The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1839.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

(From the Essex Herald.)
At a meeting of the Magistrates at the Shire Hall,
on Friday, the informations laid by Mr. Stoneham, the
Inspector of Weights for the Chelmsford district, were
proceeded with. T. W. Bramston, Esq. took the
chair, and there were present J. J. Tufnell, J. R. S.
Phillips, and R. C. Haselfoot, Esqrs., and the Revs.
B. H. Bridges and J. Bramston.
Win. Wilson, baker, of Little Beddow, was charged
with having a 21b. weight, deficient a quarter of an
ounce, a lb. one drachm, and both were unstamped.
The defendant said he did not use them ; but the
Inspector stated he found them in the bake-house.
Ti'e Chairman told him the offence was having them
in his possession ; he was liable to a penalty of 5/. for
having them in his possession,' and 51. for their being
unstamped.
He was lined 10s. for each offence, with 12s. costs.

Augustus Ager, of Danbury, grocer, had a 1 lb. de-
ficient one drachm, and two 4 lbs. deficient two drachms
each.—Fined 15s. and costs.

William Dodd, of Danbury, dealer in pork, had 2 lbs.
deficient two drachms, 1 lb. two drachms, lb. one
drachm, 4 lb. one drachm and a half, and three of these
were unstamped. It appeared the wife had been in
the habit of cleaning some of them, which might have
lightened them, and she said two or three years ago she
sent them to be stamped, but the inspector could not
do them, as they were iron.
He was fined 11. for one offence, and 15s. for the
other, with 12s. costs.
John Stubbing, of Boreham, dealer in pork, had a
klb. four drachms deficient, two others one drachm
each, Vb. three drachms, and a two-ounce half a
drachm, all unstamped. Defendant said he had lately
bought them of another shopkeeper, and thought they
were all right.

Fined fi. for the deficiency in the weights, and 11.
for being unstamped, with costs.
Robert Marsh, of Boreham, had several weights
deficient, and a pair of scales with a false balance.
The defendant's wife appeared, and said they did not
keep a shop—they had nothing to sell ; the scales
and weights were brought to her house some time
since, a person in the neighbourhood having on one
occasion asked her to sell part of a pig for him.
The Bench not considering her in the light of a ge-
neral shopkeeper, mitigated the penalty to 2s. 6d.—
costs, 12s.

Erancis Harrington, baker, of Great Bad dow, had a
pair of improper scales.
Defendant said he never used them, as he had two
pair of very good scales.
Mr. Lareher said he valued everything to defendant
when he took the business, and he then said he should not
have these scales, as they were of no use, and witness
threw them aside amongst other rubbish, where they
had since lain ; he had been in the shop hundreds of
times and never saw them used.

The Chairman said it appeared he had not used them,
but they must enforce the law for having them in his
possession ; they, however, mitigated the penalty to
2s. 6d. and costs.

Hardy, of Broomfield, a grocer, had a 7lbs. weight
four drachms deficient, a l4lbs. a quarter of an ounce,
and both unstamped.
Defendant said he sent them some time ago to be
stamped, but was obliged to have them back again
before they could be done ; he always thought them
very good.
He was fined 1/. for each offence and costs.

William Wilkinson, of Great Leighs, shopkeeper,
had a peck measure a quarter of a pint deficient, and a
quarter of a peck which was deficient. He said he
only used them to feed his own pigs with, but it was
stated they were fouad in the same room with the
other measures.

Fined ten shillings for each offence, and thirteen
shillings costs.
John Francis, of Great Leighs, butcher, had a 4 lbs.
weight two drachm:, deficient, and six pieces of lead
used as weights, some of them being a quarter of an
deficitait in 2 lbs. He said he found some of
them on his premises, but did not use them, except the
small ones, as he had a pair of steelyards.
He was fined 1/. for the deficiency and U. for their
being unstamped, with costs.
John Milbank, beer-shopkeeper, at Little Waltham,
was charged with having several weights deficient and
unstamped ; he satisfactorily proved that they belonged
to a person who had occupied his shop, and that no
business requiring weights was now carried on there, and
the information was dismissed.
Wm. French, of Great Waltham, glazier, had a 71bs.
weight six ounces deficient, and two pieces of lead used
as weights, one being too light, and a 4lbs. an ounce
and a quarter too heavy, being unstamped.
Defendant, said the piece they called a 41bs. weight
was cast as " a dummy" for a pin-cushion, and was only-
used for bruising rosin.
He was fined 1/. for each offence, and costs.

Mary Saltwell, of Roswell, general shopkeeper, had
a pair of flour scales, that in which the flour was put
being a quarter of a pound heavier than the other.
Defendant said the Inspectors appointed for the
Manor of Writtle came to the shop and examined her
weights, and said they were right, and she gave them Is.
as the others did ; she did not think they looked at these
scales ; they came oftener than once a year.
She had lost her son, who assisted to manage the bu-
siness within the last eight months.
The Court fined her 11. and costs.

William Duffield, grocer, of Great Baddow, had a
1 lb. one drachm deficient, and a lb. half a drachm.
It appeared that Mr. Duffield had sent his weights
to the Inspector to be adjusted and stamped, but had
not been able to get them done, and having compared
these weights with those of another shop-keeper, which
had been tested, he thought ho might venture to use
them till he could get his regular weights back again,
In consequence of these circumstances the Bench miti-
gated the penalty to ss.
Samuel Rernmington, of High Ongar, shop-keeper,
had 11 weights deficient, one of them 9 drachms, and
several two drachms. He was fined 2/. and costs.
John Simmonds, of Little Baddow, corn-dealer, had
several weights used for the sale of poll( deficient, and
one a quarter of an ounce too heavy. He was fined 1/.
and costs.

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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday even-
ing an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at St.
Bartholemew's Hospital, on the body of George Simon,
aged 37, whose death was occasioned in the following
manner :—Thomas Barnes, city police constable, 96,
stated that about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thurs-
day last, he was on duty on Blackfriars-bridge, when a
person told him that a man, pointing out deceased, had
been attempting to throw himself off into the river.
Witness was in the act of crossing over to the western
side of the bridge, where the deceased was standing,
when the deceased observing him pitched himself over
the wooden temporary railing under the wheel of a light
cart which was passing at the moment, and which went
over his head. He was picked up and brought to the
hospital. On his way the deceased spoke incoherently,
and continued exclaiming, " pray keep them off my
chest—give me 3s. 6d., and I shall be all right." By
the Coroner—The deceased did not fall under the
wheel of the cart by accident, but precipitated him-
self over the rail purposely. Two of the deceased's
brothers stated that he was a printer by trade,
and was a married man, and they felt convinced that
he was at times deranged by ardent spirit drinking,
consequent on the ill-usage he had received from his
wife, who, a week before this occurrence, had eloped
with a butcher, and the effects of the brain fever with
which he was attacked about four months since. As a
proof that the deceased had meditated suicide, a paper
was produced by the police constable, which had been
found in the King Arms, at the foot of Blackfriars-
bridge, bearing the signature, " George Simon, 24,
Lambeth-street (the address of his brothers), where I
shall be owned." The Surgeon to the hospital stated
that the deceased was brought in with a superficial cut
on the face and on the upper lip. He complained of
pains of his head, and from the redness of his eyes there
were symptoms of inflammation of the brain. Delirium
tremens ensued, and he died at half-past twelve o'clock
on Monday. He made a post mortem examination,
and found extensive inflammation which had caused
death ; but it might or might not have resulted from
the injury. Verdict, "Died from the inflammation of
he brain."

SouTH CHESHIRE.—The Tories are trying to
persuade Mr. Toll‘mache that at the next election
they can put him in the place now occup;ed by Mr.
G. Wilbraham, whose votes they pronounce " revolu-
tionary." A requisition to Mr. Tollemache has been
got up-
The Antwerp papers report the Great Belgian
after it vv,is opened many persons travelled out of curio-
losing concern. Soon
Railway to have turned out a very
pity ; but since the fares have been raised the traffic ha
diminished so much as to leave all excess of charges ove
the receipts.