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13 Chapel Street
Blue Town
Sheerness
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Kentish Gazette, 2 April 1850.
Edward Norris, 17, burglary, and stealing a canvass bag, containing four
sovereigns and other monies of George Norris, at Minster,
in Sheppey.
The prosecutor in this case is brother of the prisoner, and lives with
his father at Rushenden, in the parish of Minster, in Sheppey. In
the month of August last he had in his possession a bag, containing all
his clothes and the monies named in the indictment, the
latter of which was kept in the bag; the box was kept in his bedroom,
locked. It was safe at about five o'clock on the morning of
Sunday, the 14th of August, and on prosecutor’s getting up at about five
o'clock on the 16th he found it was gone. He immediately communicated intelligence of the loss to his father, who searched the
premises, and found the box concealed behind some mangel
wurzel at the bottom of the garden. It had been broken open, and the bag
and money stolen. The prosecutor’s father, Edward
Norris, had on the previous evening retired to bed at about ten o'clock,
having previously examined the fastenings and found them
secure. On getting up the next morning about four o'clock he found the
front door had been opened, the latch having apparently
been forced up from the outside. On the following Wednesday, information
of the robbery having been given to Pratten, the
constable of Minster, that officer went to the "Hit or Miss" public
house, where he apprehended the prisoner, whom he searched,
and in his pocket he found two sovereigns, four half sovereigns, eight
half crowns, and a sixpence, and a canvass bag. He showed
the bag to prosecutor, who was present, and who identified it as his
properly. The bag was subsequently given to Mr. Bone, the
governor of the gaol, by whom it was now produced.The learned Judge, in summing up, reminded the jury that to convict the
prisoner on the charge of burglary it was necessary that it
should be proved the offence was committed between the hours of nine at
night and six in the morning, and that unless they were
satisfied the robbery took place between those hours, the prisoner could
not be convicted of more than a larceny.
The jury consulted, and retuned a verdict of guilty of larceny. The
prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy, and the learned
Judge taking the recommendation into consideration, as also the long
time prisoner had been in custody, sentenced him to one
month's hard labour.
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From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald. 31 August 1867. Price 1d.
POLICE COURT. FRIDAY
Before E. Twopeny, Esq., (Chairman), and the Rev. G. B. Moore.
MAD DRUNK
Edward Braithwaite, mariner, of H.M.S. "Cumberland," was charged with
maliciously damaging three glasses and assaulting Samuel Macdowell,
licensed victualler, at the “Hit or Miss" public-house, Sheerness, on
the 19th of August. Prosecutor, a cripple, said that about eleven o'clock last Monday the
prisoner, who had been drinking at his house, came up to him in the bar
and said, “You have insulted me, and I will break your nose.” Prisoner
then struck him and dragged him out into the passage, where they both
fell. He had previously pushed his wife down. Prosecutor said that
Braithwaite had been drinking in the house before he came in, while he
also supplied him with liquor. While in his house he had drank three or
four quarterns of sherry out of the measures, and had some ginger-beer
and beer. He was mad-drunk.
Police-constable Wood said Braithwaite was very drunk when he
apprehended him for the assault, and had his jacket, belt, and cap off,
and his sleeves tucked up. He went quietly to the station. The man's Sergeant attended, and gave prisoner a good character, as he
had been in the service fourteen years, faultless. He had been on board
the "Cumberland” for the last eighteen months, as ship's corporal, and
was a quiet, well-conducted man. Had never seen him the worse for liquor
before. In confirmation of what he had said, witness drew his attention
to the three good conduct stripes which prisoner wore; the last of which
had been accorded about three months ago. The Chairman admonished prosecutor for supplying drink to the prisoner
when he saw the state he was in, and disallowed his expenses, observing
that it was particularly enjoined in the license that publicans should
not allow tippling. Prisoner was fined altogether £1. |
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From the London Gazette, October 1868. Samuel Seymour McDowell, late
of "Hit or Miss Inn," Chapel-street, Blue Town, Sheerness, Innkeeper,
and Dealer in Marine and General Stores, and now in furnished
lodgings-at the "Horse and
Groom Inn," Kent-street, Blue Town, Sheerness aforesaid, out of
business adjudicated bankrupt on 8 July 1868. An order of discharge was
granted by the County Court of Kent holden at Sheerness on 23 October,
1868.
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I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it,
but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the
information will come from.
All emails are answered.
LICENSEE LIST
KNIGHT John 1824-28+
RUFFORD Sarah 1832-39+
TURNER John 1840+
WOODHARDS Nathaniel 1847-58+ (also marine store dealer)
FRENCH John 1861-62+ (age 48 in 1861 )
MACDOWELL/McDOWELL Samuel 1867-Aug/68
SOSBY Sophie (widow) Aug/1868+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/HitorMiss.shtml
Whitstable Times
and Herne Bay Herald
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
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