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South Eastern Gazette, 24 January, 1860.
Charge of Stealing a £5 Note and a Sovereign.
At the Maidstone Police Court, on Tuesday, before H. Argles and H.
W. Joy, Esqrs., Robert Waters, 23, of Wharf-lane, Maidstone, and
John Simmonds, 42, of the "Man of Kent" yard, Strood, were charged
with stealing a £5 note and a sovereign, the property of Mr. W.
Fanestt, Ashford-road, under the following circumstances:—
On Monday, about three o’clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Mary Ann
Fancett, the wife of prosecutor, while going round by the
Fair-meadow, lost a shilling and a sovereign, wrapped in a £5 note.
Thomas Toffery, a sweep, having heard that his child had picked up
some money, and that the prisoner Simmonds had taken it away, went
to him and asked for it; Simmonds, however, at first denied having
taken any money from the child, but subsequently admitted that he
had done so, and gave Toffery 10s., telling him that his child had
picked up a sovereign and a £5 note. Toffery afterwards saw the
other prisoner, who gave him 6s. Waters, it transpired, was present
when Simmonds took the money away from the child, and obtained
change for the note from Mr. Alldridge, of the "Rodney’s Head,"
stating that his master had sent him to do so.
Ann James also deposed to Simmonds having changed a sovereign at the
"Who’d’ a thought it?" beer-shop, opposite the Fair-meadow, on the
day in question. When taken into custody by Sergeant Hills, both
prisoners denied having had the note.
In defence Simmonds said he was standing at the corner of Mr.
Wright’s warehouse, when a respectable man came up to him, with
several other men who were standing there, and said "That child
(meaning Toffery’s) has got a sovereign and a £5 note; you had
better take it to its father." He (Simmonds) took the money away
from the child, and asked the other men what he should do with it.
He afterwards gave the note to Waters to change, who did so, and the
money was shared between ten of them. Toffery had the largest share,
his child having found the money. The prisoners were remanded till
Saturday, Alldridge becoming surety for both of them. On Saturday
they were again brought up, but no one appearing to prosecute, they
were discharged.
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Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 8 November 1869.
THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1861. EDWARD FOBESTER DAWSON.
Late of the "Who'd Have Thought It," Beerhouse, Fair Meadow, Maidstone,
in the County of Kent, Beerhouse-keeper, but now in lodgings at No. 3,
Pump-lane, in the City of Rochester, in the said County, of no
occupation, having been adjudged bankrupt on the Thirteenth day of
October, 1869, is hereby required to surrender himself to Mr. Frederick
Scudamore, the Registrar of the County Court of Kent holden at
Maidstone, at the first meeting of Creditors to be held on the Twentieth
day of November, 1869, at Eleven in the forenoon precisely, at the
County Court Office, Week-street, Maidstone.
Mr. Thomas Goodwin, of Maidstone, is the Solicitor acting in the
Bankruptcy. At the meeting the Registrar will receive proofs of the
debts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or
Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.
All persons having in their possession any of the effects of the said
Bankrupt, must deliver them to the Registry, and all debts due to the
Bankrupt must be paid to the Registrar.
Frederick Scudamore. Registrar.
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