From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, 5 May 1860.

TUNBRIDGE.

At the Petty Sessions, Wednesday. James Jenner, the keeper of a beer-house at Marsh-green, in the parish of Edenbridge, was charged with knowingly permitting gaming in his house on the 31st March. It appeared that complaints having been made of gambling transactions in the house, a constable went there and saw several persons gaming with a “turn-a-bout.”

Mr. Rogers, who appeared for the defendant, stated that the men were playing for beer, but not for money. The defendant had only kept the house, which was his own property, for about fourteen months, and was not aware that he was committing any offence in permitting his customers to play with the turnabout which was common use in the fairs, &c., throughout the country. He then addressed the bench in mitigation of the penalty. The Chairman, after cautioning Jenner, inflicted a penalty of 10s. and 10s. costs.