From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 4 November, 1867.

ROBBERY FROM A PUBLIC HOUSE

Harriet Doughty, a middle-aged woman, was charged with stealing a blue pilot coat, the property of John Newing, residing at the "Forester's Arms," Worthington's Lane.

Charlotte Newing, wife of John Newing, landlord of the "Forester's Arms," said the prisoner came to her house for lodgings on Whit Sunday and remained there till the following Tuesday. The coat produced by sergeant Bailey was her husband's, and it was missed a few days after the prisoner had left the house. It was kept in a cupboard in the witness's bedroom, where she last saw it on Whit Tuesday, before the prisoner left. The room the prisoner occupied was immediately opposite witness's and her husband's. On missing the coat she gave information of her loss to the police, and on the Monday following she went to the shop of Messrs. Hart and Nathan, pawnbrokers, of Cannon Street, and after some conversation they produced the coat, which had been pledged for 6s. On her paying the amount the pawnbrokers gave her up the coat.

Dr. Astley: Had you a ticket?

Witness: No, I had not.

The witness said she subsequently gave up the coat to Sergeant Bailey. The value of it was £2 10s.

Amos Russel, assistant to Messrs. Hart and Nathan, recollected the coat being brought to his employers' shop by the prisoner, who offered it in pledge. The account she gave was that she had come from Margate to see a son who lived there, and who owed her some money, and as he had not the money to give her, he had let her have the coat, to pledge. In reply to witness's questions she said the coat was the property of her son, who was a blacksmith living in Dover. He then lent her 6d. upon it, and he afterwards gave it up to Mrs. Newing, on her representing that the coat had been stolen from her, and paying 6s. The police had been to the shop on the Saturday evening before in respect to the coat.

Bailey deposed to receiving the coat from Mrs. Newing, and the apprehension of the prisoner, who, it appeared, was arrested on the previous day upon her leaving Maidstone Goal, where she had been confined for another offence during the past three months.

The prisoner had nothing to say in her defence; and the Magistrates committed her for trial at the next sessions.