Here, you’ll trip over the tales of Dover’s sneakiest, cheekiest, and sometimes clumsiest wrongdoers. These stories are a chaotic waltz through the misadventures and blunders that pepper Dover’s otherwise upstanding history.
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 went into the Pimlico Tavern to refresh herself with a pint of beer. Whilst there the defendant quarrelled with another girl and witness…
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 offence on the previous day. It appeared that the prisoner when last before their worships had been let of promising to quit the…
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 the customs with the necessary customs wrapper. Mr Fox for the defendant admitted the charge and the penalty were reduced to one fourth…
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 interrupting the performance of the Christy Minstrels on the previous evening. It appeared that the defendant was a member of the troupe who…
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 person on her behalf was in attendance. Evidence was given to show that although the defendant did not attend on the day when…
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 6.15 p.m. on Saturday he saw the prisoner on New Bridge and using obscene language and wanting to fight five lads who were…
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 stealing a traveller’s bag valued at 30s the property of Messrs. Faire Bros. Leicester. The case had twice remanded for the appearance of…
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. P.C. Hicks said that at 6.35. that morning he was on duty in Beach Street and when he saw prisoner’s lying on the…
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 about 9.35 the previous evening he was in Bridge Street when he saw a pony and cart outside the Town Arms unattended. On…
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 for a breach of promise brought by Eliza Cooper a young lady twenty five years of age the daughter of one of the…