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Footpad Robbery and Mutinous Seizure Report
An excerpted colonial-era report details a Maidstone to Ashford post-boy theft near Charing by a footpad, a Darel of Calehill pursuit, and identification of Austen from Weltwell as suspect. A separate Newhaven incident recounts a cutter gang stabbing and a serjeant militia intervention, two wounded, Pope dying, and a coroner’s verdict of willful murder. the soundtrack of arrests and confinement follows.
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Bec
Fedicirne
Dublin
Merchants’ Cavalry
Cand
Tuscany
Maidstone
Ashford
Athford
Charing
Hothfield
Darel
Calehill
Haring
Port-Bay
Knatchbull
Bart
J. Marealli
Adiford
Pott
Gaptyr Iregdol
Marstone
Hothifield
Austen
Weltwell
Newhaven
Lewes
Che
Plate
Hanning
Talen
H. Shelley
Lewis
House of Correction
Shoreditch
The
Marine Society
Pope
Horsham
Fitzes