BOROUGH SESSIONS

... The Easter General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this borough commenced yesterday morning, ata ten o'clock, before MATTHEW iALBOT BAIN5vs, Esq., - the Recorder, when the usual preliminaries having been gone through, the follo\ ing gettlcnlleti were sworn on the Grand Jury :_ THOMAS HOLDERNESS, Esq., Foreman. Mr. John Astroa Mr. H. Leveit Richard Boyle, jun. T. Alitchell John Bowes ,, W. ...

Published: Friday 07 March 1845
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1923 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... A FAMILY LAW SUIT. WIGGINS V. WIGGINS AND OT1rruts,-This was a suit in the Rolls' Court, on Friday, by James 'Mann Wiggins against his fattier, William Wiggins, and also against Meek and others, The object was to sot aside a sale to the father of the plaintiff's life.interest under the will and codicil of his mother, Mfrs. Sarah Wiggins, This lady having a testa- mentary power, by her will of ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1845
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3454 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DREADFUL MURDER AND SUPPOSED ROBBERY OF A GENTLEMAN AT HAMPSTEAD

... DREADFUL MURDER AND SUPPOSED ROBBERY OF A GENTLEMAN AT lIAMP- ISTEAD. D. On Saturday morning the usual quiet retirement of the inhabitants of Hamplstead, near London, was dis- turbed and excited, by the report of a murder having been committed on the body of a man of gentlemanly appearance, whose person was unkniowYn. It appears that on Friday evening, about half-past six o'clock, as police ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1845
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MUTINY AND MURDER

... EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MUTINYAND MURDER. .. . . . . . .- ?? .. . . . - - . - mat st On Tuesday, Mr. Clarkson, bariis er, applied to Mr. Brmderip, M d. the sitting magistrate, at the Thames Police Court ...

Lancashire Spring Assizes

... ? I ?? opriog giddilrtd- 11 I ?? of (cbNTINU*D pROU uM TS rPPL8MXNT# PAGI,6 1174 part se Sion De CROWN COURT. was to -po at WE&DNESDAy April 12, 1845. of p of Sp ~h His Lortirstip entered the court sh ...

DUBLIN POLICE—YESTERDAY

... *XA/ DUBLIN POLICE-YEsTrCDAT. ?? c O tFICE. woman named Mary Stone was sent for trial for steal- ing a watch from William Hardgrave, of Kilmaiuham. Mary Clarke was charged with having a marseilles vest in her possession which she could not account for. She was remanded, and a boy named Bernard Mathews was also remanded for having a silver watch in his possession which he could not account for. ...

THE ASSIZES

... I The Packet in its last publication complhins of ldnht it designates-m.unaiirly towards the course of iaw- unjustly as regards the fact- a total failure of;ua tice at the assizes just closed for the county of clitiii. Our cutemporary instances a case in which a ni;rdt of a desperate deseription, we admit, was coaaA:; and for which a man was put upon his trial at thte asq1izes. The murder ...

SHERIFFS' COURT—LONDON, TUESDAY

... I SHERIFFS' COURT LONDoN, TUESDAY. cRtm. coy. Creagh v. Hewgill. This was an inquiry to assess damages for criminal con. versation with the plaintiff's wife. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, with Mr. Painter, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Robinson for the defendant. The Learned Sergeant stated the case. The plaintiff is a captain in the 54th regiment, and the defendant had for- merly been also in ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... LA W INTELL I GENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-YESTEDAY. SITTINGS AT ONt1I PnIUS AFTER TEnS!. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury.) CHtININAL VPOOSE1TION FOR LIBEL. The Qeeen at the prosecution of Robert Gray v. James Birch, proprietor of the World newspaper, The Lord Chief Justice having taken his seat on the bench precise'y at ten o'clock, this case came on for trial before the ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... I - I ly COURT OF CHANCERY-YESTERDAY. tok The Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor took hie seat on the bench at twelve o'clock. Margaret ffalhouy, ulidow of David Mlshony, v. Pierce ate Mr. ?? and others. ate M. MonhanQ. C. (with whom were Messrs. Martley, ng Q, C., Leahy, and Kiernan), as behalf of the defesidant in this cause, moved that the order pronounced by the Master aof the Rolls in this ...

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

... I THE UNIVERSITY ?? )Ij. - MR. WARD-S CAjSE 0 ?? t/le 72'iinrs tpe~ O ?? NG.'j University poured into Oxford tilens rIlon!t~' bers Lis the hour approached for the C II dtics. A great proportion, of thos who ar., - Icrloa -distinguislted iii public life, aid who rrIV' Plir be present at Ilie,. conrvoc~ationi Tie conivocaiton 'was to nivet had bee htd e Isoon after that timse tlio theatre a ...

DUBLIN POLICE—YESTERDAY

... DUBLIN POLICE-YESTERDAY. III'AD OFFtCE. ASSAULT ON TH7E PoLIcc. -A man named James Keegan, whose biography is written in the records of the Dublin police offiLes, was charged with having assaulted Poliene-constable Sullivan (45 A). The prisoner, it appeared, was miscomducting himself and behaving in a very disorderly manner in the house of Mr. Duffy, vintner, of Chanmber-street. The police ...