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YESTERDAY'S LAW AND POLICE

... LORD FRANKFORT'S CASE. The further examination of Alice Low, charged with robbing Lord Frankfort of property to a large amount, having been ap- pointed for yesterday, at an early hour the vicinitv of Maryle- bone Police-court was much crowded, and the greatest curiosity was manifested by those assembled to obtain a view of the ac. oused The prisoner was brought to the office shortly before ...

Published: Sunday 16 October 1842
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3246 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

MR ELTON'S CASE

... Captain Rous has made a curious disclosure respect. ing the sentence on Mr Elton. He states that the Court Martial passed the sentence of imprisonment because they knew that the midshipmen of the fleet were about to give an entertainment to the prisoner. So much for the discipline of the Mediterranean fleet, says Captain Rous. So much for the justice of the Court Martial, say we. According to ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1842
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1029 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE

... FORTuNE-TELLING. -A welf.dressed, middle-aged woman, who gave her name Sarah Robinson, was placed at the bar before Mr Long, charged with having obtained money and various articles of apparel from Eliza Headlard. -From the evidence of the complainant, who is about 20 years of age, it appeared that between three and four months ago, while she was in the service of a gentleman residing ia Pine ...

OCCURRENCES

... -, - I 4 CREOLE' NEGROES SET AT ?? NeW York Express contains a letter from New Providence, tur- nishing the intelligence that the negroes of the Creole had I been formally set at liberty. A special session of the Admi- ralty Court convened to hear the charge of piracy against the seventeen negroes imprisoned from the Creole. After an examination of the testimony offered, the Court replied ...

CONSISTORY COURT

... l DILLON v. DILLOW.-On-FridaY Sir Stephen Lushinglon delivered judgment in this case, which was an application by Dr Dillon, the celebrated preacher, fbr a divorce, on the ground that his wife had committed adultery. After a care- fiul investigation of the whole, Dr Lushington said this was more of a criminal than a civil case and, consequently, the wife ought to have the benefit of the doubt ...

POLICE

... A GENTLE LowGcuCA.-At Marlborough street, a littld girl, named Elizabeth Molloy, summoned James Booth, a butcher, in Shepherd's market, for having assaulted her.- The complainant was hastening home one night last week with her mistress's daughter, when the defendant came out of his shop, pursued her into her own house, and gave her a violent blow on the side of the head. He would have repeated ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1842
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1900 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

OFFENCES

... O F F EN C ES. COURT-AfRtTIAL.-The result of the second court-mar- tial on Lieu. Lionel R. Place, ot her Majesty's ship Queen, is the bull acquittal, after a four days' patient and laborious investigation, of this officer, from all and every the other fbol charges prelerred against him, which the court in its sentence stigmatised as false, scandalous, and malicious. On returning to his own ...

WIGNEY'S BANKRUPTCY

... IVIGWE''7-S iIWLVCliuPTCY. IlOIiTirooc, MAY :1-Thie being the dii rappointcd for tlic cljeourneld meiti g under this fiat, the ul ruptc were presenloi the puirpose of undergoing a turther exuamination. Comnilssioners Merrifield Attree, acid Cooper, took their belts at eleven o'clocii, at which hour Mr. James, barrister, eppeared tir the eseignees, Mr. E. S. Creally for the defendaute, and tile ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE—THURSDAY

... LA Wtt JNTELLP. EA CE'-TIILRSI'AY. JLDICIAL COIMMITI'EE OF THE PnIVY COUNCIL. Present; Lord CarI )bell. Mr Justice Erakine, the Judge of thi Preregatlve Couirt, and the Judge of trie Admiralty Court. This was an aoplicatlon fur ., a rearwal of a pateot for an im oored IMnsuoact nre of ladles' bitqv. Ne. tt 111U. C r 110 ?,U r. W\eb.ler e ppenred In support of the pa. .nt~ee Site sulltrsor ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE—FRIDAY

... LAW 1A'TELLIGBENCE-FRID&Y. COURT OF CHANCERY. ANDERSON V. WALLIS. The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in this matter, which was argued before the vacation. The bill was filed by Mrs. Hannah Anderson on the partofherself endthe intfant children of the defendant Mrs. Wallis, and it prayed payment of ala nnuity of *L& bequeathed to her by her brother, and also that the executors might be compelled ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE—TUESDAY

... LAW IVTEL LIGEN(E-TuEsDAY. 11JO,9SE OF LORDS-APPEALS. The house :uet for tie purpose of delivering judgments in several la-p~eal cases. July. *tolux rFl USON' ANtD SEVEiN OTHER~t MINISTERtS, AWYT ANDREWl'S~l~lO A-I) TWO OTHFRS, tlt1tDE115 FORMING TimI lT'tE:llYTt1HY OF AUCEITERIAR1OEI, V. tIAtL OF tI-NNOLI. AN. ) 11EV. R. YOUaNt. This was I'n appeol uguiniot it decree of the Court of Ses- dNon ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... ASSIZE INTBLLIGENCB. NORTHERN CIRCIJIT-YOiRK, SErT. 2. THE RIOTS AT LEEDS. [Before Lord Denman.] Joseph Armitaqe, T/weonas Chester, JohX Ciristy, Riobert Ellis, Williame 1'lesher, John Haddock, Joseph Ifeaton, Jeohn Heywood, Jonathan ilirst, Josia& 1oyg, Willi=a Haniard, James Longstaft; George Oates, Wi'illiam Perigo Thomas Rewder, Jamies Speight1 Francis Stead, and Charles Wilkinsone, 'were ...