YESTERDAY'S LAW, POLICE, ETC

... 30W STIEZET. TAKING CARE OF A FRsIND.-=Telowes ('slamps, a chimney sweep, who is not unknown to the sporting world, as a professional pedestrian, having won several .running and walking matches, was brought up on a charge of robbing Henry Gower, a gardener, of his watch and some money. The prosecutor is the son of Mr. Gower, grower to the Earl of Lonsdale, at Barnes, and made the acquaintance ...

THE FIRE AND LOSS OF FOUR LIVES AT WESTMINSTER

... THE PZZE ANDl LOSS OP VOU30t XVES AT IVESTPUNSTER On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Bedford, the coroner for the city and liberties of Westminster, opened an inquiry in the Sessions-house, Broad Sanctuary, respecting the deaths of Sarah Bilson, aged three years; Henry John Bilson, aged six months; Eliza Chapman, aged fifty-three; and Clarissa Chapman, aged eighteen, who perished in the calamitous ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... MUIDLAND CIRBUIT. DERBY, THE ALLEGED HORRIBLE CHILD MURDER IN DER- BysHIEm.- Sarah Albridge, described as a charwoman, was charged with the wilful murder of a newly-born child, at Ilkeston, on the 5th inst. It appeared from the state- mefits of the counsel for the prosecution and from the evidence, that a daughter of the prisoner, who had always borne a respectable character in the village, ...

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... I I IHosRiBLE SUICIDE IN SHOrox-LAn.-On TueEday morning, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, considerable sensation was created in the neighbourhood of Shoe-lane in consequence of a most determined suicide by James Brown, aged fifty-five years, ink maker, who resided at No. 1, King's Head-court, Shoe-lane, under the following circumstances --It appeared that the unfortunate man was a ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2341 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

EXECUTIONS FOR MURDER

... M1ECUTIONS rOE. xUD Friday morning dawned brightly at Warwick, but ere long the sky became overcast with heavy clouds. The fact that the execution of Kington, for wife murder at Coventry, was to take place, had been kept so secret that the first real indication of it was the erection of the scaffold on the platform over the entrance-gate of the Warwick Borough Gaol on the previous day, and ...

THE RIOT AT ALDERSHOTT

... IEnA THE CORONER'S INQUEST. On Wednesday morning, the inquest into the cir. cunistances connected with the death of James King, a private of the ist regiment of the King's Own, or Tower Hamlets militia, who was kfilled by a gunshot wound during the riot, was held at the Tilbury hotel1 in the town of Aldershott, before Mr. S. Chalmers. The inquest was opened in a formal manner on Tues. day ...

PROFESSIONAL SPIES IN DOMESTIC LIFE

... PROFESSIONAL SPTES IN DOMSTIC LIFE. A case has been decided by Sic Cresswell Cresswell. -It is that of Sopwith v. Sopwith, which is an excellent example of the mischief which arises from the employment of professional spies in domestic life, more especially when the emoluments of the spy de. pend upon the extent and importance of the dis. coveries. Mr. Sopwith is a surgeon sad general prac. ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... MANSION HKOUSM. A FRIEND OF THE PoFor-On Tuesday, Francis Meto hence was charged with assaulting Timothly Collins. The prisoner, as he stood at the bar, shook and shivered as if from a sham palsy, and lie was attired- in a coat and trousers which hung about him in tatters, and were se- cured to his waist by a rope. The complainant, a boy of fourteen, said: I am a shoeblack, and was in Crooked- ...

THE PROVINCES

... I . TEE PROVINCES. ' LAC!A1RSAELE- OT)ornm OUTAGE ON BOARD Ax Amccaxucn.Snct-One of those brutal ewses which have too often, recently brought disgrace upon the mercantile marine of the United States has been in. vestigated at the Liverpool police ?? Hell, second mait, and Dsanie Davenport, boatswain, of ,the Aniercan ship John Bright, were charged with having cansed the death of a seaman named ...

LAW & POLICE, SATURDAY

... INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. DETECTIVE STATE OF THE LAw.-Il RE PETER MAaR.-This insolvent, a commission agent, who had been a tailor and outfitter at Liverpool, applied for ?? commissioner said he owed a few debts in London, and a friend had now put him into prison. -The insolvent demurred to the person who had put him into prison being called a friend.-About a year ago, the insolvent had ...

HEARTLESS FRAUD ON THE WORKING Classes of Birmingham

... HEARTLESS FRAUD ON THE WORIES Classes of Birmingham. A very painful case of embezzlement and fraud has receng occurred in Birmingham, which will be most lamentable in its cot'c sequences, as the victims are the working classes of that town, Ii; delinquent is a man of the name of CHARLES HINKS, Whose carero of fraud has been of the most barefaced description, but who;; only another instance of ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1247 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... COURT Or fl0;OEdaT ANND DZXVOQCM. SorwiViT v. Sorwsvss.-.This was a petition by the wife for a judicial separation by reason of the adultery of her husband. Mr. Sopwith, who is a surgeon at Tunbridge Wells, had put in an answer altogether denying the adul- tery. Dt. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks were for Mrs. Matilda Sopwith; Mr. Macaulay, Q.O., and Dr. Wambey appeared for Mir. Renty ...