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... | WANDSWORTH COU1NITY COURT. IMPORTANT TO LICEnNSED VICTUALLERS.-TEn JUDGEa'S ONioN o' TOm -TrePLING Aor.-OXNarHAa V. ItA1Lnrr.-This was an action, tried in the Wandsworth County Court, before F. P. Fraser, Esq.,jsdge, to recover the sum of 0 for beer and spirits supplied by the plaintiff, a Licensed Victualler, the proprietor of the Bricklayers' Arms Tavern, tichnsond, to the defendant, a ...

Published: Sunday 29 August 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3784 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE GWEEDORE INQUIRY

... > THE GWEEDORE INQUIRY,. I TO Titi EDITOR OF THE Flt5.EMAN. p Wood Lodge, Donegall, Aug. 2, 1858. a SHI2 h lave this day read in the FJIEEMAN'S JTOURINAL d Of. the Blot of July a letter hejaded -6oweedore inquiry, p and .rigne~d Anthony Gallagher, C.C. Mountcharles afnd p 25 ?? letter refers to evidenice given by me before a select ti comumittee of thle House of Commonis. appointed to in. d ...

CORONERS' INQUESTS

... SUnOoEa-On Wednesday evening, a young woman, named Elizabeth Carr, 17 years of age, and a servant with Mr James Nanson, Sun Inn, Side, committed suicide by drowning herself in the Ouseburn, near to the Glassa ouse Bridge. She had been engaged during the day in washing, and about eight o'olook in ?? evening she left the house. A short time after, a little boy saw her near to the Ouseburn, and ...

POLICE ASSUMPTION

... POL E:AE ASSUM'NllPTION, ci IsaIac rotobschild was charged at the Gniildball Police- t h!& n11rt' yesteiday Witll oesttucting Hercules-passage, leading. t i tb the Stock Exchange. t George Sm 6ll, No. 36,6 of the City force: About a t ntqualrter to one o'clock- inl thle (lay I saw thle prisoner staml- I r, ing in lIercules-passage, and as he ?? obstructling the t T. thorouglflire in tlat ...

THE LONDON POLICE COURTS

... A curious case was adjudicated upon by the Lora Mayor on Tuesday week. A man who had not hired a cab, but had ridden in it only a few yards, was summoned by the cabman for the fare due on account of the whole time that the defendant's companions had engaged the cab-a period of several hours. The Lord Mayor decided in favour of the cabman. At the Thames Police court, on Wednesday, a man named ...

THE GREAT SWINFEN WILL CASE

... A question of fact, respecting the validity of a will, and involving the proprietorship of an estate worth -between 60,0001. and 70,0001., has just been decided by a Staordshire jury, on a trial directed by an issue from the Court of Chancery, The cause in question, motwithstanding the amount of the property, could never have become a cameso celebri, were it not for a circumstance which ...

PETTY SESSIONS

... BULLINGDON DIVISIONT-CouelT Uall, Osxford, July 31. Present, the Earl of Abingdon, James M.Horrell, Guy i Thomson, and J. H, Ashhurst, Esqrs. Richard Hicks, of Horton, was convicted of an assault upon Martha Haines there on the 28th of July. It appeared I that the defendant had kicked and bruised her legs because she had fetched a bucket of water from a pond on his pre- t mises. Complainint ...

THE MURDER OF A YOUNG LADY AT DARLEY

... I THrEs MlUlRDER OF A YOUNG LADY AT DARLEY. THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION. The prisoner in this case, Jamcs Atkinson, hits been com- mitted for trial. The prisoner was not defended. On being charged in the usual way he made the following extraordinary confession: -The reason I murdered her was because she would not have me. blse told me her parents would not let tier nave me. She said she thought ...

NISI PRIUS COURT.—WEDNESDAY

... ilsI PRIUS COURT..WzDNE3AY. ; Coilsit v, Shad y.Thi5 case was commenced on Tuesday, but. not concluded until this morning. It was an action of slander; y Mr. Sergeant Thomas and Mr. Griffiths, were for the plaintiff r Mr. Huddleston, QC., and Mr. Phipeon for the defendant. The plaintiff and defendant have,, it appears. had business transac- lions together for several years.. Mr. Godasll, a ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... s~oCOUNILn-Houfss, TwNRanAs, August 19. Dr. Magistrates present: Mr. Lane and General Worrall. Id William Jones, taken under a warrant, was charged with assaulting P.C. 289 at halr-past one o'clock that morning. The I constable stated that he saw the man leaning against a wall a asleep at that early hour, and on asking him whathedid there,he tsassaulted him and broke his coat. Fined 6s. and ...

BAKEWELL PETTY SESSIONS, FRIDAY, Aug. 20

... BAKEWELL PETTY SESSIONS, FnIDAY, Aug. 20. r 1 _Yt .. - _ '._ A n - I A T v A e I, *ed [Before W. P. THsoawNsirL, Esq., M.P., W. LONSDOsN, Esq., pc ify rind Lord DaENMAN.) Ia This sitting lasted five hours, but there were few cases ofa in sufficient importance for publication. on CiHnaCiH-ATE SUMMaONeS.-Williara Hawley, one of the tb of churchwardens of Nloneyasb, summoned Mr. Henry ...

THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER ARISING OUT OF THE PERSHORE STREET FIRE

... I THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER R I IRISING OUT OF THE PERSHORE STREET FIRE. Yesterday, at the Public Office, before UT. Wright sod W. Jamtes, REgrs., Picas Edwvards, the fireman of lthe fleck of London Office, who steeds committed under the Coroner's warrant, for the coon- slsugislor of Lizzie Gregory, aged five years, was placed in the dock, ft Issiog necessary that the bicarge should also be ...