THE PETITION NUISANCE

... The joint stock petition prosecuting company is likely, after all, to turn out a mere bubble specula-t tion, notwithstanding all the puff paragraphs of the s :qry pres. The amount of capital subscribed up tou.this moment would scarcely defray: a tithe of the probable expenses of the Dublin petitimi alone; and t we shall be much. disappointed, indeed, if it evera amounts to any thing like what ...

POLICE

... ePs@ICB. k OF FORGERY.-It wil be in the recol cif our readers, that about a fortnight Since there apD iecli0 t Loadon Dispatch an aecount of the apprehen Fgedf a oung man named Henry Brookes at Dover, who in barged with having committed several acts of forgery ri and with having, by means of the forged inistru- r ebtaned various sums of money. e ris' nr It will be remembered, was examined on ...

REGISTRATION OF VOTERS—SATURDAY

... REGISTRATION OF VOTERS-SATURDAY. I CITY OF LONDON. At the sitting of tho court Mr. Cit~xii. gave .isdgmient in the following eases:- Mr. Beck ii the clerk of the fironnmongers' Compainy. H1-e wits elected to that office in Januairy, 18-3:2, by the liver% of tilt coloipaii. lie would seemi to have been 1e nI iiectced for at year h le has since beien ann uaiv re. elected for the v'ear .ensuing. ...

MURDER OF THE GOVERNOR OF PRESTWICH WORKHOUSE

... DEr OF THE GOVERNOR OF PIREST biUR13 WC WOaKHOUSE. On Tuesday snoraing Mr. Jonatbhan Fielding, governor Firestwiich workhouse, who bad been several weeks coofined to his bed by injuries indicted upon him by a °uper named Joseph Dennerdey, a weaver, living as a Pauper in thebhousiesexpired. *The ciieumstanoes under jp h tile murder wae committed will be best gathered roni;the evidence of the ...

POLICE

... ,ow STREET. On Wednesday Geo. Stone and Wm. M'Donnelt, sergeants in the C division of police, appeared before Messrs Minshull and Twyford, to answer to charges preferred against them by an inspector of the F divisions who had received in- structions to that effect from the Commissioners of Police.-The charge against the defendant Stone, as entered in the police sheet, was as follows :- That ...

Published: Sunday 22 October 1837
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2860 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—FRIDAY

... (ENTJAL CRJlillINIL COURT-FzD.4r. [ 11ciore ?? RlI:oR DlEli.1 Ku: jotey , 'zyyir'ti, A'orbiut/hlrDolt /owsUkItii, 410 uwtjiAuquol.Y1 iutirourski, 29!, who scere all described as soldies, were ili(lcteel tor stealing a Watch, ait ith, mel JOttier art icls, thtie property of J osepli Str tltylill. Mr. PAYNE conndueted the case for the froscrutiion. Ml r. I'ii.- liI.V;A1 Wlld Ml. ISOANY IIefendeI ...

FATAL CASE of STABBING with a BAYONET

... FA TA L CA SE j' S7TA JIA G triA a BA YOANE T. In our Mar rlebotie police report (of yesterdiv v wc gav ant ?? of a serious affray between two soldieirs of the Coldstream Giuards and ni wall named Ja nes Chaplin, a shoemnaker of elanipstead, the latter of wiholin received a desperate bayonet nonnld in tile abdomen, intlicted by Geaorge Siiith, one of the soldit rs won astands remanded on tile ...

GROSS MISCONDUCT OF A POLICEMAN

... WE GROSS MITSCONDUCT OF A I I.- POLICEMAN. E!e present a full report of the following lae br these reasons :-1st. that the attention of the public may be so called to the conduct 'fthl> police as to prevent it from becoming an toleiable nuisaice 2nd. that the conduct of he Lord . Russell- Whig-Radical Magis- 43tes may e oinre fully understood, and more Yitl appreciated. When the new proposed ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1837
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3138 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DUBLIN POLICE—YESTERDAY

... DUBLIN POLICE-YESTERDAY. le COLLEGE STREET OFFICE y ASSAULr.-Patrick Mathews, a queer, wild, demented- looking youth, rather decently dressed, was charged by Geo. v Walishe with having assaulted him. The plaintiff stated that an aunt of his kept a riaht house in Clarendon-street. He was there on Saturday night, when k the 4eferndant came in, and after sitting awhile, be made a 3 sudden spring ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, a-c. INQUEST ON THE BAYONET CASE.-On Monday a- highly respectable jury assembled in the North London Hospital, to inquire touching the death of Javes Chaplin, aged 36, who died in consequence of a bayonet wound which he received, from George Smith, a private in the Coldstream Guards. The eveidnce taken before the inquest didnot involve further disclosures than were made in ...

Published: Sunday 22 October 1837
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2502 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE MILL CASES.—MR. COTTINGHAM'S DECISION

... I THE ILL CASES.-MR. COT N AS I; I DECISION. At the West.Ridinig Registration, at Bradford, the B1 other day, oin the first case being called on, . Mr. COTTINtHAM said, he begged to take the earliest op. g poetunity that presented itself, in consequence of what had fallen a] from lils Learned Colleague, Mr. Hlildyard, at Leeds, to make a . few observationas on this question. ?? had not ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—TUESDAY

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE-TLuESDA. MANSION-I0IUSEI. A ?? French woman, of ver respectable appearance and t;ddress, appeured before Sir Cliaptuata Marshall and the Lord Mlayor lect, upon mr inforniation, charging lher, toge- ther with her husband, with having stiuggleti some worked muslin collars and other French goods, by mcuanr of a trunk containing a ialse bottom. The Solicitor for the (ustonms ...