From the Kentish Chronicle, Saturday, 3 September, 1859. Price 1½d.

CITY PETTY SESSIONS—Thursday.

There were six applications for new licenses.

Wm. Todd, for the “Plough,”, St. Peters Lane;

The whole of these, were refused.

From the Kentish Chronicle and General Advertiser, 11 January, 1862. Price 1 1/2d.

TUESDAY. (Canterbury)

William Richard Whorlow, a mariner, of Whitstable, was charged with assaulting Timothy Poole, on Monday evening, in St. George’s, and damaging both that individual and also his organ.

Under the apprehension that the complainant, who is an Italian, could not speak English, Lawrence Ginnoclao, an Italian, residing in Canterbury, was sworn as interpreter, but as he did not succeed very well in his new office, the complainant's statement was taken from him in the following words:

I am lodging at the “Plough” public-house. Last night, about a quarter past six, I was playing on my organ at the top of the town, just by a shop, when he (pointing to the defendant) passed me and pushed me in the back, and my stomach did go on the top of the organ, and I did fall down. I did leave my organ, and went after him, and I said to him, “Man, you knock me down; you come long with me.” Then he punch me. I did walk with him, until I did see policeman, and I said “Take this man to the station-house.” My stomach, you see, is not very well this morning, because he pushed me. That is all I have to say.”

Superintendent Davis said the leg of the organ was broken, but he did not think it was damaged internally, as the man had played three tunes on it at the station. The complainant, on the contrary, said that his organ had been quite put out of tune.

The defendant called Wallace Harris, who was also a mariner living at Whitstable, and who was walking with the defendant on the evening in question. They were walking quickly, to catch the Whitstable train. They might have been a little the worse for liquor, but not much. Witness saw the complainant playing his organ, and he (witness) accidentally pushed the defendant, who, to save himself from falling, came against the complainant. Defendant was three feet from complainant when witness pushed him.

The Mayor said the defendant had pleaded guilty to the charge of assault, and they had also heard that he had used very bad language at the station-house which was the worst part of the case. He would be fined 5s. and costs.

The money was immediately paid.

From the Kentish Chronicle, 30 May, 1863.

CANTERBURY POLICE COURT. MONDAY.

A man named Hogan, a tramp, was charged with stealing a pair of boots from the “Plough” public house, Pound-lane. It appeared that the prisoner went into the “Plough” on Saturday night and made inquiries about lodgings. He was the worse for liquor, and after being told that he would be charged 2 1/2d. for his bed, he remained only a short time. After he had gone away a pair of boots belonging to another lodger was missed. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended in a lodging-house in Groves-lane with the boots in his possession.

The prisoner pleaded “guilty” to taking the boots, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. It was stated that after leaving the “Plough” the prisoner went lo the “Steam-Packet” public-house, where he stole a coat, the property of a lodger. This case was not investigated, but the magistrates directed the coat to be given up to the owner.

From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, 20 April, 1867. Price 1d.

DEATH BY DROWNING.

On Monday last the body of a man Domed Joseph Guest, was found in the river Stour, near the Friar's Bridge. It appears that the deceased has not been heard of from Wednesday week the 3rd inst, (when he was seen by his brother-in-law at the “Plough” public house, in Pound Lane), up to Monday last, when his body was found in that part of the river which runs through the Friars. On the same evening an inquest was held on the body, at the “Prince of Orange” public house, when the following evidence was adduced:-

P.I. Andrews said:- I am inspector of the police of the city of Canterbury. I have looked at the body of the deceased and identify it as that of Joseph Guest. I searched him and found 16s. 2d. upon him. He was a pensioner and had been in the army; and a few years since he kept the “Royal Oak,” in Longport, but has recently been an inmate of the Canterbury Workhouse.

Jarvis Joiner, labourer, deposed:- At between the hours of one and two this afternoon, from information I received, I went down stairs from the room in which I was at work, and looked into the river Stour. I procured a ball of string and a hook and drew ashore that which proved to be the body of the deceased. He was quite dead and appeared to have been in there several days. There is a dipping spot in the Friars, from which a person might fall into the River. The deceased's clothes were buttoned. The dipping place is on the same side of the River as the deceased was found.

Austin Neame deposed:- I am a porter, and the deceased was my brother-in-law, and is 68 years of age. He was a pensioner, having been in the 11th Hussars. Ho received his pension on Monday, the 1st inst. and I saw him on the following Wednesday.

He occasionally got the worse for liquor.

The jury returned a verdict of “Found drowned.”