Kentish Gazette, 9 January 1844.

MARRIAGE.

Dec. 31, at St. Andrew's church, Canterbury, Mr. R Dunn, landlord of the "Rose Tap," to Miss Jane Reeves, of this city.

Kentish Gazette, 2 November 1847.

DEATH.

Dunn:— Oct. 26, after a lingering illness, Mr. Richard Dunn, landlord of the "Rose Tap," Canterbury.

Kentish Gazette, 11 January 1853.

CITY AND BOROUGH SESSIONS.

The Quarter Sessions for the City and Borough of Canterbury and county of the same was holden at the Guildhall on Thursday last, before John Deedes, Esq., Recorder. There were about the usual number of prisoners for trial, whose educational qualifications were thus described:—able to read and write imperfectly, 5; unable either to read or write, 4.

Samuel Gutleridge, 28, hatter, charged with stealing on the 11th day of November, 1852, at the parish of St. Andrew, in the city and borough, two sovereigns, the property of Ann Bushell.

Ann Bushell deposed:— On the 11th November last she was at the corner of Rose-lane, in this city, about 7 in the evening, when the prisoner came up to her and asked her to go into the "Rose-tap" with him; she said she would wait there for the omnibus; he then persuaded her to go in, and she did so. There was no one else in the room when they entered, but a gentleman come in soon after. Just after entering the room, the prisoner took her handkerchief out of her pocket, to see as he said, if there was any name on it; there was not, and he put it in again, when he took out her purse, which contained 3 sovereigns, 1s., 2 sixpences, and 2d.; he looked at the money, and then put it with the purse into his own pocket. She asked him for it, and he said she should have it presently; there was no one in the room then; she had seen her money all safe shortly before that. They remained in the house till 9 o'clock. He said she should have the money when she went home; they drank together after the purse had been taken from her pocket. She had seen the prisoner two or three evenings before, when she walked along the Terrace with him, but did not accompany him to any house. When they left the "Rose-tap," prisoner said she should have the money when she got home; they then went to the door of the "Toby Philpott," where she was going to remain for the night. He then gave her the purse, and left her. After she had been in the house a few minutes she looked at her purse, and she found only 1 sovereign, 2s., and 2d. She then went out to find the prisoner at the "King's Arms," where he told her he lodged. She asked him for the money in the presence of the landlady, when he said he had not got it; he was in bed and a woman with him. After asking him for the money several times, he said she should have it in the morning. The woman in the room looked into his pocket to see if he had any money there, and he had not. Gave information to the police, and one of the officers accompanied her to the prisoner's lodgings the same evening. She was in service the first time when she met the prisoner, and left her place the same afternoon as the prisoner took the money from her.

Cross-examined by the prisoner:— Did not make an appointment to meet you on Thursday evening — I sat on one side and you on the other side of the fire-place; but you moved your chair towards me. I had a little parcel with me at the time. Did not lay any money on the table. Did not borrow a pocket handkerchief from you. Was in your company from 7 till 9. — You had an improper intimacy with me near the "Toby Philpott." You wished to persuade me to go and live with you. (The Court was here cleared of females, though a number of youths were allowed to remain, when the prisoner put a long series of indecent questions to the prosecutrix, totally irrelevant to the case, and which only tended to place his own character in a more disgraceful and disreputable light.)

By the Recorder:— The prisoner kept my money all the time against my consent; I never gave him leave to retain it. I knew nothing of the prisoner before the evening proceeding the night of the robbery.

Thomas Hunt, a lad, and waiter at the "King's Arms," stated that the prisoner came to that house about 1/2 past 9 or 10 on the evening of the Thursday in question. He went into the tap-room; there was no one with him. He ordered a pint of ale and told the servant to call his wife from upstairs; she did so, and his wife came into the taproom. The prisoner "huld" down 2 sovs. on the table and said to his wife, they are mine if I like to accept of them; I have been with a young woman and earnt them to-night. — The woman did not say anything, and the prisoner put the money in his pocket.

Inspector Spratt deposed to going with the prosecutrix to the "King's Arms" on the night in question. He found the prisoner and a woman in bed together — when he told the prisoner he was charged with stealing 2 sovs. from the prosecutrix. He said he had not got 2 sovs. or anything belonging to her; searched his clothes and found nothing in them. It was then close upon 12 o'clock. He then took the prisoner and the woman into custody. — Upon searching the room the following morning, he found 2 sovs. under the head of the bed, on the skirting of the floor, at the same side as the prisoner slept. The Inspector produced the sovereigns found.

The prisoner then addressed the jury in his defence, and said the money alleged to have been stolen, was given to him by the prosecutrix for a nameless purpose; he also urged that his whole conduct was opposed to the supposition that he had any felonious intention in what he had done. He was totally innocent of the charge brought against him.

The Recorder then summed up, and pointed out to the jury that whatever might be the character of the prosecutrix, her property was right to be defended; although, of course, it would bear with them in estimating her evidence.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment with hard labour.

The prosecutrix was then placed at the bar, when she pleaded guilty to having obtained 9 yards of cloth and other articles, value 13s. 11d. under false pretences, with intent to defraud Hannah and Elizabeth Jacobs; and also with having stolen sundry articles, value 15s., the property of Henry Lansdell, her master. The Recorder, after expatiating upon her conduct, sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for 6 months', without hard labour, in consequence of the position in which she was in.

Kentish Gazette, 16 November 1852.

CANTERBURY POLICE COURT. Friday.

Samuel Guttridge, described as a hatter, was charged with stealing two sovereigns from Anne Bushell, on the previous evening.

It appeared by the evidence of Ann Bushell, that on Wednesday evening about 8 o'clock, she saw the prisoner at the corner of Rose lane, and fostered into conversation with him; and ultimately he prevailed upon her to accompany him to the "Rose Tap" to have something to drink. After being there a short time he took her handkerchief out of her pocket, and then her purse, which contained three sovereigns, 2 shillings, and 2 pence. She asked for it several times but he said he would not let her have it until he saw her safe to her lodgings, the "Toby Philpott;" he accompanied her to the door, and then gave her the purse. After a short time she discovered that two sovereigns were missing and went immediately to the prisoners lodgings, the "King's Arms," and fazed him with the robbery; he at first said she should have it in the morning, but afterwards denied that he had any money of hers. She then obtained the assistance of a policeman, and gave him in charge.

Inspector Spratt took the prisoner, also his wife, whom he found in bed; they were searched but only 8d. found on the female. Spratt went again in the morning and searched the room, and found two sovereigns behind the bed. A boy named Hunt, living at the "King's Arms," proved having seen the prisoner come in and throw down two sovereigns on the table, at the same time telling his wife that it had been given him by young lady. The prisoner in his defence, stated that he met the prosecutor on Wednesday night, and they met again on Thursday by appointments, that she gave him the two sovereigns, and that he did not intend to keep them.

He was fully committed for trial and his wife discharged.