From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 2 September, 1881. 1d.

WEST CLIFF BREWERY SALE

The “Crusader,” formerly licensed as the “Providence Hotel,” in Council House Street, Dover. Containing bar, bar parlour, two sitting rooms, smoking room, kitchen, four bedrooms, four attics and cellar, with yard; and in the rear is three-roomed house with cellar, formerly used as a tap, held under lease from the Dover Harbour Board for a term of 61 years, from the 6th April, 1834, at a ground rent of £3 10s., was purchased at £610 by Messrs. Kingsford Bros.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 4 January, 1884. 1d.

INQUEST

An inquest was held on Monday afternoon at the “Crusader Inn,” Council House Street, before the Borough Coroner, on the body of a child named Cooper.

The following gentlemen were on the Jury:- Mr. C. Adams (foreman) C. Pettit, J. C. License, F. Gush, Cuff, J. Carpenter, J. Haseldine, D. Dowle, D. Bishop, J. Emery, W. Oldfield, and J. Mynall.

Mary Cooper, the wife of William Cooper, a labourer living at Council House Street, said : The body that the Jury have viewed is that of my daughter Alice Cooper, three years of age. On Wednesday afternoon at about two o'clock the deceased was playing in the upper room and sat in mistake in a basin of hot water that I had placed in the corner, having just strained some vegetables. I ran at once and lifted her out of the water, and my husband fetched some flour from the cupboard. I did not send for the doctor. She seemed to be getting along all right till Friday morning at five o'clock, when she looked much worse, and I sent for a doctor but at eight o'clock she died. There were no convulsions. She had foam at her mouth just before dying, and her sister asked her to spit it out, but she could not.

By the Jury: The child was quiet and did not seem to suffer. I thought the remedies I could apply would be sufficient, so I did not send for a doctor. She was badly scalded and blistered. My husband was in the room with me.

Mr. Edwin Duke, surgeon, said: On Friday morning at about eight o'clock I was asked to go and see a child that had been scalded, but I could not do so then, and I advised them to get another medical man. I told them what to do and told them that I would call later on if I could. Shortly after someone came and said the child was dead. At about one o'clock I went down to the house and examined the child, and found it was dead. There were extensive burns over the legs, thighs, and back, and it all had the appearances of being scalded, and with the shock to the system would be sufficient to cause death. I am surprised that the child lived as long as it did, and I do not think anything could have saved it.

The Recorder in his remarks to the Jury, expressed his regret that a doctor was not sent for immediately after the accident.

The Jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”