Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 13 February 1863 Friday, 13 February 1863COURT OF PROBATENEW RULES AND ORDERS AS TO PRACTICE. The new rules, orders, instructions, and tables of fees in respect of the business transacted in the country district registries attached to Her Majesty’s Court of Probate were issued to the […]
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Warrington Examiner – Saturday 03 August 1901 BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES Cruelty to Horses. At the Borough Police Court on Monday morning, several persons were charged before Mr. Monks (in the chair) and other magistrates with cruelty to animals. In the first case, the defendants were Ralph Hope, of 60 Bold […]
Lancashire Evening Post – Wednesday 06 November 1929 VIOLENT STREET FIGHT. NINE MEN INVOLVED IN A NIGHT SCUFFLE AT PRESTON. “It was a free-for-all fight and very violent,“ said P.C. Newton, giving evidence at Preston to-day against three men charged with being drunk and disorderly in Church-street last night. The […]
Bedfordshire Mercury – Saturday 29 August 1896 ASSAULTING A WIFE. George Smith, labourer, Aspley Guise, was charged by Susan Smith, his wife, with having assaulted her at Aspley Guise, on the 17th inst. — Defendant pleaded guilty; he said he was sorry, but he had taken too much beer. — Complainant stated […]
Holloway Press – Friday 29 January 1943 When Is Bigamy Not Bigamy? When is bigamy not bigamy? This question was discussed at the Old Bailey when George Livingstone, a soldier in the R.A.S.C., pleaded guilty to bigamously marrying Phyllis Dorothy May Sandy, of Luard-street, Caledonian-road, N.1, last year. Before any […]
Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer – Friday 06 November 1925 THE POLICE COURT. LOCOMOTIVES STANDING ON BRIDGES. LIGHTING OFFENCES. Tuesday, before Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Edward Strachey (in the chair), and Messrs. J. G. Norman, M. James, J. H. Tovey and S. W. Warrell. CINEMATOGRAPH LICENSE. On the application of the […]
Leamington Spa Courier – Saturday 17 September 1836 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Commitments to the County Gaol:—By F. Lloyd, Esq., Samuel Fantham, charged with stealing, at Birmingham, a double-barrel gun, the property of Edward Powell. —John Smith, charged with stealing, at Aston, a five-pound note, a sovereign, and three half sovereigns in […]
Kent & Sussex Courier – Friday 27 March 1896 THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE PROSECUTION. We have this week decided to close the fund raised in these columns to recoup Mr Walter Arnold from the vexatious and excessive penalties in which he was mulcted by the Tonbridge Magistrates for the use of […]
Cornish Echo and Falmouth & Penryn Times – Saturday 11 October 1873 HUNTING THE POLICE AND RIOTING AT CAMBORNE The police and the mining population of Camborne appear not to be able to saddle horses at all well. Some time ago, there was very personal and bitter controversy between the […]
Reading Mercury – Monday 09 June 1834 LAW AND POLICE ARCHES COURT — FRIDAY, MAY 30. HADLEY v. REYNOLDS, FALSELY CALLED HADLEY. This was a suit promoted by the Rev. James Hadley, of Powick, in Worcestershire, against Emma, his wife, for a nullity of marriage, on the ground of undue […]
Globe – Thursday 27 September 1883 front The Salvation Army Nuisance At Accrington Police-court yesterday, six members of the Salvation Army, named George Hill, Ellen Williams, Phoebe Kiley, Leonard Halsall, Alfred Farmer, and Henry Bradshaw, were summoned for assaulting Joseph Edmundson, cab proprietor, on the 17th inst. The evidence showed […]
Eastern Daily Press – Saturday 02 December 1905 LONDON UNEMPLOYED COLLISIONS WITH THE POLICE FIVE DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED About 500 unemployed attended what was described as the first of a series of meetings on Tower Hill, London, yesterday. The city police had previously notified the Southwark Unemployed Committee that they would […]
Sheffield Independent, Monday, 5 January 1874: Critical Condition of a Drunken Man About eight o’clock on Saturday evening, Police-constable Stone found a man named William Keddy of Arthur Street lying in Bridge Street. He was drunk and bleeding profusely from a wound on the back of his head. The officer […]