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ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... I ACCIDENTS AND OFFEIES. DEATH FROM A WAGER. - On Tuesday afteraoL a young man named Edward Hucker, living in Granby street, Waterloo-road, undertook, for a wager of 1 to swim across the Thames from Millbank t.) Labet, within twelve minutes, and got in the water for that pur. pose a short distance from the bridge at three o'clock it being then -high water. The unfortunate man had g about 200 ...

Published: Sunday 06 April 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1508 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... & INdt!EgT ON EORG8 DIRUMMOND, EsQ.-On Tues- day Fight an inquiry was taken by Mr. Bedford, at the Turk's Head Tavern, MOtcombe-street, 'elgrave-aquare; as to the death of George Drummonid, Esq., who expired under most distressing circumstances o'n' Sunday. Lient. E. Atheley Drummond, R.N,, of 2, Bryanston-sqiare, stated that the deceased was his consin, and in his forty-, eighth year, On ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4357 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE LONDON GAZETTES

... THE LONDON GAZETTESp TUESDAY, JuLY 8, BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.-R. TREDINNICK, Thread- needle-street, mining agent and anctioneer.-W. GEE, Murray- street, Hoxton, tuscan and straw hat manufacturer. BANKRUPTS.-J. HALL, Brighton, tavern keeper.-B. TEDD, Coventry, cotton dresser and builder.-R. CROOM, Downend, Gloucestershire, butcher.-W. KENDALL and J. STANDISH, Leeds. grocer.-J. HOWELL, Liverpool, ...

Published: Sunday 13 July 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... Tuc STREET ORGAN NuxsANcE.-On Tuesday Mr. Wailey held an inquest in the University Coliege Hos-. pital,' on John Douglas, a carman, in the emolby'of Messrs. Murray, ironmongers, Broad-street, St. Giles, aged thirty. Mrs. Mary Barnes, 16, Harrington-street, Morningtbn-crescent, stated that deceased was unloading goods at her house, and was in the act of handing them from the cart when a large ...

Published: Sunday 12 October 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1825 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW AND POLICE

... - JUDGEs' C33AMBERS. THE QuEEN v. HeENRY DlLSDALE AND OTHERt. THE EGG THROWING CASE.-At the sitting of the learned Baron on Tuesday morning, Mr. Hobler applied on behalf of the defendant, Henry Dimsdale, for leave to issue a writ of habeas corpzus, returnable forthwith, directed to the keeper of the Queen's Prison, to bring up the defendant for the purpose of his being admitted to bail to, ...

Published: Sunday 28 September 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6747 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... SUcICIE BY AssElic.-AtL inquest was held before Mr..W. Payne, at' St. Bartholomew's Hospitalo on the body of Margaret Gardener, aged twenty-five years. -It appeared that the -deceased was a woman of very pas- siouate. temper. On Monday last the deceased had been quarrelling, with her husband. She left the house, pro- ceeding to theo shop of achenmist, where sloe obtained sixpeany-worth of ...

Published: Sunday 26 October 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3433 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

REMARKABLE NOTIONS OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

... The Halifax Guardian gives the following case that came before the bench of magistrates last week. Hannah Milnes charged her husband William Milnes, of Northowram (for whom Mr. J. B. Holroyde appeared), with assaulting her and putting her in fear of some bodily hans. She said he had been in the habit of ill-using her. He had been once already bound over to keep the peace to her. In cross ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... JUDGE'S CHAMBE1RS. TILS QUEEsN V THE RFv. Josizrti SamTri.-The de- d',t in this case is the clergyman of Walton, whom coyonet's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter apilslt for having caused the death of a farmer by firing his dloor in the dark. An application to adamit to les ma' de last week before Mr. Justice Coleridge, ed refulsed, upon the ground that the depositions were t ec reins ...

THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY

... LATEST PARTICULARS. WINCHESTER, SATURDAY. Yesterday, William Pamplin, who has been already twice examined on a charge of being implicated in th great gold-dust robbery, was again brought up at the Guildhall, Winchester, in charge of Mr. Superintendent Shepperd, and placed at the bar. Mr. Crombie, on the part of the South-Western Rail- way Company, said he proposed to ask for a further re- mand ...

THE MURDER IN SOMERSETSHIRE

... THE MURDER SE OMXESTSHIRE. This' ksh'c-k'nk uc'tg h' has 4lrrifed the whole of the ?? rghboqjuv ojja bf I)ath, still rertafats en sbroudfed ?? impen'etfabie mystry. 'It will be remembered ?? thd fiurderedjhiafi, George Bush, had his ihrt'at cdut~in 4frightfuj paener on the 1t ofthe presen'tiusnnh, in a fleld,4tonohis way from the vil- lage of Priston to his horne;; xtt aitsburystid that dhi ...

HORRIBLE CASE OF CHILD MURDER

... :EHORRIBLE CASE OF CHILb mrDjrI Some excitement has been occasioned in the town of Mansfield and neighbourhood, by the suddeddiseoveryI of a child-murder, perpetrated under Wife circureistarntes mentioned below, above a year since, if 6redence is tole given to the principal witness, who mjd6 a certain Atate- ment to a policeman a few days ag'o, which lea to the, apprehension of both the ...

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... ?? iv rl?LLitl?.NCM. 'CO3EiTOF~0unMirdON PLEIAS. z ,DOE, 5EsX. IdatjNsBaR1g( v. BAIXBe St.-Tlis S- . iichtor- general appealed to show cause against the rule I nisi'wlsich bad been obtained for a new trial in this csse, on the ground that the verdict was against the evidencel It may be semenebered that the action was an action of ejecrment directed by the Court of Chancery to try the validity ...