South Eastern Gazette, 15 May, 1860.

TONBRIDGE. Petty Sessions, Wednesday.

(Before J. G. Talbot, Esq., chairman, Major Scoones, Arthur Pott, Ford Wilson, H. T. Moore, C. Powell, and H. D. Streatfeild, Esq.)

Thomas Randall was charged with stealing a shirt and a pair of stockings, value 8s., the property of James Cronk, of Nettlestead. It appeared that the prosecutor, a mason travelling in search of work, went into the "Rising Sun" beer-house at Tonbridge on the morning of the 2nd May. During the time he was in the house, the prisoner being there, he fell asleep, and on leaving the house found his bundle was not so heavy as when he entered, and, on examination, he missed the articles mentioned. Superintendent Dance found the stolen property at a clothes-dealer's in the town. He took the prisoner to the clothes shop, and he was at once identified as the person who had sold the articles.

One month’s hard labour.