Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
24th June 1837
Caution to Carters
On Tuesday last Messrs. Jupp, of Brentford, sent their carter with a horse and cart to Reid's wharf, Bermondsey, for five quarters of tares. The man obtained the tares, and was proceeding homewards, but had not got far when he was accosted by a respectable looking person, who told he had got the wrong load, and wished him to go back to the wharf. The carter expressed his unwillingness to drive his horse and cart back again, upon which the stranger said he would take care of them, and then the carter went back to the wharf, where, however, it was suspected at once that the carter had been tricked; so indeed it turned out, for on returning to where the horse and cart had been left, he missed them and the stranger. An enquiry was set on foot, and eventually the horse and cart were found standing not far from the Elephant and Castle, Lambeth, without any person in charge of them, but the load of tares was gone.
Maidenhead, June 22.
A sad accident befell the poor man who stands at the gate near the Golden Ball, on Pinkney's Green, on Monday last. Messrs.Ward, solicitors of Maidenhead, were going towards Marlow in a pony chaise, their pony became ungovernable, ran away with them, and crushed the leg of the poor fellow so dreadfully between the chaise and the gate post, that his life is despaired of. Messrs.Ward repeatedly called to him to warn him of his danger, but the man being deaf was inattentive to their admonitions. The pony afterwards ran into a pool of water, where he was fortunately stopped without any further mischief, save a ducking and a few slight bruises on Messrs. Ward.