Monmouthshire Beacon – Friday 23 November 1900 Monmouth, Monmouthshire Borough Thursday, 15th inst.—Before the Mayor (Hamilton T. Baillie, Esq.) who sat for the first time, K. Hall, J. G. Wilson and Horace Bailey, Esqs., and Alderman W. Hughes. DRUNK. James Gwynne, for whom his brother Tom appeared, was summoned for […]
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Illustrated Police News – Thursday 04 January 1923 DIVORCE COURT. A WIFE’S MATERNAL WAIL. Rather unusual features were presented by a case in the Divorce Division in which Mr. Leo Alexander Lancaster-Gaye, of Brighton, and late of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, petitioned for a divorce from his wife Aida because of her […]
Berkshire Chronicle – Saturday 06 June 1835 HENLEY. On Sunday afternoon, during Service, a fire broke out in the thatch of a stable adjoining the Ferry Boat public-house at Medmenham, which was destroyed, with its contents—a stump of hay caught fire, but was speedily extinguished. The fire is supposed to […]
Northern Daily Telegraph – Monday 14 October 1889 THE BANK ROBBERY BY A WOMAN.PRISONER IN THE DOCK. Great excitement is manifested at Bridgnorth to-day in the magisterial inquiry into the charges of forgery and robbery from the Bridgnorth branch of the Metropolitan and Birmingham Banking Co., preferred against Eliza Jane […]
St James’s Gazette – Tuesday 23 June 1885 OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. The house of a farmer named M‘Carthy, near Goleen, in West Cork, was burned down on Sunday night. An out-office was also destroyed, together with two cows. It is stated that M‘Carthy’s family had a narrow escape from being […]
Lynn Advertiser – Saturday 02 December 1876 WINTER ASSIZE AT NORWICH. Mr. Justice Lush, the Judge appointed to try prisoners for offences committed within the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge and Hunts (which by an Act of Parliament last Session were associated together for the purpose of a general gaol […]
Liverpool Echo – Saturday 30 June 1917 POISONED. MINER’S DEATH AFTER EATING MEAT PIE. An inquest was held at Blundellsands, before Mr. S. Brighouse, respecting the death of Peter Johnson (30), a miner, of Rainhill, who succumbed to ptomaine poisoning. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased, his wife, […]
Morning Advertiser – Monday 23 March 1868 THE ALLEGED MURDER ON A RAILWAY. The Surrey coroner was on Saturday night occupied for three hours at the “Railway” Tavern, Surbiton, respecting the supposed murder of James Randel, aged twenty years. The case excited great interest, it having been stated that the […]
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 […]
Poole & Dorset Herald – Thursday 08 September 1864 POOLE PETTY SESSIONS THURSDAY, September 1.Before E. Mullett and J. Lankester, Esqs. AN ESCAPED SLAVE IN TROUBLE. – A man of colour, who was unable to give his own name, was brought up on the following charge – Mr. R. Hoskins, […]
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 […]
Hucknall Morning Star and Advertiser – Friday 22 August 1890 DEATH FROM DRINKING SPIRITS. Last Thursday night, the police at Whaplode, Lincolnshire, were sent for to arrest an Irish harvestman named Mace, aged about 35, for stealing spirits. The constable found the man lying in a corn field apparently under […]
Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette – Tuesday, 26 August 1913 THE INQUEST. The inquest was held at Winscott Farm, the home of the deceased, yesterday (Monday) afternoon, by the Deputy Coroner for the Aylesbury district (Mr. Stanley E. Wilkins). Mr. W. F. Herbert was foreman of the jury. Evidence […]
Exeter Flying Post – Wednesday 18 April 1883 SCENE IN DARTMOOR PRISON. With a view of putting a stop to the murderous assaults that have recently been committed on warders by convicts at Dartmoor, the authorities, acting under directions from the Home Secretary, on the 10th instant, put Thomas Jones, […]
ALARMING EPIDEMIC NEAR BOLTON. SALE OF POISONOUS MILK. An epidemic of a very serious character has broken out in the village of Egley, situate about two and a half miles from Bolton. The disease, which bears some resemblance to the foot-and-mouth complaint in cattle, was first noticed ten days or […]
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 […]
Liverpool Weekly Courier – Saturday 21 September 1872 HORSE THEFT BY A BOY. On Tuesday, at the Halifax Borough Court, a boy, nine years old, named Andrew M’Intyre, was charged with stealing a horse and cart belonging to Robert Womersley, farmer, of Lighthcliffe. Womersley was in Halifax on Saturday, and […]
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Tuesday 06 September 1887 DESTRUCTION OF THE EXETER THEATRE ENORMOUS LOSS OF LIFE THE DEAD LAID OUT IN ROWS AGONISING SCENES Last night, Exeter’s new Theatre Royal was destroyed by fire. Like its immediate predecessor, it succumbed to flames, but the circumstances of this destruction […]
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 22 June 1879 The Murder at Rotherhithe (From our later editions of last week.) The adjourned inquest on the body of Robert Collins, a telegraph messenger, who was found stabbed about the body under a railway arch at Rotherhithe, and who died in Guy’s Hospital, was resumed […]
North Cumberland Reformer – Saturday 24 December 1898 THE HEXHAM MURDER.THE ACCUSED MAN ACQUITTED. At the Hexham Police Court on Monday, George Dodd was brought up on remand charged with causing the death of George Schollick, gamekeeper, whose dead body was found in Yarridge Lane on Thursday, the 8th inst. Mr W. […]
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 […]
Newcastle Chronicle – Saturday 16 November 1889 ALARMING FOOD POISONING IN CARLISLE DEATH OF A GILSLAND FARMER Alarming cases of food poisoning have occurred in the Carlisle district, and one case—that of Mr. Irving, farmer, of Long Top, Gilsland—has proved fatal. Mr. Slack, tolls collector, of Carlisle, on Saturday, the […]
Brighton Gazette – Saturday 6 January 1900 The Keymer Railway Accident – The Verdict Brighton Gazette – Saturday 6 January 1900 Yesterday, at the Constitutional Club, Burgess Hill, Mr. H. B. Bignell, Deputy Coroner for East Sussex, resumed the inquiry into the deaths of William Durrant, rear guard of the […]
Stamford Mercury – Friday 29 May 1840 Bankruptcies (From Friday’s Gazette, May 22) BROOKS, Robert – Grocer, St. Albans. Declared bankrupt May 22, July 3, at the Court in London. Official Assignee: Clark Legal Representatives: Robinson and Hine, Charterhouse-square. GOULD, Thomas – Hat Manufacturer, Oxford Street. Declared bankrupt July 3 at the […]
Thanet Advertiser – Saturday 29 April 1882 POLICE COURT.—Monday.(Before G. E. Hannam, Esq. (in the chair), K. W. Wilkie, Esq., and G. S. Measom, Esq.) DISTRICT RATE DEFAULTERS Several individuals were summoned for failing to pay the district rate. Orders were issued for defaulters who did not appear, while those […]
The Lincolnshire Echo – Saturday 26 September 1931 LINCOLN YOUTHS SUSPECTED OF HOUSEBREAKING TWO IMPORTANT ARRESTS — Says Chief Constable SEQUEL TO APPARENTLY TRIFLING INFORMATION POLICE SUSPICIONS FINGERPRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE TAKEN When two Lincoln youths appeared at the City Police Court this morning, the Chief Constable, Mr. W. […]
Blackburn Times – Saturday 06 January 1877 DARWEN. SUSPICIOUS DEATH. On Thursday forenoon, Mr. Coroner Hargreaves held an inquiry at the George Inn into the circumstances attending the death of John Brannan, 38 years of age, a labourer, living at 13, Foundry Street, who died under suspicious circumstances. It appears […]
North Devon Journal – Thursday 22 September 1898 THE BRAKELESS BICYCLE DANGER TWO RIDERS KILLED Herbert Finnington, of Peckham, London, while riding a brakeless bicycle down a steep hill near Westerham, Kent, lost control of the machine, and failing to round a corner, dashed with terrific force into the bank. […]
Sussex Express – Friday 13 September 1895 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS. BIRTHS. CHARLTON.—On the 10th Sept., at Barclay-road, Croydon, the wife of H. E. Charlton, of a son. EUAN-SMITH.—On the 7th Sept., at Ightham, Knoll, near Sevenoaks, the wife of Maclaurin Euan-Smith, of a daughter. JOHNSTONE.—On the 6th Sept., at […]
Portsmouth Evening News – Monday 15 June 1903 CORONER’S COURT. This afternoon Mr. T. A. Bramston, Borough Coroner, held three inquests at the Town Hall, Landport. A PAINFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. The first inquiry related to the death of Mrs. Sarah White, wife of Mr. John White, landlord of the “Barleycorn” beer-house, Conway-street, […]