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... - NQURSTS. } BEPORE MaR. WHtISTON. JUN., CORONER. On Thursday, the 2tth of Decemiler lsat, at West lHallaut; l on the body of Ritnard Wheatley, labourer, aged 52 years, whose death took place very suddenly the morning previous. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased left'hftRlt on Wednesday morning, about five o'clock, for the purpose o; going to his work, and oii his way entered a ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1021 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DERBYSHIRE EPIPHANY QUARTER SESSIONS

... ODRBY8I$HRE 1;PIPllANY QUARTER SESSIONS. wh. Kne hnalnomz n? the gpqq.na rmnmenncjd on Tues- I The coatnty business of the sessions commenced on Tues- us day (yea'tl~riay), before Joins BALDRYS, Esq., chairman, and e 3g tbefollb*lig~maglstrihtes.:-Lord Waterpar , Sir H. S. Blane, aD ad Burt., Woti. Vernon, Hen. G. HI. C~rvendisls, M1.P., SirD iau H. S. Wilnmot, Bart., W. Evans,-Esq., .1. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2700 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DERBY BOROUGH SESSIONS

... .--A --- !'- z A/A+tA These sessions commenced on Tuesday (yesterday), at ten he o'clock, in theGui dhall, before the Recorder, JoHN BALUlY. 1`g Esq. ; and the following gentlemen were sworn on the grand )St jury:-Mr. G. Bridgart, foreman; Mr. J. Chadfdeld, Mr. e- G. Wilkins, Mr. B. Moseley, Mr. N. Leene, Mr. C. J. Storer, et Mr. G. Lamb, Mr. G. Besaick, Mr. J. Greatorex, Mr. P. ry Peel, Mr. J ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4135 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DERBYSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS, JAN. 4. CROWN COURT

... [Before JoHN BALOuY, Esq., Chairman, and other Magistrates.] g The Court opened this morning at ten o'clock, and after e the usual formalities, the following gentlemen were sworn on i the Grand Jury:- e Mr. Russell (foreman), Mr. John Abell, Mr. Robert Clay, I a Mr. William Coates, Mr. William Deakin, Mr. William Fox, I Mr. Luke Gregory, Mr. Edward Harrison, Mr. Richard Sale, t Mr. John Smith, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6271 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SUICIDE OF A PRISONER AT THE COUNTY GAOL,

... I i DERBY. . .1 On Sunday night last, a prisoner named George Whitwortb, aged 6 59, destroyed himself, by hanging, in his celL The man wascharged so attliecountysessions lastweek, aloigwithhis son, JolhnWhitworsth, id and his son-in-law, Francis Goodwin, with sheep stealing The k deceaed and his son-in-law were sentenced to one month's impri- le sonment, and eight years' penal servitude. The ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1382 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ADVENTURES OF A CRIMINAL IN FRANCE

... Th. nnliep nrp aetivplv PnfaLed in seekinir after a most The police are actively engaged in seeking after a most dangerous criminal, whose career has been a strange one. On the 30th May, 1851, at the fair of Maure, department of the Ille- et-Vitaine, a farmer found that his pocket had been picked of 85f. A young man was arrested on suspicion of being the thief. He declared his name to be ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1627 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

INQUESTS

... .MFORN -a. 502L.EY, CORONER. On Wednesday, the 4th instant, at Spondon, on the body of Henry Elson, aged six, Bon of William Elson. His clothes caught fire on Monday morning, owing to a spark having flown on to his pinafore, and he was soedreadfiliy burnt that he died the following day. Ver- dict, Accidental death, On Thursday, the 5th Instant, at Booth Gate, In the townDhip of Reage, on the ...

MURDER ON ROBOROUGH DOWN

... AURDER ON ROBOROUGH DOWN. lU4T- -lA A T- h - m efs rh- 00 t O)Q s Benjamin M'Danald, an Irishman of about 22 or 23 years r of age, having recently enlisted in one of the towns of the - north of Devon in the Royal artillery, was last week, with other recruits, marched to Devonport to join the division lying there. lis manner was so strange, being fitfully and desponding, that it attracted the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

WIRKSWORTH PETTY SESSIONS, JAN. 10. 1854

... WIRTCSWORTH PETTY SESSIONS, JAN. 10, 1654. le, Di , ,.a,, . .. - ., .,.-.X St [iBefore F. G. GOODWIN, CulAs. CLARKE, and A. ASa- di In waRIGT, Esqrs.]tb at William Dixon, of Matlock, a lad aged 13 years, was con-Sil n victed under the Juvenile Offenders' Act, of having stolen a hi notame rabbit, of the value of Is., the property of Saml. Boden, m, .at the parish of Matlock, on the 1st ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1446 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER HUSBAND

... A * %,.- -o o-a l m a fl th.a -vcfo nf n nnh. e At Westbourne, Sussex, an aged woman, the wife of a pub- e lican, has been murdered by her husband. From evidence s given at the inquest, it appeared the members of a benefit 1, society, attached to one of the lodges of the ancient order of ' Foresters, have been in the habit for some years of holding it an annual festival and ball at the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

INQUESTS. 10 BEFON M

... R. WISIST02, JUN., CORONER. i r, DiSTRESSING OCCURRENCZ AT TISSINGTON.-On Tuesday, I I the loth inst., as some boys were'upon a pond of water at v it Tissington, the ice suddenly gave way, and two of them were t immersed in the water, upon which two other boys went to g Id their assistance, when the ice again broke, and the whole were 0 i precipitated into the water. The two last named were a ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1150 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

COUNTY COURT, DERBY, 16th JANUARY, 1854

... en., I m . - -- 'I (Before J. T. CANTRELL, Esq., Judge.] a LUABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIES S. LUKE FRYERS V. MIDLAND RAILWAY COMrANlY. 5e A public notice issued by a railway company as carriers, t 11 restricting their liability, is of no avail by virtue of II Geo. 4, t er and I Win. 4, c. 68, B. 4, and a person sending goods after l1 knowledge of such notice does not thereby agree to the terms ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1854
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2409 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment