article_snippet: After the incident, James Stedman sought refuge in a pub across the road from Mr C. Dickens' home, where James Stedman played skittle - but was soon caught by the police.
article_snippet: James Stedman pleaded drunkenness as James Stedman excuse, but a month later it emerged that James Stedman had done the same thing on a different road in a bid to overturn someone else's carriage, and James Stedman was sentenced to two months' hard labour.
article_snippet: Stedman died at Gad's Hill in 1870, at the age of 58.
article_snippet: Stedman was a fairly hopeless type of criminal, nowhere as impressive as the list of malefactors in Mr C. Dickens''s novels, but worthy of a minor role.'