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- 26 March 1870: Henry Madden is sentenced to six months with hard labour at Leeds despite the judge accepting that he had not mugged Daniel Hawksworth
- 13 July 1626: Charles I gives the borough of Leeds its first municipal charter, reflecting York’s loss of industry, protecting its textiles, and reducing the power of most burgesses
- 31 March 1851: The Leeds abolitionist Wilson Armistead submits his census return, including the names of two lodgers – the escaped American slaves, William and Ellen Craft
- 9 April 1938: Huge crowds witness air-raid demonstrations on Holbeck and Woodhouse Moors, Leeds
- 25 March 1938: With her life at stake, Kathleen Mumford of Middleton tells a Leeds court that she gassed her severely handicapped son to spare him
- 4 March 1869: Trains begin to pass through Leeds town centre on the North-Eastern Railway extension
- 28 February 1867: The lawyer of Thomas Higginbottom, a Dewsbury baker, tells magistrates that his client’s previous conviction for sexual assault should not count against him
- 2 March 1867: Zachariah Barton, “a tall, sanctified-looking man,” appears before Driffield magistrates for “expounding the gospel”
- 3 March 1867: Robbed by a young Leeds prostitute, the elderly captain of a Goole boat keeps his shirt on
- 2 March 1867: Anthony Cogan, the (Irish?) keeper of a lodging house, nine pigs, and a donkey, appears before Leeds magistrates, despite the efforts of the Pig Protection Society
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