From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, 19 October 1861.

Fatal Accident.

On Tuesday Mr. Serjeant Payne held inquiry, in St Thomas's Hospital, on the body of John Taylor, age 48 years, a livery stable keeper, of the "King's Arms," Woolwich.

Mr. William Cocking, grocer, of No. 7, Francis Street, Woolwich, said that, on the 9th of the present month, a few minutes after 8 o'clock, he was driving in a gig, and the deceased was sitting at his side. They had preceded about halfway along the road towards the "Royal Standard" at Woolwich, when, the night being dark, a collision took place between the gig, he and deceased were in a cart. The consequences were that deceased and witness were pitched out into the road. Witness, assisted deceased up, and he was seen by Dr. Finch, and afterwards admitted into the hospital, in which institution he died on the 12th. Neither the gig nor cart were overturned, but deceased and witness were thrown out about seven feet from the footpath, on the near side.

Belfast Telegraph, Tuesday 16 September 1975.

Pub Bombingsd were Carefully Planned.

THE BOMB attacks on two Guildford pubs, and another at Woolwich, which, killed seven people and seriously injured 84 were carefully planned with advance information by an IRA raiding party, an Old Bailey jury was told to-day.

The prosecution was opening its case against three Irishmen and a teenage London girl accused of five murders, among 11 charges.

The trial, expected to last at least two months, opened amid some of the most massive security seen at the Central Criminal Court. including police marksmen posted on nearby rooftops.

Sir Michael Havers, QC, prosecuting, said the bombing at the "King's Arms," Woolwich, was carried out without any sort of advance warning and the Guildford explosions at the "Horse and Groom" and the "Seven Stars" were caused by "two timed bombs."

All four defendants were part of a "raiding party" on Guildford, said Sir Michael.

The raids were carefully planned with "photographic reconnaissance in advance." Intelligence about the use of particular public houses was also obtained in advance.

The accused, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, were Carole Richardson (17), of Earls Court Square, Earls Court, London; Paul Hill (29), of Barnsley Crescent, Belfast; Gerard Conlon (20), of Cypress Street, Belfast, and Patrick Armstrong (24), of Algernon Road, Maida Vale, London.

Armstrong and Hill alone are accused of murdering a sales clerk and a soldier at the Woolwich pub last November.

The five young people who died in the blast last October at the "Horse and Groom" public house, Guildford were two WRAC girls, two Scots Guards recruits and a civilian youth.

Sir Michael said a number of courting couples were in the "Horse and Groom" that night, including Armstrong and Carole Richardson. The pair were acting like a courting couple but were, in fact, hiding their bomb under one of the seats running round the pub alcove, he said.

The trial is before Mr. Justice Donaldson, former president of the scrapped Industrial Relations Court. Sir Michael Havers. QC, and the Treasury counsel, Mr. Michael Hill, are conducting the Crown's case.

There was an outburst in the dock from one of the accused moments after the four were taken into court and arraigned on 11 charges.

In the absence of the jury, Paul Hill refused to plead to any of the charges against him and repeated several times: "Your justice, stinks."

Mr. Leslie Boyd, the court's chief administrator who was reading the charges, paused and asked Hill: "What did you say?" Hill again said: "Your justice stinks."

Mr. Justice Donaldson, presiding at his first trial at the Old Bailey, told Mr. Boyd to carry on.

Hill, wearing an open-necked shirt and a long-sleeved black pullover, stood arms folded.

After the first two charges. Hill remained silent then asked to plead to the remainder.

Sir Michael Hayers. QC, leading for the Crown, said he was a little concerned about Hill's silence and referred the judge to court procedural rulings in which it was laid down that a jury would have to be specially empanelled to decide whether or not Hill's silence was due to malice or some other reason.

At this point there was a hurried discussion between Hill and his legal advisers and then defence counsel announced that he had just been instructed that Hill wished to plead "Not guilty" to all charges.

The trial jury was then empanelled.

The four were also charged with unlawfully and maliciously causing by explosive substance an explosion at the "Seven Stars" public house in Guildford on the same date, of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property.

Armstrong alone was accused of conspiring with Paul Michael Hill, and others unknown between October 5 and November 8, 1974. to murder persons at or in the vicinity of the "King's Arms" public house, Woolwich; and that between October 5 and November 8. 1974, he unlawfully and maliciously assisted in a reconnaissance of the "King's Arms," Woolwich, with intent to cause explosions at the pub, likely to endanger life and cause serious injury to property.

Armstrong and Hill were further accused of murdering sales clerk Alan Horsley and soldier Richard Sloane Dunn who died in an explosion at the "King's Arms" on November 7.