Folkestone Herald 6-1-1951
Local News
Folkestone Magistrates on Wednesday approved plans
for extensive alterations and improvements at the East Kent Arms, Sandgate Road.
Speaking on behalf of Messrs. Worthington, the
owners, Mr. H.G. Wheeler said the proposed alterations were quite extensive.
As they were probably aware, the East Kent Arms was a very old building indeed,
and at present it was inconvenient to both the public and the licensee. For a long
time past it had been obvious that the sanitary conditions were little short of
disgraceful. It was, he continued, very necessary to
provide suitable sanitary arrangements and make general
improvements. It was proposed to convert the existing five
bars into two bars and to make the whole of the downstairs space licensed premises,
and upstairs private living quarters.
Folkestone Herald
19-4-1952
Local News
Approval of plans for alterations to bar accommodation at
the East Kent Arms was given by Folkestone Licensing Justices on Wednesday.
Folkestone Gazette
23-4-1958
Local News
A licensee described to Folkestone Magistrates on Friday
how he grabbed hold of a man he found with four bottles of beer in the yard of
a Folkestone public house.
He alleged the man was Aaron Beazley, Elverton Close,
Folkestone, who was charged with stealing 12 bottles of beer, valued at 16/-,
the property of Mr. T.E. Moore. Basil Hinds, Woodfield Close, Folkestone,
charged with a similar offence, was also alleged to have stolen a knife, worth
5/- belonging to Mr. Moore. The accused, who pleaded Not Guilty, were committed
for trial. Both were granted bail.
Mrs. Isobelle Moore, of the East Kent Arms, Sandgate
Road, Folkestone, said at approximately 8.30 p.m. on March 21st she
was serving in the saloon bar when her attention was drawn to Hinds and
Beazley, who were in the public bar. Two pies, she said, were purchased by
another customer for Hinds. Two knives were supplied with the pies, but when
the plates were returned one of the knives was missing. Mrs. Moore stated that
she noted the accused kept going out to the toilet. “When I saw Hinds climbing
over the gate I put on the light and ran downstairs. I went into the street but
could find no trace of him. I went back to the public house, and to my
astonishment I saw Hinds sitting in the public bar”.
Thomas Edward Moore, licensee of the East Kent Arms, said
at 9.30 p.m. he received a telephone message and returned to the public house. He
went to the yard where he met Beazley, who had two full bottles of beer in each
hand. “I grabbed him by the neck, took him into the house, and asked my wife to
dial 999”, continued Mr. Moore. Beazley said to me “You are not going to “nick”
me for four bottles of beer?” Witness said when he checked the contents of the
bottle store 12 bottles of beer were missing.
Replying to Mr. W.J. Coley, representing Hinds, witness
said he did not check the bottles in the public house.
Questioned by Beazley, witness agreed that when he
accused Beazley he took some notes out of his pocket but he refused to serve
him.
P.C. McKenna stated that at 10.05 p.m. on March 21st
he went to the public house where he saw Beazley with Mr. Moore, who said he
had found accused with four bottles of beer, which, he alleged, had been stolen
from the premises. Beazley replied “All for four bottles of brown ale”. Told he
would be taken to the police station, accused said “Only four bottles”. The
officer said he went into the public bar where Hinds was sitting with a number
of men. Mrs. Moore alleged that earlier the same evening she had seen Hinds
climbing out of the bottle store. Told he would be taken to the police station
for further enquiries, Hinds asked “Why me?” At the police station accused
produced a knife from an inside pocket of his jacket. He said “I must have got
it from home”. Later
Mrs. Moore identified the knife as her husband's property. The officer said he
found two bottles of beer and a smashed glass in the gentlemen’s toilet at the
public house. The officer referred to a
statement alleged to have been made by Hinds in which accused denied stealing
the beer and the knife.
Replying to Mr. Coley, the officer said Hinds had
been drinking, but he was by no means drunk. When Hinds was charged he replied
“I did not take no knife”. Beazley was charged with the theft of the beer and
he said “I did not have nothing”.
Mr. Coley submitted there was no evidence against
Hinds on the charge of stealing the bottles of beer. “There is not a shred of
evidence that Hinds had any of the beer or took it away”, he said. “The
evidence we have heard is that Beazley had four bottles in his hands, and two
were found in the toilet. Nothing has been said about the other six”.
The Magistrates found a case to answer and committed
Hinds and Beazley to the East Kent Quarter Sessions at Canterbury, on May 19th.
The accused were granted bail.
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