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THE CHARTISTS

... NORWICH QUARTER SESSIONS, JAN. 4. (Before Mr. J. Jeremy, Recorder.) Thomas Hewett appeared to answer to an indict. ment for a misdemeanour, having, with other evil- disposed persons, carrying various sorts of arms, unlawfully assembled to disturb the peace, on the 16th of November last, at Cutton New Church, and then and there made a noise, riot, and disturbance, for the space of an hour or ...

ARREST OF RUFFY RIDLEY, AT CINDERFORD, FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

... On Monday, August 29th, Mr. Ridley lectured at Cinderford Tamp, on the principles of the Charter, to a large audience, including six magistrates, a quantity of police, and a reserved force concealed in the woods. The meeting passed off very quietly. On Friday, September 2nd, a public meeting was held on an open space of ground, let for that purpose, near the Furnaces, Cinderford. A requisition ...

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT ON A LADY

... Monday, Mr. Robert Caldwell, solicitor, of 191, Great Brunswick-streat, for whose apprehension two warrants 1 had been outstanding for many days, was brought in custody of Police Serjbant Rennedy, 8 B, before the Magistrates of College-street Police Office, Dublin, charged with having assaulted, with intent to commit V violation, the wife of Mr. Corbett, of Fitzwilliam-place, E barrister. Prom ...

YORKSHIRE LENT ASSIZES,

... CROWN COURT, SATURDAY, MARCH 5. Before Mr. Baron Rolfe. BURGLARY. James Drake, (20) was charged with having on the 26th of September last, at Northowram, bur- glariously stolen a top coat, two silk handkerchiefs, two CMtton ditto, two pairs of boots, a desk, and Is. 6d. in copper, the property of David Parkinson. The prisoner pleaded guilty, but begged the mercy of the court as he had been led ...

PRESTON ADJOURNED INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS

... I PRESTON, MONDAY EvENING-These sessions, for the trial of the principal rioters in the late disturbances at Blackburn and the neighbourhood, were held this morning. T. B. Addison, Esq., the recorder of the town, officiated as chairman, and on the bench were Colonel Austen, T. M. Lowndes, Esq., W. Birley, Esq., and several other county magistrates. Tche first prisoners indicted were John King ...

MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF A RESPECTABLE FEMALE, AT HENRIETTASTREET. BATH

... MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF A RESPECT- ABLE FEMALE, AT HENRIEXTA- STREET. BATH. Bath has been thrown into a state of very great excitement for the last two days, in consequence of its having been discovered that a Mrs. Parsons, a most respectable female, residing at No. 33, Henri- etta-street. Bath, had been murdered. Suspicion having fallen upon the husband, he was immediately taken into custody to ...

MOST ATROCIOUS MURDER AND OUTRAGE ON A FEMALE

... L4OST ATROCIOUS MURDER AND OUTRAGE | ON A FEMALE. GLOSSOP, SATURnAY.-Within the last few days, two investigations have been entered into., in the c.ur- ties of Chester and Derby, in reference to the horrible murder of a man named James Shaw, a shoemaker. aged forty-two, who for several years past had lived in the township of Charlesworth, which is situated on ths borders of Darbyshra aund ...

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

... FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT i -WESTERN RAILWAY. (~iromn the Readding MMVcuY.) ment. It is w~ith feelings of deep regret that we have to No, record one of the most lamentable railway abocdents aged,' that, we believe, has ever occurred in this country. Allen and which took place this morning on that part of No. the Great Western line, called 1tbe gullet, the Masot deepest Part Of the ...

Assize Intelligence

... ftolf-,r Intellisture. - NORTHEIRN CIRCUIT.-DURIlA5O, FEB. 24. Before Mfr. Jreolice II'4ltinno. James Williams, Chartist bookseller, was indicted for gm assault on Christopher Thomas Potts, on the 4th of October lost, at Sundenland. Mr. Otter conducted the prosecution, and ML granger the defence. 'lir. OTTER stated the case to the jury. The defendant was well known in this part of the country ...

DREADFUL MURDER AT MANSFIELD, NEAR NOTTINGHAM

... DREADFUL' MURDER AT MANSFIELD, I NEAR NOTTINGWAM. I On Friday morning last, the peaceful little town of Mansfield was thrown into a, tate of consternation by the discovery of oneu of the most dreadful and cold-blooded murders ver recorded. The hapless victim of this atrocions deed was a young woman, in her 20th 3 ear, naede Mary Hallam, the daughter of a tabourer; who has resided in Mansfield ...

EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF POISONING. VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER IN THREE DISTINCT CASES

... A considerable degree of alarm and excitement was created in the neighbourhood of Folds, Little Bolton, on Thursday last, in consequence of an in- quisition, held at the Crown Inn, upon the body of William Eccles, a boy of nearly fifteen years of age, son of Henry Eccles, a carter, and who has hitherto borne an irreproachable character. The jury were first summoned with an idea that it was an ...

MURDER OF A MOTHER BY HER SON

... M ERTNYri, SATURDAY.-A case of murder, attended with circumstances of unusual atrocity, inasmuch as some suspicion is entertained that the murderer is the son of the aged woman who has been so foully assassinated, was discovered in this town to-day, and has produced much excitement. The name of the unfortunate victim is Tamar Edwards. She was an old and infirm woman, aged upwards of seventy ...