Kentish Gazette, 13 May 1851.

Licensed Victualllers' Protection Society.

On Thursday evening a meeting of the members of this society, which already numbers nearly 70, was held at the "Nag’s Head Inn," Mr. T. Culmer in the chair. Resolutions of a character beneficial to the public were agreed to.

Kentish Gazette, 13 January 1857.

HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.

Daniel Martin, 27, soldier, charged with having, on the 27th November, violently assaulting Edward Donald Jones, and stolen from his person, 4s. 1d., three knives, and a cap. Mr. Papillon prosecuted.

The prosecutor deposed that he was 17 years of age and was apprenticed to a commercial traveller in London. On the day in question when walking from Dover to Folkestone, the prisoner asked him the time of day, which he could not tell, and they continued walking together till they got to the bottom, when the prisoner seized him by the collar and demanded his money. He told him that he had none. Prisoner replied that he knew he had — seized his hands, and rummaged his pockets, from which he took two books and the other property already named, but returned the books; and after he had gone away he returned and took his cap, saying "this will do nicely for me." Witness then ran away, and was followed by the prisoner, who held up his stick in a threatening attitude. When reaching the coast-guard station he gave information of what had occurred, but the men there could not then find the prisoner. Witness afterwards gave information to the police at Dover, he identified the knives as those which the prisoner had taken from him.

Henry Smith, police-constable of Dover, who went in search of the prisoner, found him at the "Nag’s Head" public-house and took him into custody, and found on him the knives and cap, which he said he had picked up on the road.

Twelve months’ hard labour.