Thefts (1850)

Post date: Apr 11, 2012 11:25:0 AM

Extract from Kentish Gazette of 31st December 1850:

WATERINGBURY. few days since some person stole some sheets and towels from the garden of Mr. Boorman, of the Duke's Head. The foot marks were traced to Offham, a distance of nearly four miles, and Mr. Hilton apprehended Francis Rose upon suspicion, and found one of the missing towels in his pocket. It was proved that he was at Wateringbury on the same evening. It appears that he afterwards stole a cask of beer from truck, the property of Mr. Jude. He was brought before A. Akers, Esq., on Saturday week, and committed for trial. Mr. Sudds, of Mereworth, lost sheet from a line in his garden on the same evening being close to the track of the person who stole the other things, and on the road to Offham.