From the Dover Telegraph,30 May 1840.

Police Court.

On Saturday last Richard Dixon, of the parish of Charlton, labourer, was fined 40s, including costs, for resisting William Lewis, policeman, in the execution of his duty; and in default of payment committed for fourteen days. It appeared that between one and two o'clock in the morning the landlord of the Royal Exchange requested Lewis to take Dixon into custody, as he had previously been endeavouring to get into the house against his (the landlord's) wish, having taken a shutter down for the purpose. Lewis apprehended Dixon and was in the act of conducting him to the Station-house, when he (Dixon) ran away. Lewis followed him and caught him at he posts and chains on Commercial Quay, against which Dixon ran, and was thereby stopped. Lewes then endeavoured to lay hold of him, when he (Dixon) put out his hand and pushed him into the Pent. Lewis could not say whether Dixon intended to push him into the Pent: he might only intended to get from him.