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BOROUGH COURT OF REQUESTS

... r TuE QUEEN'S BONNET.-TIlE JACICDAW IN PIIA- , COCIE'S FEATHERS-Whiat iscalled the fashion is as fleeting and evanescent as a summer'g cloud, and, r perhaps, more so with regard to bosnets than any other a article of wear, either male or female. Pasteboard I pyramids are in vogue one week, and pigmies the next. e The IDwistable haycoeck is succeeded bythe Leg- f horn squat, and the humble ...

SPECIAL SESSIONS AT WAKEFIELD

... I INTRODUCTION OF THE RURAL POLICE INTO THE WEST-RIDING. On Tuesday, a special adjourned Sessions of the Peace for the West Riding of this county was held at the Court MuogCa in Wakefield, for the purpose of taking into consideration the establishment of a police force under statute 2 and 3 Victoria, cap. 93, ih the whole or any part of the West Riding, and for the transaction of other special ...

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

... SOUTH LANdCHIRE ASSIZES. e followinr are the mn~t nef ?? -IN in ?? te The rolaowilng ore !the innat important trials which have at Id be~en heard On the Civil side at Liverpool, since our last:- It le THE 41JEEN v. THE' MANCHESTER ANDi LEEDg RAIL- el at WA'( COMPANY.-This was, the trial of certain traverses to the ig return of a Mandeamuss from the Court of Queesns Bench, on the a' a. ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1840
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4233 | Page: Page 7, 8 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

RURAL POLICE

... RURhAL POLICE. (F'rom the T'im7es.) some time ago, the magistrates for the county of LancasOterlegreed to place tbe csnnt' bader the con- tru ftenewJ inal police systemn, and it has been car- ried into full operation, but the inbabitanrts generally, especiallY lit the agricisitural districts, highly disaV- prove of thae plan, as less efficient and more expensive than that previously in ...

LIVERPOOL SUMMER ASSIZES

... Sn CIVIL COURT, MOsDAY, SEPTExflER, 7. art] IV]r. Baron Ro LF E took his seat this morning at five o ~K milnutes to ten o'clock. The only causes left for trial were the w Led eighteen cases In which the Sheffield Railway Company were the be L Is Plaintiffs, to ur- thi ed. PAYMENT OF CALLS ON RAILWAY SHARES. a of SHEFFIELD, Sec. RAILWAY COMPANY v. MACAUILEY.- ehi hatl The ?? was brought by the ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1840
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2475 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CLERICAL MURDER

... C. LER.IC.A IWr.Dr..n c TO TEE EDITOP O! XTHO EfOARtHEk?5StAlIl Mr. EDITOB;,-If you could find room for ihe' l8ei-' tion ofthe, followihg brief account'bf t#ilericalNvillarq, you will much oblige, a numerouas portion ,oz. yqpr readers, as well no do an act of publig.justice. 3 ?? OHN'iDtNCAN. ,r A poor nwidow, wbose busband disddbo-d es6e*s months ago, left her with two children;- the oldest' ...

THE WIGAN MURDER

... The four men, Anderton, Rowe, Hague, and Austin, who have been for some time in custody on suspicion of murdering Mr. John Coulton, on the 26th of July, underwent a fourth examination on Wednesday last. The magistrates did not come to any decision upon the evidence, the.re being yet a slight breach in the chain; but the requisite witnesses will he forthcoming on Saturday, until which time the ...

ACTION AGAINST THE REV.H. STOWELL

... ACTION AGAINST THE REV. HI. STOWELL. I . . I I 1 I ON the authority of several London papers, and a Man- chester paper, eve contradicted in an article last week,- fwhieh had been written a fortnight previously,]-a state- ment made by Lord NonLsANBY, that the Rev. HuGH STOVVLL was under prosecution for a libel, at the suit of S joman Catholic priest. It turned out, however, that, on this point ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Proceedings in the Hull Police Court

... 1proreefings in the uoll vollfe (Court. MONDAY, August 31. Amongst a dozen drunk and disorderlies, John G. Sl9orry was fined 5s. and costs.Richard IHugah for trying to rescue the last prisoner, was ordered to enter into his own recognizanees of £2 to. keep the peace for the uext six months.. Jatncs Harrison and Pat O'Connor were bound in their own recog- nizances in' £i to keep the. peace ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1508 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Proceedings in the Hull Police Court

... wromb~ings in tbe jull volice crourt. FRIDAY, Sept. 11. DISORDS RLIHS, - P WVelch was charged with being disorderly, in having backed Mr. Duce's horse against a stall and knocked it down. Having paiu for the damage, he was dismissed; when that incorrigible, of all little incorrigibles disorderlies, Elizabeth Mason, alias Alegson, alias Newmarch, was placed at 'the bar, and charged, by ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2075 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Proceedings in the Hull Police Court

... proreebing in tbe joull Voltae Qourt. FRIDAY, Sept.,'4. STRALNG A CAi'.-John Bishop &nd Thomas Smith, two lads about twelve or thirteen years of age, were charged with stealing a cloth cap, from the head of a boy named Wilkinson. Bishop had been in the court several times previously, on charges of felony, and was, therefore, -with the oonsent of. his'mother, seukt into solitari confinement for ...

Published: Friday 11 September 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2749 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL FOR MURDER IN FRANCE

... E7XTRAORDINARtY TRIAL POR MURDER IN I F 1RANICE The trial of Madame Laffarge for the murder of her the husband commenced on the 3rd instant, rat Tulle. The ira prisoner was dressed In deep meourning; she declared the herself to be twer ty-four years of age. The husband of ant the prisoner wa~s the owner of iron-works. In 1839, he tha lost his firstt wif e, and he sought a second1, with whom ...