From the Kentish Gazette, 16 May 1843.

FAVERSHAM May 15.

On Saturday evening a journeyman carpenter, named Beck, who had been employed on the works of the Creek, went to the "Smack" public house, where the excavators are paid, and while waiting for his turn one of them caught him by the shoulders and pulled his head backwards, as if in joke, while an other, it is supposed, at the same moment eased him of his watch. He complained a little of the treatment, and thought he had better get away from such rough company, when he discovered he had lost his watch, which he knew he had when he went into the house. He offered to give a gallon of beer if his property was restored. Some of the company laughed at him, some used abusive language towards him, and some praised him for his liberal offer, but he did not succeed in recovering the watch, which has the maker’s name, "E. Tiddeman, Canterbury, No. 904."