From the Kentish Gazette, 18 March 1845.

MARGATE. March 8.

William Rustige, aged 23, was charged before John Boys, Esq., with stealing on the 5th instant a silver watch the property of Mr. H. B. Davis. The prisoner who is a private in the 1st Dragoon Guards, was on the removal of that regiment from Canterbury, on account of the election, to this place, billeted at the "Royal Oak" public-house, kept by Mr. Davis, and after he had left, it was discovered that a chest of drawers had been unlocked, and the watch above mentioned stolen therefrom and afterwards pledged at the shop of Mr. Radford, a pawnbroker here. The prisoner was duly committed to take his trial at the next Dover Sessions.

South Eastern Gazette, 21 August, 1860. Margate

Petty Sessions, Monday. (Before J. Standring, Esq., Mayor, Dr. Price, and K. Jenkins, Esq.)

John Foster, labourer, was charged by Edward Wales, landlord of the "Royal Oak Inn," High-street, with assaulting Edward Wales, a child seven years of age, on Saturday, the 11th inst. George Haydon, an intelligent child 8 years of age, said that he and Mr. Wales’s son were playing by the pump in Brook-terrace, when the defendant came for some water, seized hold of the latter, and stood him on his head, also severely pinching him. The defendant also tried to get hold of witness, but he ran away. The father of the child stated that they found the latter had been considerably injured by the defendant’s violence.

Defendant said he had no intention of hurting the child, but was fined £3, and 9s. costs.