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CONCLUSION OF THE WOLVERHAMPTON INQUIRY

... The investigation was resumed on Friday (the fourth day) when seve'. ral witnesses were examined, who deposed to the quiet of the town before the military appeared, and to the extreme violence used against the peo- ple. We can only refer, however, to the evidence given some weeks ago berore Mr Roaf, much of which was repeated, and to the few extracts which follow :;Mr Simkiss: Is a medical ...

LAW

... VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. LEIGH v. LEIGH.-A question arose in this case, the other day, on a de- murrer as to the precise construction of certain words in the allegation con- tained in the bill. Sir C. Wetherell appeared in support of the bill. The de- murrer was supported by Sir AV. Horne, on the ground that the bill stated a period of 20 years' adverse possession had elapsed since the death ...

OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS, &c

... ACCIDENT TO Sfit B. BRoDiE.-Sir Benjamin Brodie, the eminent surgeon, has, we are sorry to learn, met wvith an accident lately in the Isle of Wighbt While riding he was thrown from his horse with such violence as to dislocate his shoulder joint. Some time elasped before assistance could be procured, but on Sir Benjamin's sending for Ml John Bloxam, of Newport, the dislocation was soon ...

Published: Sunday 20 September 1835
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4613 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... | THE HATTON GARDEN OFFICE. TO THE EDITOR Or THE EXAMINER. SIR,-I believe the Examiner has always taken an interest in the question of removing the tax on newspapers. The brutal administration of the law in cases-ofthe unstamped byr the gentlemen at Saffron hill, Messrs Laing and Rogers, merits the especial notice of the Home Secretary, if the Government do not wish the police.offices to be ...

LAW

... HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, AuG. 4. MALpAS's DIVORCE BILL.-Mr Wigram, as counsel for Mr Malpas, again appeared at the bar and proceeded to argue in favour of the bill seeking to divorce Mrs Malpas.-He produced several letters, and, after the evideice had been concluded, Lord Brongham recommended the second reading ofthe bill' Since the case was last before the house it had assumed a very ...

Published: Sunday 09 August 1835
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1624 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... I 11 . . .. MARLBOROUGH STREET. The magistrates of this office were on Tuesday occupied in investigating the circumstances of a mysterious and most extensive robbery of jewellery, to the axmournt of 5000L., from the house of the Earl of Mexborough, Doverestreet, Piccadilly, and the property of that nobleman's lady. The nvestigation was strictly private, as it was feared that the purposes ...

OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS, &c

... ACCIDENT TO LORD SUFFIELD.-On Tiesdavafternoon, as his lordship was riding down Constitution Hill, St James's Park, on his way to the House of Lords, his lordship's horse stumbled and fell, threw his lordship, and rolled over him. His lordship was picked up senseless, and bv the kindness of some ladies who were passing and benevolently gave up the use of' their carriage, was immediately ...

ASSIZES

... WINCHESTER, JULY 17. SEDUCTiOx.-KNOWLES V. COMPIGNE.-This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the seduction oF his daughter by the defendant. The plaintiff is a respectable man residing at Winchester: the defendant is also a residenf at Winchester, where his wife carries on an extensive business as a milliner. The defendant is the father of a family of five children. In theyear 1830 ...

OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS, &c

... AccIDENT To LADY PECHELL.-We lament to state that the Lady of Sir John Pechell, Bart., met with a serious accident on Monday last, in conse- quence of a fall from a britschka, on the road to Richmond. She broke her right arm. DREADFUIL AccIDENT.-On Wednesday morning the family of Mr Gray, I of Lynn place, London Road, plumber and glazier, was plunged into affliction by the following melancholy ...

Published: Sunday 25 October 1835
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1899 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... GUILDHALL. Robert Riley, a private in the Coldstream Guards, was charged with assault- ing Mrs Jones, landlady of the Old Swan Tavern, Snow hill. The prisoner went into the house with another soldier, and was going out without paying. When she asked for the money, be threatened to run her through, and hernn to draw his bayonet. Mrs Jones seized it, and ran away, but he followed 6er, and struck ...

POLICE

... MlANSION HOUSE. John Owen, a big red-headed Irishman, summoned a publican for being in possession of a spaniel, which the said John Owen swore he had owned for several years. The complainant said that as he was going along the street, he saw the defendant followed by the dog, and immediately recognized the animal, which he had lost aboutayear andalialfago. Thedefendantdeclared that the dog had ...

ADVENTURES AND INCIDENTS

... A NECEssARY MuRDER.-Additional information of the wreck of the convict-ship George the Third, was on Wednesday received at Lloyd's, in the annexed extract of a letter ?? Hobart Town, dated April 21:-X Enclosed you will find the position described of the sunken reef on which the George the Third was wrecked, which is the only additional information I can now afford you as to that calamity, ...

Published: Sunday 25 October 1835
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3151 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment