1803, a chap surnamed KINGMAN, burglar, and mention of Horsham Gaol
The Hampshire Chronicle, etc (Hampshire, England), Monday, February 07, 1803; pg. 4;
Info about an Edward KINGMAN, with others, and he ends up at Horsham Gaol.
On Monday, two of the robbers who burglariously entered the house and shop of Mr Lashmar, of Chiddingly, named Coggins and Mitchell, were taken at Ticehurst, and the same day brought to Lewes, where they underwent and examination before H T Shadwell Esq who committed them for further examination. When taken, a horse pistol, laden with slugs, and most of the stolen property were found upon them. Edward Kingman, an accomplice, was on Wednesday taken at Maidstone, in Kent, and the next day also brought to Lewes, and committed to the House of Correction. E. Kingman is by trade a blacksmith, and a native of Chiddingly, where he had the audacity to remain after the robbery, on Sunday se’nnight till noon, and was actually relieved by one of the Overseers, without the least suspicion of his guilt. Coggins and Mitchell have confessed themselves the persons who, some months since robbed T. Fuller, the Boreham carrier, on the Dicker, on suspicion of which Jones was taken up, and fully committed to Horsham Gaol for trial… They mentioned several circumstances which render the truth of their confession extremely probable…
JM