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Chapel Street
Sandgate
This was described as a Beer House in the census of 1861.
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South Eastern Gazette,10 January, 1860.
EAST KENT QUARTER SESSIONS.
On Tuesday last these Sessions were held at the Session House,
St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, under the chairmanship of J. B.
Wildman, Esq.
Stealing a Whip.
John Ross, soldier, for having stolen one whip, value 8s., the
property of John Basstook, at Sandgate, on the 7th November. Mr.
White prosecuted.
Prosecutor, a fly-driver, deposed that at about 7 o'clock he
called at the "Bricklayer’s
Arms," at Sandgate. Witness laid the whip on the fly, and when
he returned to the fly, the whip was gone.
Sergeant Smith, K.C.C., deposed that on the 7th Nov. last, he
rode with the last witness from Folkestone to Hythe. He went into
the "Bricklayer’s Arms,"
and shortly after prosecutor told witness that he had lost his whip.
On the next day he found the whip (produced) at the "True Briton,"
at Sandgate. He then found the prisoner at the "City
Arms" beer-house, and he said he had found it opposite the "Bricklayer’s
Arms."
Thomas Kemp Stone, landlord of the "City
Arms," deposed that the prisoner went to his house on the 8th
November, at 5 o’clock in the morning, with the whip in his
possession, and which he said he had found. Prisoner asked several
persons, while at witness’s house, if they had lost a whip.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 26 March, 1864.
CAUGHT IN HIS BEDROOM.
AT the County Sessions Hall, Hythe, on Saturday, Patrick Keating, a
private in the 83rd regiment stationed at Shorncliffe Camp, was charged
with stealing a pair of boots, 3 brooches, a quantity of trinkets, and
other articles of the value of £1 6s. the property of Mr Joseph
Cornelius, landlord of the “True Briton” beer house, Sandgate.
It appeared that about half-past 9 o’clock in the evening of the 18th
inst, Mrs Cornelius went upstairs, without a light, to go to her
bedroom, the door of which was always kept locked. On attempting to put
the key in the lock she was surprised to find the door had been forced
open, but was still more surprised when, on entering the room, she put
out her hand and caught hold of a man’s head. Immediately leaving the
room she pulled the door and called out for a light. This was brought,
and the prisoner then very coolly, without saying a word, got off a
chair on which it appeared he had been sitting, and threw himself on the
bed. The police were sent for and the prisoner was apprehended and
searched. Two brooches, a knife, tobacco pouch and a quantity of
trinkets and other articles, which had been in the drawer of a looking
glass in the room, were found on him, some in his tunic and some in his
trousers pocket. On taking off his waist belt, an unset brooch and a
small box, which had been in a desk in the bedroom, fell out. As the
prisoner was coming out of the room something was heard to drop, the
pair of boots were picked up close to the prisoner’s feet. The
magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the ensuing East Kent
Quarter Sessions.
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Kentish Chronicle, Saturday 3 June 1865.
Robbing a Comrade.
At the Magistrates Clerk's office, Hythe, on Monday, Charles Butler and
John Trevelan, privates in the Scots Fusilier Guards, stationed at
Shorncliffe Camp, were charged with stealing two pocket handkerchiefs,
the property of Thomas White, a private in the same regiment.
It appeared that the prosecutor and the prisoner belonged to the same
company, and all occupy the same hut. On the 7th inst. the prosecutor
and the prisoner Butler arranged to go out for a walk together, and
began dressing themselves for that purpose. The prosecutor went out of
the hut for a few minutes to wash himself, the but then took the
opportunity of going to his bundle, which was on the shelf over his bed,
and took the handkerchiefs from it. The prosecutor not having occasion
to look in the bundle, did not miss them at that time, and the two went
out together. The same evening the prisoners were at the "True Briton"
beer house at Sandgate. Trevelan asked a girl there named Gough if she
would buy some pocket handkerchiefs. She replied that she had plenty and
did not want them. She however, looked at the handkerchiefs, and seeing
what they were marked with the name, Thomas White. She asked Trevelan if
that was his name, and he replied that it was. She also asked him where
he got them from, and he said he had had a dozen sent him from London by
his mother. Trevelan said he wanted a shilling for them to get a
shillings worth of beer. The girl off him 10d., which he agreed to take.
She attended him a shilling but he said he could not give her change.
She however ask Butler to lend Trevelan 2d. which he did, and she handed
the latter the shilling, at the same time remarking to Butler, "Now you
know this man owes you twopence." Butler replied, "Oh its all right
we're going to spend it between us." The prosecutor has lost several
other things from his bundle.
Superintendent English, K.C.C., stated that he believed if the prisoners
were reminded he should be in a position to prefer other charges against
them.
They were accordingly reminded.
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LICENSEE LIST
CORNELIUS Joseph 1861-64+ (age 53 in 1861 )
https://pubwiki.co.uk/TrueBriton.shtml
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