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THE MURDER IN ESSEX

... The atrocious and cold-blooded -murder committed upon the unfortunate women Susannah Playle, at Mlount- ;aessgin-in-Essec, has created a - most, extraordinary sensation in the county, and on Sunday, notwitistanding fthe s deverity ofthe weather, a great humibr of persons frdo atdis'ant parts, of the county-crime to see the place .were the deed was committed. After the finding of the Coroner's ...

CORONERS' INQUESTS

... is BJRMONssEY.-On Monday morning, at ten o'clock, t the inquest on the body of the unfortunate lady, Jane a HEmphery, 74 years of age, who unhappily perished at the disastrous corflagratiop on Thursday worning last, in Smith'swbuildings, Longslane, Bermondsey, was proceeded f with before Mir. AV. Carter, at the Rose public-liotise, near the workhouse of the parish, Several witnesses were ...

MURDER AND INCENDIARISM IN PRINCE'SSTREET, SOHO

... IUNRDERANDIWCENDIARISM ZNPRINCE'S- I STREET, SOHO. I on Tuesday night, at eight o'clock, an inquest was held it before Mr. Higgs, at the Plough Tavern, Rupert.street,' ii 0 the body of Mr. Robert Westwood, watchmaker, of Frince's-street, who was found with his throat dreadfully I cut On Monday night, as well as his house burned to a t' ,,rious extent. There was also a loss of no lees than 91 a ...

THE MURDER OF ELIZA GRIMWOOD

... On Friday a letter, of which the following is a copy, I was received at Union-liall police-office, on the subject of tile above-mentioned female, all the circumstances at- tending which excited such an extraordinary degree of in- E terest at the tine of its perpetration. The letter ran I thus:- Thursday evening, March 28, 1839. t GENtLaasaM-Before you receive this hurried note thebody of ...

ALLEGED MURDER AT HAYES

... Considerable excitement still exists in the neighbour- hood of Hayes, Uxbridge, &c., relative to the lamentable death of Mr. Joseph Alsop, the unfortunate young gentle- man who was stabbed at the residence of the Rev. Mr. Sturmer, curate of Hayes, at Woodend-green, in that village, by MIr. Francis Hastings Medhurst, now a pri- soner in Newgate, for wilful murder, on the coroner's in- quisition ...

TRIAL OF ALEXANDER HUMPHREYS, CLAIMANT TO THE EARLDOM OF STIRLING

... ThEAL OF ALEXANDER HUMPHREYS, CLAIM. I ANT TO THE EARLDOM OF STIRLING. I.. f The Highf Coutt ?? at Edinburgh was occupied for several days iast wee'kwith ibe trial of the above. named' individual. There aee various counts in the in- dictinentagaist him, but tile main charge is, wickedly, and feloniously fabricating false and simulate writings, to be used as evidence in courts of law, Iso ...

THE LATE MURDER NEAR HENLEY-ONTHAMES

... I THE LATE MURDER NEAR HENLEY-ON- I '1'HAMES. I -9 , F The horrible murder, under most mysterious circum- l stances, of an aged female, named Fanny Phillips, 84 v years of age, at the village of Woodcot, near l-lenley-on.. 0 Thlames, has created a most intense sensation. Mrs. tl Phillips, whose husband, a respectable aeoman, died about z five years since, has fur many years resided in the ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... ~TX-iN- - T~-IGE PREROCGVLSV'% COURT. ,wLL1IaMS fl BAW~iER Sir Herbert Jenner delivered a mrst elaborate Judgment toda'y, and, after stating very minutely the facts of- the cafs, and thie contents of the testamentary acts of the testatrix, proceeded to dwell upon the evidence given hit support of the charges of cruelty exercised by the bus-I bard towards -1irs. Williams, and which led to ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... P ICEI I WORSHl[P-STREE4T. CHURCH-RATES-1MPOTANT DEcisioN.-OnTuesday ?? parochial officers of the parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newington, attended before the magistrates, for their de- cision upon adjourned summonses, against several mern- bers of the Society of Friends, who refused to pay church- rates. Mr. Burgess, a member of tre Society of Friends being summoned, his solicitor objected to the ...

JEALOUSY AND MURDER

... Henry Corderoy, who was brought before -the Mayor of ti Reading on Thursday, the 6th iinst, charged with wilfully r shooting, with intent to' kill; :lhis wife, and who was re- tl manded until Monday last; again underwentieiamination ti on that day, at the magistrates' room, in the county gaol, when the depositions of the following witnesses owere f taken:- ?? . .. Jane Corderoy, one of the ...

EXECUTION OF A PRINCE OF THE HOUSE OF TIMOUR FOR MURDER

... I I e Thle morning of Friday last presented the novel, hut distressing spectacle of a prince descended from the great Timour, expiating with his life on the scaffold for a mur- , der committed under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, For fear of exciting prejudice against the. accused, we have hitherto refrained from alluding to the crime during the investigation. But by the termination of ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... pOICE ITE~LLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STRBET. E11TRAor^DIVAY CA$Fzr. or iTnhox. V.-Robert Mery cluwrgedwvtlhhavirgburglariouslvrobbed the-house, gr. Rayner, a surgeon, at St. ?? Hack- 15road. The burglary in question was committged aboitt s o'clock in the morsning of the: 19th ult.. Tietwief cered through *a window, imnisediatelyunder- wlticlhk. 10thoy vwas in bed.and so fastasleepthat tbe thiefpassed, ...