From the Deal, Walmer, and Sandwich Mercury, 27 July, 1872. 1d.

DRUNK AND INCAPABLE

A woman named Ann Read was brought up charged with being drunk and incapable at Walmer on the previous evening.

Spencer Clark deposed: I am one of the police-constables of the Kent County Constabulary. Last night about eight o'clock I was on duty at Walmer, when my attention was called by the landlord of the "Cinque Ports Volunteer," beer-house, to a woman who was laying in his passage in the open air. I went to the spot and found the prisoner, Ann Read, lying there. I tried to rouse her and put her upon her legs, but she had lost all power of herself. She was drunk, and vomiting, and she was bleeding from the face. I was obliged to hire a conveyance to bring her to the lock-up at Deal. She is a stranger. She had no visible means of subsistence, and gave no good account of herself.

Prisoner admitted that she was drunk.

The Magistrate sentenced her to seven days' hard labour in Sandwich Gaol.

From the Deal, Walmer, and Sandwich Mercury, Saturday, 3 April, 1903.

WALMER STATION FATALITY

Dr. Hardman held and inquest on Friday evening, at the “Cinque Ports Volunteer Inn,” Upper Walmer, upon the body of Henry Hook, who died fro injuries received through being crushed between the buffers of two trucks at Walmer Station, on the previous day. The evidence showed that the deceased was a carrier, and was loading coke at the station. His work was stopped by shunting, and then, after a time, this stopped temporarily. He called out to a shunter, Amos – or rather, a porter employed as a shunter – to know if shunting was over, and the reply was “Yes.” Amos apparently was not in a position to know whether it was or not. Deceased then went on with his work again. More trucks were, however, sent down, and he was caught and crushed by these. The Coroner, in summing up, said that Amos was to blame, but the Jury in finding it “Accidental death,” said that Amos, though at fault, was not culpably negligent.