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Showing posts with label joseph sowden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joseph sowden. Show all posts
Sunday, 6 January 2013

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...
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 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...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

23rd October 1812: The solicitors Lloyd & Allison visit John Wood's cropping shop, and a new informer emerges

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John Wood's cropping shop, in a photorgaph before demolition in 1891. In the evening of Friday 23rd October 1812, the two solicitors...