From the Kentish Gazette 1 May 1838.

Between six and seven o'clock on Sunday morning the wife of Mr. Ladson, the landlord of the "Red Lion and Wheat sheaf," High-street, Deptford, awoke and found her husband with his head hanging out of bed and quite cold. Being greatly alarmed, she called loudly for assistance, when a female servant and a young man lodging in the house entered the room, and were horror-struck on finding a dreadful wound in the throat of the unfortunate man, who was quite dead. The deceased was formerly a remarkably steady man, but during the last two years he had drank to excess. He was intoxicated the whole of Friday and in bed all day on Saturday. On Monday an inquest was held on the body before Mr. Carttar, and a verdict of "Temporary insanity" returned.

Kentish Gazette, 31 July 1849.

SUTTON v. GRAHAM.

Mr. Bramwell was for the plaintiff; Serjeant Shee for the defendant.

This was an action of assault and battery. The plaintiff keeps the "Lion and Wheatsheaf," at Deptford, where the defendant also resides. In the 27th of February last, the plaintiff was in his bar, when the defendant came in, and after having taken up a basket of biscuits, immediately afterwards struck him a violent blow in the face. The facts having been proved, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £5 damages.