From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, Saturday 4 May 1861.

George Wisdom, landlord of the "Forester's Arms," Tunbridge, (Sic) was charged with knowingly permitting card playing in his house on the night of the 3rd inst. but as it appeared the parties had not been playing for money or beer the case was dismissed.

Maidstone Telegraph - Saturday 11 October 1862.

Tonbridge. Brutal Assault.

On Saturday at the clerk's office, before Major Scoones and A Pott, Esq., James Webb and Mary Slender, gypsies, were charged with unlawfully beating and wounding the Eliza Gatehouse, on the previous Thursday evening. The complainant, who appeared greatly disfigured by the cruel treatment she had been subjected to, was an elderly woman, and although, as it was stated, she had seven children, and her husband was away in penal servitude, she had been cohabiting with the male prisoners brother, a young man of only 1 and 20, for some two or three years past. On the Thursday morning Jasper Webb, the young fellow in question, was desirous of getting rid of his elderly paramour, having just taken up with the female prisoners sister. The parties will drinking together during the day at several houses from Tunbridge Wells to Tonbridge, and when the complainant was informed of Jasper's intention, she said she wanted to see him, and then he could go with whom he pleased. The two prisoners tried to prevent her following them to Jasper, and near the "Foresters Arms," the male prisoner beat and kicked her in a most cruel manner, and dashed her to the ground while the blood flowed from her ears and nose; she had a baby in her arms at the time, and the female prisoner held her while the other beat her. Mr. George Wisdom, publican, saw the assaults committed by the man, and the police apprehended the prisoner hurrying away on the London Road. The woman was discharged and the man was committed for 2 months imprisonment.

On the application by the witnesses for costs, they having attended 2-days, it appeared that not being a police case, there was no funds from which to allow them. Superintendent Dance said that the magistrates could have made an order for the payment if the police had taken the case up; and Mr. Bell, assistant clerk to the magistrates, alluded to the unsatisfactory state of the law with reference to costs.

A relative of one of the prisoners having made use of threatening language towards the complainant, she was brought in, but promising not to molest her, and the father saying that the wish of the magistrate should be complied with, she was discharged.