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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 being drunk and disorderly in […]
Beckenham Journal – Saturday 14 May 1892 Penge Keeping a Dog Without a License.—David Green, 84, Laurel Grove, Penge, was summoned at the Penge Petty Sessions on Tuesday for keeping a dog without a license. Defendant admitted the offence and was fined 10s. and 5s. 6d. costs. Transfer of License.—At the Penge Petty Sessions on […]
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 misconduct with Jack Ewens, otherwise […]
Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser – Wednesday 11 August 1875 RAILWAY ACCIDENT. An accident, fortunately attended by no more serious result than the detention of a large number of passengers, has occurred at the Cannon-street station, London. The 10.35 train to Hastings from Charing-cross, it appears, was entering the station, when, from some unexplained cause, […]
Tewkesbury Register – Saturday 31 October 1931 PETTY SESSIONS Monday. — Before Colonel A. Dugdale (chairman), Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Clarke, Major R. C. Freer, and Mr. J. Watton. Armistice Dinner. — Permission was given to the British Legion Club to keep open until 12 p.m. on November 11th on the occasion of their annual dinner. Two Poachers […]
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 have been caused by lightning. […]
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 Scoffham. Prisoner’s career is exceedingly […]
Chelmsford Chronicle – Friday 31 August 1832 UTTERERS OF COUNTERFEIT COIN. James Revenhall, Richard Beven, and Robert Carter, were charged as common utterers of base coin, having been detected in passing counterfeit half-crowns at Ramsden and Downham. James Hitchin said he kept the Hare and Hounds, at Ramsden Heath. About twelve o’clock on Tuesday, the […]
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 burned in the building. M‘Carthy […]
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 delivery), arrived at Norwich on […]
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, and two children came to […]
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 deceased had been murdered and […]
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 district registrars on Saturday, and […]
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, wine and spirit merchant, High-street, […]
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 the influence of drink. He […]
South Wales Daily Post – Wednesday 01 January 1930 front 69 CHILDREN PERISH IN PAISLEY CINEMA PANIC INFANTS CRUSHED TO DEATH IN STAMPEDE OF TERROR Cry of “Fire” Causes Wild Rush For Picture Hall Doors CHILDREN’S LEAP FROM BALCONY Worst Disaster in History of British Cinema Industry PAISLEY, the Scottish cotton town where yesterday occurred […]
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 of identification was given by […]
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, a convict from Liverpool, upon […]
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 a fortnight ago. A number […]
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 men were Joseph Cunningham (46), […]
The Surrey Mercury – Tuesday, 20 July 1847 LAMBETH. MANSLAUGHTER.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, at the Windmill, High-street, Lambeth, on the body of Mary Allsworth. On Saturday night a man named Bruce, a bricklayer, went into a grocer’s shop kept by a person of the name of Bagweed, when he suddenly […]
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 he left the horse 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 were far more tragic than […]
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 on Friday at the latter […]
Bell’s Weekly Messenger – Saturday 15 January 1848 ACCIDENTS. Melancholy Loss of Life.—On Tuesday, a barge, the property of Mr. Moore, belonging to the port of Rochester, was seen to go down in a gale of wind, a short distance from the Nore Light. She was heavily laden with stone. The crew on board at […]
Nottingham Evening Post – Tuesday 08 November 1904 BAD CHEESE AT MANSFIELDBURTON-ON-TRENT DEALER HEAVILY FINED. At the Mansfield Petty Sessions this morning, before Mr. J. E. Alcock (Mayor) and Mr. S. W. Skelton, Arthur Mason, provision dealer, of Burton-on-Trent, was charged with exposing cheese for sale which was unfit for human food. Mr. J. H. […]
Morning Chronicle – Saturday 08 January 1859 TWO MEN POISONED BY NITROUS ACID GAS. It rarely happens that we have to record an occurrence of so fatal a character, in connection with the manufactures of the South West, as that which took place at Torpoint Sulphuric Manure works, on Monday, and by which two men […]
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. Pruddah, solicitor, Hexham, appeared for […]
Gloucester Journal – Saturday 16 June 1928 Road Accident.TWO GIRL CYCLISTS KILLED. A road accident, involving the death of two young women and the narrow escape of a third, happened on the Nantwich Road, two miles from Whitchurch, Shropshire, on Monday evening. A motor-car driven by J. W. Carrie, of Heswall, Cheshire, and owned and […]
Norfolk News – Saturday 05 December 1896 BRIGHTON RAILWAY OUTRAGE.ATTACK ON A SUFFOLK WOMAN. At the Sussex Assizes on Monday, before Baron Pollock, Alfred Lock, 18, described as a gardener, of East Grinstead, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Louisa Clarke, a middle-aged woman, with intent to murder her, in a third-class railway carriage on the London, Brighton, […]
