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... AMEEEPkRI [ . .S9TN HES lIAER.T A - A&lquestxasa heldi on Tues day eirng lastjit ( the residence af W. N. Nicholson, Esq., oft Round- Wi4 hay,,near Leeds, on the body of Charles George of .Thompson3 gamekeeper to S. Nicholson, Esq. of' Roandhay Park, who was shot on Sunday night m last by she first-mentioned gentleman, in whose WI service, it would appear from the evidence,h e also is. The ...

LONDON POLICE

... Id BLESSING OF THE NEW POOR LAW ACT. to THAMiES POLICE CounT.-On Thursday, two wo- men, namled Elizabeth Gander and Elizabeth Clark, paupers belongilng to Wapping Workhouse, com- et prised in the Stopney Union, were brought before Y Mr. Ballantine, charged with being disorderly and d acting contrary to the rules of the house. d Suiton, the master of the house, stated, that a few inautes ...

INQUEST ON MARY IRONS

... I , - - The adjourned inquest on1 the above unfortunate woman was held last night at the Tally-Ho, in Bond-street. Mr. Huntington, surgeon, deposed that he had made a post mortem examination and analyzed the contents of the stomach, and the result was that lie found thirteen ounces of a fluid like tea, and upon inspecting the contents he discovered a portion of opium in a crude state, from ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1597 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, APRIL 27

... [SITTINGS IN BANCO.]) THE QUEEN v. FRARGUS O'CONNOR.-The ATTORNEY- b GENERAL prayed the judgment of the Court on this defendant, who t] was convicted at York of publishing a seditious libel. 1I Mr. OTCONNOR said, that he had to ask the favour of the Court n that the judgment might be postponed till this day week, on account e. of his being much indisposed, from inflammation of the chest. b He ...

HORRIBLE MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM

... The town of Birmingham and its neighbourhood were on Thursday morning week thrown into great confusion in consequence of the body of a young woman, nlamed Harriet Wright, being found in the canal, near Walmer. lane. Suspicion immediately attached to a young uian named Josiah Lilly, and information having been dis. patched to the station-house, constable Brough immediately went to the residence ...

Published: Friday 22 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1255 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

STOCKPORT

... BTOOMFORT. APPREHENSIONS AND EXAMINATIONS OF TURN-OUTS, &c. COURT HOUSE, Tbursd&2, May 21. Before Mhe MaVor, Jonathan ThordhiUI, and P. E. Marsland, Esquires. INTIMIDATION. Jamea Percival, Wim. Crawshaw, Joseph Hopkins, and Mary Welton, were charged under the Intiaida- tion Act, with having, on the 18th inst., molested and intimidated Mary Wright, with a view to force her to quit the employ of ...

PRISON SCENES IN IRELAND

... I (From B.'s letter to the Times.) And now the representative of Majesty is within the gaol. And what is the first inquiry of hisExcellency? Into the state of crime ? The proportion of the committals to the convictions ? The nature of those convictions and the number of them ? The heathy state of the gaol ? Its discipline ? Its cleanliness? The comfort of the prisoners? flow far criminal ...

Published: Friday 22 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1306 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

JUDGMENT UPON FEARGUS O'CONNOR, ESQ

... JUWom UON FRARGUS O'TO NOB, ESQ. COURT- 0F QUEEN'S BENCH, Monday, Mafey 11. The Judges having taken their seat. in a very crowded Court, the LORD CHIsEF JUSTICE intimated to Dir. O'Connor, who occupied a seat in front of the bar, that the Court was about to pronounce judgment it his case, whereupon air. O'Co,;aor rose and said, before he proceeded to address the Court in mitigation of ...

SECOND EDITION

... MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. he -THE INQUEST.'. bE (From the Mornireg Merald.)'' h The Jury assembled at six o'clock this evening at ' tho City of Norwich Arms, Norfolk-street, within a' few doors of the residence ofthei4fnented nobleman. to .he room. ws denbly' crowded tp nho and smah ti rbughoi''itthesbtrih Pi those present we observed the Hon. R'^Is4e' i E. J. Stanley, of the Treasqry, ...

Murder of Lord William Russell

... murter of Blobr' fttliam Russell. On Wednesday morning, about half-past seven o'clock, the inhabitants residing in the neighbourhood of Grosvenor-square were placed in a state of great excitement in consequence of a rumour that an atrocious murder bad been perpetrated this morn- ing on the person of Lord William Russell, uncle to Lord John Russell, at No. 14, Norfolk-street, Park-land. The ...

Published: Friday 08 May 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1255 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LONDON POLICE

... THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE BULL-TEnaRER.-A man named Lamb, who keeps a public-house called the Cock, on Cock-hill Bishopesgate-street, charged a country lad naaeJ Samuel Glover, under the following circumstances:- Glover, who appeared to be an unsophisticated country man stated that about six months ago, he had a fine 0u1-terrier, which he kept in Wedgebury, ' where his fatheirowned the first inn ...

ON THE CORN LAWS

... TO THE EDITOR. Oppression and loss supposed to be the only means by which the Britishfarmers can be induced to exert themselves. Sut,-To me it is perfectly astounding how gentlemen of respectability and good understanding can for one moment suppose that the competition of foreigners with their corn in our markets, would stimulate the Brie ish farmers to greater exertions. The consequence of ...