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MARINES IN TROUBLE.
—Frederick Todd, George Ratcliffe, and Edward John Barnes, privates in the Marines, were charged with stealing a quantity of cigars, value 3s., the property of Charles Henry Newton, landlord of the Coach and Horses, Hilsea.
—Henry Richards, a boy, saw Todd steal a box containing the cigars; they then divided them and threw the box into the garden.
—Prisoners all pleaded guilty, and said that it was the result of a drunken freak.
—Todd and Ratcliffe were sentenced to fourteen days’, and Barnes to seven days’ hard labour in Winchester gaol.
— Portsmouth Evening News, Tuesday 03 May, 1881 source