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EXECUTION OF JOHN LEWIS AT CARDIFF

... John Lewis, convicted before M1r, Justice Crowder on the n7th of the present month, for the niurderoif his wife, was exe -cuted onl Saturday morning on the gallows erected outside ttle L county gaool at Cardiff. The culprit was 44) years of age and was by trade a skinner. Vil it ?? resided with bis -victim, at thle offices of Mr. Morgan, a soilicitor,,at 5lerthyo. On the 14th of January, Mr. ...

LAW AND POLICE

... asB COURT OF CHANCERY.-FitinAy. ier (Blefore the Lord Chancellor andI the Lords Justices.) dai cal 'T'i Giii' NORTHIERNS RAILWAY FRAU13S.-JU11GAIENT. m10 irs -11ENRiY v. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COseANtY,- le- Thle Lord Chancellor having $appointed this morning for Url ed delivery of judgment, in the case of 11Henry aind others v. t le, the Great Northern Hailway Company, the Court was bie ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1857
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1823 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... NORTIhERN CIRCUIT-YORK- of it (Before Mr. Justice WILLIA318.) Eval Fh A yOO.KSH5IREMAN'S rF1iKNC2 AG,%IISST BiGA7My. cn 's Thomas Hlitchen, aged 40, was indicted for bigamy. in tue 0 having rairried Ann Baldwin on the 7th December,. l51, at the 1 nlBradford. his former wife !being then alive.an 1. Dr. Bower pra, secuted; the prison.er o wasulefendedag arnds 0 The former proofs having been give ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1857
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4763 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... LE ICESTE 1IS HI rE. Eflefore, Lord Chief Justice CAIMU'ELL.j Srscic Botsa~iNiO.1Richard Dewey, 18, farmer's servant,I wasiit, e a ?? settitig litre to a straw stack, theI poety Of Jolhn1 Cait tltnao the Si of November. PrisnerplededIot guilty. Mir. Mercwether prossecuted, an r. O'Brien defendled ltee prisir, r h a cqitd Tim WNrrwziz] Alunnviti.E5frdl Utley, 18, collier, wats indicted for the ...

THE MURDER AND PRETENDED BURGLARY NEAR STOCKPORT

... On Thursday ?? (last week), J39. Ferguson Bender' - sooas fare before the county magistrates, ttecotp house, StoclePOrt, with the wilful mourder of hlis father, Jnc 1Hendersonl, at Bronmball, on the 30tb September.. The court c was crowded, every available space being occupie. Th i audience occasionally gave expression to their feelings of I horror and Indignation when the prisoner's treatment ...

Published: Wednesday 14 October 1857
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4698 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

BAKEWELL PETTY SESSIONS, FRIDAY, Aug. 21st

... ' BAKE WELL PETTY SESSIONS, FRIDAY, Aug. 21st. tr ea Before E. RADTFOD, W. LoNosanox, and R. W. M. Nss- FliLD, Esqrs., and Sir MIYLLLS CAVEBIOwNE CAVE, Bart.] lY a CARTS UNATTAcHssD.-Wm. 'Whittingham charged George if Turner with having driven two carts unattached, at Tad- ed dington, on the I Ith inst.-Mr. Darwent, defendant's master, on appeared. and admitted the fact, stating in extenuation ...

THE STAFFIELD MURDER

... CONFESSION O. i n s a Ws~illiom Graham. one of the persons chagrgd with the k-wilful murder of Mr. Charles Featherstonhough's game- I ry keeper, at Staffield, hais confessed that he vwas the actualI lie murderer, and that his two brothers, Henry Graham and se Joseph Grabam, were accomplices after the fact. The n- magistrates, E. I. Ilassel, Esq. (chairman of the bench), n- Colonel Harrison, ...

BAKEWELL COUNTY COURT, THURSDAY, Aug. 6th

... m I BAKE vELL COUNTY COURT, THURSDAY, Aug. O1b. i [Before J. T. CANTRELL, Esq., Judge.1 The number of plaints entered was 65, cases heard 35, sum- manses after judgment 15, commitments 4, and suspended 5 commitments 2. Out of this mass of business there were, ,as 'le usual, but feav cases worth reporting. ] INSOLVENCY.-John Cocker, butcher and publican, of Eyam, passed his final examination ...

SMALLEY PETTY SESSIONS, MONDAY, May 11

... SMALLEY PETTY SESSIONS, MoNnDA, May 11. [Before J. RADrFoPD and T. 0. BATEM1AN, Esqrs.] ASSA ULT AT CODOsn.-Henry Machin and Fraucis Thorpe, r both of Codnor, were charged by William Smith with assault- inog ?? was near the French Horn Inn, in by Codnor, on the 31st ult., when he was attacked by a dog be- eI longinig to one of the defendants; they incited the dog to I bite complainant, which ...

FIRST, DERBY MILITIA

... COURT MARTIALI COUNTY HALL, FRIDAY, Oct. 30. in ?? Capt. NEWIVirATE (President), Lieut. SAML. ce CoLLINSON, Lieut. 'ltios. PrACH, LIeut. BITCWIAX, and Lieat. JE~sso1P.] w. Tise prisoner was Sergeant Henry Moreton, who had to !been placed under arrest for having on or about the 25th August, 1857, at Derby, preferred calumnious, frivolous, i and vexatious charges against Capt. Baiguy. tst Derby ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1857
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8485 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN STAFFORDSHIRE

... MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN STAFFORSJ1_ STAFFORDSHIRE. n A most atrocious and cold-blooded murder and highway I drobbey was committed on Saturday morning last, near I o ?? county, onl the person of Bir. Win. j dChilrlesworth, a respectable farmer, residing at Ridwvare, v xihear that place. Friday, tbe22nld, was theday for holding the annual cattle fair at Abbots Brormley, and the deceased, ...

COUNTY HALL, DERBY, FRIDAY, Aug. 28

... LBefore J. RADFo.n, Esq., Iajor MOSLEY, and W. Cox Esq. GAmiE CAsL.-James Raittsfosrth, labourer, was summoned for unlawfully being upon a public hisghway adjoining certain enclosed land situate in the township of Duffield, in the occu- pation of William Gamble, with a net far the purpose of taking tand destresying ?? appeared that between three and four o'clock on the morning of Monday, the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1857
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 916 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment