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Sandling Road
Maidstone
Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be
appreciated.
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.
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Southeastern Gazette, 28 June 1853.
MAIDSTONE PETTY SESSIONS.
Tuesday. (Before C. Ellis and E. Stacey, Esqrs.)
Assault. Eliza Ellis v. Eliza Cole.
Complainant deposed that on the 13th June she met the defendant near
the "New Inn tap." Directly on seeing her defendant called her a
----- and abused her. She (complainant) ran into the "New Inn tap"
for shelter. She called for a pint of beer. Defendant followed her
in, took up her beer, and drank it. Defendant then pitched into her,
blackened her eye, scratched her face, and tore her bonnet. She made
no resistance. Defendant injured her very much, and she had been
unable to do a day's work since.
Sarah Feakhis corroborated the evidence of the complainant.
Defendant (who had two small children with her, and who wept
bitterly) said the complainant had seduced her husband from her; she
was always following him about, from one public-house to another.
For the last eight months she had had no peace at all, her husband
being out (with complainant) at all hours in the night. She admitted
that she struck the complainant, but said complainant struck her as
well, and they fought together. She had many times driven the
complainant away from her door, but she could not keep her away from
her husband. She thought it very hard that she should suffer for the
misconduct of the complainant. She often had to go to bed without
any other supper than a good thrashing from her husband, through the
complainant.
Mr. Ellis kindly expostulated with the women, and postponed the
judgment of the Bench for a month, in the hope that the parties
would conduct themselves peaceably towards each other.
Defendant promised that she would not again molest the complainant,
and the parties then left the court.
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From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, 5 October 1861.
Maidstone Petty sessions. Saturday.
Before C. Ellis, Esq., Mayor. H. W. Joy, Esq., and T. W. Allen, Esq.
Francis Harriett Thompson, 29, who said she was a widow from North
Wales, was charged with stealing a leather purse containing £2 1s. the
property of Joseph Rayfield, a most singular looking person, from a
basket at the "New Inn Tap," on the previous Thursday.
It appears that on the day in question the prosecutor and his wife, both
of whom were deaf, and had evidently learnt each other to be so, and who
live at Boxley, went to the "New Inn Tap" with the prisoner, and with
whom they had during the hopping made an acquaintance. Whilst there the
prosecutor's wife placed the basket on the table in with a purse in it
containing the sun before stated. She left the room and the prisoner,
who it was said, had been taking a drop too much during her absence, was
seen by the prosecutor to take the basket off the table and peep into
it, and on the return of his wife the purse was found to be missing. The
prisoner then left the room. Shortly afterwards information was given to
the police, and it was ascertained that the prisoner had been making
some purchases at the shop of Mrs. Stanford, a second hand clothes
dealer, living at the top of Week Street. She was taken into custody,
and on being conveyed to the station she informed the police officer she
had received a golden sovereign from a gentleman. On arriving at the
station she underwent to search - the prosecutors wife undertaking this
important duty - and, strange to say the purse containing £1 9s 1d. was
found at her feet.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 3 months' hard labour.
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LICENSEE LIST
PARRATT James 1858-61+ (also ostler age 58 in 1861 )
LEYCESTER J J 1891+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/NewInnTap.shtml
Census
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