From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 30 May, 1840.

DOVER POLICE REPORT

MONDAY - Richard Dixon, labourer, charged by police constable Lewis, with an assault. Complainant stated as follows: On Friday morning about 2 o'clock I was called by Mr. Barnes, landlord of the "Royal Exchange," to take the prisoner into custody, he having been making a disturbance, and endeavouring to gain admission to the house. I then took him in charge, and was in the act of conducting him to the station-house, when he ran away, and I did not overtake him till he reached the top of the Commercial-quay. I then caught hold of him, and he pushed me over the pent, where there was about ten feet of water. He then ran away and left me, and it was with great difficulty I got out of the water. Dixon, in his defence, said that he did not mean to push Lewis over - he only tried to get away.

Fined 40s.; and in default, committed to prison for 14 days.

From the Dover Telegraph,30 May 1840.

POLICE COURT.

On Saturday last Richard Dixon, of the parish of Charlton, labourer, was fined 40s, including costs, for resisting William Lewis, policeman, in the execution of his duty; and in default of payment committed for fourteen days. It appeared that between one and two o'clock in the morning the landlord of the "Royal Exchange" requested Lewis to take Dixon into custody, as he had previously been endeavouring to get into the house against his (the landlord's) wish, having taken a shutter down for the purpose. Lewis apprehended Dixon and was in the act of conducting him to the Station-house, when he (Dixon) ran away. Lewis followed him and caught him at the posts and chains on Commercial Quay, against which Dixon ran, and was thereby stopped. Lewes then endeavoured to lay hold of him, when he (Dixon) put out his hand and pushed him into the Pent. Lewis could not say whether Dixon intended to push him into the Pent: he might only intended to get from him.

From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports Advertiser, 2 June, 1849.

Andrew Barnes, mariner, brought up on suspicion of felony.

Superintendent Laker stated that on Sunday morning a person named Walker slept at the "Royal Exchange," kept by the friends of Barnes. On retiring to bed Walter had a considerable sum of money about him, in the morning he discovered a loss of £2 10s. His bed companion was searched, but nothing found; and as the prisoner was reported to have gone into Walker's bed-room at an early hour in the morning, suspicion was attached to him as the perpetrator of the theft, and instructions were issued for his apprehension, but he was found to have taken a hasty departure to Canterbury, whither the Superintendent instructed a constable to follow in pursuit, but without success. - No direct evidence of the theft being, however, obtained. Barnes was released from custard, with an intimation from the Bench that, in case of additional evidence being procured by the police, he would be again brought up.