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Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
23rd September 1826
J.Wigginton,
Bootmaker to His Majesty,
52, High Street, Eton.
Returns his grateful acknowledgements to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, for the liberal patronage he has received, and begs to inform the friends of his late brother, T.Wigginton, of Peascod-street, Windsor, that his business in future will be carried on at J.W.'s residence at Eton, where he trusts by strict attention and punctuality to orders to merit a continuation of their favours.
Sept. 23. 1826
Windsor And Eton
On Sunday last her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, accompanied by Lady Mary Taylor and the Hon.Miss Trefusis, attended divine service at the parish church.
The 63d regiment was inspected on Saturday, the 16th inst., by Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B. After the business of the day had been most minutely gone through, the Major-General ordered Colonel Burke to communicate to those under his command, his unquantified approbation of the cleanliness and soldier like appearance of this fine body of men, the perfect steadiness observable in the ranks, the correctness and rapidity with which the various field-evolutions were performed, and was no less complimentary in regard to every point of the interior economy of the corps. Sir Henry afterwards honoured the officers with his company at dinner; and in the course of a short but eloquent address, made a most feeling allusion to his early connexion with the corps; stating the perculiar gratification it would at all times afford him to see it, as at present, maintaining its ancient claim to honour and distinction.
On Tuesday last, Thomas Evans was committed by Edmund Fowler, Esq., for three months hard labour to the House of Correction at Reading, as a rogue and vagabond, having been found in Mr.Tubb's premises, at Clewer, with an intent to commit felony.
On Thursday, James Harberd, the purchaser of the fruit in an orchard belonging to Mr.Adams, adjoining the Long Walk, preferred a complaint against Richard White, of having knocked down and stolen some pears, on Wednesday; Mr.Harberd stated , that he had lost a great deal of fruit this year; six large baking pears were produced, which were found upon the defendant, and Harberd deposed they were worth 3d. James Green, servant to Mr.Adams, saw White on Wednesday in Mr.Adams orchard, throwing at the pears, and observed the fruit in his possession; informed Harberd, and White was apprehended. Thomas Harberd, son of the complainant, stated that White gave him the pears, saying they were all he had got. The proofs being clear, the defendant was convicted under the late Act, in treble the value of the pears, and a fine of 20s.
The inhabitants of Thames-street were considerably alarmed on Sunday evening by the report of a fire at Mr.Climer's, broker. By some casualty the curtains in the front room caught fire, and, but for the presence of mind of a person who threw the curtains in the street, considerable damage might have accrued.
On Sunday two sermons were preached by the Lord Bishop of Llandaff (Dr.Sumner), at St.Helen's church, Abingdon, in aid of the United National School and Sunday Schools in Abingdon, and were followed by liberal contributions.
Harrison, a coachman, and Morland, a bricklayer, having quarrelled at a public-house near Godlaming, in Surrey, on Tuesday afternoon, they agreed to decide it immediately for a sovereign, which was staked. They commenced with violence which showed more passion than skill, and fought at times until both were at a stand. Harrison appeared to have the best of the fight, but he was at last knocked down by a blow on the side of the head, which caused his death in half an hour.
Middlesex Sessions, Sept 18.
Sarah Clements, a married woman, with a child at her breast, was indicted for a series of most cruel and unfeeling assaults upon her own child, Mary, an infant about six years of age, whom she had had by an illicit connection previous to her marriage.
John Hawkins deposed, that he lived in the same house with the prisoner, at Hounslow, and that from the 13th of January to the 14th of August he constantly overheard the mother beating the child, as he believed, with a strap, with the utmost severity. On one occasion - namely the 13th of January, witness saw the prisoner beat and kick the child, and interfered to save the child from her fury. He at length gave information to the police; the child was brought before a magistrate and examined. Her person was found bruised and discoloured, and exhibited all the marks of the most unmitigated violence. The child was consequently removed from the mother, and taken under the charge of the parish.
Mrs.Farnelly, who lived in the same neighbourhood, said that she had been frequently a witness to the ill treatment of the child by the mother. The prisoner's husband at one time called to the witness, and entreated her assistance to rescue the child from its mother, Witness went to the door and saw the mother in the house seize the child by both feet, and dash its head repeatedly with great violence against the floor. Witness then procured the assistance of some neighbours; the child was released, and was found to have sustained some very severe injuries. Both her eyes were black; and there was a scar upon her nose, and a number of bruises upon her shoulder and various parts of her body.
Mr.Adolphus, who was for the prosecution, said, that although he had other witnesses, he would not insult the feelings of the court by going further into the detail, as a sufficient case had been made out for the jury.
The prisoner having been found Guilty, was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the House of Correction; and she then, for the first time during her trial, showed symptoms of emotion.
Aylesbury
The house of Mr.Wm.Bull, of Walton street, Aylesbury, was entered on the same night by some person unknown, and a piece of beef and a loaf were stolen. One of the sons of Mr.Bull, was disturbed by the noise made by the thief about four in the morning, and on looking out of his window saw a man run from the premises. On afterwards searching the house, a piece of beef and a loaf were found to be missing, and a hare and a brace of birds had been removed from the pantry and were left lying on the kitchen table. It is supposed the noise made by Mr.Bull disturbed the thief in his operations, and caused him to decamp with a much smaller booty than he would otherwise have taken.
A partridge flew into the shop of Mr.Hyde, grocer, of Aylesbury, on Thursday, and was taken alive.
During the spring and summer a pair of blackbirds have hatched four broods of young ones in the garden of Mr.Lasenby, of Chesham:- The first brood was taken from the nest; the second was destroyed by rats or some other predatory animal; the third was taken, and some of the young birds are now living, and the fourth was reared by the parent birds.
The tool-house of Lord Nugent, at Lillies, was broken open on Thursday night last; and on the same night the dairy of Mr.Bone, of Weedon, was entered. We have not heard what was stolen in either case.
On Monday last fourteen of the men engaged in the riot and assault at Akely Wood, against whom warrants had been issued, surrendered themselves, as we anticipated they would, at the Magistrates Chamber in Buckingham. Their names are Geo.Braggins, John Farmer, Frederick Botterill, Thos.Holland, Samuel Pittam, John Dunkley, Samuel Bawd, George Chapman, John Hutchinson, William Hutchinson, George Holland, and Thomas Waite, all of Silverstone, and Edward Spencer, sen., and Edward Spencer, jun., of Whittlebury. Several witnesses clearly proved the riot and assault, and were bound over to prosecute, and Mr.Wm.Wake, Mr.T.Whitlock, and Mr.T.Higham, all of Silverstone, were bound in various sums for the appearance of the defendants at the ensuing Sessions at Aylesbury.
James Walker, alias "Bumps," who is strongly suspected of horse-stealing in Bedfordshire, we hear has been apprehended in Hertfordshire, and is committed to Bedford gaol for trial at the next Assizes, but his companion has not yet been taken - More than 10 horses have been stolen from the neighbourhood of Biggleswade, not one of which has been yet recovered, although the most strict and speedy search has been made after them.
Hemel Hempstead statute fair, which was held on Monday last and the following day, was marked by the following depredations on property:- Mr.Ezekiel Blake, on the night of Saturday, the 18th instant, or early on the following morning, lost a horse from a meadow adjoining the town, and has dispensed hand-bills offering a reward of �10 for the apprehension and conviction of the offender or offenders. On the night of Sunday, the 17th instant, a fat wether sheep was stolen from the Lawn field of Thos.Abbott Green, Esq., of Piecott's[?] end, Hemel Hempsted; and a reward of �20 is offered for the apprehension and conviction of the thief.