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THE HORRORS OF THE CANTON PRISONS

... hung up and beaten twice a day and put in irons. Starving from hunger and thin as roasted storks they pick up fish bones and melon seeds from the garbage heaps to eat.. If those who have paid bribes are strunD ui and their cries reach the ears of the officers ...

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE

... on the body of John Johnson, pensioner, aged , :died of starvation the previous night. Decease lived by begging and picking up garbage in the streets. As he did not make his appearance for a week, his neighbourt forced open his door on Sunday, and found ...

POISON IN PRINT

... and honest trading were equally within his reach. It is the morbid taste of a Besobman who wouldrather consume offal and garbage than sweet and cleanly food. In his various trials, Dugdale has always proved himself a man of far more than average acuteness; ...

ALLEGED HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A BOY

... pressed it between his teeth. The ?? Pnvrthfeless ad always obtaired the proper rations, un.o- .. - Nas inrthe hlibit of picking up any garbage lying about he decks.' The mate administered some slight chastise- alent to Cure him of his dirty habits, but did ...

THE COURTS OF SEWERS, CITY AND Westminster.—Abominations Licensed.— Vast Sums Spent and Nothing Done

... Board after Board of Commissioners of Sewers to regaulate the drainage of the mietropoli. The appointment of a select body of picked per- sonages, eminent for their engineering attainments, and of well won fame as practical men, gave us some hope. What has ...

Published: Sunday 29 February 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1212 | Page: 9 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—FRIDAY

... forward with respect to the goods found in his possession. Johnl ,Snith, a lad about 16 years of age, was charged with having picked the pockets of gentlemen within the vicinity of Thames-street. A policeman, oii duty in Thames-street, saw a crowd as- sembled ...

SINGULAR CAREER OF A CRIMINAL

... the chamber. Hie, along with the other children, beg for morsels of bread from the neighboure, and have been seen eating garbage picked off the streets. wiho manner in whiceh the flogging ia administered is as unique as cruel. The woman ties the children's ...

THE HORRORS OF TRANSPORTATION

... sixteen days they wan- . dered on, exposed to all the inclensencies of she weather, and ' with no ether food than the garbage they picked up in the bush. They then met arrother party of the natives, wise were out briar- tog, and who offered to conduct them ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... time; but one day, while engaged in his regular duties, lie b suffered, unwittingly, to let it fall fronm lis pocket. It was 0 picked up by some person who conveyed it to Mr. Oaseley, the editor of the Herald, and that gentleman founded his 0 article in the ...

SERIOUS CHARGE OF CRUEL TREATMENT OF A LADY OF FORTUNE BY A RETIRED SURGEON AT BRISTOL

... troom which was quite overpowero.O nering th itishi room they found the floor covered with every sort eean of filth, and garbage of all kinds ; relies ot bygone likemeas, grease, &c. The stench aicd smell on entering liethe room formed a mixture of sncells ...

YESTERDAY'S INQUESTS

... in a shocking coudition-past description, and the smell which emanated from the place was disgusting. The woman Levy used to pick nR all kinds of filthy rubbish in the street, and take D home. Witness went on the Monday to clean the room, but the deceased ...

THE PROVINCES

... beaten with the most unnatural and brutal severity. The poor little fellow had been often seen by the neighbours picking up and eating garbage to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the pigs'-trough, and devouring eagerly such refaseas the pigs had not ...