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Kentish Gazette, 6 August 1850.
Assault and Robbery.
John Davey, 20, assaulting and robbing James Ford of half a
sovereign, 3 shillings, and other monies, at Tunbridge.
Mr. Wells prosecuted, and Mr. Addison defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor on May 10th April received his pension, amounting to
£5 5s. 6d, at Tunbridge Wells, and went into the "Rose and Crown"
public house, where he saw the prisoner and a man named Lampard,
whom he treated with some beer and rum. On leaving the house he was
very tipsy, and did not recollect what took place afterwards. In
cross-examination, he admitted having been at several other public
houses on the day.
Edward Wall deposed that he kept the "Brewers Arms," and on 10th
April he saw the prosecutor and prisoners standing in front of his
house, about 3 o'clock, and soon after prisoner knocked down the
prosecutor, and as he was getting up prisoner put his hand into the
pocket of the prosecutor, when a fight took place, and prisoner went
away.
Witness went out to him, when he said that he had been robbed, and
took from his pockets a sovereign and two counterfeit pieces,
resembling half sovereigns, and said that was all he had left out of
£1 13s. Witness then sent for the police.
Mr. Addison address the jury, and called John Till, a plumber, who
stated that he saw the prosecutor following the prisoner and another
man, and strike the former two or three times, who desired him to
desist, and threatened to strike again, when a fight ensued. He did
not anytime see the hand of the prisoner in the pocket of
prosecutor; if it had been, he must have seen it, as he watched the
proceedings very minutely. Acquitted.
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