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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... Juvenile Thieves. Three young urchins, named Usher, Savage and TWebb, the first ten and the other two eleven years of a ge, were, on Monday, convicted of breaking the window of a shop in Golden-row, Pimlico, and stealing several small articles. The Recorder sentenced Usher and Webb to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one calendar month, and Savage, having been convicted of another ...

Published: Sunday 08 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... i= = ff qWT I I :E ,J UT. The Gold Dust Robbez? (Seventh day). Mr. Justice ?? On taking his seat, on Monday morning said, that the points of law uirged on be~haf of the prisoners by their respective counsel were too im- portant 'to be decided by one judge, and he should, therefore, reserve them for the consideration of all the judges in case 'of a conviction. Mr. Sergeant Bompas then proceeded ...

Published: Sunday 07 July 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2819 | Page: Page 17, 18 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE INHUMAN POOR LAW

... ?? Mr. Samuel Roberts has addressed a letter to the T lmes, relative to the case of John Berry, of the Worksop Union, which was some time since brought before the House of Lords, and the letter from Mr. Whale, clerk to the union, which, as he remarks, is an official acknow- ledgment of proceedings still more atrociously inhuman, unjust, and oppressive than even anything that had been alleged. ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1368 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CORN LAW REPEAL AGITATION

... CORN LAW REPEAL ACITATION. THE ADDRESS OF THE WORKING MEN OF SHEFFIELD, TO THE WORKING CLASSES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. To THIE WORKING MIECHANICS, ARTIZANS, AND AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS o0 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. a Friends and follow-workmen, inhabitants of one common country, the subjects of a youthful sovereign, whose reign we hope will be long and prosperous to her- self and to her ?? your ...

Published: Sunday 22 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4037 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

EXECUTION OF WILLIAM LEES

... This wretched man, who was found guity last session at the Central Criminal Court of the murder of his wife, underwent the extreme penalty of the 'law on Monday morning, in front of the debtors' door at Newgate. His conduct and demeanour from the time of his con viction until he ascended the scaffold, evinced, it is said, a just sense of the dreadful situation in which he stood. He made a ...

Published: Sunday 22 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1546 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE LATE FATAL AFFRAY IN ST. PANCRAS

... I;THE LATE FATAL AFFRAY IN CftA I Yesterday an inquest, which was adjourned from wea- nesday, but in which no evidence was thenrtaken, was held before Mr. Baker, at the Boot Inn, Croer atreet, St. Pancras, on view of the body of Ellen Donald, who came by her death through a quarrel with a woman of the name of Martin now in custody. A report was very prevalent that the deceased had been ...

Published: Sunday 27 January 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

YESTERDAY'S (SATURDAY) [ill]

... YESTERDAY'S (SATURDAY) POLICG MARYLEBONE .OFFICE. Novel Case. Frederic Small, the conductor of the Kentish Ton, Omnibus, No. 1043, was charged with sounding his oG trunipit, or in other words, blowing a horn to attra paisseis, contrary to act of parliament, and whiel thoughlnot generally known, subjects the performer to pensaty of twenty shillings, It appears that the cot ductors of the ...

Published: Sunday 03 February 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1222 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SUMMER ASSIZES

... The Judges met on Thursday morning in the Exche- quer Chamber, and chose their respective circuits for the ensuing summer assizes. The following is the ar- rangement:- Home.-Lord Denman and Lord Chief Justice Tindal. Midland.-Lord Abinger and Mr. Justice Littledale. Norfolk.-Mr. Justice Vaughan and Mr. Justice Bosanquet. Oxford.-Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams. Western.-Mr. Justice ...

NEW ARRANGEMENTS IN THE POLICE COURTS

... NEW AMANGBMENTS. IN THE POLICE COURTS. On Thursday, the following arrangements were notified at the police offices :- Bow-STREET.-The magistrates received a commu- nication from the Secretary for the Home Departmeht, directing that Goodson, who has been for many years door-keeper, should be appointed door and office keeper, and that Fall and Mace should act as first and second ushers to the ...

Published: Sunday 06 October 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1219 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS

... A question of very great importance, as affecting the interests of licensed victuallers throughout the country, was on Tuesday brought before the notice of the Bench. -A person named Robert Huyghes was charged upon an excise information with having sold, in the pa5ish of Croydon, onc-eighth part of a pint of brandy without a license, whereby he had forfeited a sum not exceeding 501.-The ...

Published: Sunday 24 November 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 727 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DUBLIN POLICE

... ' m t W~NiPOUCE. i - . . ?? ?? ?? -A !t7of o@bbaW *IrdU -f a TeatlthorP'- H-sD.uoiflc5 Trnar. A spoliceman named- Crow birought befiotethe mawistates a youngvwoman inaued Sparl'ow, ntiip susbicion- of ;bhavmag stolen -a goose I whlicih 03,ow held in-his -hand. Cowt stated that he saw Miss Sparroiwin Cnckho.lanet she had a bundle under -her cloak, and suspectingiallU was not right, he examined ...

Published: Sunday 22 September 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1084 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE STATE PRISONERS

... It is an indisputable principle of the English law, that the prisoner shall have the benefit of any doubt. If only' one out of the twelve jurymen has any doubt of the guilt of the accused, he ought to be acquitted; 'and where the judge. has any doubt as to the law, the prisoner, ought to be dis. charged, just as much as if a doubt arises on the facts. This plain and obvious truth is set at ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Crime and Punishment