Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
21st January 1837
The Hon and Rev. Sidney Godolphin Osborne has presented the Eton Union Workhouse Chapel a very neat communion plate and cup.
The Influenza
- The epidemic which prevails to so great an extent in the metropolis and various parts of the county, has been equally serious in Windsor, Eton, and all the surrounding towns and villages. In many instances
whole families have been attacked by it, and there is scarcely a single family but some one or more members of it have experienced its injurious effects. The medical men have been constantly
employed night and day in attending upon patients, and although to them it must of course prove exceedingly profitable, their labours have been very excessive.
Mutual Improvement Society
- On Wednesday evening next a lecture will be delivered by Mr.G.Potbury at this excellent little Institution , "On the Motion of the Earth." We are glad to hear that the lectures, which are certainly interesting, are well attended.
Fatal Accident
- Last week, Mrs. Fellows, a laundress in Brocas-lane, while engaged in her occupation , was severely burnt by her cap taking fire. Medical assistance was obtained, but she lingered until Tuesday, when she died.
On Sunday last the annual distribution of bread among the poor of Iver and Langley took place.
Robberies
- Yesterday week, in consequence of information received by the Windsor and Eton constables that two men were in George-street with property which it was suspected they had stolen, they went thither and
apprehended the men, who gave their names as Thomas Westwood and Thomas Carter. On the former was found a telescope, and on the latter two rolls of flannel. The account they gave of the manner in which they became possessed of the property not being satisfactory, they were locked up;
and on Saturday the constables proceeded to make inquiries as to where the prisoners had been, when they found that a robbery had been committed in a public-house near Hillingdon turnpike-gate, and that the telescope found on Westwood
was among the articles that had been stolen. The constables afterwards conveyed the prisoners to Uxbridge, where they underwent an examination before Sir William Wiseman, Bart., and were by him committed to Newgate for trial.
The flannel found on Carter was subsequently identified by Mr.Wyecroft, draper, of Colnbrook, from whose shop it had been stolen.
On Thursday, a man named Samuel Holloway, better known by the cognomen of "Jonto", who had been in the gaol nearly sixty times, was charged at the Town Hall, with stealing some clothing from the workhouse, and was remanded for further examination.
Eton Police.
- On Wednesday Chas. Abear, and a man named Marlin, were charged before the magistrates with being armed and in pursuit of game, without being qualified. The defendants were caught at Iver, the one being in possession of a gun, and the other having a dog.
They were convicted in the penalty of �2 and costs. Abear, in default of payment was committed to Aylesbury gaol for six weeks.
On Thursday week an alarming occurrence took place at Penn, in consequence of a large Newfoundland dog being seized with hydrophobia and biting six persons in that village. The animal was chased to Beaconsfield, where it bit a man;
it was afterwards secured at Marlow and killed. Messrs. Rumsey, of Beaconsfield, attended, and operated on the persons bitten. It is unknown what other mischief has been done, but it is feared to be very great. On the following day another alarm
occurred at Taplow, where a stag-hound was labouring under hydrophobia, and bit two persons, but was killed without further mischief.