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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

... MIDDLESBX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Seijeant Adams, Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates.) APPEAL DAY. The Court sat for the purpose of hearing appeals. The attendance of magistrates was somewhat fla. merous. THSE GAMING.sHOUsES.-HAM1.i'.T V. THE CON'VICTfON OF MR, G. L.ONG5. This was an appeal by John Hamlet against a convic. tion by Mr. G. Long, one of the magistrates of the Marlborough-street ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1216 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... LAW INTELLICENCE. COURT OF QUmENS BE'NCH.-WE.DNaESDAY. (Sittings in Nisi l'rius, before Lord Deumita and special ju5ies.) TIIE CI.IEEN a . I'i:EI. ,S 1 OTIVIIRS, 'I'ic defedulant, Air. p'eel, is a soii of Sir Robert Peel, and is llilo a scholar at H 'arrow Schiool, and the other defendants, about 20 in niumber, are school. fellows of the same establisliiltelt, anld tile indicttciat rharged ...

Published: Sunday 16 February 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1647 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

EXECUTION OF TWO NATIVE MURDERERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

... I EXECUTION OF TWO NATIVE MURDERERS I IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Yesterday morning beng = the ie appointed for the execution of Yerr.s-Cha, ,wo was condemed in the St. preme Court last'week for.being engaged 'in the murler' of William Duffell,' and Twang Nucha, who wras' con- demned for the murder of Jimes Thompson, at an early hour inthe mormng preparations weremade for the ex- ecution. A scaffold ...

Published: Sunday 20 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1299 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CLERICAL PERSECUTION

... , CLERICAL. PiRSECUTION- ,. An appeal has been made to the friends of religious liberty, on behalf of Mr. Thorogood, who has now been upwards of eight months imprisoned in Chelmsford gaol, for refising to pay the sum of five shillings and sixpence, demanded of him by one of the officials of our Church establishment, as the amount of church-rate for which he was assessed. The appeal to the ...

Published: Sunday 10 November 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 741 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

EXECUTION OF MARCHANT

... EXECUTICN9FMARCHANT. On Mondy iordin at eight o'clock, William John Marchant underwient the last sentence of the law hi the front of Newgate, for the wilful murder of his fellow servant at Chelsea. Soona' ' ix o'clock the Rev. Mr. Carver, the ordinary, ari'ed at'te pfison,; but the convict had been ,lng' rises from Isis ouch, having had several hours' ak arentl sound':suhmber. Aflter a'desis- ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTELLICENCE. HATTON GARDEN. Bitter Observance of the Sabbath. Mr. Frederick Hill, tobacconist, residing opposite White Conduit House Tavern, was summoned to this office by the parish authorities of Islington, and was on Monday charged with having exercised his worldly call- ing on the Lord's day. Isaac Abrahams, a constable of Islington, being sworn, stated that on Sunday, the 19th of ...

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT

... Henry Gompertz, described as formerly of Sparrow- hall, Streatham, and afterwards of the Rules of the Queen's Bench prison, gentleman, ensign of the South Hants Militia, and agent for the discounting of bills, and bill discounter, and dealer in wine, wine-warrants, and general dealer, appeared on Monday to be heard. He was opposed by Mr. Dowse on the part of the represen. tatives of Mr. ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... MANSION HOUSE. A melancholy Spectacle. Aboyabout 12 years of age, named Chapman, was charged with having stolen a pocket handkerchief. He V had been frequently apprehended and punished as a pick-- pocket, and has more than once pleaded successfully be- fore a jury by a mixture of eloquence and seeming con- trition. Henry Isaacs, a constable, stated that the pri- soner was pointed out to him as ...

POLICE NEWS

... SYSTEMATIC ATTEMPT AT SWINDLING. The Lord Mayor received letters, at the Mansion- house, relative to a most ingenious and iniquitous scheme to plunder poor Scotchmen, upon pretence of giving them pecuniary assistance. The best way of ex- plaining the system is by the introduction of some of the correspondence:- Farn-street, Aldersgate-street, Feb. 29, 1840. My Lord,-1 incose a letter which ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6945 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTELLICENCE- MANSION HOUSE. Ruming Away. A youuk man iiaied TKClZiam Jones, who had or some> 'time a. notorious''pickpocket, was brought' T'before Sk P. Laurie, the 1o66m teaens of the Lord M4ayor, cerged with having *f away from the officer: in whose eustody he had been a few days ago. HO, is onle of thse wel c dressed thieves whose appearafce ever excites suspicion: The officer ...

Published: Sunday 15 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7748 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS

... KENtINroy PET-4,Y-fESSIONS. - - aa . o:s f D q5.,, , o i Mrs. MXvy n Prescolt, a ild ldeW-efA, who al hsdovideiitly niovgd inea fasisgabte spheieapp d ' before the bench, on tbusy, accompanied by. Mr. Surrey, tone of-the overseers of St. Mary Abbotes, Xenon, fr th purpose ei deposing to, thefact of T her deoerhiou by;,her husband, ?? W ! ia Tottiaghanx Prescott,. the, son of one of the ...

Published: Sunday 15 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1074 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... WORSHIP STREET. A New Zealand Chief. Barnett Burns.- A grotesque-looking person, whose hair hung in shaggy elfish locks half down his back, and whose face was tattooed after the most approved fashion of the South Sea Isles, was charged under the following circumstances :-A policeman of the K division stated that at an early hour that morning the prisoner was given into custody by a cabman, who ...

Published: Sunday 17 February 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3598 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment