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Summary Of News For December
On the 4 th , the case of Brooke v . Brooke was argued in the Court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart , Mr , Justice Cresswell sitting as his assessor . The arguments occupied several days , and the judgment of the Court decides that a marriage between a man and the sister of his deceased wife , both being British subjects , is invalid , even although celebrated in a country where such marriages are held to be legal . On the 5 th , the appeal in the case of Ditchers . Dennison was argued before
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . On the 8 th , at the Winter Assizes at Chester , James Ferguson Henderson was indicted for the murder of his father at Bramhall , near Stockport , in September last . The trial lasted two days . The jury made a very scrupulous use of circumstantial evidence , and acquitted the prisoner . On the 15 th , one of the thieves who stole , and the thief who received , the Countess of Ellesmere ' s jewels , were found guilty of the offence , and sentenced , the former to sis months' imprisonment , and the latter to ten years' penal servitude . On the 21 st , there was a regular show-up of the penny press in the Court of Bankruptcy , on the examination of Colonel Sleigh , the originator of the Daily Telegraph .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . On the 20 th November , a young woman , named Balls , was charged at Bowstreet with having procured an engagement as a servant in the family of the Earl of Malmesbury on a false character . —On the 26 th , too , the Caminha , of Lisbon , 237 tons , was lost upon the Goodwins . The lifeboat-men of Bamsgate and Broadstairs , as . usual , rendered every assistance , and rescued the crew . On the 27 th , Kilham Hall , near Newark , the seat of Sir J . H . Manners Sutton , was burned to the ground . On the 30 th , considerable disgust was created by an inquiry at the Mansionhouse , relative to the desecration of Moorfi eld ' s burial-ground , and the shameless exposure of human remains . On the 2 nd December , Mr . Henry Mozley , the coroner of Derby , shot himself through the heart .
On the 8 th , Mr . Thus . Monk , a surgeon , and lately Mayor of Preston , was committed to prison on the charge of having forged the will of one of his patients . On the evening of the 9 th , Dr . Frost , of the Island of Portland , was killed by the upsetting of his gig , the iron step of which penetrated his skull . On the 10 th , a fearful tragedy was enacted at Croydon , by a clerk in the Bank of England , who first poisoned with prussic acid both his mother and his brother , and then put an end to his own existence by the same means .
On the 12 th , a woman was committed by thft Oldham magistrates for the murder of a child , of which she was delivered four months after her marriage to a poor Irishman , who , in taking her for better or for worse , had no idea that her former life had not been one of chastity . The motive for the murder was to conceal from him her prcnuptial incontinence . On the same day , a ease was
investigated at the Lambeth Police-office , implicating the master of the workhouse in the sale of the bodies of the deceased paupers for anatomical purposes . On the 13 th , a foreigner , who had , it seems , absconded with a female from Rotterdam , on finding his stock of money run out , murdered her , and then committed suicide , in a coffee-house 'in Dnunmond-street , in which they had been , lodging for the previous ten days .
MISCELLANEOUS . On the 26 th of November , the Prince of Wales paid a visit to the Princess ' s Theatre to witness the performance of the Tempest , " The Gazette of the 27 th contained a royal decree raising Generals Wilson and Hayelock each to the dignity of a baronet .
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Summary Of News For December
On the 4 th , the case of Brooke v . Brooke was argued in the Court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart , Mr , Justice Cresswell sitting as his assessor . The arguments occupied several days , and the judgment of the Court decides that a marriage between a man and the sister of his deceased wife , both being British subjects , is invalid , even although celebrated in a country where such marriages are held to be legal . On the 5 th , the appeal in the case of Ditchers . Dennison was argued before
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . On the 8 th , at the Winter Assizes at Chester , James Ferguson Henderson was indicted for the murder of his father at Bramhall , near Stockport , in September last . The trial lasted two days . The jury made a very scrupulous use of circumstantial evidence , and acquitted the prisoner . On the 15 th , one of the thieves who stole , and the thief who received , the Countess of Ellesmere ' s jewels , were found guilty of the offence , and sentenced , the former to sis months' imprisonment , and the latter to ten years' penal servitude . On the 21 st , there was a regular show-up of the penny press in the Court of Bankruptcy , on the examination of Colonel Sleigh , the originator of the Daily Telegraph .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . On the 20 th November , a young woman , named Balls , was charged at Bowstreet with having procured an engagement as a servant in the family of the Earl of Malmesbury on a false character . —On the 26 th , too , the Caminha , of Lisbon , 237 tons , was lost upon the Goodwins . The lifeboat-men of Bamsgate and Broadstairs , as . usual , rendered every assistance , and rescued the crew . On the 27 th , Kilham Hall , near Newark , the seat of Sir J . H . Manners Sutton , was burned to the ground . On the 30 th , considerable disgust was created by an inquiry at the Mansionhouse , relative to the desecration of Moorfi eld ' s burial-ground , and the shameless exposure of human remains . On the 2 nd December , Mr . Henry Mozley , the coroner of Derby , shot himself through the heart .
On the 8 th , Mr . Thus . Monk , a surgeon , and lately Mayor of Preston , was committed to prison on the charge of having forged the will of one of his patients . On the evening of the 9 th , Dr . Frost , of the Island of Portland , was killed by the upsetting of his gig , the iron step of which penetrated his skull . On the 10 th , a fearful tragedy was enacted at Croydon , by a clerk in the Bank of England , who first poisoned with prussic acid both his mother and his brother , and then put an end to his own existence by the same means .
On the 12 th , a woman was committed by thft Oldham magistrates for the murder of a child , of which she was delivered four months after her marriage to a poor Irishman , who , in taking her for better or for worse , had no idea that her former life had not been one of chastity . The motive for the murder was to conceal from him her prcnuptial incontinence . On the same day , a ease was
investigated at the Lambeth Police-office , implicating the master of the workhouse in the sale of the bodies of the deceased paupers for anatomical purposes . On the 13 th , a foreigner , who had , it seems , absconded with a female from Rotterdam , on finding his stock of money run out , murdered her , and then committed suicide , in a coffee-house 'in Dnunmond-street , in which they had been , lodging for the previous ten days .
MISCELLANEOUS . On the 26 th of November , the Prince of Wales paid a visit to the Princess ' s Theatre to witness the performance of the Tempest , " The Gazette of the 27 th contained a royal decree raising Generals Wilson and Hayelock each to the dignity of a baronet .