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Brook
Chatham
I have only found the one reference to this establishment at present and
that was in the Licensing Records of 1872 where it was stated the
premises held a Beer License and was owned by Mary Elizabeth Lock Beveridge
of Ramsgate.
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Southeastern Gazette, 19 April 1853.
Saturday. (Before Capt. Burton, B. R. Coles, S. Steele, and R Winch,
Esqrs.)
Richard Huskinson and Charles Davis were charged with haring in
their possession certain regimental necessaries, without giving a
proper account as to how they came into their possession.
The prisoners, who said they picked them up at the rear of the
"Travellers' Rest" on the Brook, were each fined £5, and treble the
value of the articles, and in default six weeks’ hard labour.
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Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 26 October 1852.
Chatham. Stealing tools.
John Barkham, soldier, 25, (imp.) was charged with stealing two saws and
a hammer, value 11s. the property of William Tapsell, and a saw, value
6s. the property of John Tapsell at Gillingham.
The prosecutor deposed:- He was a joiner in the dockyard at Chatham. On
the 8th September, he saw the two saws and a hammer safe in the building
where he was at work at Chatham Hill; on the 10th he missed them. He had
since seen the sow and hammer at Mr. Simms pawnbroker, at Chatham; and
the same evening he saw the other saw in Mr. Everest's possession.
Margaret Douglas, lives with her husband James Dublin a pensioner, at
Sheerness. On Friday, after the races, the prisoner asked her to do him
a favour. He gave her a saw and hammer and told her to get 2s. for them.
She went to Mr. Simms' and pawned them for 1s 6d. She gave the prisoner
the money and ticket directly afterwards. In the evening, prisoner came
to her with another saw and asked her to get 2s. on it. She went to the
nearest pawnbrokers shop, the owner of which told her he should detain
the saw as he had heard it was stolen. She waited till Mr. Everest the
constable came, when she took him to the prison, whom he apprehended.
William Thomas Clothier, assistant to Mr. Simms, pawnbrokers of Chatham,
deposed, that on the afternoon of 10th September, the last witness came
to the shop and pawned there a saw and hammer for 1s. 6d. under the name
of Margaret Smith.
Thomas Robert Everest, superintendent constable, produced a saw and
hammer, which he obtained from the last witness, on the 10th September.
In a pawnbroker's shop at Chatham, he found Mrs. Douglas with a saw, the
larger one of the two produced. Accompanied Mrs. Douglas to the
"Travellers Rest" public house, and saw the prisoner, who at first
denied knowing anything about any saws. Witness proceeded to search him,
when he "It's no use, I'll give you the duplicates, I did give the saws
to the woman to pledge." He (Everest) then took the duplicates from the
prisoner, one of which induced him to make enquiries at the shop where
he first saw the prisoner, where he found another saw.
John Tapsell, china seller, at Chatham, deposed to having missed, on the
10th September, from the same building as mentioned by Inchcomb, a saw
which he had seen safe in the building on the evening of 8th September.
That saw, which had his name up on it, he afterwards saw in the shop of
Mr. Goodham, a pawnbroker, at Chatham.
Guilty. 2 months hard labour.
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South Eastern Gazette, 7 August, 1860.
KENT SUMMER ASSIZES. TUESDAY.
COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn).
THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Edwin James, Q.C.)
Robbery by Soldiers at Chatham.
David Jones, Robert Stevens, Francis Rogers, and James Malone, 18,
soldiers, for stealing certain money, a jacket, and other articles,
the property of John Cooper, at Chatham. Mr. White was for the
prosecution.
The prosecutor, a lime-burner at Burham, on Saturday, the 22nd July,
went to Chatham, and hired a bed at a cottage at the back of a
beer-house kept by a person named Garrett. There was no fastening to
the door. In the morning the prosecutor awoke to the disagreeable
fact that he was minus his clothes, a new pair of boots, and other
property. Early that morning the prisoners were seen coming from the
direction of the beer-house, Rogers having with him a bundle, the
contents of which Jones endeavoured to dispose of to a man they met,
representing them as a recruit’s clothing. The man, however, refused
to buy them, and the prisoners then went on the "Travellers’ Rest,"
where they were apprehended with the property in their possession.
The prisoners each addressed the jury. Rogers asserted that he had
nothing to do with the robbery, but that having met the other
prisoners they had got him to carry the bundle. Malone also denied
that he knew anything as to where the clothes came from, which
Stevens confirmed. Jones said he and Stevens found the bundle.
The prisoners were all found guilty, and Jones and Stevens were
each sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour; Rogers, nine months’
hard labour; Malone, six months’ hard labour.
Jones:— I wish you’d give me three years, my Lord — that’s all I
want.
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South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 3 March 1863.
Conviction for Using Illegal Weights and Measures.
At the county magistrates' justice room, Rochester, on Wednesday last,
Edward Butler, keeper of the "Traveller's Rest"
Beerhouse, Chatham, was charged by Inspector Flenley with having 5 beer
measures in his possession, all deficient.
The defendant was convicted in a penalty of £2 and 12th. costs.
At the same time Ann Hull, a huckster, Fair Row, Chatham, was also
charged with having a pair of scales and three weights in
her possession, all lights and unjust.
The magistrates inflicted a penalty of £1 and costs. |
LICENSEE LIST
BUTLER Edward 1851-58+ (age 25 in 1851 )
BUTLER Hannah 1872+
Licensing
Records 1872
Census
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