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Showing posts with label benjamin walker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benjamin walker. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 October 2016

18th October 1816: Henry Hobhouse sends a furious response to Benjamin Walker's supporter

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Hadspen Oct. 18 1816 Dear Sir, The inclosed Application on behalf of Benjm. Walker is not the first of the kind which has been address...
Saturday, 15 October 2016

15th October 1816: A man from London writes to the Home Secretary in support of the Luddite turned informer, Benjamin Walker

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It was over 2 years since the former Luddite turned informer, Benjamin Walker , had himself written to the Prince Regent requesting payment...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014

5th February 1814: The Treasury Solicitor forwards Benjamin Walker's letter to the Home Office

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Private Lincolns Inn Feb. 5. 1814. Dear Sir, The inclosed is I think a very impudent Application from one of Horsfall’s murderers , w...
Wednesday, 29 January 2014

29th January 1814: The informer, Benjamin Walker, writes to the Prince Regent to secure a reward

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May it please your Royal Highness To bear with one of the most Unworthy of all your Subjects who has already shared in your mercyfull Clem...
Sunday, 28 April 2013

28th April 1813: Tenter belonging to an employer of Benjamin Walker destroyed at Milnsbridge

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Around this date, a Tenter belonging to an employer of the former Luddite turned informer, Benjamin Walker, was destroyed at Milnsbridge.
Tuesday, 5 March 2013

5th March 1813: Thomas Shillitoe meets the Luddite turned informer, Benjamin Walker

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On Friday 5th March 1813, the Quaker missionary, Thomas Shillitoe, met with the former Luddite turned informer, Benjamin Walker . His journa...
Monday, 4 March 2013

4th March 1813: Thomas Shillitoe meets Joshua Schofield again, & tries to visit Benjamin Walker

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On Thursday 4th March 1813, the Quaker missionary, Thomas Shillitoe, had discontinued his visits for one day, but met with a former Luddite,...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

20th February 1813: William Hay lauds informers and spies to General Acland

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Ackworth 20th Feby 1813. My dear Sir, Sir Francis Wood (who is confined to his bed with the gout) yesterday evening sent me over your l...
Sunday, 6 January 2013

6th January 1813: The trial of Mellor, Thorpe & Smith - Part 3: witnesses for the defence

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The last part of the trial of George Mellor, William Thorpe & Thomas Smith consisted of numerous witnesses for the defence who spoke to ...

6th January 1813: The trial of Mellor, Thorpe & Smith - Part 2: witnesses for the prosecution

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After Sir Simon Le Blanc had summed up the prosecution's case, witnesses for the prosecution were then called, beginning with Joseph Arm...

6th January 1813: The trial of George Mellor, William Thorpe & Thomas Smith - Part 1: the prosecution's case

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On Wednesday 6th January, the trial of George Mellor (aged 22), William Thorpe (23) & Thomas Smith (22) for the murder of William Hor...
Monday, 29 October 2012

29th October 1812: The Huddersfield Solicitor, John Allison, explains how the authorities got Benjamin Walker to confess

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Sir, In compliance with your Letter of this morning I have the Honor to inclose you a Copy of Walkers Examination. There were certai...
Saturday, 27 October 2012

27th October 1812: The Home Office Under Secretary, John Beckett, seeks assurances that Walker & Sowden's evidence was given voluntarily

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Whitehall 27th Octr 1812— Sir I am directed by Lord Sidmouth to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 24th Instant with its se...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

24th October 1812: The Huddersfield solicitor, John Allison, sends information about various cases to the Home Secretary

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My Lord, By the direction of Mr Radcliffe I have the Honor and pleasure to inclose to your Lordship Copies of various Examinations taken...

24th October 1812: General Acland informs General Maitland there is more evidence against Mellor, Thorpe & Smith

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Huddersfield 24th October 1812. My dear Sir, More strong Evidence has come out against Mellor, Thorpe & Smith, & I may venture ...

24th October 1812: The Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd, informs the Home Office that the Horsfall case is going well

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The former cropping workshop of John Wood, at Longroyd Bridge, where John Lloyd interviewed staff on the evening of 23rd October 1812 (dat...

24th October 1812: The authorities leak information to the press about the Horsfall arrests

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On Thursday 24th October 1812, a letter was sent to the Courier newspaper about the arrests made for the shooting of William Horsfall, and w...
Monday, 22 October 2012

22nd October 1812: General Acland tells General Maitland he is 'pretty sure of hanging' Mellor, Thorpe & Smith

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Huddersfield 22nd Octr 1812. My dear Sir, I send you a copy of Walker's Examination & also of William Hall's The first is f...
Sunday, 21 October 2012

21st October 1812: The cropper, Benjamin Walker, turns informer & implicates Mellor, Thorpe & Smith in the William Horsfall shooting

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By the evening of Wednesday 21st October 1812, Benjamin Walker, the cropper who had been arrested 4 days before , had reached his limit and ...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

20th October 1812: John Lloyd tells the Home Office that his policy of informers & abduction is having results

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Stockport 20 Oct 1812 Sir I was yesterday detained the whole of the day with Mr. Radcliffe at Milnes bridge and prevented writing to yo...