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POLICE LAW

... There is no branch of the executive machi- nery more dangerous to public liberty, if not well managed, than the police. They have, from time immemorial,been subtle agents in the hands of Government; they are made a body of legalised spies, constantly on the watch, placed at the very key-hole of your lhouse-door-main taining a secret correspondence down your area-xteps-and hanging in perpetual ...

Metropolitan Intelligence

... ?? - Attropolitatt b*Uigamo, I--- Of th Susracious DzATea ruoi Poisoulmao. y a4ouril- ment, before Mr W. Baker, at the 'Cape of Good Hope publib-bouie, ?? the f0onmisriaI roadEast, relative to the death of Mire Louisa Brown, aged.- 37, who died ?? week. The deceased had beien pregnanto ansd was In the enjoymient of very good health. She had beeniresiding wtith her husband, wile formeijy ...

Police Report

... faitte Atport 0 BOW.STR9ET.:- CUOn ro PTO NI soN s. -p. img Baker, pawnbroker, of StAnsop s`treet, Care-market, 13th was charged with demanding moro than the legal In. WI ?? EBuver stated tht oes the ath of April *be BAB > pledged articles at the shop of the defendant for to. 6d., age( and On the 9th inst. redeemed them. ada paid Bid. de. the 4 mended by tho defendant at iatereet. She applied ...

AWFUL MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM

... FOUR CHILDREN KILLED BY THEIR MOTHER. ATTEItBTED SUICIDE OF THE UNFORTUNATE WOMAN. BiamtiNanAm, SATURDAY NIGHT. - This town throughout tie day has been in a state of more than ordi. nary excitement, by the commission of the terribletcrime which heads this notice. The following are the facts just published in a third edition of the Journal:- It appears that about four or five months ago, a ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1847
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2159 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

Police Report

... I ?? C., j .- 0 BOV.STRER ?? ¢dAUTiTO Io Plo O55iUorOB.-T. ,g. Baker, pawnbroker, of Stanhope.streat, Claea-miarket, -he was charged wfith demanding tnore than the legal in. , e terestlmrn Eniver stated that Clo the 8tb of April she ht pledged articles at the shop of tie defendant forS.. Ud., and on the othid at. redeemed them, and paid Bid. de. enD macded by the defendant as lateresti She ...

A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND

... the A dreadful affair occurred at Manchester on Si. low turday evening. A man, named Thomas Cawley, sple employed at the Farm-yard Tavern, Bradford-road, om lived with his wife, who is named Eliza, and fou om childti'n, -at a small house, N{o. 6, Swallow's-court, rity Bradford-road. On his return home between six the and seven o'clock, he found his wife absent, and no ,jdb tea, got for himself ...

Police Report

... valliv Arport - -- ?? ay BOWSTUlRET. Curtor To r. PArt5ZoE .-T. Baker, pewnbroker, of Btnhope-etreat, tllre.marhet, he was charged vwith demanding more than the legal in- to ?? Eninr statedthatoa thehs of Aprisbe ] ht pledged articles at the shop of the defendant for gs. d4,, 1 and on the 9th Int. redeemed theia, and paid Od. de. t manded by the defeadaot as Ibtervit. She applied toc this ...

Police Report

... 7we ~iepi volut -- -- JS C P at, - H e a ?? -- D EStable No. jO3 B, wasl charged with assaulting' a YoungI man named Lucay. The complainant said that on Toes. day night last, near Ring's-cross, he, was collared by. Nrf, 38 of te B di1vision. Ho Ieasked 6 What ha1re I I don ' dbefore 1! reply wai given, the deteodant I dcame up and beat hilin most unmercifully on the bv~ckI andashoulders with ...

FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT BIRMINGHAM OF FOUR CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE LATTER

... FRIGIgTPUL MURDER AT BIHMISGKAM OF FOUR ?? CUILDREN BY THEIR v6TRER.AND AT. I:,TE&PTED SUICIDE OP TH L -ATTER' One of the Mclet d ieasl mnaers whic'bie ever I taken place In this copntriwoos committeds Itbheapoide, Blrninghnm,'er ?? lastunder the following cir. comistendes J.t appe red that About siK s6dnthii ago a I widow, named Ann Wilkes, opened a small ahop ini ir lbeapslde, for the salo ...

MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND

... e- BxaNIUEs A.-One of the most atrocious murders to wbich hbs been committed in this town for many years BB pact, took place on Tuesday, and has caused a great t0 sensation in the Immediate locality of the violenee. The murderer IF a man naued Davies, a boardingbhouse. keeper, who resided in Moor-street, opposite the Polleg e Officetbe victim big own wife. For a long time past F, Davies and ...

EXECUTION AT MAIDSTONE

... EXECUTION AT MAIDSTONM O -'Dhursday, Iltchi,83. who had beemoonaienaned to deatb fth poisoning his wife, was exesate( at Idaid. ,Stonol. ',Me conduct ofi the government had been nlos~tvsaillating ini its tratntmet ef thacrimlrni. It~ seem ethat at the moment of the expeotedlexecutiov, a telegeaph message wasreceived at Maidsone from 'the Lodon termninnD. of the SouthtXmOern Ruil- wayg erdering ...

ATTEMPT OF TWENTY-SIX CONVICTS TO BREAK OUT OF MARYBOROUGH GAOL

... ATTEMPT OF TWENTY.61X CONVICTS TO BREAK OUT OP MARYBOROUGH GAOL On Thureday week, about ,alf past AIve o'cl0e1 in the1 eventng,twenty-5si prsoners, under sentence of: tuen. portetlon, endeavoured to effect their esc' p *ro the gaolotMaryboreugh. Th' following are tfe elr.tu stanceseonneited with the attmpt- 'eeae tht several prisoners were. returnalng to theirrespective yards from school, ...