Caught in the Act

Before the Mayor (Mr W. Emden) and other Magistrates at the Dover Police Court on Monday George Truman labourer was charged with being drunk and committing a nuisance in Maison Dieu Place…

William Harvey was charged with wilfully destroying his clothes at the Dover Union. Arthur Frazer the porter of the Dover Union said the prisoner was admitted to the casual ward on Thursday…

James David Beatty was charged at the Police Court on Monday with stealing one bushel of onions value 4/7 from a cart in the Market Square. James Morris Laslett a market gardener…

Stephen Wilson an inmate of the Dover Union was charged with neglecting to certain work allotted to him at the Dover Union. Arthur Frazer porter at the Dover Union said the prisoner…

At Dover Police Court on Friday before the Mayor (Mr Walter Emden) in the Chair, Mr J. L. Bradley and Mr F. W. Prescott, John David Beatty labourer, of Adrian Street was…

Yesterday (Thursday) Walter (Hoppy) Martin who had been in trouble on several occasions was charged again at the Dover Police Court with begging in Dieu Stone Lane. P.C. Taylor deposed to seeing…

John Griffiths a young man of vagrant appearance was charged with having in his possession a large plaid shawl without being able to give a satisfactory account of the same.  It appeared…

Johan Arhreus and Gustave Hayan a couple of German sailors and William Henry Tregurtha an English seaman were brought up by Police Constable Faith on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct…

At the Dover Police Court on Thursday before the Mayor (Mr W. Emden ) and Messrs. Hills and H. F. Edwin. Richard Tewkesbury of no fixed abode was charged on remand with…

William Robins, Edward Wellard and Herbert Barton three lads charged with playing pitch and toss in Bowling Green lane on Sunday last were admonished and dismissed on paying the costs. Pitch and…

At Dover Police Court on Friday, Emily Jane Johnson was charged with indecent conduct in Slip Passage on Monday 3rd inst. P.C. Fagg proved the case. Defendant did not appear and the…

A jury presided over by Mr. Skudmore the vetting Under Sheriff for the County of Kent assembled on Wednesday afternoon at the Victoria Hotel Dover to asses the damages in an action…

Robert Head the landlord of the Burlington Inn was charged with an infringement of the Customs Act by selling Cavendish tobacco that had neither been warehoused by the customs nor provided by…

At the Dover Police Court on Friday before the Mayor (in the chair) Mr F. G. Wright Mr J. W. Bussey and Mr E. Chitty. William Edward Dobson, 4 Churchill Street a…

Mary Skinning a young lady in a hat and feathers and a cloud was summoned for assaulting Mary Ann Scott. The complainant said she lived in Oxenden Street. On Friday afternoon she…

At Dover Police Court on Wednesday Richard Beecham was charged with being drunk while in charge of a pony and cart in Bridge Street. P.C. Cadman gave evidence to the effect that…

The case of Mary Ann Whiting the prostitute summoned to show cause why she should not submit to examination under the Contagious Act (diseases) was resumed but neither the defendant nor any…

Man and Woman drunk at 6.30 a.m. Mary Ann Young and George Frederick Hobbs were charged at the Police Court on Tuesday with being drunk and obstructing the footway in Beach Street….

At the Dover Police Court on Monday Edward Jordon labourer of 6 Clarendon Place was charged with being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language on New Bridge. P.C. Booth said at…

Thomas Munn a boy  fifteen years of age and belonging to Buckland was charged with stealing a skylark value 15s the property of James West of 1 Brookfield Cottages Buckland. Sarah West…

Mary Pilcher was charged with stealing a piece of bacon to the value 2s 6d from the shop of Mr Rubie of Biggin Street. Police Sergeant Barton said he was sent for…

John Foy a hoary headed mendicant who had been charged before the Magistrates a week before with begging was brought up by the officer of the Mendacity Society charged with a like…

Messrs P. W. J. Mackenzie (in the chair) and W. Bradley. George Jarrett a hawker of no fixed abode was charged with being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language in Adrian…

Leonard George a young man of good address who bowed politely to the magistrates on being placed in the dock was charged with being drunk and disorderly at the Apollonian Hall and…

Kate Murray an unfortunate was brought up in custody of Police Constable Hooper of the Metropolitan Police for having conducted herself in a disorderly manner and broken several panes of glass at…