Suspicious Possession

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 that the prisoner came to the police station and asked for an order for the Union. Police Constable Harman who was at the station house observing that he presented rather a bulky appearance asked what he had concealed upon him and he then produced the shawl that he said had found on the turnpike road between Deal and Dover.  Harman was not satisfied with the reply and therefore detained the prisoner on the charge of being in suspicious possession of the article, and he now asked for a remand of the prisoner in order that further enquiries might be might be made.

The Magistrates remanded the prisoner till Monday.

(The prisoner was taken before the Wingham Magistrates and was committed at St. Augustine’s.)

1870.