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POLICE

... 'MANSION HOUSE. CONVIVIAL ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday Mr Hook, a man of letters, labouring under the effects of the previous night's conviviality, was charged with having refused to pay the amount of an extensive treat of coffee, at fbur oncloclc in the morning, to some ladies. It appeared from the statement of the keeper of a rolling coffee-shop, which occdaionally makes a stand in the neighbourhood ...

THE ISLINGTON MURDER

... THE ISLINOTTON MURDER. Richard Goald was placed at the bar at Bow street on Monday, having been taken from or, board the vessel in which he was proceeding to Sydney, charged with the robbery of the murdered Mr Tempileman. Sergeant Otway fbitod hem drunk in the cahin of the ship, and brought him to London as a prisoner. He had previously (with the evident idea of getting the proffered eereard) ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCIDENTS, O)FFENCES, rc. THE ARISTOCRATIC OU7TRAGE.-The Earl of Walde- grave and Captain Duff; who were committed to take their trial at the next Mildiesex Sessions, for a violent assault at Hampton, have moved the proceedings into the Court ef Queen's Bench. Mr Bevan, of Sackvlfle street, their soli. citor,'has within these fewdays procured a writ ofcertiorari, and the clerk of the peace has ...

Published: Sunday 09 August 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1090 | Page: Page 13, 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... PQLICE. aXANSION HOUSE. SCQTC3e A$D 1s4sH PrGs.-A man, named Ale xader, who had been employed to drive pigs from a Scotch wharf to Smnithfield, was charged with having goaded a gentlepan and cruelly beaten one of the pies, and also with having caused great disorder. The defendant, it appeared, had nineteeg pigs to drive to market, and the animals haying been brought up in Scotland were much ...

Published: Sunday 16 August 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2997 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &ec. TRAGICAL OcCURRENCE AT RICKSSAYSWORTH.- Within the last few days a shocking case has taken place in the above village. A few months back a young man named Henry Thompson, about 20 years of age, whose father is a veterinary sur eon and farrier in exceedingly good circum- stances, living 'n the village, became acquainted with a young woman named Louisa Humphries, and it ...

Published: Sunday 15 March 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2095 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE CARDIGAN DUEL

... It will be in the recollection (says the Globe) of our readers, that in the report which appeared in this journal on Thursday last, of the examination before the magistrates at Wandsworth, upon the occasion of the comnmittal of Captain Harvey Tuckett, Captain Page brought forward the question as to the equality of the weapons with which the combatants had fought, with a view of adducing ...

POLICE

... MARLBORtOUGH STREET. A person, calling himself Captain Pearce, was brought up on Wednesday, charged with loitering about the house of Mrs Norton, Bolton street, Piccadilly. Mrs Norton, who was accompanied by her uncle, Mr Charles Brinsley Sheri- dan, entered into an explanation of the particulars connected with the late trial, for which she assured the magistrate there were not the slightest ...

Published: Sunday 27 December 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2599 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

MURDER AND SUICIDE

... A murder and suicide were committed on Monday morning in Elliott's row, Southwark. Various conflicting statements having been made respecting the occurrence, but the real state of things will be best known from the evidence on the inquest held on Tuesday evening last, at the Gibraltar, Pros- ectl lace, on the bodies of Williatm Heely and Lucy We- former having murdered the latter, and ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCE S, Ic. YACHT FoUNDERED.-YeSterdaY week Capt. C. Clarke, Mr Vanneck, and Mr Barret, left Torquay, in La Belle Sauvage yacht, with the intention of taking a trip to Teign- mouth, having on board William White, a most experienced boatman As theydid not return, fears were entertained that some calamity had befallen them, which were increased by a rumour that a yacht had been ...

POLICE

... UNION HALL. On Wednesday Hnrriet Carter, a servant girl in the em- ploy of James Walter, a pawnbroker, in Thornton street, Dockhead, wos charged on suspicion with robbing her mas- ter. Complainant had missed various sums of money from his cashbox, and suspicion had fallen on the prisoner owing to the extravagance in which she indulged for dress, which she could not procure honestly, her wages ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1423 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... QUEEN SQUARE. On Wednesday Thomas Barton, a showily dressed young man, who was remanded from this office on a charge of having stolen a gold watch from the shop of Messrs Phillips, bro- thers, of Cockspur street, watchmakers, was again brought up. Since the first examination of the prisoner a charge was made against him of having stolen a gold watch at Birming. ham, where his friends, who are ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

TRIAL OF JOHN HENTY BY COURT MARTIAL

... TRIAL OF JOHN BENTY BY COURT I MARTIAL. On Tuesday the Court Martial for the trial of Mr John Henty commenced on board the Ocean at Sheerness. Ad- miral Bouverie, President, who, with Captains Hornl y, Cla. veil, and Commanders Well and Douglas, composed the court. Mr Essell acted as Deputy Judge-Advocate. The prisoner wvts charged first with having been guilty, on the 2d day of October, 1840, ...