Kentish Gazette, 14 December, 1821.

FREE PUBLIC-HOUSE AND TENEMENTS, CHATHAM.

TO BE SOLD BY TENDER,

ALL that MESSUAGE or TENEMENT, called the "North Foreland," and Tenement connected therewith, together with the THREE (formerly four) adjoining TENEMENTS, in the occupations of Messrs. Johnson, Cohan, Popp. and Benness, situate on the North East side of the street, near to the Victualling Office and waterside, in the midst of a very numerous population and contiguous to a vast thoroughfare.

The Premises are held of the Dean of Rochester, Patron and Governor of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, and the Brethren of the said Hospital, for 40 years, from Christmas, 1813, at £8 per annum, renewable every 14 years.

Sealed Tenders will be received previous to first January next, at my Office; where further particulars may be known. J. P. Henslow, Rochester, Dec. 7, 1821.

South Eastern Gazette, 27 March, 1860.

Suspected Case of Child Murder.

On Thursday last, an inquest was opened at the "North Foreland Tavern," Chatham, before B. Marsh, Esq., deputy coroner, and continued by adjournment, until the following day, to inquire into the circumstances attending the discovery of the body of a new-born male child, in a water closet in Brisley’s-lane.

Alfred Tomlin, employed in the dockyard, deposed to finding the body in the water-closet of the yard near his house, shortly after six o’clock that morning. The deceased was lying on its back on the soil. The yard was open, and there was no gate at the entrance.

Mr. Hutchins, surgeon, said he examined the body of the deceased, and found that the usual offices had been performed towards it. From the application of the usual tests there was no doubt deceased had been born alive. On examining the skull he found a very large discoloured spot on the back, about the size of a crown-piece, which extended through the integuments to the bone, a deal of extravagated blood lining the brain. He was clearly of opinion that the child had suffered some violence on the back part of the skull, but evidently not from a fall. From the situation in which the body was lying deceased could not have been suffocated. From the appearance deceased had not been born more than a day. The jury, after deliberating for some time, returned a verdict "That the deceased died from the effects of a blow on the head, but by whom given or how it was caused there was no evidence to show." The body of the deceased was brought into the room where the inquest was held, instead of the jury being, as usual, taken to view it.