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The Café Royal murder of December 1894 is one of those rare Victorian cases that sits between documented fact and enduring mystery. A man was killed inside one of London’s most prestigious establishments, yet despite immediate investigation and widespread press coverage, no one was ever convicted. For over a century, the case lingered in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 Street, Leigh; and Thomas Pickles, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 that when her husband came […]
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 2nd inst., and Mr. Irving […]
Royal Cornwall Gazette – Friday 25 January 1850 Helston – Money Lost On Saturday last, a gentleman of Helston missed out of his pocket six £5 bank notes. Search was soon made, and suspicion fell on a person who offered the notes for changing, but in consequence of the proof not being sufficient, the ends […]
Hertford Mercury and Reformer – Saturday 18 October 1879 SECOND COURT. Before Mr. G. W. Lydekker (deputy-chairman); Viscount Grimston, Mr. J. Evans, and Mr. T. P. Marten. Attempt to Pass Bad Money. Patrick Gilmore, aged 28, an Irish labourer, was charged with “attempting to utter and put off for certain of the Queen’s current gold […]
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 who attended and explained their […]
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 evidence was given, the Recorder, […]
