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... BOW-STREET. VIOLENT CONDUCT OF THIC CEHARTISTS AT EXETFit-HALL.- Arthur Dyson, a bookbinder; Thomas Farrer, a house-painter; Ebenezer Brinkkman, Edward Harris, upholsterers; John Brad- ford, musical instrument-maker; Henry Bailey, no trade; James Godfrey Elworthy, a bootmaker; and Samuel Wadding- ton, bootmaker, were brought up in the custody of several con- stables of the F division, charged ...

Published: Sunday 23 June 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6623 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SATURDAY'S LAW AND POLICE

... COURT OF COMPENSATION. The Recorder and the Lord Mayor sat on Friday in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, to bear the cause White v. the Corporation of the City of London. This case arose out of the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, and was for compensation for the plaintiff's interest in the wellknown Edinburgh Castle, Sweeting's-rents, two shoos adjoining,and the Griffin public- house. Mr. ...

Published: Sunday 15 December 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1563 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE-OFFICES

... GUILDHALL. Jains Ssiith, a labourer, about 50 years of age, was brought before Sir C. Hunter, charged with behaving indecentlv to Maria Garton, aged 15, in a pew, at St. Andrewv's Church Ho1. born, during divine service, on Sunday ?? Euck- moaster, the churchwvarden, stated the nature of the case, and said he should press the charge against the prisoner, because of late, several other ...

Published: Sunday 17 March 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5706 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

IMPORTANT TRIAL AT DALTON

... - I .- . - . . - Mvs. ANNE PL.UNKETIT V. CHARLES HEArON-Mlms ANNE I'r.uNrsswCT v. Tim EAsRL or Bs.RsANoGos.-liefore a jury of the tenants of the Duke of 13uccleuch, at the Cavendish Arms where Mr. W\ightman sat as the steward's assessor. ir. Watson appearing as counsel for the Earl of Burlington, and Air. A lar- thiror Mrs. PlUnk-ett. Mr. NlarLtin addressed the jury for the plaintiff. lie ...

Published: Sunday 27 October 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE NEW POOR LAW

... I .-4 TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. In my last letter I ventured to assert that the poor .aws were not charity-that the poor had no independent or absolute right to relief, nor the ratepayers such a right to manage their own affairs, as to entitle them to the absolute management of the rate, or of those for whom it was raised. The most diffi- cult class of opponents with whom the supporters of the ...

Published: Sunday 24 February 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1463 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... MARLf3OROUGH STREET. INSANITY.-A man named James Howard, about forty years ofage, was charted with having Lathered a mob on Monday evening about Lord Melbourne's house. The pri. soner, on being taken into custody, said that he was annoyed and disappointed, fbr that he had been waiting more than two hours opposite the residence of Lord Melhourne, in South street, in order to 1 crack his ...

THE LAW COURTS

... COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. me Queens v. the Vestrymen of St9'Panras. On Monday, Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Prendergast? and Mr. BarstOw showed cause against a rule for a mandamus, to be directed to the defendants, commanding them to appoint a day for holding a meeting of the parishioners for the election of vestrymen and auditors of accounts for the year ending in May, 1840. They contended that there ...

Published: Sunday 10 November 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2895 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CORONERS' INQUESTS

... EXTRAORDINARY SutCID1.-An inquest was held on Monday, at the Grange public-house, Carey-street, on James Comin, fishmonger, late of Clement's-lane. Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidencd it appeared the deceased was aged 49, and a widower. He carried on the fish trade in Clement's-lane, but had been unfortunate in business, which had affected his mind. The depression on his ...

LAW

... L A W. EXCHEQUER EQUITY SI'1'INGS. WESTMINSTER, TUESDAY. SMALL AND OTHERS. v. ATTWOOD AND OTHERS.-ThiS was a MO- tion on thne part of the plaintiffs to discharge or valuyn n et petrte oider obtained by the defefidsnit tin the 16th of April, 1838, on the ground of irregularity. On the 26th of Mlaiih, .1638, tile I-ouse of Lords reversed the decree of Lord Lyndhurst in this case, directing the ...

DREADFUL MURDER AT BIRMINGHAM

... DREADFUL MURDER AT BIRMINCHAM. Within the last few days considerable excitement has prevailed in Lawley-street and neighbourhood, in conse quence of the perpetration of a murder, the circumstan- ces connected with which are somewhat similar to those which a few years ago led to the destruction of Mrs. Webb, in the same street. The facts are these :-On Saturday norming a labourer was going to ...

Published: Sunday 29 December 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1077 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... P0 'I C 2L GtIT.DHALL. Gnaaux vrynsus Gnnirc.-Mv- Joseph Scott, a warehouse- man, of Bow-lane, attended to answer the complaint of Mr. Frederick Teush, a surgeon at Hackney, for defrauding him by selling him a piece of calico, value about 9d. a-yard, as fine Irish linen of the value of 2s. 6d. a-yard.-Mr. Mardon, for the defendant, objected that the magistrate had no jurisdiction, though he ...

SATURDAY'S POLICE

... BOW STREET. A young man named Thomas Glindon, described as a clerk, residing in Arundel-street, Strand, was charged by Serjeant Leslie, of the F division, with frequenting the Olympic for the purpose of committing a felony. it ap- peared from the statement of the complainant, and two other constables that on the previous night, when the company was leaving the theatre, the prisoner was ob- ...

Published: Sunday 17 March 1839
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1220 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Crime and Punishment