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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.
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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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Extract from Salisbury Journal 7 June 1756. Account of theft of sail cloth from a sloop, John Tilsed the Master. Traced to the Master (William Lee) and two other men on the William of Scarborough. Stolen sheep were also found. The three were committed to the Gaol.
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Extract from the Salisbury Journal for 2nd Febuary 1756. Mary Lansdown jailed for stealing from Arthur Green at the Crown Inn.
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Extract from Salisbury Journal 26th July 1756. Quarter Sessions finds Captain and crewman of vessel guilty of theft and sentenced to be whipped. They break out and escape.
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Museum Ref No: MAR 942.337Mansions and Merchants of Poole and Dorset by Derek Beamish, John Hillier and HFV Johnstone, published by Poole Historical Trust in 1976. Illus ISBN 07137 0836 0 Pages 31-48
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Museum Ref No: PEO B/ TICTichborne Tragedy by Maurice Edward Kenealy, being the secret and authentic history of the extraordinary facts and circumstances connected with the claims, personality,identification, conviction and last days of the Tichborne Claimant, published by Francis Griffiths, 1913. Illus.
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Famous Trials of the Century by J. B. Atlay, M. A.,published by Grant Richards, 1899. Section referring to the Tichborne Trial.
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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