Folkestone Gazette
24-5-1961
Local News
Two more piles of pennies were knocked over at Folkestone
during the weekend. One at the London and Paris Hotel raised £11 2/-, and the
other, at the West Cliff Shades, £18 10/6. The money goes to the Folkestone
Branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign.
Folkestone Gazette
17-5-1967
Local News
Mr. Leonard Barker, of 14, Segrave Road, Folkestone, retired licensed victualler,
who died in March, left £12,491 gross, £12,416 net. Duty paid was £745. Probate has been granted to his
niece, Miss Winifred M. Barker, of 10 Hurst Avenue, Horsham, and nephew Walter E.J. Barker, of
148, Comptons Lane, Horsham. He left £500 and certain effects to Mrs. Dorothy M. de Vere, if still in
his employ at his death and not under notice; £50 to Dr. Fritz Ewer, of Greenoaks, Military
Road, Sandgate, “for his kindness and attention to my late wife during her long
and painful illness”; and £25 to the Rev. Gethin-Jones, late of The Vicarage,
Sandgate.
Folkestone Herald 27-1-1968
Local News
The licensee of a Folkestone public house, making a search after a
water-filled charity collecting box had been taken from his bar, followed a
trail of water splashes along Sandgate
Road, up Castle Hill Avenue, and into the Majestic Hotel site car park.
There, Mr. Robert Kitson, licensee of West Cliff Shades public house,
told Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday, he saw Frank Morrison squatting by a
tree with the water-filled jar in his hands. He
appeared to be about to smash it.
Morrison,
a private with the 1st Parachute Regiment, stationed at Aldershot, pleaded not
guilty to stealing the jar, belonging to the National Kidney Research Fund, and
valued with contents at £1.
After hearing the evidence the magistrates dismissed the case.
Mr. Kitson said that when Morrison saw him he dropped the jar in the car
park and ran off. He was later stopped outside the Princes Hotel.
P.C. Ivor Chapman said he took Morrison to Folkestone police station,
where, after questioning, he said “Yes, I took it, but only in fun. We played
rugby with it. We only did it to see if we could get away with it.”
In court Morrison, who said that at the time he had been attending a
course at the School of Infantry, Hythe, said he took the jar but did not
intend to steal it. “We were going to have a bit of fun
with it,” he said. “What we were trying to do was incite the people in the
public house to a bit of fun and games, a bit of tomfoolery”. His recollection of the evening was very hazy because he had been
drinking. “If I had
got away with it, which was never my intention, I would have taken it back”,
he added.
Capt. Frances Carter, of the Hythe School of Infantry, said Morrison’s
conduct sheet showed he was of exemplary character. He had been
a normal, hard-working student while on the course, and the offence with which
he was charged seemed to be out of character.
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