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42 The Bayle
Folkestone
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Supplied by Alfred Leney Co Ltd, who bought out Thomas Walker's Phoenix
Brewery in 1859 and registered as such in 1896, until bought out by Fremlin
Brothers brewery of Maidstone in 1926, brewing at the Dover brewery ceased
in 1927, which later passed to Whitbread.
Now changed name to the "Guildhall."
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Southeastern Gazette 1 January 1856.
Inquest.
Considerable excitement was occasioned last week by the rather sudden
death of Mr. Darley, attributed to an injury received by a blow from a
stick given by Mr. John Craxford, a retired timber merchant. In
consequence of the various reports, the coroner ordered an enquiry to be
made, which took place at the Guildhall on Thursday last, before S.
Eastes, Esq., Coroner, on the body of William Henry Darley, a master
mariner, aged 46 years.
Two witnesses who were said to be present when the injury was received
not being in attendance, the medical witnesses were examined.
Mr. William Taylor Tyson, surgeon, deposed: Last Monday week deceased
came to me and showed me his arm. Without inquiring into his case, I
told him to go home to bed. He said he had the rheumatic gout. I called
upon him, and he then told me, after I had examined his arm, that he had
knocked his left arm on board his own ship. I found his arm much
swollen, and observed above the elbow joint, a dark mark, about two
inches long, rather of a triangular form ; the whole limb was swollen
down to the fingers. From Monday night to Wednesday he was constantly
out of doors. He appeared much excited, told me that unless he received
some pecuniary assistance he should be ruined. His arm appeared to give
him no care, but his mind was much troubled. On Wednesday evening hee
was so exhausted and depressed, that I had little hopes of his surviving
the night. On Thursday he rallied and was better. I attributed it to his
affairs having been settled and his mind better; he then began to think
about his arm. On Sunday I found that he was sinking and his stomach
rejected food. He died about 7 o'clock that evening; he was quite
sensible up to the time of his death.
In answer to a question from the Coroner, the witness said: I think the
want of care and exposure to the cold (it being very severe at that
time, blowing a S/E wind) and great anxiety of mind almost caused his
death. It was not such an injury as would have produced death in a
healthy man. On Wednesday, finding I had no control over him, I asked
Mr. Wm! Bateman to go and see him.
By a juror: The deceased told me that he hurt himself on board the
vessel, and he never contradicted that statement; the skin was not
broken. When he came to me his arm appeared swollen; his countenance
showed that he was full of anxiety. He did not lay up till Wednesday
evening, and kept his bed until he died. I found his habits of drinking
were great, and I ordered him stimulants. It is impossible for me to
judge of the violence of the blow.
Mr. William Bateman, surgeon, deposed: I called in on the 19th, by
request of Mr. Tyson, to see the deceased. I found him suffering from a
severe attack of erysipelas of the left arm, from the elbow to the
fingers; it was swollen twice its natural size and covered with large
vesicles. I noticed the mark of a bruise above the elbow, which he said
he got from falling against something on board his ship. I paid very
little attention to the bruise, as I looked to the bad state of his
constitution and the great depression of his vital powers. The blow
appeared to be slight; the only chance of saving the deceased was by
rest and stimulants; his constitution was in that state that the
slightest injury might have caused his death. I saw him again on Friday.
By a Juror: If he had applied for assistance earlier, and kept quiet,
there would have been a chance for his life being spared. I should have
expected erysipelas to be produced more easily by a wound than a blow.
Cold would produce it.
At this stage of the inquiry the inquest was adjourned to Saturday, at 2
o’clock.
At the adjourned inquest, John Titus, builder, deposed: I live at
Folkestone, and was present at Mr. Maycock s house, the Globe, on the
Bayle, last Thursday fortnight. I was reading a newspaper intently, and
did not observe what took place; there was a stir there, and from what I
gleaned afterwards, I found that a blow had been struck by Mr. John
Craxford. The deceased and Mr. Craxford were on very intimate terms. The
only persons in the parlour were, I think, Mr. Craxford, the deceased,
and Mr. Shawcross. I heard no high words between them; if there had been
I should have heard them. Deceased and Mr. Craxford were continually
joking. Deceased mentioned to me that he felt the pain of his arm to his
fingers, and that the “ old chap” had hit him quite as hard as was
pleasant.
By the Coroner—He appeared to look upon it as done entirely in a joke.
William Shawcross, of Gravesend, assistant inspector of wavs and works
on the South Eastern Railway, deposed: I was at Mr. Maycock’s, last
Thursday fortnight. Deceased was there and Mr. Craxford; the latter was
the worse for liquor, and spoke to the deceased, who did not appear to
wish to speak to him. Mr. Craxford, to direct the deceased’s attention
to him, struck him on the arm, who complained that he struck him hard,
and said he liked a joke, but not such a one as that; that occurred
between lO and 11 o’clock in the evening. Mr. Craxford was standing
behind the deceased, when he gave him, as I imagine, a left handed
stroke with the stick he had in his hand.
By a Juror—Heard the blow struck; the deceased was sitting in front of
the fire resting his hand on his knees. Deceased complained of pain, and
Mr. Craxford said “Don’t be vexed,” and received an answer, that he
should if he hit him again like that. The greatest friendship •usually
appeared to exist Between them. Mr. Craxford left the room shortly
afterwards. The stick was a common walking stick.
By the Coroner: I lodged in Mr. Maycock’s house. Mr. Craxford was that
evening poking persons about with his stick; I have seen him do it on
several occasions. Deceased showed me his arm on the Monday following;
it was very much inflamed. The witness afterward stated that he was not
sure whether it was Thursday or Friday night the affair occurred alluded
to above, or whether it was a fortnight or three weeks since.
The witness, in answer to a question put by a juror, said he was sober
that evening ; recollected the deceased saying to him, “You saw this
done,” and replying, “Yes, I did.”
This being the whole of the evidence, the coroner summed up, and
explained the law of the case, the want of care taken by the deceased
after the accident occurred, and the habits of the deceased. The jury
retired, and 14 out of 15 agreed to the following verdict, “That the
deceased died from natural causes.”
The Coroner had told the jury that a verdict of “Accidental death” would
be preferable to “Natural causes”, but the jury dissented from that, and
returned as above. The Coroner said that he wished to inform the jury
that he had not caused an enquiry to be made on account of any
application made from the deceased’s friends, but from the reports that
had been circulated and from being informed that the deceased had died
from some injury received.
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Folkestone Chronicle 5 January 1856.
We report the adjourned inquest on William Henry Darley, which was
resumed on Saturday last, and in doing so we could have wished to
avoid making any comment upon it, a week having elapsed since its
taking place, during which time what little interest was excited by
the affair may be said to have subsided; but as we undertake to give
an expression to the public mind, and at the same time to adhere
strictly to facts, we feel called upon in the first place to
contradict a statement put forth by a contemporary, viz., “that
considerable excitement had been occasioned by the rather sudden
death of Mr. Darley, attributed to an injury received by a blow from
a stick given by Mr. Craxford, a retired timber merchant.” This
excitement, alluded to in a rather sinister tone, we are bound to
say was very inconsiderable, being confined chiefly to a few persons
who were in the habit of associating with the parties in question.
It would seem that the deceased died from erysipelas in the arm,
aggravated by voluntary exposure to cold, want of care, a shattered
constitution, and great mental anxiety. That the arm had sustained a
bruise at some time there appears to be no doubt, but it is very
doubtful whether this bruise produced the erysipelas, which the
medical evidence, given in our first report, goes to prove; showing
that when the deceased was questioned as to the mark on his arm, he
distinctly stated it was from the effects of a fall on board his
ship. Other evidence, of a contradictory character, went to show
that an unpremeditated blow was given by Mr. Craxford to the
deceased with his walking stick in the public room of Mr. Maycock.
The jury, with the exception of one, feeling that this evidence was
not sufficient to implicate Mr. Craxford, returned a verdict that
the deceased had “died from natural causes.”
If our contemporary had said that the public exhibited considerable
displeasure at the inquest being held at all, and the town put to
unnecessary expense he would have been nearer the truth; but we are
not prepared to say that the Coroner could have acted otherwise, if
he considered the reports that came to his knowledge of such a
nature as to warrant him in holding the inquest.
We must correct another error of our contemporary, who states that
“the Coroner had told the jury that a verdict od ‘accidental death’
would be preferable than ‘natural causes’;” the fact being, that
after the verdict was recorded, the Coroner stated that one of
“accidental death” would not have been at variance with the law. The
jury, however thought proper to adhere to their decision, which has
given very general satisfaction.
Adjourned Inquest, Saturday, December 29th, 1855:
John Titus, builder, deposed:- That he never knew the deceased had
received a blow. Had never heard a word spoken likely to occasion a
blow, but they frequently indulged in badinage. The witness (in
answer to inquiries as to his knowledge of the affair) stated that
it occurred on Thursday fortnight (the 13th) about half past eight
o’clock in the evening, at the house of Mr. Maycock, on the Bail.
The party were assembled in the parlour to spend the evening, when a
conversation took place between Mr. Craxford and the deceased which
led witness to infer that a blow had been struck, but he had been
reading the newspaper intently, and had heard nothing previously to
lead him to suppose that any quarrelling had taken place between
them. They always appeared to be on the most friendly and intimate
terms.
By a juror: The deceased had stated to me that he had received an
injury on board his vessel. I came away with the deceased that
evening, and he observed to me, rubbing his arm, that “the old
gentleman hit me quite hard enough”, but he did not appear to be
angry about it. The deceased never had any conversation with me
about it since the alleged blow was struck, although I called
frequently upon him.
William Shawcross, of Gravesend, assistant inspector of ways and
works of the South Eastern Railway Company, deposed:- I was present
at the house of Mr. Maycock, on the Bail, on Thursday fortnight
last. There was a mixed company present. Mr. Craxford was in liquor,
and was endeavouring to force a conversation upon the deceased. The
deceased appeared to wish to take no part in it, when Mr. Craxford
struck him with a stick. He (Mr. Craxford), upon the deceased
complaining, said it was done as a joke. It occurred about 11
o’clock. I did not see the blow struck. Mr. Craxford had just got
up, in the act of leaving, and stood behind the deceased. The
company were persuading him to go home. I do not know what they were
talking about. The blow was not struck in an angry manner; it was
seemingly to draw his attention to what he was saying. I did not see
where he was hit. The deceased complained of its being just above
the elbow. Mr. Craxford then remarked “Did I hurt you? Don’t be
angry”, when the deceased said “If you hit me again I shall be
angry.” I had met the parties before and always found them on the
best of terms. Mr. Craxford left the room about May minutes after
the alleged blow was struck. I thought nothing serious had occurred.
I saw Darley on the Monday afterwards, and his arm was very bad. He
remarked to me “You saw that blow struck”, to which I answered “I
did.” Had often met the deceased and Mr. Craxford together, and have
never heard them quarrel at all. Have observed Mr. Craxford poke his
stick at persons in the room. I have seen the same on other
occasions. I did not see a blow struck, but heard it. It was not a
severe blow, but should not like it myself. (At this stage of the
proceedings the witness expressed a doubt as to the day on which it
occurred, and amended his evidence, that on either Thursday or
Friday evening, the 6th or 7th of December, the occurrence took
place.) I saw the deceased every day afterwards. It was on the
Monday after I saw deceased, who complained of his arm, and on the
Monday following deceased shewed it to me. It was then very bad – it
looked red and swollen.
Verdict:- Died from natural causes.
The Coroner stated that it was reported he held the inquest at the
solicitation of the deceased’s family, but he begged to contradict
such statement, as he had holden the inquest entirely on his own
responsibility.
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Southeastern Gazette 8 January 1856.
Local News.
The late Inquest on Mr. Darley. Our attention has been called to a
paragraph in one of the cheap journals patronized by Mr. John Bright,
which is trying the customary arts to acquire notoriety in Folkestone,
impuguing the accuracy of our correspondent’s account of the inquest on
the late Mr. Darley. As, however, the weakly print alluded to merely
comments on the facts which it has obviously drawn from the South
Eastern Gazette and garbled, we may safely dispense with all comment on
the sample of “rigmarole” meant to inveigle us or our correspondent into
a controversy.
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Southeastern Gazette 18 November 1856.
Globe.
Advertisement: To be disposed of with immediate possession, The
Clarendon Hotel, Folkestone, situate contiguous to the Custom House
and Harbour, and also the terminus of the South Eastern Railway.
Part of the incoming might remain on approved security.
For particulars apply to Mr. W. Jacobs, Auctioneer and Estate Agent,
Dover.
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Dover Chronicle 12 September 1857.
Petty Sessions: Before R.W. Boarer Esq., Mayor, G. Kennicott, J.
Kelcey and W. Major Esqs.
The Globe Tavern: This estate was put for sale at Garraway's on
Monday last by Mr. D. Cronin. It is situated on the Bayle, and is
leasehold for a term of 90 years, commencing in Midsummer last, and
at a ground rent of £8 8s. per annum. It sold for £880.
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Folkestone Chronicle 3 October 1857.
Wednesday September 30th:- Before the Mayor, and T. Golder, W. Major, J.
Tolputt, G. Kennicott, and J. Kelcey esqs.
This being the adjourned general annual licensing meeting, the licence
for the Globe Tavern was transferred from Thomas Maycock to Susannah
Clark.
Note: This transfer does not appear in More Bastions.
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Dover Telegraph 28 November 1857.
Death: Nov. 16, at Peckham, Mr. Thomas Maycock, wine and spirit
merchant, Bayle, Folkestone, aged 49 years.
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Folkestone Chronicle 28 November 1857.
Death: Nov. 16, at Peckham, Mr. Thomas Maycock, wine and spirit
merchant, Bayle, Folkestone, aged 49 years.
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Kentish Gazette 1 December 1857
Death: Nov. 16, at Peckham, Mr. Thomas Maycock, wine and spirit
merchant, Bayle, Folkestone, aged 49 years.
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South Eastern Gazette 11 May 1858, Dover Chronicle 15 May 1858
Advertisement: Folkestone, in Kent. Notice of sale by auction of a
well-built house and premises, called the Globe Inn, situate on the
Bail, in Folkestone. Mr. J. Banks has received instructions from the
mortgagee, under power of sale, with the concurrence of the
administratrix of the late Thomas Maycock, deceased, to submit to
auction, on the premises, on Wednesday, 2nd day of June, 1858, at
two for three o'clock in the afternoon, all that substantial and
well-built house and premises known as the Globe Inn, situate on the
Bail, in Folkestone, with possession on the completion of the
purchase, including the goodwill of the business. The property was
recently built in very substantial manner by Mr. Thomas Maycock, and
was in his occupation up to the time of his decease.
The house contains in the basement large wine, spirit and beer
cellars, fitted with stone racks; ground floor clubroom, large bar,
bar and private parlours, kitchen, scullery, pantry, and walled-in
yard; first floor, a large sitting room, 6 bedrooms and water
closet.
The above is held under a direct lease from the Earl of Radnor and
Viscount Folkestone for a term of 99 years, of which 89 years are
unexpired, at an annual ground rent of £8. There is also a piece of
ground held under the Crown, at a rent of £1 1s. per annum.
N.B. The purchaser will be required to take the trade and other
fixtures at a valuation, and the whole of the furniture, stock in
trade and licences can be taken by valuation, at the option of the
purchaser.
Part of the purchase money may remain on mortgage.
The property may be viewed on application on the premises and
particulars and conditions of sale may be had on application to the
Auctioneer, Tontine Street, Folkestone, ten days prior to the sale;
or to Messrs. Cox and Son, Solicitors, Sise Lane, Bucklersbury,
London; or Mr. Richard Hart, Solicitor, Folkestone.
Tontine Street, May 8th, 1858.
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South Eastern Gazette 29 June 1858
Folkestone: Messrs. Godden and Venables will sell by auction, on
Wednesday, the 30th June, 1858, and on the following day, the
household furniture and effects of the late Mr. Thos. Maycock, on
the premises, Globe Tavern, Bayle, Folkestone. The furniture
consists of the usual description. Also will be sold a quantity of
bottled ales and stout, cyder, &c.; a large quantity of bottles of
all kinds, stone 2 gallon, one gallon and half gallon, in wicker,
&c., a spring cart, harness, bottling machines, baskets, casks, &c.
Sale each day at one o'clock.
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Folkestone Chronicle 4 February 1860.
Wednesday February 1st:- Before W.F. Browell and R.W. Boarer Esqs.
James Killenburgh, fly-driver, was summoned for using obscene language
in the presence of some young ladies belonging to a boarding school in
the town, towards Richard Hambrook, of the Globe Inn. The case was fully
proved, and defendant fined 10s., and costs, 16s., or fourteen days'
imprisonment. The fine and costs were paid.
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Folkestone Chronicle 10 March 1860.
Death.
March 6th, at Folkestone, Hester, wife of Mr. Richard Hambrook, of the
Globe Inn, aged 53 years.
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Dover Chronicle 10 March 1860.
Death: March 7, Mrs. Esther Hambrook, wife of Mr. Hambrook, of the
Globe Inn, Folkestone.
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Southeastern Gazette 12 March 1860.
Death: On the 6th inst., at Folkestone, after a long illness,
Hester, the wife of Mr. Richard Hambrook, of the Globe Inn, Bayle,
aged 53.
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South Eastern Gazette, 12 March, 1860.
DEATH.
On the 6th inst, at Folkestone, after a long illness, Hester the
wife of Mr. Richard Hambrook, of the "Globe Inn," Bayle, aged 53.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 17 March, 1860.
DEATHS.
Folkestone. March 6, Hester, wife of Mr. Richard Hambrook, of the "Globe
Inn," Bayle, aged 53.
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Kentish Chronicle 17 March 1860.
Death: March 6, Hesther, the wife of Mr. R. Hambrook, of the Globe
Inn, Bayle, aged 53.
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Dover Telegraph 17 March 1860.
Death: March 6, at Folkestone, after a long illness, Hester, the
wife of Mr. Richard Hambrook, of the Globe Inn, Bayle, aged 53
years.
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Dover Express 17 March 1860.
Death: March 6, Hester, the wife of Mr. Richard Hambrook, of the
Globe Inn, Bayle, aged 53 years.
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Canterbury Weekly Journal 17 March 1860.
Death: March 6, Hester, the wife of Mr. R. Hambrook, of the Globe
Inn, Bayle, aged 53.
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Folkestone Observer 27 April 1867.
Inquest.
Mr. James Morford Pilcher, the omnibus driver, whose accident while
driving to the Upper Station we reported a fortnight since, died on
Sunday, and on Wednesday last an inquest on the body was held at the
Globe Inn by Mr. Coroner Minter. William Pilcher, shoemaker, identified the body as that of his brother,
James Morford Pilcher, who died on Sunday evening. He was 39 years of
age, and an omnibus driver in Mr. Valyer's employ. John William Mullett, in the employ of Messrs. Lukey and Son, said that
on the evening of the 10th instant, about half past eight o'clock, he
got onto the box of Valyer's town omnibus, of which deceased was driver,
opposite the King's Arms, and deceased drove towards the Upper Station.
Going down Mill Lane he heard something snap, which he believed was a
bolt in the springs. Deceased was driving very slowly, but when the bolt
broke the front part of the bus was slewed around against the near
horse, which then set to kicking, and both horses set into a gallop.
Deceased endeavoured to pull the horses up, and in doing so himself
jumped up. Witness sat on the box next to the driver, and two persons
sat on his left, Filmer Tyas, and Mr. Underdown, foreman of the
Corporation men. A basket was on the footboard, and when deceased jumped
up the near horse pulled off and dragged deceased over the bus, and
witness felt the bus go over him. Tyas and Underdown attempted to get
off. If they had not got off, they might have saved deceased, for they
might have stopped him as he passed them. Witness was perhaps as much
frightened as they were, but he sat still. Witness stopped the horses,
but could hardly tell how he got hold of them, he was so frightened. He
believed that when the spring got down on the axle, that steadied the
horses. Believed that deceased was sober. He was not driving fast. Filmer Tyas, fly driver, got on the bus at four o'clock in the
afternoon, and rode with deceased. About half past seven o'clock at the
request of deceased he took out the horses from the omnibus, and at
twenty five minutes to nine he put the horses in the bus again. Put the
buckles in the same holes in the leather straps as they had been before.
Had been brought up to horses ever since he was a little boy, and could
harness horses with anybody. Was sitting on the extreme box seat as they
went down Mill Lane. About half way down the hill he found the horses
going faster than he thought proper, and he called to Pilcher to pull
up. He pulled up as well as he could till he got to the bottom of the
hill. Saw Pilcher got up, but whether he dropped the reins and was
trying to get them again he could not say, but he fell right beyond
witness. When they got to the New Inn he jumped off, but he first tried
to get hold of the reins. Did not hear the last witness persuade him to
sit still. Did not notice the front part of the omnibus go on to the
back part of the horses. Noticed the dashboard touching one of the
horses, and then the other. The near horse did a kick once or twice. He
is not a kicker. Looked at her directly he got off, and found she had a
piece out of the top of her hoof. Could not say that he heard the bolts
break. Looked at the omnibus after the accident, and found that the two
bolts were broken that ran up to hold the spring on the axle. They ran
through a block of wood. William Bateman, surgeon, said on arriving at the house of deceased he
found him sitting up in his bedroom, and complaining of a great pain in
his chest. Found that the sterna end of the clavicle had started from
the sternum or breastbone, and all the ribs on the right side connected
with the sternum were broken. Bandaged up the ribs and clavicle. The
next morning found that he was coughing a good deal, breathed with
difficulty, spat blood, and suffered great pain in the trachea or
windpipe, which no doubt was injured. That was relieved with leeches,
and he seemed to be going on well for a day or two. Was in hopes he
would have recovered, then inflammation of the lungs set in, and from
inflammation of the lungs, caused by the injury he had received – the
direct injury to the lungs – no doubt he died, on Sunday last. The Coroner said to the jury he had no doubt the death of Pilcher was
caused by his having been run over by an omnibus, and according to the
evidence of Mullett, that was an accident caused by the breaking of the
bolt, which brought the omnibus on to the horses. Supposing the bolts
had been defective, then he thought the unfortunate deceased would be
the person responsible, for the omnibus was under his charge. It would
appear to be that the bolts suddenly broke, and the roads were in a
disgraceful state. He had not the slightest doubt that if it could be
conclusively proved it would be shown that the bolts were broken from
the disgraceful state the roads were in. There were a number of
omnibuses and vehicles going to the station, and he was only surprised
that there were not more accidents. The jury then consulted, and returned a verdict of Accidental Death, and
expressed a desire that the condition of the roads be represented to the
Corporation. They also gave their fees to the widow and family of the
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Southeastern Gazette 30 April 1867.
Inquest.
An inquest was held at the Globe Inn on Wednesday afternoon, before J.
Minter, Esq., borough coroner, on the body of James Morford Pilcher,
omnibus driver, who it will be remembered met with an accident on the
10th inst., while driving to meet the 9 o’clock train. John William
Mullett, working for Mr. Lukey, deposed that he was on the box of the
omnibus at the time of the accident. As they were going down the hill he
heard a snap, which he afterwards discovered to have been caused by the
breaking of the bolts which secured the spring to the axletree, and
directly the front of the omnibus swung round and touched the near
horse, which commenced kicking. Both horses started off, and shying to
the near side pulled the deceased off the box over a basket that was up
there, and the wheels went over him. Deceased was sober.
Filmer Tyas a fly driver, corroborated.
Mr. W. Bateman, surgeon, who attended deceased, stated that several of
the man’s ribs were broken, and he died between six and seven o’clock on
Sunday evening from inflammation of the lungs brought on by the
accident.
The jury consulted, and returned a verdict of “Accidental death,” and
expressed a desire that the condition of the roads be represented to the
Corporation. They also gave their fees to the widow and family of the
deceased.
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Folkestone Express 16 June 1883.
Auction Advertisement.
Folkestone, Kent.
Auction sale of the Globe Hotel.
John Banks is instructed by the proprietors to sell by Auction, at the
Rose Hotel, Folkestone, on Thursday, July 5th, 1883, all that well and
substantially built Brick and Tile Detached Leasehold and Fully Licensed
House, known as the Globe Hotel.
With large brick paved Yard, Urinal, and Coal Shed in the rear.
Containing on the First Floor – Drawing Room, Six well-proportioned
Bedrooms, Landing and W.C.
On the Ground Floor – Public and Private Bars, Bar Parlour, Smoking and
Coffee Rooms, Kitchen, Scullery and Pantry.
Basement – Very commodious and dry Wine, Spirit and Stock Ale Cellars,
fitted with Stone Bins.
The hotel is one of the best-built hotels in the town, of modern
elevation, and detached, and there are every available means for
carrying on a large and profitable trade, and for the reception of
visitors. The late Mr. Richard Hambrook and the present proprietors have
been in occupation for the last 25 years, and are well known for their
able management. The house is in excellent order and condition, and
ready for immediate occupation.
All the Stoves and Ranges will be included in the Sale.
The property is held under a lease from the Earl of Radnor and Viscount
Folkestone for a term of 99 years from the 24th day of June, 1848, at
the low annual Ground Rent of £8 8s. 0d. The Furniture, Fixtures,
Licenses and Utensils of trade will have to be taken by the purchaser at
a valuation in the usual way, an inventory of which will be produced at
the time of Sale. The Stock In Trade is also to be taken at the like
valuation, but the value is not to exceed £100.
Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had at the Office of the
Auctioneer, 73, Sandgate Road, and of W.G.S. Harrison, Solicitor,
Cheriton Place, Folkestone.
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Folkestone Express 8 May 1886.
Auction Advertisement.
The Globe Hotel, Folkestone.
An attractive and substantial property on The Bayle, a populous and
commanding position.
Messrs. Alfred Thomas, Peyer and Miles will sell by Auction at The Mart,
London, on Monday the 24th May, 1886, at Two o'clock, the above Compact
Hotel, on a small scale.
It is in Capital order and well-arranged with all conveniences for the
conduct of the excellent trade now carried on.
Particulars may be had of the Auctioneers, 2, Adelaide Place, London
Bridge, London E.C., and of Messrs. Hallett, Creery & Co., Solicitors,
Ashford, Kent.
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Folkestone Chronicle 29 May 1886.
Local Intelligence.
On Monday last Messrs. Thomas, Payer and Miles offered for sale, at the
Auction Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, London, by order of the executors of the
late Mr. Arthur Langton, the Imperial Brewery, at Folkestone, together
with 16 public and beerhouses connected with it. The total sales were
said to have averaged for the last four years nearly £7,500 per annum.
The houses are said to be all within easy range of the brewery, eight
being in Folkestone, one at Sandgate, six at Hythe, and one at
Swingfield, producing altogether a rental of £576 per annum.
The same auctioneers also offered for sale the Globe Hotel, The Bayle,
Folkestone. The first offer was £1,500 and the property was sold for
£1,910.
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Folkestone Express 29 May 1886.
Local News.
The Globe Hotel, Folkestone, belonging to Mr. C.W. Downing was bought by
Messrs. Chapman, Brewers.
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Folkestone Express 18 September 1886.
Wednesday, September 15th: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Sherwood and
Caister, J. Fitness and J. Holden Esqs.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was transferred to Mr. Joseph Harris
provisionally.
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Folkestone Express 19 February 1887.
County Court.
Tuesday, February 15th: Before Judge Selfe.
G.M. Smith v Joseph Harris: Claim of £7 14s. for goods sold and
delivered. Defendant is landlord of the Globe Hotel. Verdict for
plaintiff, in 14 days.
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Folkestone Express 2 July 1887.
Wednesday, 29th June: Before W. Bateman, W.J. Jeffreason, J. Fitness and
E. Ward Esqs.
The licence of the Globe Hotel, on the Bayle, was transferred from Mr.
Harris to Mr. G.F. Cripps. The licence was stated to have been mislaid.
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Folkestone Chronicle 6 August 1887.
Wednesday, August 3rd: Before General Armstrong, Surgeon General
Gilbourne, and J. Banks Esq.
Mr. Harris applied that the licence of the Globe might be transferred to
Mr. Cripps. The application was granted.
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Folkestone Express 6 August 1887.
Wednesday, August 3rd: Before General Armstrong, Alderman Banks and
Surgeon General Gilbourne.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was transferred from Mr. Harris to Mr.
Cripps.
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Folkestone Express 15 June 1889.
Thursday, June 13th: Before Captain Carter, J. Holden, J. Fitness, and
E.T. Ward Esqs.
An occasional licence was granted to Mr. Tritton, of the Globe Hotel, to
sell refreshments on Sandgate Plain on the occasion of the Corporation
cricket match.
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Folkestone Chronicle 21 December 1889.
Tuesday, December 17th: Before The Mayor, Colonel De Crespigny, Alderman
Banks, W.G. Herbert, W. Wightwick and J. Brooke Esqs.
Patrick Cass, a private belonging to the Leinster Regiment, was charged
with stealing a watch and chain, valued at 35s., from the person of John
Pegden, on the night of the 14th inst.
John Pegden, living at 20, Park Street, a painter, said he recognised
the prisoner, but could not positively swear to him. He was in Mr.
Tritton's Globe Hotel, on The Bayle, on Saturday night, in company with
a man named Morrison. He asked a soldier to have a drink. The soldier
asked him the time, and he said “Twenty to nine”, looking at his watch.
He left the house in company with the soldier. Witness was rather the
worse for liquor, and he missed his watch on Sunday morning. There was a
small steel chain attached. The watch produced was his property, but the
chain was not. It was a different chain. Witness gave information to the
police on Sunday evening, and on Monday morning he went to the Camp with
Sergt. Pay, and the man Morrison picked him out from a number of other
soldiers paraded.
P.S. Pay said he accompanied the last witness and a man named Morrison
to Shorncliffe Camp. The whole of the Leinster Regiment were paraded,
and Morrison picked out the prisoner as the man he had seen in company
with prosecutor on Saturday night. He took the prisoner to the Orderly
Room and cautioned him. Witness said “Where were you on Saturday
evening?” He replied “I was in Folkestone. I have his watch. Prosecutor
was drunk, and dropped it, breaking one of the hands off. I picked it
up”. Prisoner produced the watch from the top of a beam and the
prosecutor identified it as his property. In answer to the charge,
prisoner replied “Very well”.
Prisoner said he picked the watch up off the ground and intended to take
care of it for the prosecutor. He went out on Sunday night for the
purpose of finding him, but failed to do so.
The prisoner's officer gave him an indifferent character, and he was
sentenced to two months' hard labour.
Shortly after the prisoner was removed below he was taken in a fit.
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Folkestone Express 21 December 1889.
Tuesday, December 17th: Before The Mayor, Alderman Banks, Colonel De
Crespigny and W. Wightwick, J. Brooke and W.G. Herbert Esqs.
Patrick Cross, a private in the Leinster Regiment, was charged with
stealing a watch from the person of John Pegden.
Prosecutor, a painter, said on Saturday he was in the Globe Hotel on The
Bayle, between eight and nine in the evening, drinking with a man named
Morrison. He got into conversation with an infantry soldier and asked
him to have a drink. They left the Globe and went to various places in
the town – he could not recollect where. He had his watch when he was in
prisoner's company, and did not miss it until next morning. It had a
small steel chain attached to it – not the one produced. It was worth
35s. He bought it of Mr. Bettle, and the number on it corresponded with
Mr. Bettle's books. He went on Monday morning with Sergeant Pay and the
man Morrison to Shorncliffe Camp, and Morrison identified the prisoner
as the soldier who was in his company on Saturday. The went together to
a urinal, and there prisoner produced the watch. The second hand was
missing.
Sergeant Pay said he went on Monday to Shorncliffe with the prosecutor
and Morrison to the quarters of the Leinster Regiment. Morrison picked
out the prisoner, and witness asked him where he was on Saturday
evening. He replied that he was in Folkestone, in the company of the
prosecutor, who was drunk and dropped the watch. Witness asked him where
it was. Prisoner replied “At the rear”. He went with prisoner to the
latrine, where he produced the watch and chain produced from the top of
a beam. He told prisoner he would be charged with stealing the watch,
and he made no reply. At the police station the charge was read over to
him, and he replied “Very well”.
Prisoner, who received a bad character from an officer of the regiment,
was committed for two months' hard labour.
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Folkestone Chronicle 15 February 1890.
Saturday, February 8th: Before The Mayor, Major H.W. Poole, Surgeon
General Gilbourne, W.G. Herbert and W. Wightwick Esqs.
Mr. Thomas Hall applied for the transfer of the licence of the Globe
Hotel from Mr. Tritton. Granted.
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Folkestone Express 15 November 1890.
County Court.
Tuesday, November 11th: Before Judge Selfe.
P. Upton v Robert Carter: Claim £3 1s. 9d. Defendant is a publican.
Committed for 14 days. Order suspended for 28.
Note: Oddfellows Arms.
Wednesday, November 12th: Before H.W. Poole, W. Wightwick, J. Brooke and
W.G. Herbert Esqs., and Surgeon General Gilbourne.
Thomas Lister, a marine store dealer, was charged with committing a
criminal assault on Emily Newing, and also with stealing two two
shilling pieces from her on Tuesday evening.
Emily Newing, the wife of William Newing, a labourer, lodging at the
Bricklayers' Arms, said the prisoner and his wife also lodged there. She
met the prisoner about seven o'clock on Tuesday evening near the Globe,
on The Bayle. Up to that time she had never spoken to him. He asked her
to mind his bag for a few minutes, which she did. When he returned he
asked her to go into the Globe and have something to drink. They each
had two glasses of porter. They were in the house five or ten minutes
and left together. He then dabe her goodnight and went towards High
Street. She went down the Parade Steps. When she was halfway down the
prisoner came behind her and threw her down. She had two two shilling
pieces tied in her handkerchief, which prisoner took, and he then ran
away up the steps.
Dr. Bateman stated that the prosecutrix was taken to him on the previous
night at about 10.30. He examined her and saw nothing to lead him to
suppose that the assault complained of had been committed.
P.C. Scott said he took the prisoner into custody for stealing two two
shilling pieces, and when charged prisoner said “It's a lie”. Up to the
time prisoner was taken into custody the woman made no other statement.
He searched the prisoner and found one two shilling piece, four
shillings and some bronze.
Supt. Taylor having given evidence, the Bench called the prosecutrix to
the front and said the story told was so improbable that they had no
hesitation in dismissing both the charge of assault and theft.
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Folkestone Chronicle 29 November 1890.
Local News.
At the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday, Thomas Hall, landlord of
the Globe Hotel, was charged with selling intoxicating liquors during
prohibited hours on the 14th instant.
Mr. Minter prosecuted, and stated that the police entered the house at
five and twenty to twelve on the night in question, and found two
soldiers and two prostitutes drinking.
Defendant pleaded Guilty and no evidence was taken.
Defendant: I should like to ask the constable (P.C. Dawson) how he got
the information.
Supt. Taylor: Oh, no, thank you; we can't oblige. (Laughter)
Alderman Pledge: What is your object for asking?
Defendant: Because there was no policeman there at the time.
Mr. Bradley: You mean you didn't see any. (Laughter)
Mr. Minter: Perhaps the Superintendent can tell you the character of the
house.
Superintendent Taylor said the defendant was a new landlord, and so far
had conducted the house very well indeed.
Fined £2 10s. and 8s. costs.
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Folkestone Express 29 November 1890.
Wednesday, November 26th: Before The Mayor, J. Holden, J. Clark, S.
Penfold, and J. Pledge Esqs.
Thomas Hall was charged with selling intoxicating liquors during
prohibited hours on the 14th November.
Mr. Minter, who prosecuted, said on the 14th inst. the police appeared
at the house at 25 minutes past eleven and found two soldiers and two
prostitutes. There was an excuse made that the soldiers were going to
stay there, but they said they were not. He understood it was the first
offence, and as the defendant had pleaded Guilty he would leave the
Bench to deal with it.
The defendant desired to know how the police got the information. He did
not know the women were prostitutes.
Superintendent Taylor said he did not press for a heavy penalty. It was
the first offence, and up to that time the house had been very well
conducted.
The Bench fined the defendant 50s. and 8s. costs.
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Folkestone Express 13 December 1890.
Saturday, December 6th: Before Captain Carter, J. Holden and E. Ward
Esqs., and Aldermen Pledge and J. Sherwood.
Two soldiers and also two “ladies” were charged with being found on
licensed premises at the Globe Hotel on the 14th November.
P.C. Dawson said he visited the house at 11.35 at night and found the
four defendants there. The landlord had been fined 50s. and costs.
The defendants all pleaded that they did not think it was so late. The
men said they had only recently come from India and were not aware of
the rules.
The defendants were each fined 5s. and 9s. costs.
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Folkestone Chronicle 29 August 1891.
Annual Licensing Sessions.
Wednesday, August 26th: Before J. Clarke, J. Pledge, J. Holden, W.
Wightwick, H.W. Poole and F. Boykett Esqs.
Superintendent Taylor objected to the renewal of the licence of the
Bellevue Hotel (Mr. Adams), and also to the renewal of the licence of
the Globe Hotel (Mr. Hall). The latter was represented by Mr. F. Hall.
The licenses of both these houses were withheld until the adjournment.
The adjourned Sessions will be held on the 23rd of September.
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Southeastern Gazette 1 September 1891.
Licensing Sessions.
The annual Licensing Sessions were held on Wednesday, when objections
were raised against the renewal of the licences for the Globe Hotel, the
Bellevue Hotel, The Bouverie Hotel, and the Tramway Tavern. Mr. Rooke
appeared on behalf of the council of the Folkestone Temperance Society,
and the whole of the cases were eventually adjourned until Sept. 23.
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Folkestone Chronicle 26 September 1891.
Adjourned Licensing Sessions.
The Globe Hotel.
Wednesday, September 23rd: Before J. Clarke Esq., Major Poole, J.
Holden, W. Wightwick, F. Boykett and J. Pledge Esqs.
Mr. Hall attended for a renewal of the licence of the Globe Hotel. Mr.
F. Hall appeared for the applicant.
Superintendent Taylor stated that Hall was fined 50s. and 8s. costs on
the 26th of November for allowing four persons to remain in the house
after closing time.
In answer to Mr. Hall, the witness said they were discovered about
twenty five minutes after eleven. He had had no other complaints about
the house, the general conduct of which was good.
The Chairman said the licence would be renewed, but he would advise the
landlord to be very careful in future as there was a disposition to
reduce the number of licences.
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Folkestone Express 26 September 1891.
Adjourned Licensing Day.
The Globe Hotel.
Wednesday, September 23rd: Before J. Clark, J. Holden, H.W. Poole, W.
Wightwick, F. Boykett and J. Pledge Esqs.
Mr. F. Hall applied on behalf of Mr. Thomas Hall for a renewal of this
licence.
Superintendent Taylor said on the 21st November last applicant was
convicted for selling during prohibited hours. The licence was not
endorsed.
In answer to Mr. Hall, Superintendent Taylor said the time was between
eleven and half past. Two soldiers and two women went in after hours.
There had been no other complaint against the house, the general conduct
of which was good.
The licence was renewed, the applicant being cautioned as to the future
conduct of the house.
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Sandgate Visitors' List 2 October 1891.
Local News.
A burglary was committed at the Globe Hotel, Folkestone, early on
Thursday morning, and a sum of £40 and a silver watch belonging to the
landlord, Mr. Thomas Hall, stolen. The burglar was disturbed and chased,
but managed to evade capture.
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Folkestone Chronicle 3 October 1891.
Local News.
At the Folkestone Police Court yesterday, before The Mayor, Alderman
Sherwood, Captain Carter, Alderman Pledge, and W. Wightwick Esq., Edmund
O'Burke, of New York, was charged with burglariously entering the Globe
Hotel at an early hour on Thursday morning, and stealing therefrom £35
in gold, a pocket-book, £1 6s. in silver, a £5 bank note, and a silver
watch and chain.
The case created a great deal of public interest, the Court being
densely crowded.
The prisoner, who pleaded Guilty to the charge, is about 5 ft. 6 ins. in
height and about 25 years in age.
P.S. James Campany, of the Dover Police Force, said: At twenty past
eight this morning I was in Military Road, Dover. I there saw the
prisoner. In consequence of information I had received from the
Folkestone Police, I arrested him. I told him I should take him into
custody on a charge of robbing an hotel at Folkestone. He said “Very
well”. I took him to the Dover Police Station, where I searched him. I
found one £5 Bank of England note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in
silver, a foreign silver coin, fivepence in bronze, a silver watch and
chain, a pocket book –
Prisoner: And a Continental phrase book.
Witness (continuing): I brought him to the Folkestone Police Station. On
the way he told me he had left his shoes in the Hotel, and asked me if I
thought they would let him have them. I told him I didn't know.
Thomas Hall said: I am the landlord of the Globe Hotel, and woke about
half past four yesterday morning. I was awakend by seeing a light go
past my bedroom. I did not hear anyone in my room. I looked out of the
door and asked who was there, but I received no answer. I heard a window
pushed up in the next room, and I at once looked out of my own bedroom
window. I saw a man drop from the window-ledge of the adjoining room. He
landed on the cellar flap, and then ran away. I could not see his face
distinctly, and am unable to identify the prisoner. He appeared to be
dressed similar to the man in the dock. I called out “Stop, thief!” Mr.
Goldsack, the sweep, was coming round the corner, and he ran in pursuit
of him. They ran in the direction of the Bayle Steps. I examined my
bedroom, and found that he had taken my keys from my trousers pocket,
and unlocked my portmanteau. He had taken my wearing apparel out of my
room, and I afterwards found them in the scullery. I missed £35 in gold
from the portmanteau; also one five pound note, and about £1 6s. in
silver. The money was in a little pocket book. I missed the watch and
chain, produced, from the till in the bar, and I found the pair of
boots, now produced, in the scullery. The boots are not my property.
Superintendent Taylor asked for a remand until Wednesday.
Prisoner: I should regard it as a very great favour if the Bench will
sentence me at once.
Mr. Bradley said even if a prima facie case were made out against
prisoner, the Bench could not deal with it. He would have to be sent to
the Maidstone Assizes.
The Chairman: You will be remanded until Wednesday.
Prisoner: May I have my boots to wear, gentlemen?
Mr. Bradley: You won't want them just yet. (Laughter)
The prisoner was then removed below.
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Folkestone Herald 3 October 1891.
Local News.
Late on Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning, a daring burglary
took place at the Globe Hotel. Mr. Hall states that he was sleeping
alone on the night in question, and was aroused by a man walking about
his room with a light. He at once challenged him, but received no reply.
Mr. Hall at once dressed himself, and the miscreant made his escape
through the window. A cry was raised of “Stop, Thief!”, and a man
endeavoured to close with the burglar, but he was soon lost to view. An
examination of the hotel proved that a serious burglary had taken place,
and the police were at once communicated with, who, with commendable
promptitude, put the telephone and electric wires at work, with the
result that the man “wanted” was found at Dover early yesterday (Friday)
morning. The police deserve great praise for the successful measures
they took to ensure the capture of the man.
Police proceedings yesterday.
Before The Mayor, Capt. Carter, Alderman Sherwood, Mr. W. Wightwick, and
Mr. James Pledge.
Edward O'Burke, who gave no address, was brought up and charged with
burglary at the Globe Hotel on the night of Wednesday last, and with
stealing £36 6s. in money, a Bank of England £5 note, watch and chain,
etc.
The evidence of Mr. Hall, who identified the articles produced as his
property, and that of a police sergeant from Dover proving the arrest,
having been heard, the prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next.
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Southeastern Gazette 6 October 1891.
Local News.
A burglary was perpetrated at the Globe Hotel on Thursday, when about
£50 and a watch belonging to the landlord were stolen. The burglar was
alarmed and pursued, leaving his boots behind.
At the Folkestone police-court on Friday, before the Mayor, Alderman
Sherwood, Capt. Carter, Alderman Pledge, and Mr. W. Wightwick, Edmund O’
Burke, of New York, was charged with burglariously entering the Globe
Hotel at an early hour on Thursday morning, and stealing therefrom £45
in gold, a pocket-book, £1 6s. in silver, a £5 note, and a silver watch
and chain. The prisoner, who pleaded guilty to the charge, is about 6ft.
6in. in height, and about 25 years of age.
P.S. James Campany, of the Dover police force, said he went to
Folkestone Road and arrested the prisoner. On searching him witness
found one £5 note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, a foreign
coin, 5d. in bronze, a silver watch and chain, and a pocket-book.
Prisoner: And a Continental “phrase-book.”
Thos. Hall said: I am the landlord of the Globe Hotel, Dover (sic).
About half-past four yesterday morning I was awakened by seeing a light
go past my bedroom. I did not hear anyone in my room. I looked out at
the door and asked who was there, but I received no answer. I heard a
window pushed up in the next room, and I at once looked out of my own
bedroom window. I then saw a man drop from the window ledge of the
adjoining room. He landed on the cellar-flap and then ran away. I could
not see his face distinctly, and am unable to identify the prisoner. I
called out, “Stop thief.” A man was coming round the corner, and he ran
after the person escaping. I found my wearing apparel in the scullery. I
missed £45 in gold and other money from my portmanteau, the keys of
which had been taken from my trousers pocket.
Supt. Taylor asked for a remand until Wednesday.
Prisoner: I should regard it as a very great favour if the Bench will
sentence me at once.
The prisoner was then remanded.
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Folkestone Express 7 October 1891.
Local News.
Early on Thursday morning a burglary was effected at the Globe Hotel,
which is kept by Mr. T. Hall, and the burglar, we hear, got clear away
with about £40 in cash, and an old silver double-cased watch; the
maker's name “Boxer, Folkestone” is engraved upon it. Mr. Hall states
that he was sleeping alone in a front room of the hotel, his wife being
at Sandgate. About a quarter to five on Thursday morning he was awoken
by someone in his bedroom with a light. He called out to know who was
there, but there was no answer. He got up and went to the window, when
he saw a man drop from the window ledge on to the trap door of the
cellar in front of the house. He opened the window and called out “Stop.
Thief!” A man named Goldsack, who has a stable at the back, came out,
and ran after the man, who seems to gave gone across the garden of the
old Parade houses and down to High Street, and Goldsack lost sight of
him. Mr. Earl states that a stranger was stopped by his dog about that
time in the morning. Mr. Hall examined the premises, and came to the
conclusion that an entry had been effected by placing a ladder up to the
closet window, after which the thief went downstairs and opened the door
and removed the ladder, which was found lying on the ground. Mr. Hall's
clothing was found in the scullery, having apparently been taken from
the bedroom and carried down there to be searched to find the keys. Then
the thief returned and from a pocket book in a portmanteau he took about
£40, consisting of £32 or £33 in gold, a £5 note, and £1 in silver. The
burglar had removed his boots, which were found just inside the kitchen
door. They were patent leather, with brown tops, and a man who wore
similar boot has, it is said, been seen about the house lately. In the
dim light Mr. Hall was unable to recognise the man, but he was rather
tall and dressed in dark clothes. He had been into the bar, where he
helped himself to some sherry and cigars. The boots and other articles
are in the hands of the police, but up to last night no tidings had been
heard of the thief.
The Folkestone Police, having received information which led them to
believe the burglar had taken refuge in the Warren, were busily engaged
all day on Thursday searching for him. Information was also sent by
Superintendent Taylor to Dover, where members of the police force were
also on the alert. Sergeant Campany, of the Dover Police, succeeded in
apprehending a man answering the description which was given of a
stranger who had been seen wandering about in the Warren, and nearly the
whole of the missing property was found upon him. He at first refused
his name, but subsequently gave that of Edmund O'Bourke, saying he was
an American and of no occupation. He had obtained another pair of boots
from a person to whom he represented that he had lost his others while
bathing. He stated to the police that he came from Calais on Wednesday
night, and came straight on to Folkestone, committing the burglary in
the morning.
The prisoner was brought up at the Folkestone Police Court on Friday
morning, when he was remanded after the following evidence was given:-
Sergeant James Campany, of the Dover Police, said: About twenty minutes
past eight this morning I was in the Military Road at Dover, and there
saw the prisoner. In consequence of information received from the
Folkestone Police I arrested him. I told him I should take him on charge
of robbing an hotel at Folkestone. He replied “Very well – all right”. I
took him to the police station at Dover and searched him. I found on him
a £5 bank note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, a foreign silver
coin, fivepence in bronze, a silver watch and chain, and two small
books.
Prisoner: A pocket book and a Continental phrase book.
Witness: I produce the note and the money. I handed prisoner over to the
Folkestone police. On the way to Folkestone, prisoner told me he had
left his shoes in the hotel, and asked me if they would let him have
them. I replied I did not know.
Prisoner asked no questions.
Thomas Hall said: I am landlord of the Globe Hotel, Folkestone.
Yesterday morning I was awoken about half past four or a quarter to five
by a light going by my bedroom. I went outside and asked who was there
and got no answer. I looked out of the bedroom door and asked who was
there. I received no answer. I heard the window go up in the next
bedroom to mine. I looked out of my own window, and saw a man drop from
the window ledge of the adjoining room. He landed on the cellar flap
beneath the window, and I saw him run away. I could not see his face
distinctly, and I cannot identify the prisoner. The man was dressed
similar to what the prisoner is – in dark clothes. It was between the
lights and there was a gas lamp burning. I called out “Stop. Thief!”.
Mr. Goldsack, a sweep, was coming round, and ran after the man, who went
in the direction of the Bayle Steps. I missed my clothes from my
bedroom, and found them in the scullery. My keys I kept in my waistcoat
pocket, and they were missing. I also had an American coin in my pocket.
That produced is the one. On returning to my bedroom I found a
portmanteau had been unlocked. The key was on the bunch taken from my
waistcoat pocket. I missed from the portmanteau about £35 in gold, a £5
note, and about 26s. in silver. No bronze money. The money was in a
little pocket book. I afterwards missed a watch and chain, which was
taken from the till in the bar. The watch and chain produced is my
property. The name on the watch is “Boxer, Folkestone”. I do not know
the number. In the scullery I found the pair of boots produced. They are
not my property.
Prisoner said: I came from New York to Havre. I should regard it as a
kindness if would sentence me at once.
The Magistrates' Clerk: The Magistrates can't deal with you. If there is
a prima facie case, you will go for trial at the Assizes.
Prisoner, who is a man about 25, said part of the money belonged to him.
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Folkestone Visitors' List 7 October 1891.
Parish Patrol.
We don't often have a scare about burglars in Folkestone, but last
Thursday morning, just at break of day, an alarm was given that aroused
the dwellers on The Bayle, and one of the “Bill Sykes” fraternity might
have been seen dropping from a first floor window of the Globe Hotel and
making a rush for the Parade Steps, closely followed by a sweep in
pursuit!
Mr. Hall, landlord of the Globe, had enjoyed the sleep of the just
through the night, and was aroused by a light carried by the unjust
interloper in his bedroom. On jumping out of bed, throwing up his
window, and calling out “Stop, thief!”, Mr. Hall saw his intruder drop
out of the next window, down to the ground. On searching the premises
Mr. Hall found that his clothes had been removed downstairs to the
kitchen, where they had probably been searched by the thief and some
keys extracted from the pockets. With these keys it is presumed that the
robber returned to the bedroom, unlocked a portmanteau, in which was a
pocket book where Mr. Hall had placed about £40, and which was
appropriated by the burglar – over thirty pounds in gold, a five pound
note, and some silver. In the bar it was found that the stranger had
helped himself to some cigars and sherry, and at the back door of the
house, which was found open, a pair of brown leather shoes stood on the
mat. These were the only objects of interest secured by Mr. Hall. The
thief also purloined an old silver watch, on which was the name of
“Boxer, Folkestone”, a watchmaker of half a century ago.
This burglar pal of Bill Sykes vanished for only a few hours. On Friday
morning at twenty minutes past eight o'clock Sergeant Campeny of the
Dover police spotted him walking into Dover by the Military Road, and by
the intuitive instinct of a thief-catcher recognised him as the man
enquired for at Folkestone. The police sergeant immediately bade him
good morning and insinuated that he had been robbing a hotel, to which
he replied “Very well, all right”, and submitted to be searched at the
police station, when £28 10s. in gold, one £5 Bank of England note, £1
7s. 3d. in silver, and 5d. in bronze – blow the fivepence, these
policemen are so particular – were found in his possession. He had also
the identical silver watch and chain and two books on him. On being
asked to describe the books the sergeant of police hesitated, when
prisoner volunteered the description – “pocket book and Continental
phrase book” – by which it would appear he was off to the “Continent”.
Superintendent Taylor asked for a remand till Wednesday next, when
prisoner, who answered to the name of Edmund O'Bourke, said that he had
come from New York, and that he would regard it as a great kindness if
the Magistrates would sentence him at once, but the Magistrates' Clerk
said he would have to come up again on Wednesday, and then be committed
to the Assizes to take his trial. He was accordingly remanded to this
day.
O'Bourke must have passed about the most miserable twenty four hours
between the time of his coup at the Globe and his capture possible to
conceive. He made tracks direct for the Warren, where he was literally
run to earth. Being traced going in this direction, the police to a man
turned out and scoured the locality through and through, from the sea
shore to the top of the cliffs. At one time the prisoner alleges that as
he laid hid in the middle of a blackberry bush he heard two men
conversing, when one said he would make it hot for the robber if he came
across him. He tried the smugglers' cave for a short time, but the
pursuit was hot, and from there he got to the railway at Abbot's Cliff
Tunnel, and begged of a watchman a pair of shoes, saying he had lost his
own while bathing. All night long he kept close, and crept into Dover
early in the morning. He went to a coffee house and ordered breakfast,
but could not eat. He was wet through, and his clothes smeared with mud
and chalk. This aroused suspicion, and the police were communicated with
– then came the inevitable.
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Sandgate Visitors' List 9 October 1891.
Local News.
The man who committed the burglary at the Globe Hotel, Folkestone, last
week, was arrested at Dover on Friday morning. He gave the name of
Edmund O'Bourke, and said he was an American. He was handed over to the
Folkestone police, and brought up before the Magistrates and remanded
till Wednesday, when he was again brought up and committed for trial at
the Assizes.
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Folkestone Chronicle 10 October 1891.
Local News.
At the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday, before Captain carter, J.
Clark Esq., and Aldermen Dunk, Pledge, and Sherwood, Edward O'Burke was
placed in the dock, charged with having burglariously and feloniously
entered the Globe Hotel on the 1st instant, and stolen therefrom upwards
of £40, the monies of the landlord, Mr. Thomas Hall.
The depositions of Sergeant Campany, of Dover, who apprehended the
prisoner, were read over and confirmed, and also those of Mr. Hall. The
latter added that all the doors of the hotel were fastened by him on the
night in question, but that there was no fastening to the ground floor
window at the back of the house.
Stephen Goldsack was then called, and said: I am a chimney sweep, and
live opposite the Globe, on The Bayle. About half past four on Thursday
morning I was in my stable, which is behind the Globe Hotel. As I passed
the hotel with my pony I saw a man getting up off the cellar flap in
front of the house. There is a Bray's lamp near the spot, and the man
passed close to by. He was near the lamp, and went towards the Parade
Steps. At that time Mr. Hall called out from his bedroom window “Stop
that man: he has robbed me”. I left my pony and ran after the man. I did
not overtake him. I nearly caught him at the top of the steps when he
sprang to the bottom, and when I got there I lost him. I did not notice
whether he had any boots on. I had noticed a light in a bedroom of the
Globe. It disappeared when I opened the stable door.
Thomas Kennett, a gardener in the employ of Mr. Pilcher, at Bowles Well,
near the Junction Station, said: I was in the garden at ten minutes to
six on the morning of Thursday. At that time a man came to me and asked
for a drink of water. I took him to a shed and gave him some. He then
turned away to the right and went in the direction of the Warren, by the
Warren Road. He had no shoes on – only brown socks. The prisoner is the
man.
Lewis Gatehouse, a constable in the employ of the South Eastern Railway
Company, said: It is my duty to patrol the line between Dover and
Folkestone. About twenty minutes to nine on Thursday morning I was
walking from Dover to Folkestone along the line. I walked through the
Abbot's Cliff Tunnel, and met the prisoner at the other end. I asked him
his business. He said he was going to Dover. I told him he could not go
that way, but that he must go back again, and I offered to show him the
road up the cliff. He said he could not walk fast, as he had no shoes,
and that he had lost them whilst bathing on the beach. I took him to the
signal box, to John Hickmott, who gave the prisoner a pair of shoes. The
prisoner offered me a shilling, but I told him he could give it to
Hickmott for the shoes if he liked. I showed him up the cliff and did
not see him afterwards.
Police Sergeant Lilley said he visited the Globe Hotel about half past
six on Thursday morning and examined the premises. He found that no
forcible entry had been effected. On Friday he met the prisoner in
custody at the Junction Station. He said he got into the house through
the back window, from the yard on the ground floor. He commenced talking
about the robbery without witness questioning him. He said it was a big
jump getting out and that he hurt his feet. When the charge was read
over to him he said “Those boots (indicating the boots produced) are
mine. Can I have them? I shall plead Guilty and make a short job of it”.
Prisoner said it was not true what witness had said. He made no
observation, only when questioned.
The usual caution was read over to the prisoner, who, when asked if he
had anything to say, said “I reserve my defence”.
Prisoner was committed for trial at the County Assizes.
Prisoner: Can you tell me about when that will be?
Mr. Bradley: Probably at the end of this month.
Prisoner: Thank you.
The Court was densely crowded throughout the hearing and a great number
were unable to gain admission.
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Folkestone Express 10 October 1891.
Wednesday, October 7th: Before Captain Carter, J. Clark Esq., Aldermen
Pledge and Sherwood.
Edmund O'Bourke was brought up on remand, charged with burglary at the
Globe Hotel on Wednesday morning.
The evidence taken on Friday was read over as follows:-
Sergeant James Campany, of the Dover Police, said: About twenty minutes
past eight this morning I was in the Military Road at Dover, and there
saw the prisoner. In consequence of information received from the
Folkestone Police I arrested him. I told him I should take him on charge
of robbing an hotel at Folkestone. He replied “Very well – all right”. I
took him to the police station at Dover and searched him. I found on him
a £5 bank note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, a foreign silver
coin, fivepence in bronze, a silver watch and chain, and two small
books.
Prisoner: A pocket book and a Continental phrase book.
Witness: I produce the note and the money. I handed prisoner over to the
Folkestone police. On the way to Folkestone, prisoner told me he had
left his shoes in the hotel, and asked me if they would let him have
them. I replied I did not know.
Prisoner asked no questions.
Thomas Hall said: I am landlord of the Globe Hotel, Folkestone.
Yesterday morning I was awoken about half past four or a quarter to five
by a light going by my bedroom. I went outside and asked who was there
and got no answer. I looked out of the bedroom door and asked who was
there. I received no answer. I heard the window go up in the next
bedroom to mine. I looked out of my own window, and saw a man drop from
the window ledge of the adjoining room. He landed on the cellar flap
beneath the window, and I saw him run away. I could not see his face
distinctly, and I cannot identify the prisoner. The man was dressed
similar to what the prisoner is – in dark clothes. It was between the
lights and there was a gas lamp burning. I called out “Stop. Thief!”.
Mr. Goldsack, a sweep, was coming round, and ran after the man, who went
in the direction of the Bayle Steps. I missed my clothes from my
bedroom, and found them in the scullery. My keys I kept in my waistcoat
pocket, and they were missing. I also had an American coin in my pocket.
That produced is the one. On returning to my bedroom I found a
portmanteau had been unlocked. The key was on the bunch taken from my
waistcoat pocket. I missed from the portmanteau about £35 in gold, a £5
note, and about 26s. in silver. No bronze money. The money was in a
little pocket book. I afterwards missed a watch and chain, which was
taken from the till in the bar. The watch and chain produced is my
property. The name on the watch is “Boxer, Folkestone”. I do not know
the number. In the scullery I found the pair of boots produced. They are
not my property.
Prisoner said: I came from New York to Havre. I should regard it as a
kindness if would sentence me at once.
The Magistrates' Clerk: The Magistrates can't deal with you. If there is
a prima facie case, you will go for trial at the Assizes.
Prisoner, who is a man about 25, said part of the money belonged to him.
Mr. Hall now added to his evidence: I have recovered my keys. They were
in the portmanteau. I locked up the house on the night of Wednesday, the
30th. At eleven o'clock I locked all the doors and saw that all the
windows were fastened except the kitchen window, which had no fastening.
It is on the ground floor at the back of the house. When I returned to
my house after pursuing the prisoner I examined the premises. I found
the scullery doors open, and also the door leading from the yard into
the lane. All the other doors were secure. I bolted the doors the
previous night, but did not lock them. The lower sash of the window of
the bedroom adjoining my bedroom was open. It was shut when I retired to
bed on the previous evening, and fastened. I did not shut my bedroom
door when I went to bed. The American coin which I lost is that
produced. It's value is one dime.
Stephen Goldsack said: I am a chimney sweeper, and live on the Bayle,
opposite the Globe Hotel. About half past four on Thursday morning I was
going to my pony in the stable. As I passed The Globe I saw a man
getting up off the cellar flap. He appeared to have fallen. There is a
Bray's lamp at the corner of the enclosure in front of the hotel. The
man passed me near the lamp and ran in the direction of the Parade
Steps. I saw his face, and I identify the prisoner as the man. Just at
that time Mr. Hall called out to me to stop the man, who had robbed him.
I left my pony and ran after the man, but could not overtake him. He
jumped from the top step right down, and I lost sight of him. I did not
see whether he had boots on or not. When I first entered the stable I
noticed a light in a top bedroom window of the hotel, and it
disappeared.
Thomas Kennett said: I am a gardener in the employ of Mr. George Pilcher,
and work in his garden at Bowles Wells, between the Dover Road and the
permanent way. I was in the garden on Thursday, about ten minutes to
six. A man came to me and asked for a drink of water. I took him to the
shed to get the water, when he said “Never mind about the water”, and
turned to the right and went towards the railway bank. I saw him cross
the Warren Road and go in the direction of the Warren. I noticed that he
had no shoes on. He had brown socks. I identify the prisoner as the man.
Lewis Gatehouse said: I am a constable in the employ of the South
Eastern railway Company. It is my duty to patrol the line between Dover
and Folkestone. About twenty minutes to nine on Thursday evening I was
coming from Dover to Folkestone along the line. I walked through Abbot's
Cliff Tunnel, and in the tunnel I met the prisoner. He then had on a
different pair of shoes. I asked him his business. He said he was going
to Dover. I told him he could not go to Dover – he must go back again.
He went back. He said he could not walk fact because he hadn't got any
shoes. I saw then that he had no shoes. He told me he had lost them
while bathing on the beach. I took him to the signal box and then showed
him the Royal Oak path. John Hickmott keeps the signal box. I asked him
to give the prisoner a pair of shoes, and he did so. Prisoner asked me
what he should give me. I told him I did not want anything, but if he
liked he could pay the man for the boots. He said “Here's a shilling for
you”. It was not a shilling, but some other piece of money. I saw him go
up the path, and saw no more of him.
Sergeant Lilley said: On Thursday morning, October 1st, I visited the
Globe about half past six. I observed the premises, but could not find
that any forcible entry had been effected. On Friday, the 2nd, I went to
the Junction Station, and met Sergeant Campany with the prisoner in
custody. Prisoner said “I got in the back window on the ground floor in
the yard”. He was talking generally of the robbery all the way to the
police station without questioning. He said “It was a big jump getting
out, and I hurt my foot very much”. At the police station the charge was
read over to the prisoner by Supt. Taylor in my presence. Prisoner said
“Those boots are mine. Can I have them? I shall plead Guilty and make a
short job of it”. The boots produced came from the Globe Hotel.
Prisoner: He is quite incorrect in some parts of his evidence.
Mr. Bradley: Very well. You can ask him any questions.
Prisoner: You say I said that without any questions? – I do.
Prisoner: I said nothing to you about the job. I used no slang at all. I
said nothing to you except on being questioned.
Mr. Bradley: Is that so? – No, sir.
Prisoner: It is useless for me to question these gentlemen if I am to be
made out a liar.
Sergeant Lilley said: I did not receive the boots produced from Mr.
Hall. They were at the police station when I saw them.
The evidence was then read over, and also the formal charge and caution.
Prisoner: I reserve my defence.
Captain Carter told the prisoner he was committed for trial at the
Assizes.
Prisoner: Can you tell me when it will be?
Mr. Bradley: About the end of the month, I should think.
The Dover Chronicle on Saturday said: About seven o'clock yesterday
(Friday) morning a man, shabbily dressed, entered the Railway Coffee
Tavern, on the Folkestone Road, and said he wanted a wash and brush-up.
Mr. Turner, the proprietor, took him into the kitchen, where the man
ordered a mutton chop for his breakfast, and also wanted a room, so that
he could change his clothes. He further wanted a tailor, a barber, and a
bootmaker to be called in. Mr. Turner – who had been furnished by the
police with a description of the man wanted at Folkestone – believed
that his new customer was the same person, and at once informed the
police. When the police arrived, the man had just left Mr. Turner's shop
and was walking up the Christ Church steps. He was overtaken by the
police on Military Hill and arrested on suspicion.
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Southeastern Gazette 13 October 1891.
Local News.
On Wednesday, at the Town Hall, a young fellow of somewhat slim and
shabby appearance, who had given the name of Edmund O’Bourke, was
charged on remand with stealing, at the Globe Hotel, about £40 in cash,
a silver watch, and a few other articles, the property of Mr. Thomas
Hall, the landlord.
Sergt. Campany, of the Dover police, deposed to arresting the prisoner
at Dover on Friday morning. Prisoner had on him a £5 Bank of England
note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, 5d. in bronze, a silver
watch and chain, and two small books.
Thomas Hall, landlord of the Globe, deposed that about a quarter to five
on Thursday morning he was awakened by a light passing the door of his
bedroom, which was partly open. He called out, “Who is there?” and
hearing the window go up in the adjoining room he looked out of his
bedroom window, and saw a man drop from the ledge of the adjacent
window. Witness found his clothes had been removed from his bedroom to
the scullery. His keys had been taken from his waistcoat, a portmanteau,
which was in his bedroom, unlocked, and about £35 in gold, a £5 note,
and 26s. in silver taken; also an American coin, a “dime.” A watch and
chain had been taken from the till in the bar. Witness identified the
watch and the American coin found on the prisoner.
Evidence was also given by Stephen Goldsack, Thomas Kennett, and Louis
Gatehouse, a constable in the employ of the S.E.R. Company.
Sergt. Lilley, of the Folkestone police, deposed that when he received
prisoner the latter began talking generally about the robbery, said he
got in at the back window on the ground floor, that “it was a big jump ”
getting out, and that he hurt his feet very much.
Prisoner, who said he reserved his defence, was committed to the
Assizes.
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Folkestone Express 5 December 1891.
Local News.
A telegram was received on Tuesday by the Superintendent of Police,
stating that during the previous night Edmund O'Burke, alias Toomey, who
was awaiting his trial at the Assizes for burglary at the Globe Hotel,
had escaped from Canterbury gaol, and he is understood to be still at
large. The prisoner is a man of slender build, 5 ft. 7 in. high, fresh
complexion, dark brown hair, blue eyes, and was dressed in dark clothes,
conststing of brown jacket, bluish coloured striped trousers, prison
shirt, socks, and flannel hard round felt hat. The man has undergone
various terms of imprisonment, and was only released from Chatham a few
days before he was apprehended at Folkestone.
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Folkestone Chronicle 12 December 1891.
Local News.
The Globe Hotel burglar appears to have made his escape from Canterbury
prison in a very clever manner. He was confined in one of the upper
cells, and by making a hole in the wall he gained the top of a network
of walls, along which he made his way, dodged the warders, and
eventually reached the females' exercising ground. This portion of the
prison is not patrolled at night, so that he was able to get away
without detection. O'Burke is an old hand, having already served five
years' penal servitude.
Kent Winter Assizes.
The commission of these Assizes was opened at Maidstone on Monday by
Baron Pollock. The trial of prisoners commenced on Tuesday. The
following case was disposed of on Wednesday.
In the case of Edward O'Burke, 24, tailor, who was charged with
burglariously breaking and entering the Globe Hotel and stealing a Bank
of England note of the value of £5, the sum of £36 6s. in money, a
pocket book, and a silver watch and chain, the money and goods of Thomas
Hall, on the 30th September, Mr. Matthew asked that the witnesses might
be discharged, the prisoner having escaped from Canterbury Gaol, and
there being no probability of his being recaptured.
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Southeastern Gazette 12 December 1891.
Assizes.
Edward O'Burke. 24, tailor, who was charged with feloniously and
burglariously entering the dwelling- house of Thomas Hall, and stealing
therein a Bank of England note of the value of £5, the sum of £36 6s. in
money, a pocket book, and a silver watch and chain, the moneys and goods
of the said Thomas Hall, at Folkestone, on the 30th Sept. Mr. Matthew
applied that the witnesses might be discharged, prisoner having escaped
from Canterbury Gaol, and there being no probability of his being
re-captured.
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Folkestone Chronicle 9 January 1892.
The man O'Burke, who contrived to escape from Canterbury prison by
eluding the warder on the 30th November last, was, by a remarkable
coincidence recaptured at Dover on Wednesday. It will be remembered that
prisoner was awaiting his trial on a charge of burglary at the Globe
Hotel, Folkestone, he having been arrested at Dover, and committed for
trial at the Kent Assizes recently held. The remarkable feature in the
affair is that the arrest was effected on both occasions through the
instrumentality of a local eating house keeper, Mr. R. Turner, of the
Railway restaurant, Folkestone Road.
From the time the prisoner made his escape from Canterbury no trace
whatever could be found of his movements, though vigilant enquiries and
active searches were instituted by the police authorities. The following
is the description of the man circulated: Edward Toomey, alias O'Burke,
who escaped from H.M. Prison, Canterbury, on 30th November, 1891, while
awaiting trial at the Kent Assizes for burglary at Folkestone. Age, 25;
height, 5 ft. 7 in.; complexion, pale; hair, dark brown; eyes, grey;
large scar on top and back of head; three small scars on stomach; scar
left side; two scars left hip; scar left buttock and knee; top joint
little finger bent. Convicted C.C.C. 29th Mat, 1883, burglary, 18
months; ditto, 14th December, 1885, 12 months; ditto, 10th January,
1887, receiving and previous convictions, 5 years P.S.; and convicted
four times summarily at Greenwich. The opposite side of the card on
which this was printed contained photos, front and side face, of the
prisoner. It now appears that the secret of his long elusion of the
police authorities, in spite of all their precautions, is due to the
fact that the prisoner, who is said to be an American, succeeded in
getting to the London Docks, where he secreted himself on board the
American liner, France. He was, however, discovered when in the Channel,
and put ashore at Dover, where, owing to the sharpness of Mr. Turner, he
had not been long before his arrest was effected. The prisoner had
managed to get safely to the Priory Station, and in all probability he
would yet have been at large, had it not been for his timely
recognition. Prisoner was taken back to Canterbury the same afternoon.
As the fact of Mr. Turner's assistance in the capture of O'Burke in the
first place was not adduced at the preliminary trial, our representative
called on him on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of obtaining
particulars pertaining to this, which will no doubt be perused with
interest by our readers.
In reply to a question as to how he came to suspect the prisoner, Mr.
Turner said: on the Thursday night previous to the day on which O'Burke
was arrested, I was given a description of the prisoner by the police,
who stated him to be 5 ft. 9 in. in height, with a scraggy beard, and in
brown clothes. The following morning a man came in, who did not answer
this description in one point. He asked to be allowed to have a wash and
brush up, which I granted, and after ordering dinner he asked me if he
could have the use of a room in order “to change his clothes before he
went to see the old folks”. He also asked me whether there was a
barber's shop about, and wished to see a daily paper. Despite the fact
he did not answer the description, something seemed to tell me that my
visitor was O'Burke. I mentioned the matter to my wife, who tried to
persuade me that I was wrong, but the conviction was so strong that I
determined to give information to the police. Slipping out by the back
way, I went to the police station, and told them that I believed O'Burke
to be at my house, but that he did not answer the description they gave
me. I then went back, and found prisoner just preparing to go. I kept
him in conversation for a few minutes, but he left before the police
arrived. As he went out he looked down the street and saw the police
sergeant coming up. Instead of turning into the barber's shop as he had
stated to be his intention, he kept on, and went up the steps leading
past the back of my house. When the sergeant came into the house, I told
him the way the prisoner had gone, and took him through my house, and he
thus effected O'Burke's arrest.
And I understand you got no credit for the arrest, Mr. Turner?
No. Not the least. My name was not mentioned in connection with the
matter.
That gave you very little encouragement to assist in his recapture. In
what manner was your attention drawn to O'Burke today?
Well, I happened to go to the door (which is a partially glass one), and
on looking through, you may conceive my astonishment on seeing O'Burke
pass. Considering how I had been treated before, I at first thought to
let him go, and take no trouble in the matter, but just at that time,
Mr. Baker, the Market Inspector, happened to pass, and I told him the
escaped prisoner from Canterbury had just gone up the street towards the
station. At his request I went with him to the Priory Station, where, on
my pointing out the man, he arrested him.
A reward of £5 was offered for the re-arrest of O'Burke, and we think
this has been justly earned by Mr. Turner, who speaks in high terms of
the courtesy shown him on Wednesday by Superintendent Sanders.
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Folkestone Express 9 January 1892.
Local News.
The man O'Burke, alias Toomer, who was awaiting trial at Canterbury gaol
for burglary at the Globe Hotel, Folkestone, and who escaped from prison
a few days before the Assizes, was recaptured at Dover on Wednesday
under strange circumstances. It will be remembered that after the
burglary a man named Turner, an eating house keeper at Dover, was
instrumental in effecting his capture. O'Burke had stowed himself away
on board the France, which left London docks, but he was discovered and
put ashore at Dover. He was passing the eating house of Turner, on his
way to the Priory Station, about one o'clock on Wednesday, when Turner
recognised and followed him. At the station Turner pointed prisoner out
to Market Inspector Baker, and he was at once arrested. The prisoner had
4s. in his pocket, and was no doubt anxious to get away as soon as
possible from such a dangerous neighbourhood. He was taken to Canterbury
by the two o'clock train and safely lodged in prison.
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Folkestone Herald 9 January 1892.
Local News.
O'Burke, alias Thomas Toomey (sic), who was committed for trial at the
Assizes for burglary at the Globe Hotel, (a piece of the report torn
here) eluded the warders and escaped from Canterbury Prison, was
captured at Dover on Wednesday last. It will be remembered that the
prisoner was arrested at the last named place through the
instrumentality of an eating house proprietor named Turner. From the
time the prisoner escaped from gaol no trace whatever could be found of
him, in spite of searches and enquiries instituted by the police
authorities, until Wednesday, when by a strange coincidence he was
detected by the same person at Dover. It appears that the prisoner
succeeded in getting to the London Docks and secreted himself on board
the American liner, France. He was, however, discovered when the vessel
was in the Channel, and sent ashore at Dover, where he had not been long
before he was recognised by Turner. The prisoner has been removed again
to Canterbury Gaol.
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Folkestone Chronicle 20 February 1892.
Local News.
Before the County Magistrates at Canterbury, Edmund O'Burke was charged
with having committed damage in Her Majesty's Prison at Canterbury,
while confined there awaiting trial for a burglary at Folkestone.
Mr. R.M. Mercer prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury.
The evidence of the prison Governor (Mr. R.W, Chidley) went to show that
O'Burke disappeared from his cell one night in December. During the two
months he had occupied the cell he had succeeded in loosening the screws
of an iron grating communicating with the ventilation shaft and removed
the bricks from the interior of the wall, which was two feet in
thickness. By dropping the debris into the ventilator and re-fixing the
grating every morning, no trace was observable of the damage until after
the night of the escape, when it was found he had broken the remaining
crust of the wall inside and out, and crawling through, had managed, by
means of a scaffold pole, to scale the exterior wall. He made his way to
London and secreted himself on an outward-bound vessel, but was
discovered and put ashore at Dover. There, by a remarkable coincidence,
he was noticed by the individual who had previously been the medium of
his capture, and he was, after a month's liberty, again incarcerated.
The Magistrates committed the prisoner for trial for prison breaking.
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Folkestone Express 20 February 1892.
Local News.
At the Central Criminal Court on Friday, three men, two named Milligan
and one named Martin, were charged with wounding Henry Smith, a
constable, with intent to murder him. The allegation was that the three
prisoners were surprised while committing a robbery at the Maze Hill
Station of the South Eastern Railway, on the 4th January. Martin, it was
contended, was in bed at the time, and the witnesses had made a mistake,
the real man being a man named Toomey, who was committed for burglary at
Folkestone, escaped from Canterbury gaol, and was at large on the 4th
January. Martin was acquitted, and the others sentenced, one to fifteen
years, and the other to seven years penal servitude. Toomey, it seems,
made his escape, and got on board an outward bound vessel, from which,
it will be remembered, he was put ashore at Dover, and re-apprehended.
At the St. Augustine's Petty Sessions on Saturday, Edmund O'Burke, who
is confined in St. Augustine's gaol, awaiting trial for burglary at
Folkestone, was brought up in custody, charged with having wilfully
broken a quantity of bricks in the wall of Her Majesty's Prison,
Canterbury.
Mr. R.M. Mercer prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury, and stated that
the accused was brought to prison in October on a warrant, charged with
having committed burglary at Folkestone. He was confined in a cell on A
wing, on the first tier. On the 30th of November, he was seen in his
cell in the evening, and his safety could be proved. In the morning,
however, at about five o'clock, he was gone. Mr. Mercer went on to
explain that in the right hand further corner of the cell were two
wooden shelves fitted in the wall. One of them was only 10 or 12 inches
from the ground. Under this shelf was an iron grating communicating with
the ventilation shaft. The grate was closely barred and fastened with
screws. These screws the prisoner appeared to have loosened. He also
picked out the bricks and dropped them down the ventilating shaft, thus
making no mess in the cell. The grating was evidently replaced every
morning before the warder visited the cell. Having completed the
destruction of the wall and left a thin layer of bricks inside and also
outside, he finally broke away the shelf, and, picking away the inside
crust, made a hole big enough to get through. Taking his bedding with
him, he went round to the back of the prison and got on to the top of
the shops. He moved some slates, evidently with the idea of getting some
of the tools out, but unfortunately for the prisoner there was a boarded
ceiling to the shops under the roof. Then he went opposite to the female
department, where some building operations were going on, and on getting
one of the scaffold poles went round to the back of the debtors' prison
where there is a low wall. By means of the pole he got over the wall,
leaving his bed inside. He was not recaptured until the 6th January.
Mr. Robert William Chidley, Governor of Canterbury Prison, deposed that
the prisoner was received in custody in October for burglary at
Folkestone, on a warrant dated 7th October. Witness saw prisoner on the
30th November, soon after ten in the morning. In the further corner of
the cell were two shelves, one about ten inches from the floor.
Underneath was an iron ventilator, which passed under the cell floor. It
was secured with screws. On the 7th December, in consequence of a
report, witness examined the cell. Witness found the shaft had been
removed. The ventilator was left it it's proper position, but one screw
had been loosened. There was a large hole in the wall going right
through to the outside. That was caused by the removal of bricks, which
laid on the cell floor. The hole was only just large enough for a man to
pass through. There were small pieces of wood, which appeared to have
been used for the purpose of working away the mortar. There were some
bricks in the shaft between the cell wall and the outside wall. There
were no bricks in the yard outside. From the utside to the inside he
should say the wall was about 2 ft. thick, including the shaft. There
were some scaffold poles near the female prison. His attention was drawn
to a scaffold pole which had been placed against the exterior wall, and
also the blankets and bedding of the prisoner's cell. Prisoner was
received back on the 6th January. On the 8th February he served the
prisoner with a notice that he would be brought before the magistrates
for breaking out of prison. He explained to him that he could consult a
solicitor if he felt inclined, communicate with his friend, and write
letters, etc., for his defence, the same as if he were outside the
prison.
Walter Harrison Wall deposed that he locked the prisoner up in his cell
at 8.20 on the evening mentioned. At 5.30 the watchman rang witness's
alarm bell unusually loud, and on going down the watchman made a report
to him of the removal of a scaffold pole. Witness sent him to look at
all the walls, but he could not find it. Witness himself went round, and
saw the scaffold pole against the exterior wall. When the officers came
at six o'clock, witness sent a warder round to examine every cell. A
report was made to him that a hole had been found in the wall, and also
that the prisoner had gone. He was at the gate on the 6th January at
three o'clock in the afternoon, and received the prisoner back from
Superintendent Sanders, of Dover. Prisoner asked him when the Assizes
would be held, and witness said he did not know.
Prisoner was committed for trial at the Assizes.
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Folkestone Express 12 March 1892.
Kent assizes.
At the Assizes on Monday, Edmund O'Burke, 24, tailor, was charged with
feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house
of Thomas Hall, and stealing therein a Bank of England note of the value
of £5, the sum of £36 6s. in money, a pocket book and a silver watch and
chain, the monies and goods of the said Thomas Hall, at Folkestone, on
the 30th September, 1891. Prisoner was further charged with breaking out
of H.M. Prison at Canterbury by breaking, cutting, and removing a
quantity of bricks from a part of a wall on the 30th November, 1891.
Prisoner pleaded Guilty to both charges. Mr. D'Eyncourt, who prosecuted,
gave particulars of the offence prisoner had committed, and proceeded to
describe how and by what means he had tried to escape from the gaol.
Prisoner admitted a previous conviction in 1878, and was now sentenced
to seven years' penal servitude.
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Folkestone Herald 12 March 1892.
Local News.
Edward O'Burke, the young tailor, 24, who broke into the Globe Hotel in
this town, and stole a £5 note, the sum of £36 6s. in money, a pocket
book, and a silver watch and chain, the moneys and goods of Thomas Hall,
on the 30th Sept., 1891, and who was further charged with breaking out
of H.M. prison at Canterbury, pleaded Guilty at the Canterbury Assizes
last week to both charges. He also admitted a previous conviction in
1878, and was now sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
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Sandgate Visitors' List 12 March 1892.
Local News.
Edmund O'Bourke, the man who burglariously entered the Globe Hotel,
Folkestone, was at the Maidstone Assizes on Monday sentenced to seven
years penal servitude.
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Folkestone Express 9 April 1892.
Transfers.
Wednesday, April 6th: Before H.W. Poole, J. Brooke and W.G. Herbert
Esqs.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was transferred to Mr. W. Rickett.
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Folkestone Express 23 April 1892.
Transfer.
Wednesday, April 20th: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Pledge, Sherwood and
Dunk, J. Fitness, J. Holden, Geo. Spurgen and W. Wightwick Esqs.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was transferred to Mr. M.H. Ricketts.
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Folkestone Chronicle 31 May 1895.
Local News.
Mr. Charles Sparrow, late of the Railway Tavern, has entered upon the
tenancy of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, and business at this old house is
looking up in the hands of the new tenant, whose sporting and other
friends are very numerous. By going to the Globe now one can see a
lively Sparrow and get a very refreshing swallow at the same time.
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Folkestone Express 1 June 1895.
Saturday, May 25th: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Pledge and Sherwood, J.
Holden and J. Fitness Esqs.
Temporary authority to sell at the Globe Hotel was granted to Mr.
Charles Sparrow.
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Folkestone Chronicle 7 June 1895.
Local News.
At the Borough Police Court on Wednesday the temporary licence granted
to Mr. C. Sparrow to sell at the Globe Hotel was extended to the next
special licensing day.
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Folkestone Express 8 June 1895.
Wednesday, June 5th: Before C.J. Pursey and W. Wightwick Esqs.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was transferred to Mr. C. Sparrow.
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Folkestone Express 25 April 1896.
Wednesday, April 21st: Before J. Pledge and T.J. Vaughan Esqs.
An occasional licence was granted to Mr. C. Sparrow to sell refreshments
on the Football Field on the occasion of the Fire Brigade Tournament on
the 29th.
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Folkestone Express 21 August 1897.
Saturday, August 14th: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Salter, Spurgen and
Pledge, and T.J. Vaughan and J. Holden Esqs.
Joseph Charles Pettifer applied for temporary authority to sell at the
Globe Hotel, The Bayle, and it was granted.
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Folkestone Visitors' List 16 February 1898.
Kaleidoscope.
On Monday morning at the Folkestone Police Court E.W. Prebble and J.
Inglis were charged with stealing a quantity of furniture from the
residence of the Hon. Ralph P. Nevill, at 2, Clifton Crescent, on
various occasions since the month of October last, from which date the
tenants have been absent. The case was adjourned until Monday next. It
is expected that evidence will then be given of a surprising character.
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Folkestone Chronicle 19 February 1898.
Monday, February 14th: Before Messrs. J. Hoad, J. Holden, J. Pledge, and
T.J. Vaughan.
Ernest Prebble and George Inglis were charged with stealing a large
quantity of furniture, bedding, etc., from 2, Clifton Crescent, the
property of the Hon. Ralph Pelham Neville, over the value of £5, at
divers times since October last.
Walter Richford Warner, landlord of the Clarence Hotel, Dover Road, said
he remembered Prebble coming to the house about a fortnight ago. Witness
knew him as a customer. He offered a writing table (produced) for sale.
Witness saw it outside in charge of Inglis. Prebble asked 12s, for it,
but witness declined to buy. On Saturday, January 29th, witness was
called into his private bar by his wife about 7 o'clock, and saw the two
prisoners there with a man named Welch. Inglis had two blankets under
his arm, and offered them for sale for 5s. They said they bought them at
a sale. He told them he knew a party who would be glad of them, and
recommended them to Mrs. O'Brien.
By Inglis: He could not swear which one said he had been to a sale.
Mrs. Minnie O'Brien, widow, 45, Bournemouth Road, said two men came to
her house on February 29th at 7.30 p.m. One of them asked her to buy a
pair of blankets, saying Mr. Warner had sent him. He said he was selling
them for Prebble, the upholsterer. Witness purchased them for 5s. She
handed them to P.S. Lilley on Saturday.
Inglis: I brought the blankets, and said I was selling them for Prebble.
Albert Jenner, 42, Sidney Street, carter, said about seven on the 25th
February he saw Inglis near the Globe Hotel on The Bayle. He asked if
witness would buy a table, but he declined. Witness saw Prebble in the
Globe, and said he was hard up. He saw the table in the garden of the
hotel. Witness gave him 5s. for it. Witness gave the table up to P.S.
Lilley the previous day.
Mary Lomax, 26, Bradstone Road, said he had been engaged at 2, Clifton
Crescent since October. Witness did not live in the house, but went once
a week to keep it clean. The house was furnished, and witness missed
articles from it almost every week, and informed Mr. Goldsack at Mr.
Sherwood's office. She identified the articles produced as those missed.
She always got the keys from Mr. Sherwood's and returned them to him.
She identified the blankets and the tables produced. The former had the
name of Neville on a piece of tape, but it had been cut off. She always
found the door locked, but it appeared to her that someone had entered
by the back door, as there were marks of feet. She had bolted the back
door, but had found it unbolted.
Superintendent Taylor asked for a remand for a week, which was granted,
in order that other goods might be traced.
Inglis said he was innocent, and Prebble could clear him if he liked.
Supt. Taylor strongly opposed bail being granted, but the Bench decided
to accept two sureties for each prisoner in £25 each, and themselves in
£50 each. Failing to get bail, prisoners were remanded in custody.
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Folkestone Up To Date 19 February 1898.
Monday, February 14th: Before J. Hoad, J. Holden, J. Pledge, and T.J.
Vaughan Esqs.
Ernest William Prebble and George Inglis, two young men, were charged
with stealing two birch tables, a pair of blankets, a pair of china
figures, one despatch box, and other articles of furniture, &c., the
property of the Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill, from 2, Clifton Crescent. The
prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
Walter Richard Warner said: I am landlord of the Clarence Hotel, Dover
Road. It was about the third week in January that Prebble came as a
customer into the private bar, where I was at the time. He asked me if I
wanted to buy a writing table. I followed him outside the house, when he
showed me a polished writing table which was standing just off the
curbstone in front of my house. Inglis was in charge of the table. I
looked at it, and Prebble said “That is cheap for 12s.” Inglis said
nothing. I remember Saturday evening, the 29th ult. I was called into my
private bar by my wife about seven o'clock, when I saw the two prisoners
and a man of the name of Welsh. They were apparently accompanying one
another. Inglis was carrying two blankets, and offered them for sale at
5s. I asked if the things were all right, and where the prisoners had
got them from, and Inglis said they had been to a sale. I said I knew a
friend of ours who would be very glad of them, Mrs. O'Bryan, 45,
Bournemouth Road. The three men then left, carrying the blankets with
them.
By Inglis: I think it was you who said you had been to a sale, but am
not quite sure. It was either you or Prebble.
Minnie O'Bryan: I am a widow, living at 45, Bournemouth Road. I remember
Saturday, the 24th, about 7.30 p.m. I was called to the front door by a
knock. The passage was dark, and I cannot identify the man, but a man
came and asked me if I would buy two blankets. He said he came from Mr.
Warner, of the Clarence Hotel. I asked him the price, and he said he
would sell them for 5s. I bought them for that sum and paid him. I have
since handed them to Sergeant Lilley.
Inglis: Did not I say they were all right or I should not have brought
them to you?
Witness: I believe you did.
Alfred Jenner, of 42, Sidney Street, said: On Friday, the 28th January,
in the evening, I was near the Globe Hotel at The Bayle, when Inglis
came and asked me if I would buy a table. He was not carrying anything.
I told him a table was of no use to me, and he asked some people who
were standing near. I shortly afterwards went into the bar of the hotel,
where I saw Prebble, who said he was hard up and wanted money. Before I
went to the bar, Inglis had pointed out a birch table to me. Inglis said
he was trying to sell for Prebble. Eventually Prebble sold me the table,
and I took it away. I have since given it up to the police.
Mary Lomax, wife of Henry Lomax, 26, Bradstone Road, said: I was engaged
to look after 2, Clifton Crescent in the absence of the family, and to
look after the house once a week, dust it, and keep it aired. I first
went there the last week of October. The first week I was there two or
three days, and I have continued going there up to the present time. I
obtained the keys from Mr. Sherwood. Nearly every time I went I seemed
to miss something either from the dining room or the library. The first
thing I missed was a rug. That might be in November or later on. I
informed Mr. Sherwood's clerk (Mr. Goldsack) when I returned the keys. I
missed a large number of things from the house. I identify the blankets
and tables produced. I found the back door unbolted on several
occasions, but it was always locked with a key. I never found a window
open. The back door lock was in bad condition. I always locked the front
door. I had no difficulty with it.
Supt. Taylor then asked for a remand.
Inglis asked for bail, and said that Prebble could prove his innocence
if he liked to speak out.
Supt. Taylor opposed bail on the ground that Inglis had no settled
residence and the robberies had been of a most extensive character.
The prisoners were remanded for seven days, bail being allowed to
Inglis, himself in £50, and two sureties in £25 each.
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Folkestone Visitors' List 23 February 1898.
Kaleidoscope.
At the Folkestone Police Court on Monday morning, E.W. Prebble and J.
Inglis, who were remanded on the previous Monday, were again brought up
on a charge of stealing a quantity of furniture at various times from
No. 2, Clifton Crescent, the summer residence of the Hon. Ralph P.
Nevill. Further incriminating evidence was given, and the prisoners were
committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions for the Borough, bail
being allowed.
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Folkestone Chronicle 26 February 1898.
Monday, February 21st: Before Messrs, J. Hoad, J. Holden, and J.
Fitness.
Ernest William Prebble and George Inglis were charged on remand with
stealing a large quantity of furniture, bedding, etc., from 2, Clifton
Crescent, the property of the Hon. Ralph Pelham Neville. Mr. Haines
appeared for Inglis.
The evidence of Mr. Warner, given last week, was read over. Mrs. Lomax's
evidence was also read, and she was cross-examined by Mr. Haines. He
elicited that the articles had been missed since the beginning of
November. When she informed Mr. Goldsack, he thought the goods had been
taken away for repair.
Francis Poulston, manager, West End Poultry Stores, said he recognised
Prebble as the man he bought a table of after Christmas. He asked 10s.
for it, and witness gave him 7s. 6d. A week later he purchased a copper
stock pot of him. He asked 10s., and said he was very hard up. Witness
gave him 6s. for it. He did not know Prebble, and he did not give any
name. A few weeks after, Prebble brought a clock, saying he bought it at
a sale. Ultimately witness gave him 10s. for it, although he asked 15s.
He said he got his living attending sales, in reply to a question of
witness's. On Christmas Eve witness purchased a table from a man named
Minnis. Prebble said his things came from the same sale.
By Mr. Haines: He believed he gave Minnis £1 for the table.
The Bench declined to admit the evidence as to Minnis as it did not
affect Inglis in any way.
Joseph Charles Pettifer, landlord of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, said he
knew both prisoners as customers. He purchased a dilapidated chair from
Prebble about January 3rd, and believed he gave 6s. for it. About a week
later Prebble offered him a clock. He declined to buy, as he did not
know if it kept time. Prebble left it for five or six days, and then
witness gave him 15s. for it. Prebble and Inglis came together a few
days after. Prebble took no part in the sale. Prebble came later with a
table and a stationery case. He was accompanied by a man named Welch,
whom witness knew had just left the Royal Artillery. He bought the
articles for 15s. Shortly afterwards he bought an armchair from Prebble
for 4s. or 6s. He knew Prebble was the son of an upholsterer in the
town, and believed the articles belonged to him. He said his father
often had good old furniture to sell, and would let witness know when he
had any. Witness handed all the articles to the police.
P.S. Lilley said he arrested Prebble at the Globe Hotel on the 12th
inst. Inglis and several others were present. He cautioned Prebble, and
asked him where he got the things he sold to Miss Beasley in Dover Road.
At first he denied selling any, and then said he got them from his own
house. He made no reply when charged. On the way to the station, Prebble
ran away in Rendezvous Street, but witness caught him. When charged at
the police station by Supt. Taylor, prisoner said he sold the articles
for a gentleman in London, and had a letter to say he would be down
shortly. Witness searched him, and found on him a bunch of small keys
and a large door key. Prebble endeavoured to conceal the latter. He said
they were his. The large key fitted the lock of the back door of 2,
Clifton Crescent, the key of which was missing. About five o'clock on
the same day, the prisoner Inglis went to the police station and said “I
hear you want me, Sergeant Lilley”. Witness replied “Not just yet”.
Pointing to the inkstand, Inglis said “I know something about that, and
I can tell you where you can get some of the things. I sold two blankets
in Bournemouth Road, and was with Prebble when he sold some things at
the Globe, a shop in Bouverie Road, and a shop in Dover Road”. After
making inquiries, witness arrested Inglis on the 13th. Both prisoners
were charged with being concerned in the thefts. Inglis said “I'm as
innocent as an unborn babe”. Prebble said “He knows nothing about it”.
Whilst taking Prebble back to the cells, he said he should like to give
some information. After being cautioned, he told witness where several
articles were, and witness recovered them. Only about half a dozen
articles were now missing.
By Mr. Haines: I had searched Inglis's house and had found no stolen
property. The information he gave voluntarily was quite correct.
Marion Stockfort, housekeeper at 2, Clifton Crescent, identified all the
articles produced as the property of the Hon. Ralph Nevill. She said the
family had not occupied the house since September, 1896. From July, 1897
till September 24th Mr. Beddington occupied the house. On Oct. 1st
witness went over the house and everything appeared all right. Witness
estimated the value of the articles at about £40.
Mr. Haines submitted that there was no evidence of stealing against
Inglis. He merely assisted Prebble to carry some heavy articles. Two
other men had sold articles for Prebble, but they were not charged.
Inglis went to the police as soon as he knew anything was wrong, and
gave what information he could.
The Bench committed both prisoners for trial at the Quarter Sessions.
They offered Inglis bail – two sureties in £10, and himself in £25.
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Folkestone Chronicle 9 April 1898.
Quarter Sessions.
Wednesday, April 6th: Before Theodore Matthew Esq.
Ernest Prebble, 28, French polisher, was charged with breaking and
entering the dwelling house of the Hon. Ralph Nevill and stealing a
quantity of furniture, of value £30. Charles Inglis, 32, groom, was
similarly charged, and was further charged with receiving the goods,
well knowing them to be stolen. Prebble pleaded Guilty, saying “I am
guilty, but this man is innocent”. Inglis pleaded Not Guilty. Mr.
Mavrogani, instructed by Mr. J. Minter, prosecuted, and Mr. Bowles
defended.
Mr. Mavrogani went over the case briefly against Inglis.
Walter Warner, Minnie O'Brien, Robert Jenner, Jos. Pettifer, Mary Lomax,
and Mrs. Stockford repeated their evidence given before the magistrates
and reported at the time.
P.S. Lilley deposed as to the arrest of Inglis, when he said he was
innocent. He had given the police every assistance in tracing the goods.
Mr. Bowles submitted that there was no evidence to go to the jury
against Inglis as to housebreaking. As to receiving also, there was no
evidence to show a guilty knowledge. He merely acted as porter to
Prebble, who was the son of a well-known furniture dealer in the town.
Mr. Mavrogani said he should abandon the charge as to housebreaking, but
he contended that there was evidence as to receiving, as the goods were
sold for such low prices.
Mr. Bowles submitted that that had nothing to do with Inglis, as Prebble
did the dealing.
Mr. Matthew said he could not say there was no evidence to go to the
jury. It was for them to say if there was a guilty knowledge.
Mr. Mavrogani replied, with a view to showing that Inglis had a guilty
knowledge.
Mr. Bowles, at the suggestion of a juryman, produced a business card of
the prisoner Prebble, showing he was a dealer.
Mr. Pettifer, re-called, produced a similar card.
Mr. Bowles addressed the jury, denying that the prosecution had produced
a tittle of evidence showing that Inglis knew the goods were stolen. He
merely carried furniture about for Prebble. Others had done the same,
yet they were not charged. If he was guilty, were they not equally so?
In summing up, the Deputy Recorder said the only thing the jury had to
consider was whether Inglis knew the goods were stolen. He pointed out
some circumstances which might be suspicious in the course of the
dealing, and also the weakness of the evidence against him in many ways.
If the jury believed Inglis only acted stupidly, then he must be
acquitted; but if they thought he acted guiltily he must be convicted.
If any doubt existed, he must be given the benefit of it.
The jury considered for a minute, and found Inglis Not Guilty. There was
some applause at the verdict.
The Deputy Recorder said he quite concurred in the verdict. He hoped
Inglis would not act so stupidly in the future. He was then discharged.
Prebble said it was his first offence,, and, as he had already been in
prison two months, he asked to be leniently dealt with.
Mr. Mavrogani said there was nothing previously against Prebble, and his
father was a most respectable tradesman in the town.
Mr. Matthew said the offence was a very serious one, but it was
prisoner's first. He would be sentenced to three months' imprisonment
with hard labour.
The prisoner: Thank you, sir.
The goods were ordered to be given up to the Hon. Ralph Nevill.
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Folkestone Herald 9 April 1898.
Quarter Sessions.
Wednesday, April 6th: Before Theodore Matthew Esq.
Ernest William Prebble, described as a French polisher, aged 28, of
imperfect education, and George Inglis, a groom, aged 32, and also of
imperfect education, the latter surrendering to his bail, were indicted
for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of the Hon.
Ralph Pelham Nevill, and stealing therein twelve chairs, seven tables,
one stationery case, etc., together value £30, the goods of the Hon.
Ralph Pelham Nevill, on the 29th January last, at Folkestone. Inglis,
and with receiving the same knowing them to have been stolen.
The prisoner Prebble pleaded Guilty, and said “This man (meaning Inglis)
is innocent”. Inglis pleaded Not Guilty on each count. Mr. Mavrogani
appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bowles for Inglis.
The facts have been already fully reported in the Herald.
Inglis was acquitted; Prebble was sentenced to three months' hard
labour.
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Folkestone Up To Date 9 April 1898.
Quarter Sessions.
Wednesday, April 6th: Before Mr. Theobald Matthew.
Ernest William Prebble, 28. French polisher, and George Inglis, 32,
groom, were charged with feloniously breaking into and entering the
dwelling house of the Hon. Ralph Neville, and stealing therefrom twelve
chairs, seven tables, one stationery case, etc., together value £30, the
property of the Hon. Ralph Pelham Neville, on the 29th January, and on
other dates, at Folkestone. Mr. Mavrogani appeared for the prosecution,
and Mr. Bowles for the prisoners.
When asked to plead, Prebble said: I am Guilty. This man (Inglis) is
innocent.
Inglis: Not Guilty.
Mr. Mavrogani, in stating the case to the jury, said: You have heard the
charge against the prisoners of housebreaking and stealing from the
house, No. 2, Clifton Crescent, articles of which we have just heard
read. Inglis is charged together with Prebble, who has just pleaded
Guilty of the same offence. The facts of the case, shortly, are as
follows: Prebble and the prisoner Inglis for some time past in the month
of January went about stealing furniture, and subsequently it was
discovered that this furniture had been taken from an unoccupied house
at Clifton Crescent. Prebble, as you have heard, has pleaded Guilty to
the offence, and the only question for you to decide is as to whether
Inglis is also Guilty. Prebble, I may tell you at once, has said that
Inglis is innocent of the charge. As regards Inglis, the case for the
prosecution is that about the third week in January, Prebble and he went
to Mr. Warner, the landlord of the Clarence Inn, and offered writing
table for sale. There was some bargaining about the table, as Mr. Warner
did not want it. He asked them where they had got it, and one of them,
Inglis, I think, said “We have been to a sale”. He told them with regard
to some blankets which they had also been offering him that they might
take them to a Mrs. O'Bryan, who perhaps wanted them. Accordingly Inglis
took the blankets to Mrs. O'Bryan and sold them to her for 5s. On the
28th January, Inglis went to a Mr. Jenner and asked him if he would buy
the table. The only other evidence against Inglis is that he was seen
about with Prebble carrying the table, which was sold to a Mr. Pettifer.
Gentlemen, the only question for you to decide is whether Inglis, when
carrying these goods about, and when assisting Prebble to dispose of
them, knew that they were stealing them, although he did not take any
part in the transaction, and I may tell you that when Prebble was
arrested, Inglis apparently heard of it, and immediately went to the
police and said “I hear you want me, Sergeant Lilley”, addressing the
sergeant, and the sergeant said “No, I don't want you at present”. So
Inglis went to the police before the police had any charge against him,
and afterwards, when he was charged, he said “I am as innocent as the
babe unborn”, and Prebble said in his presence “Inglis knows nothing
about it”. These are the facts that I am going to prove, and when they
are proved it will be for you to say whether you think the prisoner is
guilty or not.
The following evidence was then called:
Walter Warner said: I am the landlord of the Clarence Inn, Folkestone.
In January, the prisoner Inglis came with a writing table. I did not buy
it. Shortly afterwards I saw Inglis again. He came with two blankets.
Both prisoners were together, and there was another man. I spoke to the
three. I told them where to go if they wanted to get rid of the blanket.
They went to a Mrs. O'Bryan.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bowles: I saw nothing strange in the fact that
Inglis was carrying the table. I could not swear that Inglis said they
had been to a sale. When they came again, Prebble did the talking.
Minnie O'Bryan said: I am a widow, living at 45, Bournemouth Road. I
remember on the 29th of January a man (Inglis) bringing me some
blankets. He came to the door, and told me he was selling them for an
upholsterer. He told me to go to the last witness for reference. I did
not know that Prebble was a dealer. I bought the blankets, and gave 5s.
for them.
By Mr. Matthew: I do not often buy blankets; 5s. was a good price to
give for them, because they were second hand.
Mr. Matthew advised the witness to be more careful for the future in
buying second hand goods.
Alfred Jenner said: I am a carter, living at 41, Sidney Street. I
remember seeing the prisoner Prebble on the 28th January. He asked me to
buy a table. Inglis fetched it for me, and I bought it. I gave 5s. for
it. I did not know that Prebble was a furniture dealer.
By Mr. Bowles: I thought it was quit a natural transaction. Prebble was
not there.
By Mr. Matthew: I do not often buy furniture and know very little about
it.
Mr. Matthew: I should advise you not to buy any more.
Joseph Pettifer: I am the landlord of the Globe Inn. I have only known
the prisoners a few months. Inglis offered me a table. Prebble brought
it, and Inglis carried it for him. Prebble came in with all the things,
and they were always carried by Inglis, who brought the table on the
10th January. The clock was brought by Prebble about the 8th or 9th
January. There was nobody with him then. Prebble sold the table himself.
Inglis was with him.
By Mr. Bowles: The prisoner Inglis looked to me as though he were a
hired man, carrying the furniture for Prebble. I did not think there was
much wrong with a dealer having a man to carry goods for him.
By Mr. Matthew: I gave 15s. for the clock. I rather objected to take the
clock without I had time given to test it, and I got a week's time. I
gave 6s, for the chair produced, 16s. for the card table, 12s. for the
other table behind and from 4s. to 6s. for the framework of a chair. I
do not think I got the goods extra cheap. I bought them as second hand
articles. The table was out of repair. I had not the slightest suspicion
that the goods had been stolen.
Mrs. Lomax, wife of Henry Lomax, No. 6, Bradstone Road: I used to go to
the Hon. Mr. Neville's house at Clifton Crescent to dust. There is a
garden to the house, and an iron gate with a lock. When I went to the
house I used to unlock the garden gate, and then the door of the house.
I have frequently missed things from the house, and identify articles
produced. I never left the house without locking or bolting the door.
By Mr. Bowles: I do not identify the prisoner Inglis. I have never seen
him near the premises.
By Mr. Matthew: Prebble has been in the habit of visiting the house, but
he was not visiting it while the things were missed, to my knowledge.
Marian Stockford: I am housekeeper to the Hon. Mr. Neville. The family
left the house in 1897. Last October I went over the house and saw
everything in order. The things produced were all missing property.
P.S. Lilley: I am a police sergeant of the Borough. I saw Inglis the day
that I apprehended Prebble. I was at the police station about five
o'clock on the evening of February 12th, when Inglis came to me and said
“I sold some of the articles at a shop on the Dover Road, and another on
the Bouverie Road”. Inglis then went away, but was apprehended on the
next day. I charged both prisoners together.
By Mr. Bowles: Inglis made a statement voluntarily I had previously
searched his rooms.
This evidence closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Bowles (addressing Mr. Matthew) said: I humbly submit that there is
no charge whatever against Inglis. As to the charge of housebreaking,
there is no evidence whatever to go to a jury. As to the other count of
receiving, I again submit that there has been no evidence that Inglis
had any guilty knowledge. Inglis was simply working as a porter for a
well-known man in the town, who was in business as a furniture dealer,
and had parents in the same line of business. He was therefore perfectly
entitled to take the position of porter, and to work for Prebble. Nor
has it been proved that he had a knowledge whence the furniture came.
Mr. Mavrogani: As to the housebreaking, I do not intend to proceed, but
with regard to the count of receiving I submit that there is evidence to
go to the jury.
Mr. Matthew (to Mr. Bowles): What do you say as to the evidence on the
second count? The goods are proved to have been stolen and sold at an
unreasonable price.
Mr. Bowles: As far as the receiving goes, it is Prebble who did the
dealing.
Mr. Matthew: If the jury think that, well and good, but I cannot say
that there is no evidence to go to a jury.
Mr. Mavrogani then addressed the jury. He said: The only question for
you to decide is whether Inglis received these goods knowing them to
have been stolen. Did he know these goods were being taken from Clifton
Crescent? We have heard that shortly after these things were missed they
were being hawked about Folkestone in a way that did not excite any
suspicion, because it happened that the father of the prisoner Prebble
was a furniture dealer. It is for you to say whether the man that
Prebble employed knew that the goods were being taken wrongfully from
this house, or whether he thought that they were goods that he had in
the shop. With regard to that there is one rather significant point.
When the table and the blankets were taken to Mr. Warner, you will
remember that there were three men there, the two prisoners and another
man, and one of them said “We have been to a sale”. It is entirely a
question for your consideration whether that was an explanation of the
prisoners outside the inn that the furniture was furniture they had
bought. If Inglis told a lie about that furniture, or acquiesced in the
telling of a lie by any person, I submit that there is evidence of his
knowing where the furniture really came from. Then you have the fact
that as soon as he knew Prebble had been arrested, Inglis went to the
police station. It may be that Inglis was anxious to give all the
information he could. It might also be that he knew his own arrest was
merely a matter of time, and that he went there entirely to save
trouble.
Mr. Bowles (addressing the jury) said: I shall not keep you very long on
the subject. You have heard that the charge of housebreaking has been
withdrawn. Therefore the only fact you have to deal with is the fact of
receiving goods well knowing them to have been stolen. In order to be
successful, the case against Inglis ought to be proved up to the hilt.
Has my learned friend brought any evidence to show that there was a
guilty knowledge on the part of Inglis as to the place from which the
stolen goods came? A furniture dealer in the position of Prebble might
be quite justified in engaging an assistant like Inglis to take
furniture round. Every tradesman has to employ somebody when moving
about furniture. What on Earth was there to prove that Prebble had got
the furniture dishonestly? A man taking work from Prebble had reason to
believe that he was an honest dealer. Inglis was only working as
Prebble's servant. Whenever there is any dealing you will find that
Prebble does all the talking. Inglis was never in it in any way whatever
so as to incriminate himself. There was nothing incriminating about him.
I addressed the Deputy Recorder on the ground that there was not
sufficient evidence to go before a jury. The Deputy Recorder thought
there was, but I repeat that there is nothing to show that Inglis
necessarily knew that the things were stolen.
Mr. Matthew, in addressing the jury, said: You have been told quite
properly that there is only one matter to be proved, and that is whether
the prisoner Inglis received these goods knowing them to have been
stolen. Prebble you can dismiss from your minds altogether because he
has pleaded guilty, and the learned counsel for the prosecution has not
thought it proper to proceed with the more serious charge against
Inglis. Gentlemen, you have heard all the witnesses in the case, and I
know I have listened to them, but perhaps I may remind you shortly of
what it is that they speak, and what their evidence came to. Warner, as
far as the prisoner Inglis was concerned, said only this, that Prebble
and Inglis came to his place with a writing table. There is no doubt
that the writing table had been stolen from the Hon. Mr. Neville's
house, and that Inglis was then in possession of it. He was in
possession of it in company with Prebble, who we know had stolen it, and
they were offering it to Warner at a low price. Warner says he saw
Inglis a short time afterwards when Inglis had some blankets with him.
That was all that Warner said with regard to Inglis, except this, that
one member of the party – whether it was Inglis or Prebble or a third
man he did not say – had been to a sale, and had bought the blankets
there. Mr. Mavrogani, the counsel for the prosecution, asks you to say
that that is evidence against Inglis, evidence of his guilt, because he
was giving an untrue account of his possession of the goods. On the
other hand it is possible that Inglis did not make that statement. If
Prebble said he had been to a sale Inglis may or may not have known that
the statement was true, and therefore you must not rely upon that
particular piece of evidence as against Inglis. Mr. Bowles says it is
quite true that Inglis came with the stolen goods, but he knew that
Prebble was a furniture dealer, and that these goods may have been
Prebble's honestly. Prebble might have had the goods from his father's
premises, and so far as Inglis knew it was quite possible that the thing
was fair and square. The principal evidence against Inglis is that the
goods were offered and sold at a small price. Now I suppose it is left
to you to decide that perhaps Inglis did not know the price was small.
Perhaps he was not experienced in furniture dealing, and it was only a
matter in which Prebble was concerned, and Inglis only carried the
things as a hired man. You will probably consider that Inglis left
Warner's place and went to Mrs. O'Bryan and said that he was selling
some blankets for Prebble, an upholsterer, and I think we are justified
in calling attention to the fact and saying that it is not the sort of
thing a guilty man would do – tell a person where the goods came from. I
feel quite justified in relying upon that fact as an evidence of
innocence. Then came the witness Jenner, and he too said that Prebble
and Inglis came together on one occasion with a table, and on another
occasion with a clock. Inglis asked if Jenner would buy a table. You
have further the evidence of Mr. Pettifer and that of Sergeant Lilley,
who said Inglis fairly and honestly came and told the police where the
stolen things were to be found. He told the police about the blankets
and certain other things, and when the policeman went to Inglis's house
he found nothing incriminating. It may be therefore that Inglis acted
throughout perfectly honestly. He went about, as far as we know, in the
broad daylight. It has not been proved he shared in the profits Prebble
made in respect to these transactions. If you think that he only behaved
stupidly you will acquit him, but if you think the case against him has
been proved you will find him guilty.
A juryman: What was Inglis paid?
Mr. Matthew: We do not know anything about that. We have no evidence.
After a brief consideration of the case the jury returned a verdict of
Guilty against Prebble, and Inglis Not Guilty.
Mr. Matthew: Well, Inglis, the jury have done right in acquitting you.
You were very stupid in going about with this furniture, and you must be
very careful for the future, but I am sure you did not intend to do
anything criminal.
Prebble (to the Deputy Recorder): This is the first offence. I hope you
will deal leniently with me as I have been already in prison two months.
Mr. Matthew: Is there any previous conviction?
Mr. Mavrogani: Not that I know of.
Prebble then wished to call the Rev. Mr. Dale, but that gentleman did
not appear.
Mr. Matthew: I understand this is your first offence, but it is a
serious one. You have stolen a deal of property worth a lot of money,
and you have led another man into temptation. You have put that man
Inglis in very serious danger. However, it is your first offence, and I
must remember that in passing sentence. You are sentenced to three
months' hard labour.
Superintendent Taylor stated, in answer to Mr. Matthew, that unless he
was otherwise instructed, the furniture mentioned in the indictment
would be returned to the owner.
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Folkestone Visitors' List 13 April 1898.
Kaleidoscope.
At the Folkestone Quarter Sessions held at the Town Hall last Thursday,
Mr. Theobald Matthew acted as deputy for the Recorder.
The last case was the indictment of Ernest William Prebble and George
Inglis for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of the
Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill, at Clifton Crescent, Folkestone, and stealing
therefrom various articles of furniture. Prebble pleaded Guilty and also
stated that Inglis was innocent. Inglis pleaded innocent, and on the
evidence given by various witnesses the jury returned a verdict of
acquittal. Prebble pleaded that it was his first offence and asked for
leniency from the Court as he had already been two months in prison.
The Deputy Recorder, in passing sentence, said that it was a very
serious offence, and that the least he could do was to sentence him to
three months' imprisonment with hard labour. An order was made for the
restitution of the goods stolen to Mr. Nevill, the owner.
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Folkestone Express 20 May 1899.
Saturday, May 13th: Before Colonel Hamilton and J. Stainer Esq.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was provisionally transferred to Mr.
Faber.
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Folkestone Herald 3 June 1899.
Folkestone Police Court.
On Saturday last temporary authority was granted to Mr. Faber for the
Globe.
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Folkestone Up To Date 3 June 1899.
Saturday, May 27th: Before Col. Hamilton and J. Stainer Esq.
Mr. Carl Faber was granted the transfer of the Globe, on The Bayle.
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Folkestone Chronicle 17 June 1899.
Local News.
The following licence transfer has been granted: Globe Hotel, to Louis
Faber.
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Folkestone Express 17 June 1899.
Wednesday, June 14th: Before J. Hoad, W. Wightwick, J. Stainer, T.J.
Vaughan, J. Pledge, and W.G. Herbert Esqs.,
The licence of the Globe Hotel was transferred from Joseph Charles
Pettifer to Louis Faber.
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Folkestone Herald 17 June 1899.
Felix.
Whether it is a sign of general prosperity or otherwise there is quite a
“boom” in local public houses. There is scarcely a place which is not
being rebuilt or smartened up. I note in this connection that the
Shorncliffe Hotel, which for years was tenanted by the late Mr. Quested,
has now passed into the hands of Mr. Bull, of Folkestone, and that the
Globe Hotel, on The Bayle, is now held by Mr. Faber, who for a long
period of time was head waiter at the Queen's and also at the Lord
Warden and the Dover Castle Hotel, Dover. Mr. Faber ought to know
something of the business, and I shall be very much surprised if he does
not make things hum all round. The new White Lion at Cheriton, too,
admirably conducted by Mr. Sid Saunders, is a grand improvement to the
locality. Of course there are those in the world that would raze all
public houses to the ground, but when a publican conducts his business
in an honourable and respectable manner, then he is entitled to the
highest esteem. Mr. Saunders is one of these. He is essentially the
right man in a difficult place. His new bar is one of the largest in the
country, and is capable of accommodating a large number of customers.
The house is well fitted from top to bottom, and is a credit to the
builders. I note that Mr. Cliff Willars, the upholsterer of Folkestone,
has been entrusted with furnishing the bars, etc., and right well he has
carried out his work.
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Folkestone Herald 17 June 1899.
Folkestone Police Court.
On Wednesday the following transfer was granted: Globe Hotel, Mr. Louis
Carl Faber.
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Folkestone Up To Date 17 June 1899.
Transfer of Licence.
Wednesday, June 14th: Before J. Hoad, J. Pledge, W. Wightwick, T.J.
Vaughan, and J. Stainer Esqs.
Globe, The Bayle: Joseph Charles Pettifer to Louis Carl Faber.
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Folkestone Express 24 June 1899.
County Court.
Tuesday, June 20th: Before Judge Selfe.
Phillips v Pettifer: Mr. Watson, of Dover, for plaintiff, and Mr. Minter
for defendant. Claim £13 4s.
Plaintiff is a licensed valuer at 65, Biggin Street, Dover, and he was
instructed to make an inventory and valuation of the effects in the
Globe Hotel, Folkestone, for defendant. Plaintiff said he commenced the
work, and on that day he met Mr. Hayward, who was the valuer for the
opposite party. He had some conversation with Mr. Hayward and left. The
next he heard of the business was a letter from Mr. Faber, the new
tenant, and he went to see him. Mr. Faber told him that Mr. Pettifer had
thrown him over and taken on Messrs. Banks and Son, because he was
trying to get him out of the house and leaning to the side of the
brewers, Messrs. Leney and Co. He subsequently saw Mr. Pettifer, on whom
he called. He asked him when it would be convenient for him to complete
the work. Defendant said he would not be allowed to do any more because
he was acting on behalf of the brewers, and trying to bundle him out. He
produced the book, in which he made his entries at the valuation, and
also letters from Mr. Pettifer relating to the matter. He said an
agreement was as usual presented to Mr. Pettifer, drawn by Messrs.
Worsfold and Hayward, but he refused to sign it, on the ground that the
date was blank. The reason of that was that the date would be fixed to
suit the convenience of the outgoing tenant. He had valued all but the
bar fixtures and the stock. The usual commission was five percent on the
first £100, and 2½ on the remainder. The valuation of Messrs. Banks and
Son was £428.
In cross-examination by Mr. Minter, complainant said he represented
Messrs. Watts, spirit merchants of Deal, and had in that capacity
supplied Mr. Pettifer with spirits. He was in the habit of meeting Mr.
Hayward as opposing valuer but he never received any intimation from Mr.
Hayward of any change likely to take place in a public house. Mr.
Pettifer informed him that he was under notice to quit on the 24th May.
At that time he did not know Mr. Faber. He knew him later, but had not
taken any order from him for Messrs. Watts, although he believed Messrs.
Watts were supplying him. He requested Mr. Pettifer to sign the
agreement, leaving the date open. Mr. Pettifer refused, and said he
might be bundled out at any moment if he signed the agreement with the
date blank. He told him that was absolutely untrue. He made no notes
until the day fixed for making the inventory. He made his inventory in
the valuation book produced. Mr. Pettifer said his own furniture was
mixed up with the other, and he had not made up his mind what he was
going to take. That was before he made his official valuation – sometime
in March. At that time, as he understood, Messrs. Leney were anxious
that Mr. Faber should take possession on the 25th March. He had charged
on the amount for the stock – that was usual.
His Honour requested plaintiff to cast up the figures in his book.
Louis Charles Faber said he understood Mr. Phillips was valuing for Mr.
Pettifer. The valuation came to £428. Mr. Hayward acted for him and for
the brewers.
Mr. Minter said he was not going to deny that plaintiff was told on the
first occasion he would be employed.
Witness said Mr. Pettifer told him that he had “chucked” Phillips
because he wanted to bundle him out.
In reply to Mr. Minter, witness said he was offered the house six months
before he took it. He understood then that Mr. Pettifer wanted to get
out, but found out afterwards that he did not want to leave till the
24th May.
Mr. Minter's contention was that if Mr. Pettifer did actually engage Mr.
Phillps to make the valuation that he never did any work at all. If His
Honour came to the conclusion that there was a breach of contract, then
it would be for him to say what defendant would have to pay for that.
The defendant said Mr. Phillips saw him at the Globe Hotel a few days
after he had notice to quit. He did not then engage him as his valuer.
On the 4th March Mr. Hayward took him an undated agreement. He declined
to sign it until he had had time to look over it. Mr. Phillips saw him
and asked him to sign it, and he asked why he was in such a hurry to get
him to leave. His suspicions were excited that he was working for the
other side, and then he told Mr. Faber he would have nothing more to say
to him. Mr. Phillips went round the house, and made a few notes. He went
round the whole house except the bar, the glassware and the stock. He
was engaged about three hours. He made notes in a small book. Defendant
met him two or three times while he was engaged. He subsequently told
Mr. Phillips he should have no more to do with him, and he replied “Then
you'll hear from my solicitor”.
The plaintiff's valuation came to £160.
His Honour said it was admitted the defendant engaged the plaintiff, but
subsequently cancelled it. The correspondence did not show he had good
ground for cancelling the appointment, and was ill-advised in
quarrelling with him on that ground. The question was, what amount Mr.
Phillips was entitled to? There was no evidence of any custom, and it
therefore remained to be said what he did, and what he should be paid
for his work. He was engaged for three or four hours, and had done a
considerable portion of the work, but nothing like all. He gave
judgement for £5 5s. and costs of one witness.
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Folkestone Herald 24 June 1899.
County Court.
Tuesday, June 20th: Before Sir W. Lucius Selfe.
Phillips v Pettifer: This was a claim by Mr. Phillips, licensed valuer,
Dover, against Mr. Pettifer, late landlord of the Globe, Folkestone, for
£13 4s. commission. Mr. Watson appeared for the complainant; Mr. Minter
for defendant.
Plaintiff deposed: I saw the defendant, I believe, in the early part of
March. I went to see him at his hotel. He told me that he had notice to
leave from his brewers, and that he was under notice to quit on the 24th
May. When I discovered that Mr. Pettifer was leaving his house, I
solicited his business to act in valuation for him, and after some
little thought Mr. Pettifer engaged my services to take him out. A day
was fixed for his doing so. A little bit later he consulted, I believe,
his wife and daughter upon the time when it would be convenient for me
to come over and take the inventory. One or two days were mentioned by
me and he selected a day. I thereupon came over at the time he fixed
himself, and I then proceeded to do my work. There was one small section
of the work left undone because it was the bar. As they were busy, it
was arranged that I should complete my work in the course of a week or
so, considering there was plenty of time up to the 24th of May when he
would leave the house. That was to suit the defendant's convenience. I
was to await his orders when to come and complete the work. The first
occasion I went there I saw Mr. Pettifer and his daughter in the bar. On
the same afternoon when I was about to leave, Mr. Hayward, the opposing
valuer, was there. Mr. Pettifer said, turning to me, “This is my man”. I
received a letter from the new tenant, Mr. Faber, upon a matter that he
wished to see me about. I went to see him. Mr. Faber said Mr. Pettifer
had thrown me up and engaged Messrs. Banks, of Folkestone. I asked him
if he knew why. He said “Because Mr. Pettifer says you are acting on the
side of the brewers and trying to bundle him out”. I said that there was
not an atom of truth in the assetion that I was leaning over to the
brewers. Messrs. Leney always employed Mr. Hayward. I was on my way from
Hythe and called on him. I asked when it would be convenient for me to
come and complete his work. He said that I wouldn't do any more work for
him; I was acting on the side of the brewers and trying to bundle him
out. My reply was that it was untrue, I was acting on his side, and it
was an absolute untruth. I said “No doubt you will hear from my
solicitor”. I did my very best.
Letters were read which witness had received from Mr. Pettifer. One
asked him to be good enough to delay his visit for a fortnight, when
they would be ready for him. In another letter, Mr. Pettifer deferred
signing an agreement, a date in which had been left blank, he saying
that if he signed any date might be fitted in to suit the other side.
Cross-examined by Mr. Minter, witness said he held an agency for a firm
at Deal, and was in the habit of selling spirits to the defendant. If he
met Mr. Hayward, it would be as opposing him. Mr. Pettifer informed him
that he was under notice to leave. The stock was valued on the day of
exchange.
Mr. L.C. Faber also gave evidence.
Mr. Minter spoke at some length on behalf of Mr. Pettifer, who he called
as a witness.
Mr. Pettifer deposed: I received a notice on the 21st February to quit
on the 24th May. Mr. Phillips was a friend of mine and a traveller for a
firm of spirit merchants. He came down a few days after the notice to
quit. I told him. He solicited to act for me as my valuer, and I did not
consent to employ him then, but did afterwards. In March, Mr. Hayward
brought me an agreement to sign for going out in favour of Faber. The
date for leaving was not in. I refused to sign it there and then. Mr.
Phillips two or three times asked me to sign. I asked him why he was in
a hurry. I found out from Mr. Faber that it was agreed upon that he
should come into my house on the 25th March. I told Mr. Phillips that he
was working on the other side. I would not have any more to do with him.
On one occasion, Mr. Phillips said he would just run round. I said I
didn't want this to go on, and told him not to interfere at all. He said
it would be all right; it would not make any difference whatever. I told
him what he was doing was on his own responsibility, and I was not going
to pay. He was there three or four hours. I handed him my inventory
before he went round; he had the use of it. He had a small book to take
it down in. I did not go round and point the things to him,, only on one
or two occasions I met him in the rooms. He never did anything beyond
that.
Ultimately His Honour gave judgement for five guineas.
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Folkestone Up To Date 24 June 1899.
County Court.
Tuesday June 20th: Before Sir William Lucius Selfe.
Phillips v Pettifer: The plaintiff is a valuer at Dover, and the
defendant was recently landlord of the Globe, on The Bayle.
Mr. Watson, of Dover, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. J. Minter, of
Folkestone, for the defendant.
The plaintiff claimed £13 4s. for an outgoing valuation of certain
effects, etc., at the Globe.
Cornelius Phillips said: I am a licensed valuer, carrying on business at
65, Biggin Street, Dover. I have known Mr. Pettifer ever since he has
had his hotel. Some time ago, I went to see him at the Globe Hotel, and
he informed me that he had had notice from the brewers to leave. After a
conversation, he engaged me to make a valuation for him. The date of his
leaving was the 24th May. I awaited his orders for the completion of the
work. I remember going into the smoking room where I saw Mr. Hayward,
the opposing valuer. The next I heard of the matter was from Mr. Faber,
the new tenant of the house. I saw him at Canterbury, when he told me
that the defendant had thrown me over, and engaged Messrs. Banks, of
Folkestone, as he (the defendant) believed that I was working on the
side of the brewers, and trying to turn him out. I afterwards heard a
confirmation from the defendant of the report I had had from Mr. Faber,
and was told by the defendant that I should do no more work for him. I
said “Very well; I shall have to consult my solicitors”. It is always
usual when a man leaves an hotel to sign an agreement between the
outgoing and incoming tenant. Mr. Hayward handed me a copy of the
agreement. It is always usual to have an agreement to sell. It is the
custom of the outgoing and incoming tenant to assign a convenient date.
The usual commission is 5 per cent on the first £100, and 2½ per cent
afterwards. The valuation was £428, I believe.
Mr. Minter: I do not understand how the claim of £15 is made out.
Mr. Watson: I believe I have explained that. The claim has been reduced
to £13 4s. We did not know the exact amount of the valuation when we
took out the summons.
Cross-examined by Mr. Minter, the plaintiff said: I was in the habit of
going to the Globe and selling spirits to the defendant. I was not at
the Globe on the 21st February, when the defendant received notice to
quit. I said the defendant could leave the date to go out open in the
agreement between himself and Messrs. Leney. The defendant said I was
acting in the interests of the brewer, as the fact that I wanted him to
sign an agreement with the date space left blank showed. I did not go
over the house until the date fixed for my inventory, in March. The
defendant said there were a lot of things he intended to take away with
him. He went round the premises and pointed out the things he should
want to take away. Sometimes we take out inventories two or three months
beforehand. Messrs. Leney wanted the defendant to leave in March. I am
not interested in that firm of brewers. I was informed, however, that
they wanted him to leave on the 25th March, so I thought I had better
get through my valuation as soon as possible.
By His Honour: My valuation was £428.
Louis Charles Faber: Mr. Pettifer gave me to understand that Mr.
Phillips was going to act as his valuer. Mr. Hayward, of Dover, was
acting for the brewers. He also acted for me. I remember meeting Mr.
Phillips, and telling him that the defendant intended to change his
agent.
By Mr. Minter: I had applied for the Globe. I was given to understand
that he wanted to go out on the 25th March, but I found that I should
have to wait.
By His Honour: I entered the house on the 24th May.
Mr. Minter, on addressing the Court on behalf of the defendant, argued
that the attempt of Mr. Phillips to induce the defendant to sign the
agreement as to leaving the Globe left undated was a good ground for the
defendant's conduct in cancelling the arrangement with the plaintiff. As
a matter of fact, valuations were not made as Mr. Phillips said they
were. The defendant only allowed Mr. Phillips to go round the premises
so early as March for the purpose of taking a few notes. In fact Mr.
Phillips was not a proper agent for the defendant, because he was acting
in the interests of the brewers. The contention on behalf of the
defendant was that Mr. Phillips did not do the work in connection with
the outgoing valuation, because the arrangement with him was cancelled.
The following evidence was then called for the defence:
Mr. Pettifer: I was formerly landlord of the Globe, under Messrs. Leney,
and received a notice to leave on the 24th May. Mr. Phillips used to
travel to my house for orders. He solicited to act as my valuer. When I
first saw him I did not instruct him to act as my agent. I instructed
him when I got the agreement from Mr. Hayward. Mr. Phillips recommended
me to sign the agreement with a blank where the date should be. Mr.
Phillips seemed to wish the incoming tenant to enter on the 25th March,
and the way in which he acted excited my suspicion, and I told him I
should not pay him for working further for me. In March he went over my
place, and was engaged upwards of two or three hours. He had the use of
my inventory, and had a small book in his hand when he was taking notes.
I did not go round with him. I had my work to do. I could not make out
why Mr. Phillips was in such a hurry to make an inventory.
By Mr. Watson: It is not a fact that I wanted to leave on the 25th
March. Mr. Phillips said if I was going to act like I was doing he
should consult with his solicitor, and cut up rough. I said “All right.
I shall cut up rough too”. Otherwise I had nothing against Mr. Phillips
at all.
His Honour, in giving judgement, said that in this case it was admitted
that the defendant employed the plaintiff, but for a sufficient reason,
as he thought, had cancelled the engagement before the work was done. He
(His Honour) must confess that he did not think the evidence bore out
the view that there was a good reason for cancelling the engagement,
because Mr. Phillips took every care to protect Mr. Pettifer's
interests, and to do nothing to cause him to be turned out before the
proper date. Therefore Mr. Pettifer was ill advised to quarrel with Mr.
Phillips. That being so, the question arose what Mr. Phillips' rights
were, having regard to the fact that he was admittedly engaged, and that
the engagement was cancelled. It could not be stated that he should
receive the amount he would have had if the engagement had gone through.
The defendant was entitled to cancel the engagement, but not to refuse
reasonable compensation for what the plaintiff actually had done. What
had Mr. Phillips done? He had gone through the defendant's house on the
4th March, and was there four hours. It was stated, on the other hand,
that he had done so without consent. It was plain that he had not only
made a partial inventory, but had had to submit it to the parties on the
other side. He was of opinion that five guineas would be ample
compensation, and judgement would be for that amount.
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Folkestone Express 5 March 1904.
Wednesday, March 2nd: Before E.T. Ward Esq., Lieut. Cols. Fynmore and
Westropp, and W.G. Herbert Esq.
The Bench endorsed the licence of the Globe Hotel.
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Folkestone Herald 5 March 1904.
Saturday, February 27th: Before The Mayor, Alderman T.J. Vaughan, Lieut.
Colonel Westropp, Lieut. Colonel Fynmore, Mr. E.T. Ward, and Mr. J.
Stainer.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was temporarily transferred from Mr.
Faber to Mr. Hardy.
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Folkestone Express 12 March 1904.
Local News.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was on Wednesday last transferred from
Mr. Faber to Mr. Hardy. In our police report the notice read “endorsed”,
which was, of course, a slip of the pen on the part of the reporter.
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Folkestone Express 16 April 1904.
Wednesday, April 13th: Before W.G. Herbert Esq., Lieut. Col. Fynmore,
Lieut. Col. Westropp, G.I. Swoffer and J. Stainer Esqs.
The Globe Hotel licence was transferred from Geo. Faber to Allen Hardy.
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Folkestone Herald 16 April 1904.
Wednesday, April 13th: Before Ald. W.G. Herbert, Lieut. Colonel Fynmore,
Mr. J. Stainer, Mr. G.I. Swoffer, and Lieut. Colonel Westropp.
Licence was transferred as follows:- The Globe, from Mr. Faber to J.
Allen Hardy.
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Folkestone Daily News 8 July 1905.
Saturday, July 8th: Before Ald. Penfold, Ald. Vaughan, Ald. Herbert, and
Lieut. Col. Westropp.
An application for the transfer of the licence of the Globe Hotel from
Mr. Hardy to Mr. Allen was granted.
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Folkestone Daily News 12 July 1905.
Wednesday, July 12th: Before Messrs. Ward, Carpenter, Westropp, Vaughan,
and Fynmore.
The transfers of licences of the Black Bull and Globe Hotels from Mr.
Hardy and Mr. Warne to new tenants were granted.
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Folkestone Express 15 July 1905.
Saturday, July 8th: Before Alderman Penfold, Lieut. Col. Westropp,
Alderman Vaughan, and W.G. Herbert Esq.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was temporarily transferred from Mr.
Hardy to Mr. Allen.
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Folkestone Chronicle 19 August 1905.
Local News.
As you will have noticed by the last few issues of our paper, this
old-established and popular hostelry has recently undergone a
proprietorial change, and now claims Mr. Arthur O. Allen as its owner.
The new proprietor is a gentleman who has had several years' experience
of hotel life in Hull and Oxford, and has piloted licensed properties to
success in both places. In the University City he held the Market Vaults
Hotel, High Street, and many tourists to Folkestone who have included it
in their current summer's itinerary have not failed to renew their
acquaintance with Mr. Allen, with whom he was so deservedly popular. He
is a gentleman whom no-one can mistake as a Yorkshireman, and has to all
appearances the best part of business life in front of him. For the
short time he has been in possession of the Globe Hotel, which is so
centrally situated on The Bayle, Mr. Allen had had hosts of daily and
weekly boarders, and our French visitors, who have largely patronised
his hotel, have congratulated him on the excellence of his cuisine.
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Folkestone Daily News 31 August 1905.
Thursday, August 31st: Before The Mayor, Messrs. Westropp, Vaughan, and
Fynmore.
Frank Albert Turnham was charged with stealing money, the property of
Edward James Wood.
Edward James Wood said he was an assistant to Mr. Camburn, butcher, High
Street, and kept his money in a tin box in his clothes box. He kept his
clothes box locked, and carried the key in his pocket. On going to bed
he usually laid the key on the dressing table with his purse. The
prisoner occupied a bed in the same room. Witness missed a sovereign
from his box on August 7th, and between the 20th and 27th he missed £3
10s. He could not tell if it went all at once, but on Sunday morning
last, on going to his box, he found one sovereign and five half
sovereigns missing. He last saw the money in his box on the 20th August.
The prisoner had always slept in the same room, and also the other boy.
Later on Sunday the prisoner came into the bedroom, and witness told him
he had missed £3 10s. from his box, and asked the prisoner if he knew
anything about it. Prisoner replied “No, I haven't been there”. Prisoner
took his empty cash box from his own clothes box and showed it to
witness and said “There you are, you can see there is nothing in that”.
Witness gave information to the police last night. The prisoner had been
in Mr. Camburn's service about 18 months. There was £7 0s. 6d. still
remaining in the cash box on Sunday morning.
Alfred Maxted, of 54, Fernbank Crescent, said he met the prisoner at the
Globe Hotel on Saturday morning, August 26th. Witness had a glass of
beer, and prisoner had a glass of ginger beer, which the accused paid
for with a ticket from an automatic machine. Later on prisoner asked for
change for half a sovereign, which the landlord gave him.
Detective Burniston said: At 11.15 last night, from information I
received from the witness Wood, I made enquiries and went to 39, High
Street, and saw the prisoner in bed. I said to him “I am going to ask a
few questions about £3 10s., which was stolen from a box in this room”.
I cautioned him, and said “On Saturday last you changed half a sovereign
at the Globe Hotel. Where did you get it?” He said “My brother gave it
to me”. I said “I have seen your brother, and he says he has not lent
you any money”. Prisoner then said “I did take half a sovereign from
Wood's box on Thursday last, but not £3 10s.”. I brought him to the
police station, and when charged he said “I admit taking one half
sovereign, and changed it at the Globe Hotel”. On being searched no
money or keys were found in his possession or in his bedroom.
The prisoner, who pleaded Guilty, said he took the money to pay for some
boots.
The Mayor pointed out to the prisoner the serious nature of the charge
and the position he had placed himself in. The Bench, however, were
going to take a lenient view of the case, and he would be bound over in
the sum of £20 to be of good behaviour for 12 months, and hoped it would
be a warning to him in future.
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Folkestone Herald 27 October 1906.
Thursday, October 25th: Before Alderman W.G. Herbert and Councillor W.C.
Carpenter.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was temporarily transferred from Mr.
Allen to Mr. A.P. Fox, of Chesham.
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Folkestone Express 8 December 1906.
Wednesday, December 5th: Before W.G. Herbert Esq., Lieut. Colonels
Hamilton and Fynmore, J. Stainer, C.J. Pursey, T. Ames, and R.J. Linton
Esqs., and Major Leggett.
The following licence was transferred: The Globe Hotel, to Mr. A.P. Fox.
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Folkestone Herald 8 December 1906.
Wednesday, December 5th: Before Alderman W.G. Herbert, Lieut. Colonel
Hamilton, Major Leggett, Councillor R.J. Fynmore, and Messrs. T. Ames,
J. Stainer, C.J. Pursey, and R.J. Linton.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was transferred from Mr. Arthur Octavius
Allen to Mr. Peter Fox.
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Folkestone Herald 16 January 1909.
Felix.
A Folkestone gentleman home from Singapore has asked me the question as
to the identity of the cannons which are to be seen outside the
Shakespeare and Globe Hotels. There they stand, buried muzzle downwards.
How long have they been there? Who placed them there? To what battery
did they belong? My attention has often been called to these old cannon,
but after all, there are many who pass them by practically unnoticed.
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Folkestone Herald 6 February 1909.
Felix.
Those Guns.
Under this heading, a week or so back, I made an enquiry in regard to
those guns which stand muzzle downwards outside the Shakespeare and
Globe Hotels. I asked “Where did they come from? Who placed them there?”
Those queries did not escape the eagle eye of our esteemed frien, Lieut.
Col. Fynmore, of Sandgate, who writes me on the subject as follows:-
“Dear Felix, As to the guns, we want an artillerist's opinion of them,
then evidence of old inhabitants as to when they remember them being
placed there (if within recollection). I should say that they have been
placed where they are since the Crimean War. I have newspaper scraps
dated 1881, 1899, and 1905 enquiring about them. What are the dates of
the Gun Brewery and Gun Tavern? Of course, they would be named after the
gun was put there. The matter should be elucidated. As I said, first we
want an expert to say whether they are Waterloo or Crimean guns. If the
latter, surely there would be a record in the Corporation books as to
when they were given. After all, they may have been discarded from the
old battery.” Now it is rather strange. On Sunday morning, during a
short stroll over the hills, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Tite, the
respected father in the partner of Tite and Roff. This gentleman
mentioned that he had read my note about the guns, and added “I am now
seventy eight, but they have stood in their places as long as I can
remember”. Mr. Tite's relative, the late Alderman Ham Tite, I believe at
one time owned the Gun Brewery, and that was many years ago. Perhaps
some of my old Folkestone friends can throw a little light on these old
pieces of ordnance.
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Folkestone Daily News 30 December 1912.
Friday, December 27th: Before Messrs. Herbert, Stainer, Swoffer, Boyd,
Harrison, Morrison, and Stace.
Alexander McKenzie, a piper of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, was charged
with wilfully breaking the glass panel of the door of the Globe Hotel
the previous night. Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
Alfred Peter Fox, the licensee of the Globe, deposed that at about 10.30
the previous evening prisoner came into the hotel. He went into the bar
parlour, but had not been there ten minutes when he (witness) heard an
altercation. The barman asked prisoner to go outside, and when witness
went to se what was going on, he saw the barman take hold of prisoner by
the shoulder and put him out. Someone in the bar shouted out “Who wants
to fight?”, and prisoner said “I do”. That was the reason he was asked
to leave the house. Prisoner did not resist much, but when he got out of
the house he turned round and rushed back at the man he was having the
altercation with. The man got out of the way, and the prisoner threw
himself at the glass, in temper, witness thought, and either his
shoulder or elbow went through the glass. Witness then fetched a
policeman and gave accused into custody. Prisoner was not the worse for
drink at the time. Witness valued the window at 35s. Accused was not a
regular customer and he came in alone, but there were two or three men
of his regiment in the bar.
The Chief Constable: Is that quite the story you told the police last
night?
Witness: As near as I can say, it is.
The Chief Constable: Did you not tell the police that the prisoner
deliberately pushed the other man through the glass panel of the door?
Witness: I said he tried to push him through.
Joseph Reynolds, barman at the Globe Hotel, said he was in the bar
parlour during the whole of the time that prisoner was there. Someone in
the bar said “Who wants to fight?”, and prisoner said “I do”. Witness
then went and asked him to go out, as he began to “square about” and had
taken his belt off. He refused to leave, and witness put him out. He
struggled a bit, but witness got him into the street. The other man
showed himself at the door as if he wanted to go out, and prisoner
rushed at him. That was how the window got broken. The man stepped back
just as prisoner rushed. Witness did not think the window was broken
wilfully; he thought it was broken in the rush. He could not see clearly
what portion of prisoner's body struck the window.
The Chairman: There is no case whatever against the prisoner; he is
discharged.
Addressing Mr. Fox, Mr. Herbert said: We have heard at various times a
good many complaints about the noisiness of your house. You had better
be careful in future.
Mr. Fox said he had had the house several years, but there had been no
disturbance of any description.
The Chairman said there had been complaints about the noise, and in
future Mr. Fox had better be careful.
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Folkestone Express 11 March 1916.
Thursday, March 9th: Before Lieut. Col. R.J. Fynmore, Mr. J.J. Giles,
and Mr. H. Kirke.
Alfred Peter Fox was charged with permitting drunkenness on the licensed
premises of the Globe Hotel. Mr. Rutley Mowll (Dover) defended, pleading
Not Guilty.
P.C. H. Johnson said at 7.55 p.m. on February 29th he was near the Globe
Hotel, The Bayle, when he saw the defendant with two soldiers ejecting a
drunken soldier from the private bar. Outside the soldier fell down in a
helplessly drunken condition. He remained there a few minutes, and was
then taken away by the two others in the direction of High Street. When
standing there he heard a commotion going on inside the private bar
facing east. The door was opened by the landlord and two soldiers
dragged out another drunken soldier and put him on the pavement. Miss
Kirby was standing near so he asked her to go for the picquet. As she
was some time gone he went to Rendezvous Street and then down High
Street, returning in a few minutes. The house was then closed and the
soldier was gone.
Cross-examined by Mr. Mowll, witness said he did not go into the house
at all before eight o'clock. Two of the soldiers he saw were drunk, two
under the influence of drink, and the other two were sober.
Miss Kirby said on February 29th she was opposite the Globe Hotel about
7.45, and she saw the bar door open and three soldiers come out. One of
them was very drunk and incapable, and he fell to the ground. She saw
P.C. Johnson come up just before eight o'clock. During the time she was
opposite the house she saw no soldier enter the bar from the outside. No
other soldier left the bar during the time she was there. There was a
struggle between the three men before the drunken soldier fell. She went
to fetch the picquet. When she returned about four minutes later with
the picquet the soldier was lying on the road, and another soldier, very
drunk, was staggering about the roadway. She could not say that the men
she then saw were the same she had seen come out. The picquet arrested
the two men.
Mr. Mowll, at this stage, said he was not going to deny that the men
were drunk.
Corporal Bailey, Military Police, said he was in charge of the picquet
shortly after eight o'clock. He found one of the men lying in the
gutter, and another man stooping over him. Both were drunk, and he
arrested them.
P.S. Sales said he went to the Globe Hotel on the following morning and
saw the landlord. He told him that two soldiers were seen to leave his
premises the previous evening about eight o'clock drunk, and that he
should report him for permitting drunkenness. Defendant replied “I am
not surprised. They had no drink in here. They were not served. I tried
twenty minutes to get them out of the house, but I could not do so. They
asked me for a bottle of whisky, but I refused to serve”. Witness asked
him if he sent for police assistance to get them removed, and he replied
“No, I tried to persuade them myself”.
Mr. Mowll said the soldiers came into the house and were discovered by
the barmaid to be under the influence of liquor. He thought there were
five soldiers altogether, and two of them were very drunk. The men were
refused drink by her, and she called the licensee's attention to them.
Mr. Fox tried to persuade them to go out, but he did not succeed in
getting them out until ten minutes afterwards. It was upon the licensee
to prove that he took all reasonable steps to prevent drunkenness. He
suggested that the defendant had done that. The first step he took was
to refuse to supply them, and the second step he took was to try to get
them to leave.
Kate Thatcher said on Tuesday night, February 29th, she was in charge of
the private bar. Between five and twenty minutes and twenty to eight
five Canadian soldiers came into the bar. She noticed they had had quite
enough and three of them had as much as they wanted. (Laughter) The two
remained standing by the mantelpiece. One of the three men asked for two
“double-headers” of whisky. She refused to serve any of them, and she
advised them to go home. She told Mr. Fox, the licensee, who went to the
men and told them that they would not be served, and they had better get
away home. The men had no drink in the house.
Defendant said he had been the licensee of the Globe for ten years. On
the evening in question he was serving in the public bar, and at about
twenty minutes to eight he was called by Miss Thatcher to the private
bar. On going there he saw the five soldiers. Two, who were drunk, were
standing near the mantelpiece, and the other three were half drunk. He
said “Come along, you boys, you have had enough. You had better get
home”. One of them said “Give us a bottle of whisky, and we will beat it
quick”. He told them he would not let them have anything. He tried to
persuade them to go, and he expected they would leave every minute. The
men had no drink in his house. He had no-one he could send for
assistance.
The Chairman announced that the Magistrates were unanimous against a
conviction, and the case would be dismissed.
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Folkestone Herald 11 March 1916.
Thursday, March 9th: Before Lieut. Col. R.J. Fynmore, Mr. J.J. Giles,
and Mr. H. Kirke.
Alfred Peter Fox, of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, was summoned for
permitting drunkenness. Mr. Rutley Mowll, of Dover, appeared for the
defendant and pleaded Not Guilty.
P.C. Harry Johnson said about 7.55 p.m. on the 29th February he was on
duty near the Globe Hotel, when he saw defendant with two soldiers
ejecting a drunken soldier from the private bar. Outside the soldier
fell down in a helpless condition. He remained there a few minutes, and
was then picked up by the other two soldiers. The door was again opened
by the defendant, and two more soldiers put out another drunken soldier.
Cross-examined, witness said he did not go into the house at all.
Miss Kirby, of the Women Police, and Corpl. Bailey, of the M.P., also
gave evidence.
Sergt. Sales said he went to the Globe Hotel on March 1st and told the
landlord he would report him for permitting drunkenness. Defendant
replied “I am not surprised. They had no drink in here. They were not
served. I tried for twenty minutes to get them out of the house, but I
could not do so. They asked me to supply them with a bottle of whisky,
and I refused to serve them”. Witness asked him if he tried to get the
police to remove them, and he said “No, I tried to persuade them
myself”.
Mr. Mowll said the answer to the case was that the two soldiers came in
and were discovered by the barmaid to be under the influence of liquor.
They were not served. The barmaid called defendant's attention, and they
tried to get the men out, but they did not succeed till 7.55 p.m. It was
true the police were not sent for. Defendant was in a very awkward
situation, as the premises were full at the time.
Mrs. Kate Thatcher said she assisted Mr. Fox at the Globe. February
29th, when she was in charge of the bar, five Canadian soldiers came in
about 7.35 p.m.. She noticed that two of the men had quite enough to
drink, and the other three had as much as they wanted. (Laughter) One
asked for two double headers, but she told them they had had enough, and
she could not serve them. She advised them to go home.
Defendant said he had been the licensee of the Globe for ten years. He
advised the soldiers to go home. One said “If you let's have a bottle of
whisky we will beat it quick”. He said “you cannot have any whisky or
anything else”. He thought they were going to leave every minute. They
had nothing to drink in his house.
The Chairman said the Bench were unanimous against a conviction, and the
case would be dismissed.
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Folkestone Express 6 December 1919.
Local News.
At the Folkestone Police Court yesterday (Thursday), Alfred Peter Fox,
licensee of the Globe Hotel, Folkestone, was summoned for having sold in
the public bar, for consumption on the premises, whisky at a price
exceeding the maximum price, on the 11th November. There was a second
summons for having sold on the same date to Mr. George Eyles (Food
Control Inspector) whisky for consumption off the premises at a price
exceeding the maximum prices. After hearing the evidence, the
Magistrates inflicted a fine of £10 in each case.
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Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald 6 December 1919.
At the Folkestone Police Court on Thursday Alfred Peter Fox, of the
"Globe Hotel," was summoned for selling whisky for consumption on the
premises at a price exceeding the maximum price, and further for selling
whisky for consumption off the premises exceeding the maximum price. The
Town Clerk prosecuted and Mr. A. K. Mowll defended. It was stated that
for two double whiskeys bought in the public bar 2s. was charged.
According to the measure given this worked out at the rate of 3s. 4d. a
gill, whereas the price should not exceed 2s. 6d. a gill for proprietary
brands or 2s. 1d. for non-proprietary whiskey. Mr. G. Eyles, Food
Inspector, stated that he bought a half pint of whiskey, which was sold
at 35 degrees under proof. He paid 4s. 2d. for it. On analysis it was
found to be 48 degrees under proof. The price for whiskey 48 under proof
should be 3s. 4d. a half pint. Mr. Mowll stated that defendant had held
a licence for 32 years without a conviction, and that his son-in-law
made these mistakes. A fine of £10 in each case was inflicted, with £1
1s. costs.
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Folkestone Herald 6 December 1919.
Thursday, December 4th: Before Col. G.P. Owen and the Rev. H. Epworth
Thompson.
Alfred Peter Fox, of the Globe Hotel, was summoned for selling whisky
for consumption on the premises at a price exceeding the maximum price,
and further for selling whisky for consumption off the premises
exceeding the maximum price. The Town Clerk prosecuted and Mr. A.K.
Mowll defended.
It was stated that for two double whiskies bought in the public bar 2s.
was charged. According to the measure given this worked out at the rate
of 3s. 4d. a gill, whereas the price should not exceed 2s. 6d. a gill
for proprietary brands, or 2s. 1d. for non-proprietary whisky.
Mr. G. Eyles, Food Inspector, stated that he bought half a pint of
whisky, which was sold as 35 degrees under proof. He paid 4s. 2d. for
it. On analysis it was found to be 48 degrees under proof. The price for
whisky 48 under proof should be 3s. 4d. a half pint.
Mr. Mowll stated that defendant had held a licence for 32 years without
a conviction, and that his son-in-law had made these mistakes.
A fine of £10 in each case was inflicted, with £1 1s. costs.
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Folkestone Express 14 February 1920.
Annual Licensing Sessions.
Wednesday, February 11th: Before The Mayor, Mr. E.T. Ward, Mr. G.I.
Swoffer, Councillor G. Boyd, Mr. J.H. Blamey, Councillor A. Stace, Col.
Owen, Rev. Epworth Thompson, Councillor Hollands, Councillor Morrison,
and Mr. L.G.A. Collins.
Mr. H. Reeve (the Chief Constable) presented the following report: I
have the honour to report that there are at present within your
jurisdiction 113 places licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor by
retail, viz.; Full licences 70, beer on 7, beer off 6, beer and spirit
dealers 15, grocers, etc. off 6, confectioners wine on 8, confectioners
wine off 6, a total of 113. This gives an average, according to the
Census of 1911, of one licence to every 296 persons, or one on licence
to every 495 persons. During the past year 13 of the licences have been
transferred. Since the last annual licensing meeting the licensees of
the undermentioned premises have been convicted as follows: Prince of
Wales Tavern, fined 10s. on 23rd May, for allowing a child to be in the
bar of his licensed premises; East Kent Arms, fined 10s. on 29th August
for supplying drink for consumption off the premises after 9 p.m.; Star
and Garter, fined 10s. on 30th November for supplying intoxicating drink
for consumption off the premises after 9 p.m.; Globe Hotel, fined £10 on
each of two summonses on 4th December for charging more for whisky than
the maximum price allowed under the Order made by the Food Controller.
During the year ended 31st December, 46 persons (35 males and 11
females) were proceeded against for drunkenness; 34 were convicted and
12 discharged after being cautioned by the Bench. In the preceding year
26 persons (17 males and 9 females) were proceeded against, of whom 14
were convicted and 12 discharged. The regulation of the Liquor Control
Board restricting the hours for the sale and consumption of intoxicating
liquor remains in force. Eleven clubs where intoxicating liquor is
supplied are registered under the Act. There are 24 premises licensed
for music and dancing, 2 for music only, and 2 for public billiard
playing. Numerous visits have been made by the police at irregular
intervals during the year to the licensed premises and places of
entertainment, and I am pleased to report that the houses generally have
been conducted in a satisfactory manner.
The Mayor said the Magistrates had considered the report, and they
thought it very satisfactory. There had been a little increase in
drunkenness, but they hoped that would disappear again. With reference
to the licences, the Bench had decided to renew them all, except the
Prince of Wales Tavern, East Kent Arms, Star and Garter, and Globe
Hotel, in consequence of new legislation that might come on. The
licences referred to would come up for consideration at the adjourned
meeting.
The adjourned sessions were fixed for the 10th March.
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Folkestone Herald 21 February 1920.
Annual Licensing Sessions.
The annual licensing sessions for Folkestone were held at the Police
Court, the Mayor presiding.
Mr. H. Reeve presented his report (for details see Folkestone Express).
The Mayor said the report was very satisfactory, although there was a
little increase in drunkenness. They would renew all the licences to the
licensed premises, except the four mentioned in the report, which would
be adjourned to a later court.
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Folkestone Express 13 March 1920.
Adjourned Licensing Sessions.
Wednesday, March 10th: Before Mr. E.T. Ward, Messrs. G.I. Swoffer and G.
Boyd, Col. Owen, and Messrs. A, Stace and G.H. Blamey.
The licence of the Globe, The Bayle, was transferred from Mr. Fox to Mr.
R.S. Dawson, Mr. Rutley Mowll (Dover) making the application.
The licences of the East Kent Arms, the Prince of Wales, the Globe, and
the Star and Garter were renewed, they having been adjourned from the
annual meeting.
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Folkestone Herald 13 March 1920.
Adjourned Licensing Sessions.
Wednesday, March 9th: Before Mr. E.T. Ward, Mr. G.I. Swoffer, Councillor
G. Boyd, Colonel G.P. Owen, Councillor A. Stace, the Rev. H. Epworth
Thompson, and Mr. J.H. Blamey.
The licence of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, was transferred from Mr. A.P.
Fox to Mr. Dawson, who, it was stated, had served in the Royal Engineers
for twenty seven years.
The licences of the East Kent Arms, Star and Garter, Globe, and Prince
of Wales, deferred at the annual sessions, were now renewed.
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Folkestone Express 14 April 1923.
Local News.
At the transfer sessions held at the Police Court on Wednesday the
following licence was transferred: The Globe Inn, to Mr. H.J. Burton
(sic), of Hastings.
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Folkestone Herald 14 April 1923.
Local News.
On Wednesday last the Folkestone Magistrates granted application for the
transfer of the licence of the Globe Inn, The Bayle, from Mr. R.E.
Dawson to Mr. H.J. Butler, of Hastings.
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Folkestone Express 12 January 1924.
Local News.
At the Police Court on Wednesday morning, alterations were also
sanctioned to the Globe Hotel, The Bayle.
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Folkestone Express 23 May 1925.
Local News.
The licence of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, was transferred on Wednesday
by the Folkestone Magistrates, from Mr. Henry John Butler to Mr. George
Chambers, of Marden.
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Folkestone Herald 23 May 1925.
Local News.
At the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday (the Rev. H. Epworth
Thompson in the chair), the licence of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, was
transferred from Henry John Butler to George Chambers.
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Folkestone Herald 6 February 1926.
Obituary.
We regret to state that Mr. George Chambers, proprietor of the Globe
Hotel, The Bayle, died on Wednesday. Deceased, who was in his 45th year,
had been in possession of the hostelry less than a year, but during that
period, owing to his geniality and obliging manner, he made a host of
friends. A man of considerable culture, he had been associated in other
days with agriculture, and had travelled considerably, both in the
United States and Canada. To his widow considerable sympathy is
extended.
The funeral will take place today.
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Folkestone Express 13 February 1926.
Obituary.
The death took place on Wednesday in last week of Mr. George Chambers,
the proprietor of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, Folkestone, in his 45th
year. He had been at the hotel for just under a year, but during that
time he had made a large number of friends, who deeply regret his death.
The funeral took place at Marden Churchyard on Saturday.
Annual Licensing Sessions.
Wednesday, February 9th: Before Alderman R.J. Wood, Messrs. A.E. Pepper,
Swoffer, E.T. Morrison, A. Stace, Owen, J.H. Blamey, W.R. Boughton, W.
Hollands, W. Griffin, P. Broome-Giles, Miss A.M. Hunt, and Dr. W.J.
Tyson.
The licence of the Railway Tavern was transferred to Mr. H. G. Reed, and
that of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, to Mrs. Elizabeth Chambers.
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Folkestone Herald 13 February 1926.
Annual Licensing Sessions.
Wednesday, February 10th: Before Alderman R.G. Wood, Dr. W.J. Tyson, Mr.
G.I. Swoffer, Mr. G. Boyd, Mr. E.T. Morrison, Col. G.P. Owen, Mr. A.
Stace, Alderman A.E. Pepper, Mr. J.H. Blamey, Mr. W. Griffin, Mr. W.R.
Boughton, Col. P. Broome-Giles, and Miss A.M. Hunt.
Mrs. E. Chambers applied for a temporary authority to carry on the Globe
Hotel, The Bayle, her husband, who was the licensee, having died.
The authority was granted.
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Folkestone Express 13 March 1926.
Adjourned Licensing Sessions.
The Folkestone adjourned licensing sessions were held on Wednesday at
the Police Court, when the magistrates on the Bench were Alderman R. G.
Wood, Miss Bunt, Col. Owen, Messrs. G. I. Swoffer, A. Stace and J. H.
Blamey.
The licence of the Globe Hotel, which had been temporarily transferred
to Mrs. Elizabeth Chambers, was renewed.
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Folkestone Herald 13 March 1926.
Adjourned Licensing Sessions.
Wednesday, February 10th: Before Alderman R.G. Wood, Mr. G.I. Swoffer,
Mr. G. Boyd, Mr. A. Stace, Mr. J.H. Blamey, and Miss A.M. Hunt.
The licence of the Globe Hotel was renewed, Mrs. Elizabeth Chambers
being the licensee.
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Folkestone Express 26 April 1930.
Obituary.
The death took place on Monday of Mr. Charles Landey Sparrow, at his
residence, Silverwood, Westenhanger, who had been in rather poor health
for three years. He was 65 years of age.
The late Mr. Sparrow was a native of Folkestone and some years ago he
was a well-known licence holder in the town, retiring about eight years
ago. He was popularly known amongst a very large circle of friends as
Charlie Sparrow. He held the licences, at various periods, of the
Railway Tavern, in Dover Road, the Globe, on The Bayle, and the
Shakespeare Hotel, which was the last hotel in which he carried on
business. He then went to live at Westenhanger.
He was a well-known sportsman, and took a great interest in racing and
shooting. He was one of the promoters and original directors of the
Central Picture theatre until it was sold in July last. He was a member
of the Folkestone Club for a great number of years. He married late in
life and leaves a widow to mourn his loss.
The funeral took place yesterday (Thursday) at the Folkestone Cemetery.
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Folkestone Herald 26 April 1930.
Obituary.
It is with very deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr.
Charles Landey Sparrow, who was well known to numerous Folkestone
people, and who, at the age of 65, passed away at his residence,
Silverwood, Westenhanger, on Easter Monday.
Mr Sparrow, who was born at Folkestone, was a gentleman of very
unassuming character, but possessed many of the finest traits that ever
man could lay claim to. He was always one to study the welfare of a
person upon whom fortune had rarely smiled. His good deeds were never
broadcast, but it is a fact that many of the older people of Folkestone
will recollect with gratitude his beneficent concern at Christmastide,
and quite a few will remember, with equal gratitude, the helping hand he
extended them when things appeared at their darkest.
Mr. Sparrow was a good-living sportsman, and one who always “played the
game”. He had hosts of friends in Folkestone, and there are some at
Hythe and Sandgate who will remember him very well. He held the licences
of a number of houses in Folkestone at different times, and was the
licensee of the Shakespeare when he retired from business in 1913. From
there he went to Westenhanger, where Silverwood can be numbered amongst
the most charming residences in a delightfully unspoiled little village.
Sport with Mr. Sparrow was almost a fetish, and his prowess with the gun
is well remembered. At the time of his death he was a director of the
Central Cinema Company.
He never complained, but as the result of a motor accident several years
ago, Mr. Sparrow had ever since been in very indifferent health, and at
times he suffered very severe pain. His death will be mourned in many
quarters, and there will be deep and sincere sympathy felt for his
widow, who is left to bear an extremely heavy loss.
The funeral took place at the Folkestone Cemetery, Cheriton Road,
Folkestone, on Thursday afternoon.
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Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald 10 December 1932.
OBITUARY. MR. A. P. FOX.
We regret to announce the death, on Friday of last week at 99, Stanley
Road, Cheriton, of Mr. Alfred Peter Fox. Mr. Fox, who was 81 years of
age, was born in London, subsequently living at Chesham and later at
Folkestone, where for some years he was proprietor of the "Globe Hotel,"
the Bayle. Mr. Fox, who was associated with a well-known family at
Sandgate, was accounted a pedestrian of some note, and in this
connection had to his credit several prizes. He leaves a widow and one
daughter, and towards them much sympathy is expressed.
The funeral took place on Tuesday at St. Martin's, Cheriton, churchyard.
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Folkestone Herald 21 November 1942.
Local News.
Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday granted Mrs. Selina A. Hughes a
protection order in respect of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle. Mr. G.P.
Medlicott made the application on behalf of Messrs. Fremlin, the
brewers.
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Folkestone Herald 22 May 1948.
Local News.
A protection order in respect of the licence of The Globe, The Bayle,
from Mrs. S.A. Hughes to Mr. A.C. Jeffree was granted at Folkestone
Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
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Folkestone Gazette 17 January 1951.
Local News.
A dart club raffle in a public house for a tame rabbit and a packet of
cigarettes led to the licensee and his wife appearing at Folkestone
Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Archibald Charles Jeffree, licensee of The
Globe Hotel, Folkestone, was summoned for permitting the premises to be
used in connection with the promotion of a lottery on December 15th
last, and his wife, Minnie Alice, was summoned for selling a chance in
the raffle. Both defendants, represented by Mr. Norman Franks, pleaded
Guilty.
Dismissing the cases on payment of £2 10/- costs, the Chairman (Ald. W.
Hollands) said “It must be generally understood that it is illegal for
these raffles to take place”.
Mr. T.J.R. Whitfield, prosecuting, said as the result of certain
information received by the police, P.C. Constable at 7.45 p.m. on
December 15th went to The Globe Hotel where Mr. Jeftree was licensee;
his wife worked with him. The officer went into the bar and kept
observation and remained there until 10.05 pm. During that time he saw a
raffle being held. He saw Mrs. Jeffree going round the bar asking
various customers, including P.C. Constable, if they were interested in
a draw at 3d. a time for a tame rabbit. The rabbit was apparently first
prize and the second was a packet of 20 cigarettes. Mrs. Jeffree went
around amongst the customers with a sheet of paper on which numbers had
been written down. On receipt of the money she appended the customer’s
name against the number chosen. Later the officer saw Mrs Jeffree
produce a tin box from which three tickets bearing numbers were drawn by
a customer. “The number of the first ticket turned out to be that held
by the landlady herself”, continued Mr. Whitfield. “A second ticket was
drawn, she apparently not wishing to take advantage of her good
fortune”. A number for the second prize was also drawn, but P.C.
Constable did not see the prizes claimed by anybody. At 11 a.m. on
December 17th D/Sgt. Bates and P.C. Constable went to The Globe Hotel
and saw both defendants. D Sgt. Bates told them that he had reason to
believe that on December 15th a lottery had been held on the premises
and that a rabbit and cigarettes were given away as prizes. Mr. Jeffree
replied “This was for the dart club. The prizes were given by members of
the club and all the proceeds go towards the club”.
Mr. Norman Franks, defending, said the Magistrates would have seen that
the two offences were offences under the Betting and Lotteries Act,
1934. It was therefore purely incidental that the raffle took place on
licensed premises. Had the prosecution chosen, the raffle having taken
place on licensed premises, they could have proceeded against the
licensee under Section 79 of the Licensing Act, 1910. “In these
circumstances I do ask you to completely disregard the fact that this
raffle took place in licensed premises”, he said. “It is just as much an
offence to have a raffle in other premises – whether they be licensed or
not - providing the conditions of the offence are present”. “This is an
important matter to Mr. Jeffree,” continued Mr. Franks. “I am not
blaming anyone for it. He is described as being of The Globe Hotel and
the offence is referred to in the summons as having taken place at The
Globe; it could have been referred to as a certain number on The Bayle.
Mr. Franks said the offence the wife had committed was in asking someone
other thana member of the dart club to buy a chance for 3d. It was not
an offence for anyone in the dart club to have a ticket. Satisfied that
it was an offence both defendants had pleaded Guilty. “I am sure one
thing springs to the minds of your worships”, he continued. “You will
appreciate that this sort of thing is going on up and down the country
in most public houses. And many of them in Folkestone, and for a long
time. That does not in any way detract from the fact that the police
officers are doing their duty in dealing with the law when it comes to
their notice. This was a raffle for a rabbit. The second prize was a
packet of 20 cigarettes, and each chance cost 3d. The total amount which
was collected on this Friday night was £1 0/-, and the proceeds were for
the general use of the members of the dart club. This matter has
naturally been of considerable anxiety to the two defendants”, said Mr.
Franks. “Quite apart from the fact that it may not be regarded as
anything affecting the licence. You will realise that, and I can assure
you it has been a matter of great anxiety to them, however small it may
seem to people outside looking on. This was a raffle, a thing so very
common. It was illegal in the eyes of the law, but we may consider it
was harmless enough, particularly in the fact that it was just before
Christmas. I ask you to regard it in the light of exactly what it was
rather than what it looks like in black and white on the summons”.
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Folkestone Herald 20 January 1951.
Local News.
A Folkestone licensee and his wife pleaded Guilty at Folkestone
Magistrates' Court on Tuesday to two summonses arising out of a dart
club raffle for a tame rabbit and a packet of cigarettes held at their
public house. Summonses against Archibald Charles Jeffree, of the Globe
Hotel, The Bayle, for permitting the premises to be used in connection
with the promotion of a lottery, and against Mrs. Minnie Alice Jeffree
for selling a chance in the lottery were dismissed on payment of £2 10/-
costs.
The Chairman (Ald. W. Hollands) pointed out that it must be generally
understood that it was illegal for such raffles to take place.
Mr. T.J.R. Whitfield, prosecuting, said P.C. Constable at 7.45 p.m. on
December 15th went to The Globe Hotel. He remained there until 10.05
p.m. and during that time he saw Mrs. Jeffree going round the bar asking
various customers, including himself, if they were interested in a draw
at 3d. a time for a tame rabbit. The rabbit was apparently first prize
and the second was a packet of cigarettes. Later the officer saw Mrs.
Jeffree produce a tin box from which three tickets bearing numbers were
drawn by a customer. “The number of the first ticket turned out to be
that held by the landlady herself”, continued Mr. Whitfield. “A second
ticket was drawn, she apparently not wishing to take advantage of her
good fortune”. At 11 a.m. on December 17th D. Sgt. Bates and P.C.
Constable went to The Globe Hotel and saw both defendants. Mr. Jeffree
said “This was for the dart club. The prizes were given by members of
the club and all the proceeds go towards the club”.
Mr. Norman Franks, defending, said the magistrates would have seen that
the two offences were offences under the Betting and Lotteries Act,
1934. It was therefore purely incidental that the raffle took place on
licensed premises. Had the prosecution chosen, the raffle having taken
place on licensed premises, they could have proceeded against the
licensee under Section 79 of the Licensing Act. 1910. “In these
circumstances I do ask you to completely disregard the fact that this
raffle took place in licensed premises”, he said. “This is an important
matter to Mr. Jeffree. He is described as being of The Globe Hotel and
the offence is referred to in the summons as having taken place at The
Globe; it could have been referred to as a certain number on The Bayle”.
Mr. Franks said the offence the wife had committed was by asking someone
other than a member of the dart club to buy a chance for 3d. “I am sure
one thing springs to the minds of your worships”, he continued. “You
will appreciate that this sort of thing is going on up and down the
country in most public houses, many of them in Folkestone, and for a
long time. That does not in any way detract from the fact that the
police officers are doing their duty in dealing with the matter when it
comes to their notice. The total amount which was collected on this
Friday night was £1/0/6, and the proceeds were for the general use of
the members of the dart club”. “This matter has naturally been of
considerable anxiety to the two defendants”, said Mr. Franks, “quite
apart from the fact that it may not be regarded as anything affecting
the licence. This was a raffle, a thing so very common. It was illegal
in the eyes of the law but you may consider it was harmless enough,
particularly in view of the fact that it was just before Christmas”.
Editorial.
You may conduct a raffle at a church bazaar; you may not conduct a
raffle in a public house. You may sell a raffle ticket at a sale of
work; you may not sell a raffle ticket one step outside the door of the
hall in which the sale is being held. You may print tickets for some
raffles; you may not print tickets for other raffles. You may inveigle a
complete stranger into buying a raffle ticket at a sale of work; you may
not persuade your best friend to buy a raffle ticket in the street. And
THAT is the law! Some raffles - call them draws, competitions or just
plain “swindles” - are right, some are wrong. And the vast majority of
raffles organised in Folkestone and Hythe, as elsewhere in England, are
wrong. Sooner or later someone somewhere is unfortunate enough to be
summoned for an offence which is committed almost every day in almost
every town and most villages in the Kingdom. At Christmastime it is part
of the festivities of the season to organise raffles and to sell and buy
tickets; scarcely one of us can turn out his wallet or pockets without
finding old raffle tickets. Usually prizes are small, sometimes they run
up to £5 in value, in a few cases raffles are organised on a wider scale
with prizes of much greater value. Almost all are illegal, the
organisers being liable to penalties up to a fine of £100: on conviction
for a second offence they are liable to three months imprisonment AND a
fine of £100!
Most of us think the “small time’’raffle is harmless enough; indeed in
most cases they raise money for very useful social and sporting
purposes. You may not think there is much harm in selling tickets at 3d.
or 6d. each to raise money to keep a working lads’ cricket club going or
to help a workmate who through sickness has fallen on hard times. You
may not feel that, say, a tame rabbit, is likely to cause any man to
spend more than he can afford on the off chance that he may win it. But
the law says that, with certain exceptions, any competition (and
“competition” is really an elegant name for some of the very small draws
that are held in clubs and pubs throughout the land) which has no
element of skill in it is illegal. If it is held at a church bazaar or
some such event it is different; the law does rot frown upon it. We
wonder what moral danger there is in these small, domestic affairs that
give so much pleasure, not only to those who sell and buy tickets but to
those who, perhaps through the proceeds of the raffles paid to sports or
recreational clubs, derive benefit from them. And we wonder too, why a
raffle at a church bazaar, in which the prize is perhaps a dressed doll,
should be so much more agreeable to our lawmakers than a raffle in a
public house with a tame rabbit as the prize. If, one is morally right,
so is the other; if one is morally wrong, no doubt the tame rabbit is
also but the victim of man's rapacity.
The Betting and Lottery Act, 1934, lays down (in general terms) that any
rattle except a small “bazaar” lottery or a private lottery is illegal.
A raffle may be held at a bazaar, sale of work, fete, or similar event
provided no tickets are issued or sold outside the hall and the tickets
are drawn in the hall itself before the conclusion of the event.
Furthermore all the proceeds, after deducting expenses and prizes (£10
limit), must be devoted to purposes other than private gain, and none of
the prizes must be of money. We have seen all sorts of attempts to
overcome the terms of the law in regard to raffles, such for instance as
making members of an organisation all who buy tickets, or giving a
numbered ticket (which may win a prize) in the form of a receipt for a
subscription to a club or society, or selling the ticket as an entry
into some form of competition. Unless there is some element of skill in
the competition none of these devices makes the raffle legal. A private
lottery is one in which the sale of tickets is confined either to the
members of a club or society, or to people who all work or live in the
same place. But no tickets may be sold outside the premises or place of
employment and it must not be advertised outside. “The law is a ass – a
idiot”, said Mr. Bumble. It may be, but it is the law nevertheless, and
“ignorance of the law excuses no man”.
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Folkestone Herald 7 July 1951.
Local News.
Seven Folkestone public houses were granted an extension of licence on
weekdays until 11 p.m. and on Sundays to 10.30 p.m. until September 30th
at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Mr. W.J. Mason, appearing for the applicants, said a similar application
had been granted to a number of hotels for the summer season and
Festival of Britain. At Eastbourne 44 applications of the same kind had
been granted and 115 at Hastings. The extension had been granted to all
those who desired it in the other two towns.
The application was granted in respect of the Star Inn, Bouverie Hotel,
Shakespeare Hotel, Guildhall Hotel, Prince Albert Hotel, Globe Inn, and
George Inn.
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Folkestone Herald 14 April 1956.
Local News.
A protection order in respect of the transfer of the licence of the
Globe Hotel, The Bayle, Folkestone, was granted to Mr. H.O. Betts,
former licensee of the Hare and Hounds, Deal, at Folkestone Magistrates'
Court on Tuesday. The previous licensee of the Globe, Mr. A.C. Jeffree,
is moving to Maidstone.
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Folkestone Gazette 19 August 1959.
Local News.
A sergeant, 13 years in the Army, was fined £5 and ordered to pay one
guinea damages at Folkestone Magistrates' Court on Friday, for wilful
damage.
Sgt. John Henry Dawson, 26th Field Regiment, R.A., Shorncliffe Camp,
represented by Mr. W.J. Coley, pleaded Not Guilty to wilfully damaging a
glass panel in a door at the Globe Hotel, The Bayle, Folkestone.
Inspector Mead said at 10.15 p.m. on July 9th Dawson walked into the
saloon bar of the Globe Hotel and ordered a quarter bottle of whisky
from Mrs. Barbara Letts. She gave him the whisky but he did not want to
pay for it. She called her husband, Mr. Ronald John Letts, and he asked
defendant for the money or the whisky; he eventually got the whisky. At
about 10.30 p.m. Dawson left the premises but on two occasions attempted
to return. He knocked at the door, which had two glass panels. The
second time he broke one of the panels. Mr. Letts detained defendant and
telephoned for the police. At 10.48 p.m. P.C. Hartridge and P. Sgt.
Ayres arrived. Defendant was standing in the bar with Mr. and Mrs.
Letts. Asked for his name and address, Dawson answered evasively and the
officers were unable to establish his identity. At 11.30 p.m. he was
taken to the police station, where his identity was established. He was
asked if he broke the glass and replied “Yes. I will get busted for
this”. He offered to pay for the damage.
Dawson, giving evidence, said he went back to the hotel because he
thought he had left a bathing costume, cardigan and towel there.
Actually he had left the articles at another public house nearby and
collected them the following day. Defendant, denying that he knocked
violently on the door, said when nobody answered he rapped harder and
the glass smashed. He had no intention of breaking the glass. He had
been drinking but was not drunk. He told Mr. Letts that he would pay for
the damage.
Inspector Mead told the Magistrates that Dawson had two previous
convictions for being drunk in charge of a bicycle.
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Folkestone Herald 24 December 1959.
Local News.
With a terrific crash a vast number of pennies, in fact, 8,456 of them,
weighing nearly 180 pounds, fell in the saloon bar of the Globe Hotel,
Folkestone, on Monday evening.
They had been subscribed by customers, and had been piled on a counter
in the bar by Mr. and Mrs. R. Letts, the proprietor and his wife. When
counted the pennies were found to total £35 4/8, all to be donated to
the Archer Road Occupational Centre. Two scooters and a bicycle were
purchased for the children of the Centre, and the balance, amounting to
£7 7/2, was also handed to the Matron, Miss J.G. Kidd, for additional
Christmas comforts for them.
The pile was demolished by Mr. F.G. Wilson, Messrs. Fremlin’s area
manager, and the scooters and cycle were formally handed over to Miss
Kidd by Mrs. Matthews, wife of the manager of Messrs. Plummer’s.
When a similar pile of pennies was started for the same cause last year
it grew until a total value of £16 10/10 was reached, a sum more than
doubled this year. And at the close of Monday evening’s happy ceremony,
30/- was collected to start the 1960 pile.
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Folkestone Herald 13 February 1965.
Local News.
Police statements about the responsibility of publicans towards drunken
drivers have brought protests from local landlords. Superintendent
Frederick Coatsworth said at Seabrook last week that licensees exerted a
tremendous influence on their customers and had a vital role to play in
the prevention of offences involving drink, especially where motorists
were concerned.
Reaction from Mr. Reg. Gard, landlord of the George Inn in George Lane,
Folkestone, was “It just doesn’t make sense. We’re supposed to be mind-
readers now, asking customers their age to see if they are over 18. The
only thing we can do is to refuse to serve drinks to anyone who has
obviously had too much. And, of course, thirsty motorists could always
wear a ticket around their necks saying “I’m a driver. Please can I have
a drink?””
Mr. Ron Letts, licensee of the Globe on The Bayle, said “It’s ludicrous.
Our job is to sell drinks. A fair proportion of my customers are
drivers, and in the nine years I have been here I have found they are
generally responsible people. On the odd occasion, when you know your
customer, it’s O.K. to say “Give me your keys—you’d better take a taxi
home”. But how can you say that to a perfect stranger?”
Mr. Alec Wales, of the London and Paris, near the Harbour, who is
chairman of Folkestone, Hythe and District Licensed Victuallers’
Association, put most of the blame on restaurants. “You cannot hold a
publican responsible for what customers drink”, he declared. “I don’t
allow anyone who is obviously drunk in my house, but when they can get
served at a restaurant, what can you do? I certainly don't think the
majority of drunks come from pubs”.
At Folkestone Brewster Sessions on Wednesday Supt. Coats worth
reiterated his opinion. “Licensees, particularly those whose premises
attract what is known as the motor car trade, have a vital contribution
to pay in regard to safety on the roads”, he said. The police are the
first to realise in a town such as Folkestone that all persons do not
obtain their liquor in licensed premises. But, as responsible citizens,
licensees can exert a great influence on their customers by always
bearing in mind the effect which alcohol taken in excess might have on
drivers of a motor vehicle”.
The last word came from Mrs. Maud Lewis, licensee of the Guildhall
Hotel, chairman of the Women’s Auxiliary of the local L.V.A. After
Brewster Sessions she told the Herald “We all try to do our stuff. If we
think customers have had enough we tell them so. Irrespective of whether
they're driving or not, I'm firm with them on the question of drink”.
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Folkestone Herald 24 July 1965.
Local News.
Some three years ago Mr. Ronnie Letts, of the Globe Hotel, The Bayle,
Folkestone, revealed an unexpected flair for organisation. It was
suggested that an annual darts competition should be arranged for Cancer
Relief (as apart from research) and he undertook the task of running it.
It proved an instantaneous success, and in each of the last two years a
very useful sum has been realised through the co-operation of other
licensed houses within the area.
Next Thursday, commencing at 7.30 p.m., the semi-finals and final of
this year's competition will take place at St. George's Hall at the rear
of the Roman Catholic Church. A fitting venue, because the project has
the interest and active support of Father C.J. Walmsley,
priest-in-charge at the church.
The semi-finalists are Plough Inn A (holders of the loving cup held
annually by the winners), Cherrypickers Inn B, Star and Garter Inn A
(holders of the runners-up shield) and Richmond Inn A. There should be
some excellent sport, and, still more important, a generous addition to
the funds of the very worthy cause for which the competition is held.
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Folkestone Herald 15 May 1971.
Local News.
When 1,400 continentals visit Folkestone next Thursday the doors of
local pubs will be open to them all afternoon. On Tuesday local
Magistrates decided in favour of a second application to allow 17 pubs
to remain open especially for the visitors. They had vetoed a previous
application. The second made by publicans was amended to allow for a
half-hour break at 5.30 p.m. before their premises opened for the
evening session.
Mr. J. Medlicott, for the publicans, told the Magistrates that the
visitors were delegates attending a conference in Bruges. One of its
highlights was to be a visit to England. He referred to a letter
received by Folkestone Corporation from the British Tourist Authority
supporting the publicans' application. The visit – by Dutch, Swiss,
Belgians and Germans – was a special occasion, not just a shopping
expedition, said Mr. Medlicott. It had been arranged by a Bruges tourist
organisation which had particularly asked that pubs should be open in
the afternoon.
Police Inspector R. Sanders made no formal objection to the application
– but doubted whether the visit was a special occasion.
The Chairman of Folkestone Chamber of Trade, Mr. Alan Stephenson, said
later “The cross-Channel visitors' committee of this Chamber is very
pleased that this has been seen as a special occasion by the Justices.
When one is reminded that this extension is no more than happens in many
market towns every week of the year, it seems a fair request, especially
as Folkestone’s image abroad could be much influenced by the original
decision not to allow the pubs to open”.
The pubs which will stay open are; Jubilee, Ship, Oddfellows, Royal
George, London and Paris, True Briton, Harbour Inn, Princess Royal,
Clarendon, Brewery Tap, Earl Grey, Prince Albert, George, Globe, East
Kent Arms, Guildhall and Shakespeare.
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South Kent Gazette 8 February 1978.
Local News.
Two former barmaids were committed to stand trial at Grown Court on
Friday.
They are Julie Dianne Willis, aged 20, of The Deerings, Lydd, and
19-year-old Vicky Anne Edwards, 19, of Coronation Street, Blackpool,
formerly of Pilgrim Springs, Folkestone, who appeared at Folkestone
magistrates court. Both girls are alleged to have stolen from the
landlord of the Globe, public house, Mr. Ronald Letts, on five different
occasions between June 25 and July 22. The sums of money involved are;
£217.13, between June 26 and July 22; £3.46, on July 18; £16.92 on July
19; £36.46 on July 20, and £11.39 on July 21.
Bail of £100 in her own recognisance was extended for Willis.
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South Kent Gazette 5 April 1978.
Local News.
Angry publicans are threatening to boycott an organisation which raises
thousands of pounds for charity. Matters came to a head at the weekend
with Folkestone's first beer festival. Jointly organised by the charity
fundraising Lions Club and local members of the Campaign for Real Ale,
the event was staged at the Leas Cliff Hall.
Now landlords are working themselves into a ferment because, they claim,
customers deserted their pubs in favour of the cask conditioned
collection. Licensee of The Globe, in The Bayle, Mr. Ron Letts, said “As
far as I'm concerned that's the last time I'm having a Lions collection
box in my pub. The festival was bound to take trade away from pubs. I
know many landlords are angry about it. There's no difference between
so-called real ale and the beer in here”.
Organiser Robin Mitchell, a past president of the Lions, said “I heard
there had been complaints. The chap is entitled to his opinion, but
while some publicans objected to the festival I doubt if the majority
would be particularly bothered”. Mr. Mitchell said he was “a bit
disappointed” more people hadn't turned up. “We have set out to raise
£6,000 this year for a mini-bus”, he said. “The Little and Large concert
we organised raised £1,900, but at best I doubt if we'll get more than a
couple of hundred pounds from the beer”.
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Folkestone Herald 15 March 1980.
Canterbury Crown Court.
Two barmaids accused of stealing from the till of the Folkestone pub
where they worked, were found Not Guilty when a judge stopped their
trial on Tuesday. Julie Willis, 22, from The Deerlngs, Lydd, and Vicky
Edwards, 21, formerly of Pilgrim Spring, Folkestone and now living at
Coronation Street, Blackpool, had denied stealing £217 from the Globe in
The Bayle.
The trial, at Canterbury Crown Court, had started with the Globe's
landlord, Mr. Ronald Letts, giving evidence of how he found deficiencies
in his bar takings. Mr. Letts said he kept a daily record of his takings
and at the end of the week transferred the figures into an account book.
But after he had been giving evidence for some time, the landlord told
the court that his son, then aged 15, sometimes helped with the bookwork
and entered figures into the account book. It was then that Judge
Margaret Cosgrave stopped the trial and directed the jury to find Willis
and Edwards Not Guilty.
She explained to the jury “The case against these defendants must depend
upon the accuracy with which figures were taken down from the till roll
into the day cash book and from that into the accounts. And in view of
the evidence which you heard to the effect that the son had made all the
entries into the day book, there is no safe evidence on which I can ask
you as a jury to convict either defendant. I am therefore going to
direct you to enter verdicts of Not Guilty on all counts against each
defendant”, she said.
After the jury had returned the Not Guilty verdicts, Judge Cosgrave
discharged Willis and Edwards. The charges had alleged that the
defendants jointly stole £217 belonging to Mr. Letts, between June 25
and July 26, 1977. Then, separately, Willis and Edwards were each
charged with four thefts of unspecified sums of money from Mr. Letts
during the same period. These were alternative charges to the joint
allegation, Mr David Voelcker, prosecuting, had explained to the jury,
and the total amount involved was £217.
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Folkestone Herald 13 June 1981.
Local News.
About £1,000 is believed to have been stolen from the Globe public house
during a break-in on Tuesday night. Thieves broke into the building in
The Bayle, Folkestone, and forced open a safe, taking the contents.
Landlord, Mr. Ron Letts, refused to comment on the raid.
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South Kent Gazette 5 August 1981.
Local News.
A youth who stole £1,107 in three burglaries in Folkestone may be sent
to Borstal.
A 15-year-old admitted three accusations of burglary at Folkestone
Juvenile Court last Monday and was sent to Crown Court for sentence,
with a recommendation for Borstal training. A fourth accusation, of
burglary at the Ambassador Hotel on The Leas, was denied, and this was
adjourned.
Inspector Ron Young said the boy broke into The Globe pub, in The Bayle,
took the keys from the pocket of the publican, Mr. Ron Letts, while he
was sleeping, and opened a safe containing £1,000. Other people were
implicated in the burglary, but so far no-one else has been apprehended.
The Folkestone boy stole another £17 from chartered accountants in
Westcliffe Gardens and broke into a hut on the site of the new
Sainsbury's supermarket in Wellington Gardens. With additional claims
for stolen cigarettes, a gold watch and chain from Mr. Letts, there is a
total compensation claim of £2,676, said Mr. Young. The boy has previous
findings of guilt for offences earlier this year.
Defending, Mrs Susan Watler said that six weeks in a detention centre
and a supervision order had failed to stop the boy committing further
offences. He is beyond his parents’ control and magistrates should
consider putting him under a care order in a secure home. Because he is
easily influenced by older people, it might have a bad effect if he was
sent to Borstal, she said.
Magistrates ordered the boy to be held in custody until his Crown Court
sentencing to prevent him committing further offences.
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Folkestone Herald 22 August 1981.
Local News.
While publican Ron Letts slept a 15-year-old burglar took the key to his
safe from his trousers pocket. The young villain netted £1,000, coins
and jewellery in the raid on the Globe pub in The Bayle, Folkestone. But
on Monday the youth was sent to borstal for breaking into the Globe and
two other crimes.
Sentencing him, Judge Thomas Edie said “I am sorry to say that at the
age of 15 you have become an accomplished burglar and you are in need of
discipline and training”.
The youth had been sent to Maidstone Crown Court after admitting the pub
break-in, burgling a chartered accountant's, stealing £17, and entering
a building hut, intending to steal.
Prosecuting, Miss Gill Hammerton said he broke into the accountant’s on
May 31, taking money from a desk and a collection box for the blind.
Later the same evening police saw him climb over a wall of the
Sainsbury’s building site in Folkestone. Questioned later that night he
admitted both offences. He was bailed, but on June 9 broke into the pub
during the middle of the night. Arrested on June 30, he told police
older youths had also been involved in the raids at the pub and the
building site.
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Folkestone Herald 2 September 1983.
Local News.
A modern pizza restaurant could replace Folkestone's Guildhall pub.
Pizza Hut (U.K.) Limited have submitted a planning application to
Shepway District Council. A spokesman said if the company gets the
go-ahead it will preserve the character of the pub when installing oak
booths and tables. The company has 26 Pizza Huts in London and is
searching for new sites all over the country. It is not a fast food
chain but a full service restaurant which caters for 20-year-olds to
families with young children, said the spokesman.
But the plans mean that landlady Mrs. Maude Lewis and her daughter
Eileen will have to leave the Guildhall's bar and move to the nearby
Globe in The Bayle, Folkestone. The pair were told about a month ago
that after 31 years they would have to move. The pub's brewery is
Whitbread, of which Pizza Hut (U.K.) Limited is a subsidiary. “It was
quite a shock”, said Eileen, but added “If it had to happen at least we
are lucky enough to go to The Globe”.
The Globe's present landlord, Mr. Ron Letts, is retiring in September.
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Folkestone Herald 30 September 1983.
Local News.
After 27 years as landlords of the Globe pub, Ron and Barbara Letts are
set to enjoy life on the other side of the bar. The couple bade farewell
to their regulars at a retirement party on Monday but said they would
more than likely pop back now and then. It was a hectic day as Ron and
Barbara prepared to move out and new landladies Miss Eileen Lewis and
her mother Mrs. Maude Lewis, of the Guildhall Hotel, Folkestone, took
over. Neither Ron nor Barbara were sorry to leave the pub in The Bayle,
Folkestone, and said they were looking forward to doing nothing. The
couple moved to a flat in Guildhall Street. A decanter and six glasses
was presented by Mr. John Norton, area manager with Whitbread Fremlins.
The Guildhall Hotel is closing, but a company called Pizza Hut (U.K.)
Limited has submitted a planning application to Shepway District Council
for permission to turn the pub into a modern pizza house.
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Folkestone Herald 3 February 1984.
Local News.
The towels have gone up over a century of pub history as regulars supped
their last pint and turned their eyes to watering holes anew. After more
years than the most devout regular cares to remember the proprietors of
the Guildhall in Folkestone have sounded the final bell on the old pub,
and what was once the delight of the drinking classes is to be turned
into a licensed pizzeria.
Pubs may come and fads may go, but British landladies live on forever
and although it's time at the Guildhall the licensee Mrs. Maud Lewis
will continue serving pints at The Globe in The Bayle, assisting her
daughter Eileen, who is licensee there. “I have been here 32 yeras and
there have been some good times. It's sad the old place will not be as
it was but I shall be helping my daughter at The Globe and I expect to
see many old friends there”, said Maud who is now 73.
On Friday Mr. John Kidson, managing director of Whitbread Fremlins,
presented Maud with a cut glass decanter and glasses to mark her long
service at the Guildhall. During the lunchtime ceremony she was also
presented with a colour television, given as a mark of appreciation by
Folkestone and District Licensed Victuallers' Association and Ladies'
Auxiliary. Mr. Kidson praised the 50 years of service Maud had given to
the licensed trade and in particular to her 32 years behind the bar of
the Guildhall.
But the highest praise of all came from locals who thronged the bar on
Friday and also attended a wake on Sunday evening. "I have been coming
in here ever since Maud took over. Now Maud is going to help out over at
The Globe I shall be going over there”, said Mrs. Audrey Brandon. who
works at a nearby furniture store. “It’s another landmark gone but at
least we shall be able to preserve some of the pub’s atmosphere. It is
the people that make that”.
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Folkestone Herald 24 February 1984.
Local News.
Non, nein, or however you want to put it, Shepway drinkers have given
the thumbs-down to Common Market tinkering with the price of a pint.
Brussels bureaucrats have said that Britain discriminates against wine
in favour of beer and have asked for a harmonisation of prices. But with
one eye on the budget, drinkers and licensees alike suspect that is 1984
doublespeak for a thumping increase in the price of a pint.
First into the counter-attack against whatever Whitehall and Brussels
have in mind is Folkestone and District Licensed Victuallers'
Association, which says the price of a pint is already too high, and if
any adjustment is to be made, wine costs should be cut. “I've been here
15 years, and in that time I have seen the price of a pint of beer
double inside five years and the number of customers fall off” said Vic
Batten, Chairman of the association, and innkeeper at the Jubilee on The
Stade, Folkestone. “In January, 1979, mild was 30p a pint, and out two
bitters 34p and 38p. A pint of mild now costs 66p and the bitters 72p
and 74p respectively. You can go into any pub in the area and they will
tell you the same thing, and it amounts to this – the higher the price
of a pint, the more the average person is put off from visiting their
local. The ridiculous thing is that in this country we aret axed more
heavily on drink than in any other country in the Common Market with the
exception of the Irish Republic”.
As the lounge bar of the Jubilee cleared at the end of the lunchtime
session Mr. Batten's grandson, three-and-a-half months old Thomas came
down with his mum to see what was going on. Rapid calculations revealed
that, assuming prices rise on the current scale, Thomas will be tipping
back pints at more than £12 a time – if there are any pubs open by the
time he is 20.
One of the last customers to leave was fellow-publican and
ex-journalist, Brian Potter, now licensee at the Clarendon in Tontine
Street, Folkestone. Said Brian between mouthfuls of ale “If nobody says
or does anything then I reckon they'll get away with pegging wine at the
price it is and harmonising the prices by jacking up the price of a
pint. What Vic says is dead right. The average bloke is beginning to
realise the cost of a pint of beer has already been increased out of all
proportion. I mean, have your wages doubled in the last five years?”
Opinions of the same sort were voiced by Mr. Danny McNeill, late of
Balloch, Scotland, and now not-unacquainted with the bar of the Globe in
Folkestone's Bayle. “If the people who fixed the prices could stand in
here and listen to what people are saying, their ears would burn”, he
said. “There’s definitely something wrong with the pricing when you can
get a super strong lager in Scotland for less than 70p. It seems to me
that the brewers and the government are pricing themselves out of a good
thing”.
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Folkestone Herald 12 September 1986.
Local News.
The funeral service of Folkestone’s most famous former pub landlady,
Maud Lewis, took place on Wednesday. Maud - who died last week aged 75 -
was landlady at the old Guildhall pub, until it closed in 1984, for 32
years. For much of the last two years of her life she helped her
daughter Eileen at the Globe on The Bayle. In all, she gave over 50
years' service to the licensed trade. When she retired from the
Guildhall, Maud received many gifts and presentations from grateful
regulars and friends. Members of the Guildhall Street Traders’
Association gave her an inscribed powder compact and the Folkestone and
District Licensed Victuallers Association presented a colour television.
She built up a solid following during her time at the pub. As one
regular said when the Guildhall closed “I have been coming here ever
since Maud took over. Now she is going to the Globe I shall be going
over there. It is people that make a pub’s atmosphere”. Maud was buried
at Herne Bay following a funeral service at Folkestone Parish Church.
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Folkestone Herald 31 July 1987.
Local News.
Folkestone now has two Guildhalls. One, the historic former Town Hall –
the other, the town's newest pub. The Globe public house in The Bayle
has been renamed The Guildhall. In a brief and very damp xceremony the
Mayor, Kelland Bowden, unveiled the new Guildhall sign to the cheers of
revellers and a trumpeter, before going upstairs to make a closer
inspection of the sign.
The mother of landlady Eileen Lewis, Maud, used to run the old Guildhall
pub, in Guildhall Street, which is now a Pizza Hut restaurant.
Mr. Bowden said “I think it is appropriate that the name of the old pub
should follow Eileen. I used to use the old pub when I was young”.
Landlady Eileen said “It's a dream come true to have the Guildhall back.
I'm just pleased the opening went without a hitch. I was sure that the
curtain was going to get stuck on the sign”.
Local News.
An application has been put forward for a restaurant licence by the
management of the Victoria Hotel, in Middelburg Square.
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Folkestone Herald 7 August 1987.
Letter.
I was most interested to read your report on the renaming of the Globe,
and in particular reference to “the town's newest pub”.
Whilst I appreciate Eileen Lewis' nostalgia for the old Guildhall which
she and her mother ran admirably for many years, I do feel that the end
result is wrong. I, like many others, regret the passing of the
Guildhall, but cannot help but feel that it would be better to have put
the Globe on the map, so to speak, which I am sure Eileen was capable
of. Call it what you will, it will always be the Globe, a much older
“house” than the Guildhall was, and can never be the Guildhall.
The earliest reference to the Guildhall is in August, 1870, when the
then occupant Mr. Andrews applied for a spirit licence, and it was
quoted in evidence that he had occupied the house for two years without
complaint, thus giving us 1868 as the earliest known date for the
Guildhall. The Globe, however, could boast a much older history. The
earliest reference to it is in 1855, and two years later there is
reference to the licence being transferred to Sarah Hambrook from Thomas
Maycock. This Mr. Maycock ran the Globe as a wine and spirit merchant,
but had a room referred to as the public room, where drink could be
consumed on the premises (this can be verified), and there is evidence
that he had done so since 1848, when the premises were erected.
Incidentally, there are still descendants of Mr. Maycock living in
Folkestone today. Indeed, Dr. C.H. Bishop states that the Globe is
probably built on the site of a much older inn.
So, to quote a reference elsewhere, it was felt by Eileen’s “locals”
that “a slice of history” had been lost with the closure of the
Guildhall, a much older “slice of history” has been lost with the
passing of the name of the Globe.
E. D. Rooney,
Mead Road,
Folkestone.
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Folkestone Herald 28 August 1987.
Local News.
The recent renaming of the Globe public house in Folkestone has roused a
host of fond memories for one woman – she was born there. Joan Mann, of
Stanley Road, Cheriton, came kicking and screaming into the world
shortly after the First World War.
Her grandfather, Alfred Fox, was the licensee of the 19th Century pub,
now named the Guildhall, shortly after the turn of the century, and
remained the pub’s landlord through the First World War. Mrs. Mann said
“I remember my grandfather as a jolly old man, and very popular in the
pub. He was a teetotaller and it was only after his retirement in the
early 20’s that he touched a drop or two of brandy. Mrs. Mann supplied
us with the photograph showing regulars and staff outside the old pub
and what a smart lot they are. Eagle-eyed readers might spot the little
white dog in the background.
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LICENSEE LIST
MAYCOCK Thomas 1849-6/Nov/57 dec'd
CLARK Susannah Oct/1857
HAMBROOK Sarah 1857-58
HAMBROOK Richard 1858-76 (age 52 in 1861 )
 
HAMBROOK Miss Emily 1876-83 (age 39 in 1881)
DOWNING Charles 1883-86
HARRIS Joseph 1886-88
CRIPPS George Fuller 1887-88
TRITTON Frederick 1888-90
HALL Thomas 1890-92
RICKETTS Matthew 1892-95
SPARROW Charles 1895-97
PETTIFER Joseph 1897-99
FABER Louis 1899-04
FABER Charles 1903
 
HARDY Jack 1904-05
ALLEN Arthur 1905-06
FOX Alfred Peter 1906-20
DAWSON Robert Ernest 1920-23
BUTLER Henry John 1923-May/25
CHAMBERS George May/1925-Feb/26
CHAMBERS Elizabeth (later DORRELL) Feb/1926-42
CHAMBERS Mrs Elizabeth 1934+
DURRELL Mrs Eliz 1938
HUGHES Selina 1942-48 (also "Earl
Gray")
JEFFREE Archibald 1948-56
LETTS Harendo 1956-59
LETTS Ronald 1959-83
LEWIS Eileen 1983-87
Renamed "Guildhall."
From the Post Office Directory 1862
From the Post Office Directory 1874
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the Post Office Directory 1891
From the Post Office Directory 1903
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
From the Post Office Directory 1913
From the Post Office Directory 1922
From the Kelly's Directory 1934
From the Post Office Directory 1938
From More Bastions of the Bar by Easdown and Rooney
From the Folkestone Chronicle
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