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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 ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 6rc. A LASUI5JNG OUTRAGE.-_Daring the Iastfew days several of the nobility qnd.gentry residing in -Harley place; Regent's park, have been thrown into the greatest conkernation and alarm, ow ing to the following diabolical and mischiuvoss practice. It appears that in the evening, soon alter dark, many familie,.vw hile sitting in their drawing rooms, have been surprised and ...

Published: Sunday 25 September 1836
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1811 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW

... COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, TUESDAY. RIAPHAEL V. DuNCOMBE._This was an action brought by Mr John 2laphael, the returning officer for Finsbury, against Mr T. Duncombe, for that borouOh. The sum claimed was 281. being the balance alleged to be due to the plaintiff in respect of the expense incurred at the last election, when Mr Duncombe and Mr Wak]ey were elected. It appeared that each of the ...

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.-The family of J. T. Coryton, Esq., of Pentillie Castle, onl the banks of the Tamar, were thlrowvn into a state of extreme distress on Tuesday, the 17th ult., by the ncelancho!y death of Mr W. Coryton, who was ibund drowned off the quav at a short distance from the Castle. The' deceased was an eider son, and ieir to an inimense property. He was marxied about twelve months ...

SPRING ASSIZES

... * TAUNTON, SATIURDAY, APoILw 9. BOILTEWICK, EsO. v. CORBOULD AND OTEaRS -Mr Crowder having opened the pleadings, Mr Sergeant Wilde stated that Mr Borthvick, the plaintch, was a gentleman of the age of thirty, and in the election of 1835, which took place a ter the dissolution of 1834, he was a candidate for the re- presentation of the borough of Eveshamn, and it was upon that occasion that the ...

Published: Sunday 17 April 1836
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3120 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4c. r THE GALE OF TU ESDAY.-The metropolis and its vicinity were on Tuesday last visited by a gale of wind which, for the time it lasted, may be said to be one of the most violent that London has experienced fbr several years. Even a cursory account of the damage done in various parts of the town occupies several columns of a morning paper. We have only space to notice one ...

Published: Sunday 04 December 1836
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3337 | Page: Page 13, 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... FALL OF TWO ARCHES OF TilE GREENWICH RAILROAD.-SUndaV5night, about a quarter-past seven, a fearful alarm was temporarily produced in the vicinity of Bermondscv street, by the noise of a tremendous crash. It was soon ascertained that the crowns of two of the arches of the railroad, immedi- ately opposite Queen Elizafieth's Grammar school, by Bermondsey street, had suddenly given way, and had, ...

Published: Sunday 24 January 1836
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 991 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY. CiuN. COX.-LORD LANGFORD v. BAus4ETT.-Mr Thesiger, with whom was Mr Phillips, stated the case for the plaintiff, whom he described to be an Irish Peer, who married against the wishes of' his familY, and the defendant was a young gentleman who had entered the plaintiff's family as a tutor, and then had criminal conversation with his (the plaintiff's) wile. The ...

Published: Sunday 14 February 1836
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3303 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... AWFUL CONFLAGRATION AT NEW Yonu-New York papers to the 22d nilt. brought by the London line packet-ship Toronto, Capt. R. Greswold, which arrived on Friday at Portsnmouth, after an extraordinarily short passage of fifteen days, have reached us. An awful calamity which has afflicted the city of New York is naturally the absorbing topic of all the journals after the 16th, the date of a ...

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... ? I DESTRUCTIVE FIRE; 24 SHoPS RTJRNT.-On Saturday night, about half-past ten, the neighbourhood of Old Bond-street was thrown into the utmost consternation and alarm, by the spring of rattles, and cries of Sjfire 1 fiom the house of Mr Absalon, military clothier, 12, in that street, within two doors of the Western Exchange. On the doors being opened, it was found that the first floor back ...

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... MELANtHSOLY OCCuRRENCE.-An accident of a very afflicting nature occurred in Hemmings row sorh6 days ago. A young and tery lovely child, named Rosalind Verral, was thrown down and killed, while crossing the street, by a cart which was passing at the time. No blame is exactly attri- butable anywhere. The deceased, who was a very gay and hiteresting little child; was the daughter of Mr Charles ...

Published: Sunday 28 February 1836
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1579 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... 1ARtYLEBONE. Wmn. Davenpowt, a private in the 2nid battalion of Grenadier Guards, was placed at the bar charged with drunkenness, and also with attempting to stab with his bayonet a young man named Cutmore, and a police constable, the latter of whom had his clothing completely cut through with the weapon. Charles Cutmore stated, that on the previous night he saw the prisoner and another ...