From the Kentish Chronicle, 29 August, 1863.

BARBAROUS ACT.

A few nights since some miscreant cut off the tail of a cow belonging to Mr. Mannooch, in an orchard adjoining the “Railway Hotel,” at Murston, near Sittingbourne. It is to be hoped that the perpetrator of this wanton act of cruelty will be discovered.

From the Kentish Chronicle, 5 March, 1864.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

On Monday, T. Hills, Esq., coroner, held an inquest at the “Railway Inn,” Murston, near Sittingbourne, on the body of a boy named Henry Kidney, 10 years of age, who had met with his death in a brickfield of Mr. Smeed. It seemed that deceased was employed in the brickfield with other lads. Near where they worked was a wash mill, the drum of which was driven by steam, by means of a band which ran across from the engine-house. It appeared that the deceased and other lads had been in the habit, in spite or repeated cautions against doing so, of crossing a plank, instead of going by the footpath, and while doing so on Friday, the lad Kidney was caught in the strap, carried over the drum, and dashed senseless to the ground, receiving such injury that his death resulted within 24 hours of the accident. Verdict, “Accidental death.”