If it happened, it was in the news.
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 […]
Nottingham Journal – Monday 14 March 1864 SHIRE HALL, NOTTINGHAM. SATURDAY. – (Before Mr. Birkin and Mr. Edge.) DRUNKENNESS. John Tomlinson, charged with drunkenness at Radford, on the 8th inst. Fined 10s.—Enoch Hodgkinson, for a similar offence on Sunday last, at Nuttall. Fined 10s. and costs.—Two men, named Alsopp and Hand, drunk and disorderly at […]
October 26, 1898 | ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE THE ANTIQUARIAN ROMANCE. MORE REMARKABLE EVIDENCE. Mr. Lushington sat again specially at Bow-street yesterday for the further hearing of the charges against Herbert Davies, twenty-five, “private surgeon,” of Castlenau-gardens, Barnes, of forging entries in Mangotsfield parish register, tampering with monuments and coffins, forging three sixteenth-century wills, and making […]
Birkenhead News – Saturday 11 October 1884 RAILWAY ROBBERY Before Mr. Preston, at the Borough Police Court, on Wednesday, four young seamen, named John Mullin, 4, Byrom-street; James Allsop, 140, Beckwith-street; Gardner Carruthers, 280, Conway-street; and William Lewis Seacombe, were charged with stealing a sailor’s white canvas bag from Birkenhead Railway Station, on the night […]
Family notices in old newspapers are important because they provide essential details about individuals, relationships, and communities, offering a rich resource for genealogical research and insights into social history. Here is an example: Gloucester Citizen (Thursday 8th December 1927): BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, In Memoriam Notices, Acknowledgements of Sympathy, […]
Food safety, the manner it was manufactured, stored, prepared and sold was never out of the news. Despite crude guidelines and basic regulations enforced in law, purveyors of every range of food were endlessly reported with crimes and methods to turn the strongest stomachs. The law finally caught up with a person called White, potted […]
A solicitors clerk working Bethnal Green is at the Old Bailey charged with deception, forgery, theft and embezzlement, 30th April 1894. Here’s the report from the London Evening Standard – Tuesday 01 May 1894. “John Salmon, a 31, clerk, pleaded guilty to stealing three cheques, of the value of £448, and with forging the endorsements […]
The Times of Malta are reporting today the dreadful case of about 100 children who died during a stampede at a Valletta convent during carnival 192 years ago (here). I have found two articles from 1823 describing the scene (click the images to read the article, then click again to open the image)):
