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From the South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 14 April, 1846.
BROMLEY, THE SUSPECTED CASE OF POISONING.
The jury again met at the "White Swan," Bromley, last week, further
to investigate this mysterious case. The coroner said that it would
be necessary for the ends of justice, as something had just come to
light, that they should for the present adjourn, and he had no
doubt, at their next meeting, they would be enabled to bring their
laborious duties to a satisfactory conclusion. The inquest was then
formally adjourned, but the coroner did not state to what day.
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 26 May, 1860.
A Strange Freak.
A lad named Frank Simmons, in the employ of Mr. La Fenillate, music
dealer, of Blackheath-road, Greenwich, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Traill on a remanded charged of stealing a horse and cart the
property of his master.
From the evidence given, it appeared that on the night of Monday,
the 14th inst, the prisoner drove off with his master's horse and
dog-cart, and proceeded to Bromley (Kent), where he put up for the
night at the "White Swan Hotel," representing that he had business
with a person in services of Mr. Ritchie, an extensive
coal-merchant. On the following day the prisoner drove about the
country,
and ultimately proceeded towards London, when he was seen by Mr.
Huslar, a milkman, at New Cross, who stopped him, and the horse and
vehicle was restored to the owner, and the prisoner given into
custody for theft. The horse was in a most exhausted state, and was
wounded on the back, in consequence of having been over driven and
otherwise improperly used.
Mr. Trill now declined to entertain the charge of robbery, but
sentenced the prisoner to 2 months' imprisonment for cruelty to the
horse.
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