Licensees
James
Kirby 1855 1861
Thomas
Baker 1861 1863
J.
Hobden c 1863 1865
Mrs. Hobden (Widow) 1865 1865
H.
Elliott 1865 1865 To Gun Tavern
Sarah Tidmarsh c 1865 1873 From Martello
George
Hogben 1873 1874 Later Queens Head
Thomas
Simmons 1874 1891
Albert
Hart 1891 1903
Frederick
Lester 1903 1907
William
Attwood 1907 1910 From Castle Inn
Albert
Hart 1910 1915
Francis
Hedges 1915 1931
Frederick
Hedges 1931 1934
Harold
Funnell 1934 1941
R.P. Rawlings 1941 1941
Arthur
Freeman 1941 1947
William
Hoare 1947 1956
John
Stewart 1956 1959
George
Thomson 1959 1963
Harry
Elliott 1963 1969
Charles
Shaw 1969 1973
Harry
Foster 1973 1975
Peter
Buckland and John West 1975 1979 John West also East Kent Arms 1976-78
James
Rugg-Gunn 1979 1982
David
Robinson 1982 1986
Graham
Thomson 1986 1989
Barry
Jukes 1989 1994
Jacqueline
Jukes 1994 1995
Timothy
Corcoran and Anthony Downing 1995 1995
Craig
Hale and Sarah Bedford 1995 1996
Sarah
Bedford and Linda McCarn 1996 1997
Southeastern Gazette
29-1-1861
County
Court, Wednesday last: Before Charles Harwood Esq.
James
Kirby v Stone: A claim for £1 10s., for hiring of stables at the Bouverie Arms,
Cheriton Road. Defendant denied his liability. He stated that he had never
hired the premises, but that they were used by his son.
George
Stone, son of the defendant stated that his father sent him to hire stables
wherever he could get them, and he had hired them in his father`s name of the
plaintiff. His father had given him money to pay the rent; the 30s. was the
balance due.
His
Honour said the father could not resist the claim as the son was acting as
agent. Ordered to be paid forthwith.
Folkestone Chronicle
27-4-1861
Advertisement
extract: Folkestone, in Kent. To Brewers, builders, speculators, and others
requiring a safe investment. Mr. John Banks will sell by auction, on Tuesday,
May 7th, at three o`clock in the afternoon, at the King`s Arms Inn,
Folkestone, the following valuable free public house.
Lot
1: All that well-built freehold detached free public house, known as the
Bouverie Arms, with stable belonging thereto, situate in Cheriton Road, and in
the immediate vicinity of Victoria Grove, Folkestone; let to Mr. Thomas Baker
as a yearly tenant at the sum of £30, which tenancy will expire at Midsummer,
1862. The above premises are well-adapted for carrying on a very lucrative
business.
Folkestone
Observer 27-4-1861
Friday April 26th:- Before the Mayor and
R.W. Boarer esq.
Mr. Hudson applied for a temporary authority to Mr.
Thomas Baker, to sell beer and spirits at the Bouverie Arms, Cheriton Place,
until the special sessions for transfer of licences on the 5th of
June next. The request was acceded to.
Folkestone Chronicle
11-5-1861
The
freehold building land and free public house offered for sale on Tuesday last
at the Kings Arms Inn, was not disposed of, and may now be treated for by
applying to Mr. John Banks, Auctioneer and Estate Agent, Tontine Street,
Folkestone.
Folkestone Chronicle
6-7-1861
Notice
Whereas a petition of James Kirby, formerly of Tovil, near
Maidstone, in the County of Kent, Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, then of the
Bouverie Arms, in the town of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, Beershop
Keeper, Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, then of the same place Licensed
Victualler, Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, then in lodgings in the White Lion
Inn, Cheriton, in the County of Kent, out of business or employment, then
living in furnished lodgings at Cheriton Street aforesaid, Plumber, Painter,
and Glazier, then and now of Cheriton Street in Cheriton aforesaid, Journeyman Plumber,
Painter, and Glazier, an Insolvent Debtor, having been filed in the County
Court of Kent, holden at Folkestone, in the said County, and an Interim Order
for Protection from Process having been given to the said James Kirby, under
the provisions of the Statutes in that case made and provided, the said James
Kirby is hereby required to appear in the said Court, to be holden at
Folkestone aforesaid, before the Judge of the said Court, on the twenty fourth
day of July, 1861, at ten o`clock in the forenoon precisely, for his First
Examination touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be further dealt
with according to the provisions of the said Statutes: And Notice is hereby
given that the choice of Assignees is to take place at the time so appointed.
All persons indebted to the said James Kirby, or who have
any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Ralph Thomas
Brockman, the Registrar of the said Court, at his Office at Folkestone, the
official Assignee of the Estate and Effects of the said Insolvent.
William Venables, High Bailiff,
Messenger of the said Court.
Folkestone Chronicle
27-7-1861
County Court
Wednesday, July 24th: Before C. Harwood Esq.
James Kirby appeared to petition the Court under the
Insolvent Debtors` Act; he passed his first examination, and received
protection till next Court day.
Folkestone Chronicle
3-8-1861
Notice:
In the matter of the petition of James Kirby, formerly of Tovil, near
Maidstone, in the County of Kent, Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, then of the
Bouverie Arms, in the town of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, Beershop
Keeper, Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, then of the same place Licensed
Victualler, Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, then in lodgings in the White Lion
Inn, Cheriton, in the County of Kent, out of business or employment, then
living in furnished lodgings at Cheriton Street aforesaid, Plumber, Painter,
and Glazier, then and now of Cheriton Street in Cheriton aforesaid, Journeyman
Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, an Insolvent Debtor.
Notice
is hereby given that the County Court of Kent, at Folkestone, acting in the
manner of this petition, will proceed to make a final order thereon, at the
said court, on the 28th day of August, 1861, at ten of the clock in
the forenoon precisely, unless cause be then and there shewn to the contrary.
William
Venables, High Bailiff,
Messenger
of the said Court.
Folkestone
Chronicle 24-8-1861
Annual Licencing Day & Petty Sessions
Wednesday August 21st:- Before the Mayor,
James Tolputt, W.F. Browell, W. Major, W. Bateman, and A.M. Leith esqs.
New Licence
A new licence was also granted to Thomas Baker, late of
Canterbury, for the Bouverie Arms, Cheriton Road.
Folkestone Chronicle
25-3-1865
Death
Died on the 21st instant, at Cheriton Road, Mr.
John Hobden, landlord of the Bouverie Arms, aged 35 years.
Note: This is at variance with More
Bastions.
Folkestone
Observer 1-7-1865
Wednesday June 28th:- Before Captain
Kennicott R.N., Captain Leith R.N. and J. Tolputt Esq.
Ellen Ovenden was charged with being drunk and using
obscene language in the Cheriton Road, and the 27th instant.
Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
Police constable Ovenden (2) said that yesterday
afternoon about three o`clock he received information that a policeman was
wanted at the Bouverie Arms. He went there and saw the prisoner in the tap
room, and the landlady wished to have her removed from the house. The prisoner
was drunk and using very abusive language. He removed her from the house, when
she began to swear and use obscene language, and refused to go away when
ordered, and he took her into custody.
Mrs. Hobden, landlady of the Bouverie Arms, said that
the prisoner came to her house between 12 and one o`clock and had some ale, and
made use of bad language and disturbed the neighbourhood. She went away and came
back again and repeated the bad language, when she sent for a police constable
and had her removed. The prisoner was drunk.
Prisoner in defence said that her husband was in the
house at the time, and that made her abuse the landlady.
Mrs. Hobden denied this, and said that she did not know
the woman`s husband.
Mr. Tolputt told Mrs. Hobden that there had been many
complaints about the house by the neighbours, and that if she did not mind she
would lose her license.
The magistrates fined prisoner 5s. and costs for being
drunk, and 1s. and costs for using obscene language, amounting to 15s.
Folkestone
Chronicle 1-2-1873
Wednesday, January 29th: Before The Mayor
and J. Tolputt Esq.
A special session was held for the transferring of
Alehouse licenses.
George Hogben applied for a transfer of the license of
the Bouverie Arms, granted to Sarah Tidmarsh at the last General Annual
Licensing meeting.
Application granted.
Folkestone
Express 1-2-1873
Wednesday, January 29th: Before The Mayor
and J. Tolputt Esq.
The license of the Bouverie Arms was transferred from
Sarah Tidmarsh to Richard Hogben.
Note: More Bastions lists him as George
Hogben.
Folkestone
Express 31-1-1874
Wednesday, January 28th: Before Col. De
Crespigny, J. Tolputt and R.W. Boarer Esqs.
Transfer:
The following transfer of public house was granted:
Bouverie Arms – to Thomas Simmonds.
Folkestone
Express 17-10-1874
Thursday, October 15th: Before The Mayor, J.
Tolputt, J. Hoad, and R.W. Boarer Esqs.
Thomas Simmons, the landlord of the Bouverie Arms,
applied for permission to open his house at five o`clock every morning because
it “paid him to do so”.
The Mayor said the Bench felt they could not grant the
application as other publicans would ask for the same privilege. Applicant must
show that it was for the public convenience.
The Clerk said it appeared to be a question of putting
a few extra shillings into applicant`s pocket.
Folkestone
Express 4-5-1878
Tuesday, April 30th: Before The Mayor,
Alderman Caister, and R.W. Boarer Esq.
Henry Care, of Folkestone, was charged with being a
deserter from the East Kent Militia. P.C. Knowles apprehended the prisoner at
the Bouverie Arms on Sunday night.
The Bench ordered the prisoner to be sent to the
headquarters of the regiment at Dover, to be dealt with by the authorities
there.
Southeastern Gazette
6-1-1879
Local News
Richard Charles
Austen was summoned for refusing to leave licensed premises when requested to
do so. He pleaded not guilty, but the Bench, after hearing the evidence of the
landlord of the Bouverie Arms, convicted the defendant and fined him 1s., costs 9s., or 7 days’.
Folkestone
Express 11-1-1879
Saturday, January 4th: Before The Mayor,
Alderman Caister, General Armstrong, R.W. Boarer and W.J. Jeffreason Esqs.
Charles Austen, a painter, was charged with refusing to
quit the Bouverie Arms on the 26th December.
Thomas Simmons, the landlord, said the defendant went
to his house. He was the worse for drink, and was refused any more. He declined
to go when requested, and witness sent for the police and he was ejected.
He was fined 1s. and 9s. costs, or seven days` hard
labour.
Folkestone
Chronicle 9-4-1881
Monday, April 4th: before The Mayor, Gen.
Cannon, W.J. Jeffreason, W. Bateman and J. Holden Esqs, and Alds. Caister and
Sherwood.
George Hawkins, labourer, of 5, Saffron`s Row, Dover
Street, was charged with maliciously wounding James Laws, bricklayer, on April
2nd.
Prosecutor, sworn, said that on Saturday April 2nd
he was in the Bouverie Arms, Cheriton Road, about 2 o`clock in the afternoon.
The prisoner was also there, and they were engaged in raffling and playing
cards until five o`clock in the afternoon. He then went to sit in front of the
fire, when an altercation took place between him and the prisoner, the latter
wanting to fight. Prosecutor left the taproom, and outside they had a scuffle
and a fall, prisoner whilst he was down biting him twice on the thigh. When
they got up they went back into the public house together, prisoner still
wanting to fight. Prosecutor struck him two or three times on the head, and
prisoner then ran out of the house. About seven o`clock he returned, prosecutor
then standing in front of the bar. They had a scuffle and fell. A man looking
on cried out “Look out, Jim, he`s got a knife”. He felt a prick in his right
side. Prisoner said he had not got a knife. Finding he had been stabbed, he
went to Dr. Bateman.
George Austin, carman, deposed to being present when
the offence was committed. They had a word or two, and he saw that prisoner had
something in his hand, which he believed to be a knife. He called out “Look
out, Jim, he`s got a knife in his hand”. Witness saw the knife picked up by
someone present, but could not tell by whom. Neither appeared to be drunk.
By the Bench: When the knife was found, prisoner said
it was his.
Thomas Simmons, landlord of the Bouverie Arms stated
that prisoner was at his house on the afternoon in question. About half past
four o`clock he left the bar to lie down, and came down at a quarter to seven.
Witness described an altercation which took place between prisoner and
prosecutor, who had taken off his coat and was in a threatening attitude.
Witness said “My friend, put your coat on again. That won`t do here, and if you
don`t leave my house I shall fetch a policeman to eject you”.
Prisoner: Why don`t you use the words you used then?
Witness proceeded to corroborate the evidence of
preceding witness, and in reference to the stabbing said that on hearing a
disturbance in the bar he went there. Laws told him he was stabbed. Both men
were on the floor, and he told those in the bar to hold prisoner down. Prisoner
said “I have not got a knife”. At the same time Alfred Goodchild picked up a
knife from off the floor, the same as the one produced. Both men were sober.
Being cross-examined by prisoner, witness said: You did
not ask me for the dice. There was none in the bar. I never handed you the
dice. I did not know you had the cards in the room.
Mr. Bradley reminded prisoner that that had nothing to
do with the case. If he desired to get witness convicted for allowing gambling
in his house, he must proceed in a proper manner.
Re-examined: I have no animosity against you.
P.C. Reads deposed to going to the house and hearing
the accusation of assault.
Mr. W. Bateman, M.R.C.S., said that prosecutor came to
him on Saturday evening and said he had been stabbed. Before he took off his
clothes, witness observed a hole in his waistcoat, and immediately under it a
hole in the shirt and flannel. On the right side of the chest, at the juncture
of the ribs with the lower part of the sternum there was a small incised wound,
about an eight of an inch in depth, and about the size the point of the knife
produced would make. There had been a small flow of blood from the wound, but
not much, as it was only through the skin into the fatty matter below. The
wound was just over the bone, but the bone was not laid bare. It was not a
dangerous wound, but in a dangerous place, if it had been deeper.
Prisoner: If the blow had been struck intentionally,
would not a knife like that have gone in much deeper?
Dr. Bateman: It happened to be a place where it would
not go through very easily.
Prisoner: Wasn`t it such a wound as might have been
done in a scuffle?
Witness: It seems it was done in a scuffle. I can`t say
how it was done.
Supt. Rutter said that on Saturday evening he sent for
prisoner and asked him if he knew the serious nature of the charge. He had the
knife alleged to be used in his hand. Prisoner said “I`ll swear that is not my
knife. I had it in my hand at the time, but I have no recollection of having
used it. If they say so, I suppose I`ll have to put up with the consequences”.
The prisoner was the worse for drink.
Prisoner: Did not I say that I`ll swear that I did not
use it?
Supt. Rutter: No.
Prisoner, being asked whether he wished to say
anything, stated that it was a public house quarrel from beginning to end.
Prosecutor and two others sat down to play cards. They had words, and one word
brought up another. Prosecutor knocked him down. He ran out of the house.
Outside he met his wife, who enquired of him where he had been and what he had
been doing. They went back to get a bag and bottle left in the public house. As
soon as he went in prosecutor said “I`ll give it to you, you ----, if you want
anything”. He then knocked him down, and got his head between prosecutor`s
legs. After a time prosecutor let him get up. A man standing at the door said
“Here`s a knife”. He said “That`s my knife”, and he could not account for it,
or how it came out of his pocket, and prosecutor said he had been stabbed, and
he (prisoner) replied “I have not stabbed you”. If there was anything wrong in
the matter, he was sorry for it, and apologised. Had it not been for Simmons,
the matter would have been made up.
Prisoner was then formally committed to the Quarter
Sessions for trial.
Folkestone
Express 9-4-1881
Monday, April 4th: Before The Mayor, General
Cannon, W.J. Jeffreason, W. Bateman and J. Holden Esqs, Aldermen Caister and
Sherwood.
George Hawkins, a labourer, of 3, Saffron`s Row, Dover
Street, was charged with maliciously wounding James Laws, a bricklayer, on
Saturday evening, April 2nd.
Prosecutor said he was a bricklayer, residing at 21,
Darlington Street. On Saturday the 2nd of April he was in the Bouverie
Arms, Cheriton Road, about two o`clock. The prisoner was also there and they
remained playing cards and raffling until about five o`clock. Witness then went
to sit down in front of the fire. Prisoner asked whose legs he was sitting on.
Prosecutor replied “Not yours”. Prisoner got up and wanted to fight, but
prosecutor said he did not want to have anything to do with a row. Prisoner
kept shaking his fists in prosecutor`s face whilst they remained in the
taproom. Prosecutor got up and went out, and prisoner followed. They had a
scuffle and fell, and while they were down prisoner bit him twice on the thigh.
When they got up, prosecutor went into the Bouverie Arms again, and prisoner
still wanted to fight. Prosecutor then got up and hit him two or three times on
the head, and he then ran out of the house. About seven o`clock he returned.
Prosecutor was then standing in the bar. Prisoner looked at him, and then they
both rushed at one another. They had a scuffle and both fell. A man standing
there called out “Look out, Jim, he`s got a knife”. Whilst they were on the
ground he felt a prick in his right side. Prisoner held up his hands and said
he had not got a knife. Prosecutor, finding he was stabbed, went to Dr.
Bateman. He was bleeding.The clothes produced, with the flannel stained with
blood, he was wearing at the time. Prisoner seemed alright when he returned
about seven o`clock.
In cross-examination by prisoner, prosecutor said they
had three raffles and played cards, but they did not quarrel about the cards.
George Austin, a carman, residing at 2, Coolinge
Cottages, said he was at the Bouverie Arms on Saturday between seven and eight
o`clock in the evening. Prisoner and prosecutor were there. They had a word or
two, but witness could not tell what was said. They had a scuffle, and he saw
that the prisoner had something in his hand, which he believed to be a knife.
He called out to prosecutor “Look out, Jim, he`s got a knife in his hand”. They
were then on the ground. Witness saw the knife picked up by some man present,
but he could not say by whom, and he did not see what became of it. He believed
the landlord took it. He heard prosecutor, after he got up, say he was stabbed.
The men did not appear to be drunk.
Cross-examined by prisoner: I do not know what Simmons
said when he received the knife. Some woman came in with you. She asked for
some money. You were by the side of the bar when Simmons came round to you.
By the Bench: When the knife was found, prisoner said
it was his. I did not touch it myself, and could not say whether there was
blood on the blade or not.
Thomas Simmons, landlord of the Bouverie Arms, said he
knew both prosecutor and prisoner. They were at his house on Saturday. He first
saw them about two o`clock in the afternoon. They were there the whole of the
afternoon. He left the bar about half past four and went to lie down. He came
down about a quarter to seven. The two were sitting in the smoking room, side
by side before the fire. They were having an argument. Whilst he was in the
room, prisoner said to Laws “I am as good a man as you”. Laws said “Undoubtedly
you are”. Prisoner said, with an oath “Yes; I am as good a man as you are at
anything”. At the same time he got up and took off his coat and hung it on the
back of the chair. Witness tapped him on the shoulder and said “My friend, put
your coat on again. That won`t do here, and if you don`t leave my house at
once, I shall fetch a policeman to eject you”.
Prisoner: Why don`t you use the words you used then?
Witness: Laws said it should not occur in my house, and
neither did he require anything of the sort, but if the prisoner did he must
put up with the consequences. Prisoner said they had better go outside. Laws
went out first, leaving his coat on the chair. Prisoner followed him, putting
his coat on as he went out. The door was closed, and witness did not see what
took place outside. The two returned in a few minutes, Laws going in first and
the prisoner following him. Witness ordered prisoner to leave the house. After
they returned they closed and fell, while they were in the taproom, and
prisoner but Laws, who fell over a chair, on the thigh. Witness put prisoner
out of the door and he went away. He was away about ten minutes and then came
back to the private door. About twenty minutes after witness put prisoner out,
he heard a row in the bar, and his son called for him to come. Witness returned
immediately. Laws said he was stabbed. Both men were in the floor, and witness
told those in the bar to hold prisoner down. Prisoner said “I have not got a
knife”. At the same moment Alfred Goodchild picked the knife up off the floor
and handed it to witness, who subsequently gave it to the police. The knife
produced was the same one. Witness sent his son for the police and P.C. Reed
returned with him. The men were sober.
Cross-examined by the prisoner: You were standing in
the bar before I went upstairs. You did not ask me for the dice. There were
none in the bar. I never handed you the dice at all. I did not know you had the
cards in the room playing.
Mr. Bradley told prisoner that had nothing to do with
the case. If he wished to get witness convicted for allowing gambling in his
house he must proceed in a proper manner.
Cross-examination continued: I have no animosity
against you.
P.C. Reed said he went to the Bouverie Arms on Saturday
evening and received the knife produced from Mr. Simmons. Prisoner and
prosecutor were both there. They were both excited, and each accused the other
of an assault. Prisoner seemed to have been the most assaulted of the two.
Cross-examined by prisoner: You had blood on your face
and looked as though you had been knocked about. I saw no marks of blood on the
prosecutor.
Mr. William Bateman said prosecutor went to him on
Saturday evening and said he had been stabbed. Before he took off his clothes,
witness saw a hole in his waistcoat, and immediately under it there was a hole
in the shirt and flannel. On the right side of prosecutor`s chest, at the
junction of the ribs with the lower part of the sternum, there was a small
incised wound about an eighth of an inch in depth, and about a size that the
point of the knife produced would make. There had been a small flow of blood
from the wound, but not much, as it was only through the skin into the fatty
matter below. The wound was just over the bone, and the bone was not laid bare.
It was not a dangerous wound, but it was in a dangerous place if it had been
deeper.
Prisoner: If the blow had been struck intentionally,
would not a knife like that have gone in much deeper?
Witness: It happened to be in a place where it would
not go through easily.
Wasn`t it such a wound as might have been done in a
scuffle?
Witness: It seems it was done in a scuffle. I can`t say
how it was done.
Superintendent Rutter said on Saturday evening, ten
minutes after the prisoner was charged, he sent for the prisoner and asked if
he understood the serious nature of the charge. Witness had the knife produced
in his hand. Prisoner said “I`ll swear that is my knife. I had it in my hand at
the time, but I have no recollection of having used it. If they say so I
suppose I shall have to put up with the consequences”. The prisoner was then
the worse for drink.
Prisoner: Didn`t I say “I`ll swear I didn`t use it”? –
No
Prisoner wished to make a statement, and although
advised by the magistrates` clerk that he had better reserve anything he had to
say, he persisted. He said: When I left off work at one o`clock I went into the
Bouverie Arms with another man. We had some beer. It was a public house quarrel
from beginning to end. It commenced at five o`clock. We were sitting there
playing cards. Prosecutor, me, and two more sat down to play. As we were
playing we found some of one pack and some of another. One word brought up
another. Prosecutor, being the strongest man, knocked me down. As soon as I
could get clear of the house I ran away. I got down as far as the Rev. Hussey`s
school, and there I met my wife, who asked me where I had been and what I had
been doing. I told her. We went back to get my bag and bottle, which I had
left. As soon as I got inside I saw Laws in his shirt sleeves at the other end
of the bar. He said “I`ll give it to you, you ----, if you want anything”. He
then rushed at me and knocked me down. When I was down he got my head between
his legs. I said “for God`s sake don`t strangle me”. After a time, Laws let me
get up. There was a man standing at the door, and he said “Here`s a knife”. I
said “That`s my knife”. I can`t account how it came out of my pocket. Laws said
he was stabbed. I replied “I have not stabbed you. If there has been anything
done in the struggle that should not have been done, I am sorry for it and I
apologise”. If it had not been for Simmons, we should have made it all up
between ourselves, but Simmons urged him to give me the law.
Prisoner was then committed for trial at the Quarter
Sessions.
Southeastern Gazette
9-4-1881
Local News
On Monday George
Hawkins was charged with having, on the 2nd of April, unlawfully and maliciously
wounded one James Law, contrary to the statute in such cases made and provided.
James Law, in
giving evidence, stated that he was a bricklayer residing at Folkestone, and on
Saturday, the 2nd April, was in the Bouverie Arms with the prisoner, when some
quarrel arose between them about sitting in front of the fire. The prisoner
took off his coat and squared up to them, the landlord thereupon ordering him
out. He went but returned in a little while and knocked witness down and
stabbed him with a knife. He did not see the knife but felt it.
In
cross-examination by the prisoner he said that he played cards and had
quarrelled about them.
George Austin
said he was a carman and was in the Bouverie Arms on the day mentioned and saw
the prisoner and the prosecutor scuffling together.
Thomas Simmons,
the landlord of the Bouverie Arms, said that he also witnessed the quarrel. He
had turned the prisoner out and it was not until he returned to the taproom
that the quarrel took place. The knife produced was the one that the prisoner
had used and he had delivered it to a police constable.
Dr. Bateman said
that the prosecutor came to him on the evening in question and said he was
stabbed. He found a wound on the right side of his chest, about one-eighth of
an inch deep. It was in a dangerous place, and might have been caused in a scuffle.
The prisoner admitted having quarrelled with the prosecutor on the night
in question, but said he wished to apologise for anything he might have done in the
scuffle.
He was committed to the Quarter Sessions for trial.
Folkestone
Chronicle 16-4-1881
Quarter Sessions
Wednesday, April 13th: Before J.J. Lonsdale
Esq.
George Hawkins, 36, labourer, was charged with
unlawfully wounding James Laws, at Folkestone, on April 2nd, 1881.
Mr. Denman prosecuted.
As last week we gave a full report of the hearing
before the magistrates, it is only necessary to remind our readers of the
features of the case. Prisoner and Laws were quarrelling in the Bouverie Arms,
which resulted in a scuffle, when prisoner was seen by a witness to have a
knife in his hand, the witness crying out to prosecutor while they were
scuffling “Take care, he`s got a knife in his hand”. Laws, on rising, found
himself bleeding from the side, and on going to Dr. Bateman it was seen that a
wound which, had it been deeper, might have been dangerous, had been inflicted.
The evidence against prisoner was very clear, although in defence he denied
that he had any knowledge of using a knife, which was proved to be his property.
The only discrepancy in the evidence was between the landlord of the Bouverie
Arms, who swore prisoner was sober at the time, and the Police, who stated that
he had been freely drinking when apprehended.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but added that
they thought prisoner had received provocation. On being questioned by the
Recorder, the Foreman said that they meant prisoner had lost his temper.
Prisoner, on being asked whether he had anything to say
in mitigation of punishment, observed that it was nothing but a public house
quarrel.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, observed that what
with the use of the knife and revolvers, they lived in strange times, and he
felt he could not give a less punishment than nine months` imprisonment with
hard labour.
Prisoner: Thank you, Your Honour.
Folkestone
Express 16-4-1881
Quarter Sessions
Wednesday, April 13th: Before J.J. Lonsdale
Esq.
The grand jury returned a true bill against George
Hawkins, 36, a labourer, charged with unlawfully assaulting James Laws by
biting him, and also unlawfully wounding the same James Laws.
Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty to the charge of stabbing.
Mr. G.L. Denman prosecuted.
The facts of the case were fully reported in our last
week`s issue. The prosecutor and the prisoner were together in the Bouverie
Arms, Cheriton Road, on Saturday, and had been playing cards during the
afternoon. A quarrel arose, which resulted in a scuffle between the two men,
the prisoner biting prosecutor whilst they were both upon the ground. Prisoner
was ejected from the house, but returned shortly before seven. A second
encounter between the two ensued, and while they were on the floor in the bar
the prosecutor received a slight wound in the side from the point of a knife
which prisoner acknowledged belonged to him. Prosecutor went to Dr. Bateman,
who found a small incised wound about an eighth of an inch in depth in the
man`s side.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the foreman
added that they considered the prisoner received provocation.
Prisoner asserted that the knife was in his bag, and
that the wound was inflicted accidentally during the struggle.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to nine months`
imprisonment with hard labour.
Southeastern Gazette
18-4-1881
Quarter Sessions
The Folkestone Quarter
Sessions were held at the Town- hall on Wednesday, before the Recorder (J. J.
Lonsdale, Esq.).
George Hawkins was charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding and biting James
Laws, at Folkestone, on the 2nd April, 1881. He pleaded not guilty of stabbing,
but guilty of biting. Mr. Denman
appeared for the prosecution, and the jury
returned a verdict of guilty,
but found that the offence was committed
under provocation.
The Recorder sentenced
the prisoner to nine months’ hard
labour.
Folkestone
Chronicle 26-6-1886
Wednesday, June 23rd: Before The Mayor,
Alderman Caister, and J. Holden Esq.
Annie Hancock was charged with attempting suicide from
the harbour.
The particulars of this case were reported last week.
Prisoner now expressed her sorrow for what she had done. She was under the
influence of drink at the time but promised, if let off, not to attempt to take
her life again.
Her sister, being in Court, promised to take care of
her. His Worship, after pointing out the wickedness of the act, discharged the
prisoner.
William Williams was summoned by Annie Hancock, the
last prisoner.
Annie Hancock, sworn, stated that she was at the Bouverie
Arms on the 15th June, when defendant made a row there, and told her
not to come there again. He struck her, and she struck him back again.
In defence, defendant said he told her to keep away
from his house, and not breed disturbances, when she struck him, and he called
a witness named Louisa White, who swore that plaintiff was the assailant.
The Bench dismissed the summons.
Folkestone
Express 10-12-1887
Saturday, December 3rd: Before The Mayor,
Alderman Banks, Capt. Carter, Surgeon General Gilbourne, H.W. Poole, S.
Penfold, E. Ward and W. Wightwick Esqs.
Charles Austin was charged with assaulting John Austin,
his brother, on the 25th November. Mr. Minter appeared for the
defendant.
Complainant said: I live at No. 8, Arlington, and am a
labourer. Defendant is my brother. On the 25th November I was at the
Bouverie Arms between ten and eleven at night. Defendant came in while I was
sitting in the taproom. He called me a b----.
I said “What do you mean?” He replied “I`ll show you what I mean”, and
knocked me backwards out of the seat. He hit me on the head and in the eye, and
then pulled me off the floor. It is the third time he has assaulted me. I did not
speak a word to him. I did not like bringing the matter forward, but I cannot
put up with it. When he went out he said “I`ll wait for you, and when you get
outside I`ll finish you off”.
By Mr. Minter: The landlord is not here. I have a
witness, named Henry Marsh, who was in the room all the time. After he dragged
me off the floor, I took a chair and threatened to knock him down. He
complained that I had struck his child without a cause. I have never given him
any cause to assault me.
Henry Marsh said defendant struck complainant twice
whilst in the taproom. He said nothing to complainant before he struck him
about teh child. Compainant did not give any provocation.
The Magistrates` Clerk said defendant had been many
times before them, and he had been bound over to keep the peace towards John
Jones.
Mr. Minter: What, Mr. Jones the fruiterer? – I suppose
so.
Mr. Minter: Two excitable beings together. (Laughter)
Supt. Taylor said there had been many summonses for
assault served on defendant, but they hed been generally settled out of court.
The Mayor said the Magistrates could not dismiss from
their minds that a gross and unprovoked assault had been committed, and
defendant would be fined 20s. and 10s. costs, or 14 days` with hard labour.
Folkestone Herald
28-5-1898
Felix
I understand that the locality of Cheriton Road will be
shortly brightened up by some grand alterations to the Bouverie Arms, the
appearance of which is to undergo a complete transformation.
I further hear that the well-known White Lion at Cheriton is
shortly to be pulled down, and rebuilt at a cost of £5,000. Our old friend Mr.
Baldock, the present proprietor, will retire in the near future, and his place
will be filled by Mr. Sid Saunders, of the East Cliff, Folkestone.
The cause of the brewers does not appear to be languishing
in these parts, that is if one may judge of the number of licensed premises in
the town that have lately been re-built or undergone alterations. There appears
to have been quite an epidemic amongst the owners in this direction. Whether it
is palatable or not it may safely be taken, I think, that prosperity continues
to shine on this favoured and beautiful district.
Folkestone Chronicle
23-7-1898
Wednesday, July 20th: Before Messrs. J. Banks, J.
Pledge, J. Holden, and C.J. Pursey.
Mr. Albert Hart, of the Bouverie Arms, was granted
permission to sell on the Football Ground at a fete to be held on Bank Holiday.
Folkestone Up To Date
23-7-1898
Wednesday, July 20th: Before J. Banks, J. Pledge,
J. Holden, and C.J. Pursey Esqs.
A special licence was granted to the landlord of the
Bouverie Arms for a football fete on the Cheriton Road.
Folkestone Herald
23-7-1898
Police Court Report
On Wednesday a licence was granted to Mr. Hart to sell at
the Football Ground fete.
Folkestone Up To Date
20-5-1899
Saturday, May 13th: Before The Mayor, J. Hoad, J.
Pledge, G. Spurgen, W. Medhurst, and J. Stainer Esqs.
Mr. Albert Hart applied for extra licensing privileges on
the occasion of the Football Fete on Whit Monday. The application was granted.
Folkestone Chronicle
30-9-1899
Police Court
On Wednesday Mr. Albert James Hart, of the Bouverie Arms,
answered a summons charging him with failing to produce a stock book when asked
by the officer of the Inland Revenue. The Supervisor from Canterbury put in an
appearance to prosecute. He proposed, he said, to state his case and then ask
for an adjournment, as his witness was not present.
Mr. Minter, counsel for Hart, objected, on the ground that
as the Crown neither accepted nor paid costs, and this was a Crown prosecution,
it would be decidedly improper to put his client to a second day`s expense
through the prosecution not being ready.
Under the circumstances the Bench dismissed the case.
The facts, as they afterwards transpired, were understood to
be that a man who was an utter stranger to Mr. Hart called and demanded his
permit book for inspection. Mr. Hart told the man that as he had never seen him
before he would require him to show some documentary proof that he was
authorised to demand inspection of the books. The man, who was really an excise
officer, is said to have produced no authority. The prosecution was the result,
and the intention was to make a test case as to whether a publican can demand
an excise officer`s card or other authority. As the prosecution fell through in
consequence of the absence of the witness, the question remains unanswered.
Folkestone Express
11-11-1899
Saturday, November 4th: Before The Mayor, Col.
Westropp, J. Holden, J. Fitness, J. Pledge, W. Medhurst, T.J. Vaughan, J.
Stainer, and W.G. Herbert Esqs.
Mr. Hart, of the Bouverie Arms, Folkestone, applied for an
occasional licence to sell at the Fancy Dress Ball to be held on November 7th
at the Town Hall.
The Bench granted the licence from nine till two.
My great grandfather was Albert Hart, who was landlord twice around 1900. Is it possible to obtain a better copy of Martin Easdown's print?
ReplyDeleteRegards, Iain Crump.
Hi, Iain,
DeleteUnfortunately this is the only pre-1950 picture I have of the Bouverie Arms. E-mail me at jcpdilligaf@talktalk.net and I`ll send you the copy as Martin sent to me.