... hear.) It might be said was Mr. Ellen, a boot and shoe maker of Canter- the churchwardens ordered the bell to be rung a clad, Captain David Spain; the Valiant, 18, ironglaries committed between Dartford and Maidstone, to obtain a reprieve for him on the ground ...

... was sent to Mrs. Tappenden, mother of the murdered woman, by the Rev. F. C. S. Fraser, Chaplain to the prison:— “Kent County Prison, Maidstone, August 6, 1872. Mrs. Tappenden,—l am requested Thomas Moore to write to you to say he fully acknowledges his guilt ...