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ON TRIALS FOR LIBEL

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ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCID NTs, OFFENCES8, 4c. Mionde~ay- ex icy~n an ttrcmpt to set fire to the premises of Mr. Enugliria r, a re speciable cabinet-tarker, re~idintr at Limeholise, was made, far tile purpose of commilotine robbery. Some feliows knockfed at the door, and it r'ired if a person whom tlhey naed ic-bzled liere ; onl tile girl answering in tihe neective, they tlesirrd to ca Mr.Er glrbeiirt himself, ...

Published: Sunday 31 December 1820
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2135 | Page: Page 15, 16 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ASSIZES

... .. I YoaK, AUGUST 6.-TATE V. LINTON AND WIFE.-This was an action hrpught by a husband to deprive his wife of her clothes. Mr WIaLMs stated that the plaintiff had married the daughter of the defendants, and as the marriage was contracted against the will of the mother, she had influenced her daughter in ans unfavourable manner towards her husband, and they lived together very uncomfortably, ...

Published: Sunday 16 August 1829
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5824 | Page: Page 10, 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SINGULAR CASE OF ALLEGED LUNACY

... The case of alleged lunacy of Mr Davies, wholesale tea-dealer, of Philpot lane, was heard by the Lord Chancellor, on Monday week, at his Lordships private residence, when Mr TPaaSLOvX applied for a commission of lunacy. Ale referred to various affldavits, which.stated, among other things, that, in April last, Mr Davies's friends were obliged to place him under the care of keepers at his house ...

LAW

... COURT OF KING'S BENCI. Monday, Noventher 16. CRIMINAL ONFONRtATION. Mr J. WILanAatS moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal infor- mrtions hould not be filed against certain Commissioners Of the Court of Requests at Halifax, for injustice and oppression. He made the appli- cation on behalf of a person of the name of James Woodey, a resident of Halifax, who in 1827 owed 1!. 10s. to a Mr ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... On Monday, Wn. Rae, aged 25, John Rogers, aged 19, and John Welsh, aged 17, were indicted for breaking open the dwelling-house of John Burcb, a watchmaker, in High Holborn, and stealing therein fbur watches, value 8L_ It appeared that on the evening of Tuesday week the prisoners were seen standing close to the prisoner's shop window, and soon after Rae was seen to break w pane of glass, upon ...

LAW AND POLICE

... LAW AND, POLICE. GLASGOW CIRCUIT.- EXCESSIVE BRUTALITY TO A WIFE. - The court on Monday was occupied with the following case of culpable homicide, and cruel and unlatura, treatment of a wife by her husband:- G. Fay, shoemaker, was accused of culpable homicide, by confining his wife in a water-closet, while in a state of bodily disease, from the 3rd of June last till the 23rd of September, when ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1848
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1430 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS

... AC C I DENTS. WRECK OF THE QUEEN STEAMER.-Mr Hare, of Bristol, has furnished the following account of the disaster: - The Queen steam packet, Captain Gardner, started from Bristol on Friday last, at haltfpast ten o'clock r.as., with a valuable cargo and passengers ; and at eleven o'clock same night, being suddenly enveloped with a dense fog, struck on a rock in Jack's sound, off Milford ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1843
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 854 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

OCCURRENCES

... WANDSWORTH AND CLAPHAM UNIoN.-The poor-law commissioners have caused an inquirv to be made into the truth of certain charges which had been brought against the master and matron of the Wandsvorth and Claphani union. The result was the exposure of a most cruel and indecent system of conduct towards the girls who are inmates of the establishment. It was elicited that some time since it was ...

LIEUTENANT MUNRO'S CASE

... The following are extracts from a letter from Lieu- tenant Munro, read by 3Mr T. Duncombe in the House of Commons:- I will not attempt to describe my own most unhappy state of mind, since I have been forced to fly from my coun- try, my profession, and my beloved wife, children, father, mother, and relations; but those who have known me from my childhood, and my gallant comrades, can conceive ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, & OCCURRENCES

... |ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, & OCCURRENCES I FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.-An accident, which unfoitunately has terminated with the loss of life, occurred between seven and eight o'clock on Tues- day evening last, on the London and Brighton Railway. A Mr Jonathan Hill, aged 42, an engineer in the employ of the Peninsula Navigation Steam Company, left London by the six o'clock train for ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, & OCCURRENCES

... I THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT ASHTON. - ASI1TON, TUESDAY.-Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held al the Albion Inn, Ashton, before Mr M. S. Rutter and a respectable jury, or the bodies of the unfortunate- men who were killed by the falling of the arches on the Ashton branch of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. There was no evidence of any novel character broughit forward at the inquest. ...