Folkestone
Chronicle 27-5-1893
Local News
At the Borough Police Court yesterday two privates in
the South Wales Borderers, named Cummings and Wilson, were charged with
breaking two lamps outside the Clarendon Hotel, Tontine Street, doing damage to
the extent of 10s.
They were each fined 20s. with 10s. damage and 4s. 6d.
costs, in default fourteen days` hard labour.
Folkestone
Herald 27-5-1893
Police Court Notes
Friday: Before The Mayor, Col. De Crespigny, Mr. Brooke
and Mr. Pursey
James Wilson and Cummings, privates in the South Wales
Borderers, attached to the Provisional Batallion, were charged with maliciously
breaking two lamps, the property of Mr. Joseph Foster, of the Clarendon Hotel.
Both pleaded that they were drunk and had no recollection of the act.
Sergt. Dawson deposed to having seen the prisoners
break the lamps, and arresting them about ten yards away from the Clarendon.
They had been drinking, but were not intoxicated.
E. Loach, an employee of Mr. Foster, said the lamps
were on each side of the entrance to the Clarendon Hotel. Witness saw one of
the prisoners strike the lamp with a stick.
The prisoners were fined 10s., damage 10s., and costs,
or 14 days` hard labour. They were both taken to the cells below, and treated
the matter with the utmost indifference.
Folkestone
Express 3-6-1893
Friday, May 26th: Before The Mayor, Col. De
Crespigny, J. Brooke and C. Pursey Esqs., and Alderman Sherwood.
Michael Cummings and James Wilson, privates in the
Somerset Regiment, Provisional Battalion, were charged with breaking a lamp,
the property of Joseph Foster, of the Clarendon Hotel, and doing damage to the
extent of 10s.
Sergeant Dawson said he was on duty at the bottom of
the town, and saw the prisoners coming from Beach Street to Tontine Street.
When they got to the Clarendon Hotel they both struck the lamps outside the
public entrance and then shuffled away. They had been drinking, but were not
drunk. When charged in the hotel they made no reply.
Edward Loach, waiter at the Clarendon Hotel, said he
was at the bottom of High Street about twenty minutes to eleven on Thursday
night, and saw the two men near the draper`s shop at the corner. He saw one of
them strike one of Mr. Foster`s lamps. He ran after them, but they were in
custody before he reached them. Both lamps were broken.
The prisoners said they were drunk and did not know
what they were doing. They were each fined 20s., 10s. damage, and 4s. 6d. costs,
or 14 days`. The prisoners, who seemed to treat the matter as a good joke, were
taken below.
Folkestone
Up To Date 3-6-1893
Hall Of Justice
Before The Mayor, and Justices Pursey, Brooke, and De
Crespigny.
Two soldiers were charged with breaking two lamps, the
property of Mr. J. Foster, of the Clarendon Hotel.
Prisoners pleaded that they were drunk and had no
recollection of the act.
Sergt. Dawson, and Mr. C. Loach, and employee of Mr.
Foster, proved the case.
They were fines 10s. costs and 10s. damages, or
fourteen days` hard labour.
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