From the Kentish Gazette, 8 May 1810.
Accident.
In the afternoon of Saturday last, as a waggon loaded with camp
equipage was passing the "Star Tap," in St. Georges place, in this
city, a man who had the appearance of a pedlar, in a state of
intoxication, imprudently attempted to stop the carriage by catching
hold of the spokes of a hind wheel, when, after being carried round
on it several times, he was thrown down, and the wheel passed over
his breast.
He was immediately taken up and carried into the public-house where
he vomited a good deal, and on the recommendation of a Surgeon he
was placed in a Chair for the purpose of being conveyed to the
Hospital, when having reached about half way, he suddenly started
up, enquired whither he was going, and jumping out of the chair,
walked back to tile "Star Tap," where he remained about an hour, and
then proceeded on his journey, seemingly without having sustained
any injury from his accident.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 11 April 1837.
CITY QUARTER SESSIONS.
On Thursday these Sessions were held at the Guildhall, before F.
Boteler, Esq. (Recorder), E. Plummer, Esq. (Mayor), and other
magistrates.
The following gentlemen were called on the Grand Jury:— F.
Bellingham (Foreman), J. C. Abbott, C. Lee, C. Mason, H. West, G.
Gambler, H. Smith, G. Smith, W. H. Trimnell, S. Cladish, J. Prier,
R. Foord, G. Ash, G. Cooper, J. Clarke, D. Mathews, W. Paine, G.
Castledcn, and T. F. Cozens.
Elizabeth Fuller, 49, and Ann, her daughter, aged 21, were charged
upon four indictments with having stolen various articles belonging
to linen drapers and others in this city.
The first charge was that of having stolen a gown piece and a boa,
the property of Matthew Martin, which, as the parties could not
identify it, the verdict was Not Guilty.
A second indictment charged them with having stolen ten yards of
satin, a piece of brown holland, an apron, and some ribbon, the
property of Mr. Budden.
J. C. Budden, son of the prosecutor, stated that on the 25th of
March the prisoners went to his father’s shop and asked to look at
some brown holland. They were shown a quantity, which they said was
too coarse, upon which he reached other bundles, and whilst doing
so, and waiting upon another person, the younger prisoner left the
shop. On returning to the elder prisoner he missed a piece of the
brown holland, and charged her with the theft. She denied all
knowledge of it, and he searched her. He then accused her of giving
it to the woman who had left the shop, but she denied all
acquaintance with her. The brown holland and the other articles were
all found in the prisoner’s house.
Police Inspector Plank stated that he found several of the articles
at the residence of the prisoners, near the Gutteridge Toll Gate;
and Policeman Epps said that he received a parcel of them from Mr.
Bax, of the "Star Tap," in whose custody it appeared, by Mr. Bax’s
statement, the elder prisoner had left them until she returned from
the city on her way home.
Mr. Shee argued in defence that no charge of felony could be
maintained against the prisoners simply from the circumstance of
some of the goods being found in the younger prisoner’s lodging; and
if the jury were not satisfied of her guilt upon any ther point, the
crime could not be that of felony, but that of having received
stolen goods. After commenting upon the serious points of evidence
given by the younger Mr. Budden, and of the extreme carelessness of
which most linen drapers were guilty, in this case as well as the
last, in their not keeping regular entry of the goods sold, by which
they might soon learn whether goods had been stolen, and before the
time as stated in the two cases just heard, wherein most of the
goods were not known to have been stolen until they were found by
the policeman, Mr. Shee exhorted the jury to dismiss from their
minds all prejudice which might have been raised against the
prisoners, in consequence of their being charged upon several
indictments with stealing.
The learned Recorder, in summing up, directed the attention of the
jury to the particular circumstance of the goods being traced to the
possession of the prisoners; and combated the assertion made by the
counsel, that felony could not be maintained against them from this
fact.
Verdict, Guilty.
Upon a third indictment they were charged with having stolen 10 3/4
yards of black silk serge, and a shawl, the property of George Payn,
of All Saints.
Mr. Payn said he could swear to the block upon which the serge was
rolled, from certain marks, but he could not swear to the shawl
which the policeman produced.
Mr. Shee, in defence, said he could not think the jury could well
find the younger prisoner guilty of felony, for it appeared that she
adopted no means of converting into money the things reputed to have
been stolen by her. It appeared to him that he had, doubtless, been
the dupe of some designing villain, much more practised in theft
than she appeared to be. After nine observations in extenuation of
the punishment with which he ought to be visited under such
circumstances, the jury proceeded to consider their verdict, and
returned Elizabeth Fuller, Not Guilty; Ann, Guilty.
The fourth indictment, for stealing a table cloth and a piece of
baize, the property of Stephen Marrell, of the "Angelo Castle," was
not gone into.
The sentences were passed on Friday morning: Elizabeth Fuller to
twelve months’ imprisonment in the House of Correction; Ann, to
twelve months upon the first conviction, and three days upon the
second, and to be kept to hard labour.
On receiving her sentence, the elder prisoner curtsied and asked the
Court, with considerable nonchalance, if she might not be suffered
to have certain duplicates of pawned property, which had not been
claimed, delivered up to her.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 7 February 1843.
CANTERBURY POLICE—Monday, Feb. 6.
James Baker was charged with stealing a sheep, the property of Mr.
Robert Young, and Susan Milgate was charged as an accomplice.
It appeared by the evidence of Inspector Bradley, that from information
be received he suspected the prisoners of the theft, and, accompanied by
Policeman Spratt, found the male prisoner at the "City of London," and
conveyed him to the Station-house. He afterwards went to the "Star Tap"
where he found the female prisoner, and told her Mr. Young had lost a
sheep, and he suspected it was at at her house. She denied all knowledge
of it. He took her to her house in Fortune's passage, and found the
sheep nearly whole, and also the skin. She then began to cry, and said,
he (meaning the male prisoner) had brought her to it, and the sooner she
was transported the better.
The skin was sworn to by Mr. Young's shepherd, to having marked it with
a pitch mark R.Y. a short time before.
Another witness named Barton stated that he saw Baker on Friday evening
come down Wincheap with a sack on his shoulder containing something
heavy, but he did not know what it contained.
The prisoners, who had nothing to say in defence, were committed for
trial.
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