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Extract from Salisbury Journal 12th October 1747 describing a raid on Poole Custom House.
The 'Company of persons' are the Hawkhurst Gang (KH)
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Extract from the Salisbury Journal 26th October 1747. A number of the gang of smugglers who broke into the Custom House at Poole have been captured at Dalton by a party of Dragoons.
(The 'gang of smugglers' are known as the Hawkhurst Gang- KH)
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Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423Dorset Smugglers by Roger Guttridge, published by Dorset Publishing Co.,Sherborne, 1984. Illus. ISBN 0902129 53 8. Pages 36-42
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Museum Ref No: PLA 942.337History of the Town and County of Poole by John Sydenham, Poole, Sydenham, 1839 Pages 142-144
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Museum Ref No: PEO 364.1523High Street Murders 1598 by Pat Wilnecker, published by the Borough of Poole Museums Service, 1980. Illus ISBN 0 86251 001 5
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Extract from Salisbury Journal on 2nd December 1740 reporting the brutal murder of Joan Mew of Witchampton. Her body was discovered on the heath at Parkstone.
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Extracts from the Salisbury Journal 16th March and 3rd August 1752 describing the murder of widow Buckler, the arrest of Antony Colpis and his wife, their trial and subsequent punishment. Mrs Colpis was acquitted and her husband sentenced to death.
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Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309422Smuggling and Smugglers in Sussex. Includes '...Unparalleled Murders ...' (Anon, 1749), a Sermon and 'Smuggling in Sussex' by William Durrant Cooper. Published by W. J. Smith, Brighton, undated. Illus.
Book
Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423Smuggling Days by K. Merle Chacksfield, published by Dorset Publishing, Milborne Port, 1966. ISBN 0 902129 56 2. Pages 102-107
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Transcript and original text of proceedings at the Old Bailey in April 1749. Describes the events of 7th October 1747 when the Hawkhurst Gang broke into Poole Custom House.
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