I signed up for the British Newspaper Archive1 and got three free articles, so the first one I picked was one that definitely looked like it was related to one of our relatives, rather than just similar names and places... and it was! He's just a bit player though.
In the Portsmouth Evening News Wednesday 18th January 1893 there's a report of a sitting of Fareham Magistrate Court where George Glover and Thomas Lewcock were charged with breaking and entering the Railway Hotel, Cosham. Our Harry (no not that Harry) a cousin twice removed found the empty cash box dumped by the thieves. And they couldn't even spell his name right...
Harry Leonard Clark, the son of the keeper of the King and Queen public-house at Cosham, stated that when at football in his father's field at the back of the Railway Hotel on the morning of the 21st ult. he found the cash box (produced) and the tray there. Both were empty. He took them to the Railway Hotel because he had heard there had been a robbery there, and gave them to Mrs Langford.
I hope I can find some more interesting things if I keep going...
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