Custom House Raid- Smugglers captured, 1747

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1747 Oct 26.jpg

Extract from the Salisbury Journal 26th October 1747. A number of the gang of smugglers who broke into the Custom House at Poole have been captured at Dalton by a party of Dragoons.
(The 'gang of smugglers' are known as the Hawkhurst Gang- KH)

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