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History Smugglers

Hampshire Telegraph – 25 November 1868

REF NR: 1158

1. COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS. Saturday, Before Sir Henry Percy Gordon, Bart., (Chairman), and C.G.Macgregor Skinner, Esq.

John Wheeler, a fisherman, of Shanklin, was charged with smuggling three gallons of French brandy

1 Source: www.customscowes.shalfleet.net/customs_news_1820%20onwards.htm

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