Bouverie Arms, Cheriton Road 1855 - 1997

Bouverie Arms 1999 Credit Martin Easdown

Bouverie Arms c1950 Credit Peter & Anne Bamford

Former Bouverie Arms, May 2012

Bouverie Arms, Date unknown. Photo kindly supplied by Martin Easdown 

 

Bouverie Arms, 1978

 

 

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 7^th, 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 26^th:- 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 5^th 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 24^th: 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 28^th 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 21^st:- 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 21^st 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 28^th:- 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 27^th 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 29^th: 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 29^th: 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 28^th: 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 15^th: 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 30^th: 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 4^th: 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 26^th 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 4^th: 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 2^nd.

Prosecutor, sworn, said that on Saturday April 2^nd 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 4^th: 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 2^nd.

Prosecutor said he was a bricklayer, residing at 21, Darlington Street. On Saturday the 2^nd 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 13^th: Before J.J. Lonsdale Esq.

George Hawkins, 36, labourer, was charged with unlawfully wounding James Laws, at Folkestone, on April 2^nd, 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 13^th: 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 23^rd: 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 15^th 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 3^rd: 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 25^th 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 25^th 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 20^th: 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 20^th: 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 13^th: 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 4^th: 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 7^th at the Town Hall.

The Bench granted the licence from nine till two.