Worthing Gazette - 17th June 1914
Serious Charge Dismissed - A youth of nineteen named, Edward Goldring, of 61 The Drive, was charged with committing an indecent assault upon Grace Heryett, (fourteen) of Northbrook Lodge, Goring.
The girl gave evidence as to the alleged assault, which she said was committed at Tarring. Defendant tried to bribe her with sixpence.
Further evidence was given by Dorothy Heryett, Mrs Heryett and P.C. Lambert, who arrested the defendant yesterday.
Defendant pleaded not guilty, and in evidence denied the statements made for the prosecution. He did not see the children at all.
The bench retired to consider the evidence, and on their return the Chairman announced that the accused would be discharged, there not being sufficient evidence to convict.
West Sussex Gazette - 24 Nov 1923
Prisoner's Escape - Edward Henry Goldring, alias Robert and Trent, aged 30, who was in the custody of the police on several charges was to have gone to Worthing by the 5.42 train on Wednesday evening, escaped from the railway carriage on to the line before the train started up till yesterday (Friday) morning had not been re-captured, despite the hue and cry that ensued.
Worthing Herald - 14th June 1924
Maintenance of Child - Edward Henry Goldring appeared on remand charged with neglecting his child and allowing it to become chargeable to the Guardians. Mr T.A. Boyden, relieving officer, stated that the child had been chargeable continuously since October 23 last. the case was adjourned for three weeks.
West Sussex Gazette - June 18 1924
Child Chargeable to the Guardians - In an adjourned case at Worthing Petty Sessions on Thursday, in which Edward Henry Goldring was charged with allowing a child to remain chargeable to the Common Fund of the East Preston Union, there was a further adjournment of three weeks to give the defendant an opportunity to remove the child or appear before the Guardians.
Mr T.A. Boyden, Relieving officer, said the child had been continuously chargeable since last October, and he suggested that there seemed no genuine intention of removing the child. He admitted that, the child having been ill, Goldring had not had any opportunity until recently of removing it; what he complained of was that although the defendant had visited the child, he had refused to give his address, and this was looked upon as desertion.
Defendant said his wife was in North Wales, and he had nowhere to put the child, but he intended taking him away. "I was over on Sunday, and they told me I could have him on Tuesday"
Worthing Gazette - July 9 1924
A Bench Warrant Issued - Among the cases included in the agenda at the Petty Sessions on Thursday was one in which Edward Henry Goldring, of 52 Market Street, was summoned under the Vagrancy Act of 1824 for neglecting to maintain his child. The informant was Mr Thomas Arthur Boyden, Relieving Officer for the district, and the case had been before the Court on a former occasion. As defendant now failed to answer when his name was called in the early part of the sitting, and was still absent when the adjournment for luncheon took place, some two hours later, the Bench directed that a warrant should be issued for his arrest.
Worthing Gazette - 27 Aug 1924
Serious Charge - AllegedAassault on a Young Lady Visitor
Before a special sitting of the Bench on Monday, Edward Henry Goldring, who had been staying at 3 Marine Place, was charged with violently and criminally assaulting a young woman on the evening of August 20th.
The complainant, a resident of Teddington, had been staying at Worthing, and she said she first met the accused on Tuesday evening when walking with a lady friend on the Parade. They then walked together a little way, but when accused asked if he could see her again, she replied "No". The following evening as she was near New Parade the accused came behind her, threw her down and threatened to murder her if she did not agree to a certain suggestion. She struggled with him, and when she got home she told the people with whom she was staying what had happened. She did not see the accused again till Friday evening, when she pointed him out to some friends.
Medical evidence supported complainants story.
The accused, on oath, asserted that the complainant was a consenting party.
Defendant was committed for trial at the Assizes, and an application for bail was refused. Defendant objected to being handcuffed, and there was a brief but exciting struggle with four constables before he was overpowered, and the handcuffs put on him. He turned at the door to remark "I hope you enjoy it," adding that his turn was coming at the Assizes"
Reynolds's Illustrated News - 21 Dec 1924
Three Years for Assault on Girl - Tell-Tale Scratch
When Edward Henry Goldring, a young labourer, was brought up at the Sussex Assizes, charged with an assault upon a girl clerk, named Edith May Aldridge, of Teddington, he was inlcined to be truculent, but when the jury found him guilty, and Mr Justice Swift sentenced him to three years penal servitude, with the remark "Girls are to be protected from brutes like you," he broke down and cried, and with the words, "I hope God will help me," he was taken from the dock.
Miss Aldridge, a pretty, smartly attired girl, said that she lived at Railway Road, Teddington, and went to Worthing for a holiday on August 9. On the evening of August 19, when she was out for a walk with a girlfriend, the prisoner, whom she had never spoken to before, spoke to her, asking if he could see her home. She said "No," but he walked a little way with her.
On the following evening she was walking along Faggot Walk when the prisoner came behind her, held her arms behind her back, and put his arms round her throat, saying "By ----, I will murder you if you don't let me." He threw her down heavily on the beach, and in the struggle she scratched his face. He then said, "You have scratched my face, and I will make you pay for this if I stay here all night." He then assaulted her, and she ran home and told the woman with whom she was lodging. On the Friday evening she was out with Mr and Mrs Wren when she saw the prisoner and pointed him out.
William John Wren said that when he saw Goldring he asked him if he had assaulted a young lady. He admitted he had and asked what it had to do with him. Witness called prisoner's attention to the scratch on his face, and he put his hand over it. Goldring then ran away, but a policeman obtained his name and address.
Annie Norton, with whom the prisoner had lodged at 3, Marine Place, Worthing, said that when he came home on Wednesday evening she noticed scratches on his cheek, and remarked "Have you been having a scrap with a girl?" He replied that he was going through Courtlands Way and the brambles scratched his face.
Goldring gave a complete denial to the charge. He said that he took the girl for a walk to Goring, near Worthing, and there intimacy took place, the girl consenting.
The police presented a bad record, and described him as a lazy, worthless, unprincipled man, who posed as single, although he was married and deserted his wife.
South of England Advertiser, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent - 20 Oct 1927
A Smart Capture - Smartness of P.C. Akehurst in London led to the arrest of Edward Henry /Godlring, who, being a prisoner released on Licence under the Penal Servitude Acts, had changed his address without notifying the police. At the Police Court on Friday, Mr J.E. Dell, on behalf of the police, said that it was a matter of sheer chance that defendant was in custody. The previous day, a constable was in Victoria Street, London, with another prisoner, when he recognised Goldring walking along the road, got him into a doorway, and handcuffed him to the other prisoner. Mrs Annie Norton, 3, Marine Place, Worthing, said that Goldring came to lodge at her house on April 18, and left suddenly on September 25. P.C. Akehurst said that it was about 5.10 on the previous evening that he saw Goldring walking along Victoria Street, and recognised him as the missing man. Stopping him, he said "You are wanted for failing to report your change of address, and there is also a warrant against you for breaking into a hut in Worthing." Goldring said he knew nothing about it. Witness brought him to Worthing, and charged him with the first offence., in reply to which defendant said "Yes." Defendant told the Bench that he left Worthing because there had been gossip against him that estranged him from the girl with whom he was "walking out," and that one night, when he went home to his lodgings, he found the door locked against him. He went to Brighton, and got a lift on a lorry to London, where he was looking for work. Sup. Bristow said that defendant was released on licence, which would not expire until January next. At the date of the release there were 272 days unexpired. Commending P.C. Akehurst very highly for his smartness in detecting and arresting prisoner, although he had another prisoner in his charge, the Bench made an order forfeiting the prisoner's licence. The charge of breaking into a hut was withdrawn.