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THE AMERICAN JEWEL ROBBERY

... as her property.—The prisoners were remanded for a week• The Home Secretary has released from Dartmoor Convict Prison Charles Dickens, who at the Hants Assizes in November, 1886, for attempted murder at Weymouth, was sentenoed to penal servitude for life ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1896
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOOTY IN A BOOT

... IN A BOOT. footman named John Charles Bill, formerly in the service of Lord St. Leger. was charged at Ware on Saturday with stealing valuables and C 422 in banknotes from a country house at Poles, near Ware. The robbery it is believed took place on July ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1910
Newspaper: Bicester Herald
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DISAPPEARING LONDiN

... street is left almost intact. bellow - street, under its original name of Illuegate-fields, was well known to the late Charles Dickens, memories of whom still linger amongst some of the police.ollicen of the district. On the western side of this once u ...

Published: Tuesday 08 October 1889
Newspaper: Thame Gazette
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BOROUGH PETTY SESSION. Aco. 13. Before S. M. Allen and Richard Chandler, Esqrs

... fine and costs. SHIPSTON-ON-STOUK. PETTY SESSIONS, August 10th. Before W. Dicken, Esq., Sir G. R. Phillips, Bart., F. Col vile, Esq., and the Rev. G. D. Wheeler. Drunkenness. - Charles White, Edward Simms, John Dumbleton, and Richard Rand ell, were charged ...

PAGE 14 THE BANBURY GUARDIAN Thursday, December 21, 1989 vy @Co £ i would like to wish all their customers

... Blackadder's Christmas Carol (BBC 2). In typical Blackadder style of humour, this is a parody of the classic story by Charles Dickens with a hilarious script treatment by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson are joined by Robbie ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1989
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 385 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

BUCKINGHAM

... to Edward Wo.als. The Anchor, Theme, from John Webster to Richard White. MR. CHARLE.4 DICKVIA, Du. MARIGOLD AND THE MOOS.—It has been premised in print that Mr. Charles Dickens does not write the whole of the literary works which pass under his name, and ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1865
Newspaper: Bicester Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1083 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FUNNY

... whb I am ?' said my father. ' Lord bless and save ye, air ! not know ye? Why, I'd know ye if ye was boiled up in a soup I' CHARLES DICKE:NB AND THE LOVE-APPLE.— Meeting him sometimes at Barham's, I hare often longed to tell him of a bit he mined in the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1871
Newspaper: Oxfordshire Weekly News
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 548 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

I,I26IATUDE AND THE ABM

... manner. A workman was also arrested for attempting to drown his child during a drunken dt.— E,bc. 1 r is sail that Mr. Charles Dickens, jun., has declined to the MS of Kiwis Divot! for .V.,000. The offer was made by a nobleman. Wm have she satisfaction ...

“The evil that men do lives after them.”

... “The evil that men do lives after them.” Four or five years ago, when there were unemployed hands Cul worth, the Rev. Charles Hill, tke present rector, kindly answsred certain advertisements for labourers, published in northern newspapers, obtaining for ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1876
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1441 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Wbdrbspat

... usual formalities. Gad’s HUI PI see, the residence or Charles Dickens, wse FVday brought the by Messrs. Norton snd Co., not appear to bare excited much competition, and wse kno«r« down Mr, Charles Dickens, eon the deceased author, ( 8,100/. Aug. 13, 1870 ...

charge* him with uttering, in ten days after, another shilling I Mary Matilda Osliorn, also well knowing it to be

... lines and 4s. !M., while Dickens stood by with stick, Collett standing the door of the stable, after which they went away ; prosecutor then got and knocked at the door of the public-house, mid told several persons the robbery ; he could not swear whether ...