealot,-that he should pantingly clamber into the seat of justice prepared for him, and there utter language indicating that he has utterly ...

Published: Sunday 04 August 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 873 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

HORRIBLE MURDER IN SUNDERLAND

... HORRIBLE MURDER I SUNOERLAND. . On Friday the bodydof a murdered man was dis- covered by a keelman, named James Alderson, about thirty yards from'the north shore, near 'the doff.side of the Atlantic, of London. It was found to be tied to a large square piece of limestone, weighing upwards of a cwt., and which;by some mortar or one side, seemed to have been used in building. The rope, wbicb ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... , -4- GUILDHALL. ?? Advertisements. ; Mr. Pateman, the conductor of the Greenwich Ga. e zette, attended before Sir William Heygate, to answer a I charge of forcibly and illegally carrying away four dozen I t pots of ointment. The complainant. Mr. Julia, anative r of Perpignan, made his charge through his foreman. l The defendant came into Mr. Julia's warehouse for the . sale of Albinolo's ...

Published: Sunday 29 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6822 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CORONERS' INQUESTS

... - On Monday, an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, in the vestry room of Christ Church, Newgate-street, on view of the body of Thomas Duggin, aged 67 years, who it was alleged had taken poison, for the purpose of avoiding a workhouse. Mr. John Watkins, of No. 92, Newgate-street, surgeon, deposed that he was called in to attend the deceased on Saturday afternoon, at his lodgings, at No. 2, ...

Published: Sunday 29 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1077 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT

... IN;S&ENT DEB-OR6COURT.' An EmperAeced1t' - Alexander DaIIs, one of Si our peopie, applied to be discharged on sureties. He appeared very d ,.Chidf:CoIimissioner: You are an-experienced man, Mr.tDavisini this court The insolvent shook his head; whether her meant a good deal was not known. It was certainly an ex- pressive shake. , Chief Commissioner: I say you are experienced-. You have been ...

Published: Sunday 27 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ALLEGED LIBEL

... ALLEGED P,L10L. In the Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday Mr. Cress- well moved for a Rule to show cause why a criminal in- formation should not begranted against James Harmer (the Alderman) anid Robert Bell,proprietors and printers of the Dirpateh newspaper, f6r an alleged libel in a number of that publication on the 13th January last, reflecting on the character of Captain Stevens, R. N. The ...