Previously the
POT IN
HAND.
Listed 1854 - 1865 as the
CHAMPION at 170
King Street.
Reported to the magistrates September 1852 as one of five houses in the town
which were continually open to an unreasonably late hour.
Tuesday 24th September 1861 - Jane Rogers, an Irishwoman, and evidently an
old hand, was charged with stealing a knife and table cloth on the previous
afternoon. Accompanied by a man, she had entered the house and called for a
pint of porter. Soon afterwards the man departed leaving her alone in the
kitchen. She departed almost immediately and it was discovered that the
knife and table cloth were missing, both of which were found on Rogers by
Sergeant Berry. Sentence three month's hard labour.
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