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THE MIRFIELD MURDERS

... I FURTHER CONFESSION OF TEE CONVICT REID. YoR;, DEC. 31.-Yesterday morning a respite of the sentence of death passed upon Michael M'Cabe, at the late Yorkshire winter gaol delivery, upon his conviction, along with Patrick Reid, of the murders at Mirfield, was received from the Secretary of State by Mr. Noble, the governor of York Castle. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Jackson, M'Cabe's solicitor, ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 1848
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1518 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER

... I Early on Wednesday morning the inhabitants of Brighton were thrown into the utmost consternation by the intelligence that Mr. Griffith, the well-known brewer of Brighton, had been waylaid or, his road from Hlorsham to Brighton, and most brutally murdered. The informa- tion reached the Town Hall at four o'clock Wednesday morning, from Mr Hodson and Mr. Kerton, who were returning from a ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3086 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DISTRESSING CASE OF STARVATION AT WESTMINSTER

... At the Westminster Police-court, last Monday, a person communicated to the magistrate the following case of distress :-He stated that a man and his wife who had been well brought up had encountered great reverses, and came with their family to lodge in a house belonging to applicant in York-street, Westminster. For a short time they endeavoured to procure a subsistence-the mother by knitting ...

Published: Sunday 21 January 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1478 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

COURT OF ALDERMEN

... On Tuesday a Court was held. R. W. Carden, Esq., was sworn in as alderman of Dowgate Ward, in the room of the late J. Johnson, Esq. NEWGATE GAOL. Upon the presentation of a report from the gaol com- mittee, on the subject of works and new regulations at Newgate, a discussion of some length took place. Alderman SALOMONS was opposed to the introduction of any temporary expedient for the ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1227 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

The Court

... Windsor, Tcesday.—The unfavourable state of the weather prevented her Majesty and H.R.H Prima Albert leaving the Castle thie morning. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) and the Marchioness of Lansdowne arrived at their residence Berkeley-square on Monday evenine from the Contineat The noble marquis attended at the Council-office morning, and the afternoon left town on a visit to Earl of ...

THE POLISH INSURRECTION

... The Prussians have entered the territory of Cracow, with two battalions of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry The commander-in-chief, Count Brandenburg, is in the citv, but his staff are quartered at Liepwice, a village about half way between the city and the Prussian frontier. It said that, with the exception of the chicfs of the insurrection, the rest of the refugees will be permitted to ...

BRAZIL

... Her Majesty's packet Petrel, Lieut. Creser commanding, arrived Falmouth on Sunday night, from the Brazils, with the mails, but bringing no letters from the Iliver Plate, an interruption of intercourse highly detrimental to commercial interests. The following packet, the Seagull, arrived from England on Jan. 21, and the 31st the Petrel sailed. Her paucity of news is remarkable. Her freight ...

COLONIAL

... WEST INDIES. Attempt to the Adjutant of the 2nd VT. I. R. at Nassau.—-The Guardian mean account of atrociously deliberate attempt at murder, committed the Ist July by a private of the regiment on ihe adjutant. The facta are o» follows ; Witiiam Neage private in the Grenadier Company of the 2nd W. I. Rr'gt, and a native of the Eboe country, had fixed his affections on a woman whom neither ...

CRITIQUE ON DON CARLOS; OR PERSECUTION

... CRiTIQUE ON DON CAR-LOS; OR.. PERSECUTION. A Trae in i v Five Acts, BY LORD 'JOHN RUSSELL; WHEN we first heard of -this Tragedy,f or, rather, read of it in the newspapers, ve could, not help thinling, that the scene, though laid in Spain, was really to be Englishb. In fact we thought4 that the hoary Lopez was to be the persecuted party; that Lord John, under, the name of Don Carlos, was to ...

PLACARD CONSPIRACY

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