Folkestone Chronicle 15-2-1890
Saturday,
February 8th: Before The Mayor, Major H.W. Poole, Surgeon General
Gilbourne, W.G. Herbert and W. Wightwick Esqs.
Mr. Thomas
Hall applied for the transfer of the licence of the Globe Hotel from Mr.
Tritton. Granted.
Folkestone Express 15-11-1890
County Court
Tuesday,
November 11th: Before Judge Selfe
P. Upton v
Robert Carter: Claim £3 1s. 9d. Defendant is a publican. Committed for 14 days.
Order suspended for 28.
Note:
Oddfellows Arms
Wednesday,
November 12th: Before H.W. Poole, W. Wightwick, J. Brooke and W.G.
Herbert Esqs., and Surgeon General Gilbourne.
Thomas
Lister, a marine store dealer, was charged with committing a criminal assault
on Emily Newing, and also with stealing two two shilling pieces from her on
Tuesday evening.
Emily Newing,
the wife of William Newing, a labourer, lodging at the Bricklayers` Arms, said
the prisoner and his wife also lodged there. She met the prisoner about seven
o`clock on Tuesday evening near the Globe, on The Bayle. Up to that time she
had never spoken to him. He asked her to mind his bag for a few minutes, which
she did. When he returned he asked her to go into the Globe and have something
to drink. They each had two glasses of porter. They were in the house five or
ten minutes and left together. He then dabe her goodnight and went towards High
Street. She went down the Parade Steps. When she was halfway down the prisoner
came behind her and threw her down. She had two two shilling pieces tied in her
handkerchief, which prisoner took, and he then ran away up the steps.
Dr. Bateman
stated that the prosecutrix was taken to him on the previous night at about
10.30. He examined her and saw nothing to lead him to suppose that the assault
complained of had been committed.
P.C. Scott
said he took the prisoner into custody for stealing two two shilling pieces,
and when charged prisoner said “It`s a lie”. Up to the time prisoner was taken
into custody the woman made no other statement. He searched the prisoner and
found one two shilling piece, four shillings and some bronze.
Supt. Taylor
having given evidence, the Bench called the prosecutrix to the front and said
the story told was so improbable that they had no hesitation in dismissing both
the charge of assault and theft.
Folkestone Chronicle 29-11-1890
Local News
At the
Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday, Thomas Hall, landlord of the Globe Hotel,
was charged with selling intoxicating liquors during prohibited hours on the 14th
instant.
Mr. Minter
prosecuted, and stated that the police entered the house at five and twenty to
twelve on the night in question, and found two soldiers and two prostitutes
drinking.
Defendant
pleaded Guilty and no evidence was taken.
Defendant: I
should like to ask the constable (P.C. Dawson) how he got the information.
Supt. Taylor:
Oh, no, thank you; we can`t oblige. (Laughter)
Alderman
Pledge: What is your object for asking?
Defendant:
Because there was no policeman there at the time.
Mr. Bradley:
You mean you didn`t see any. (Laughter)
Mr. Minter:
Perhaps the Superintendent can tell you the character of the house.
Superintendent
Taylor said the defendant was a new landlord, and so far had conducted the
house very well indeed.
Fined £2 10s.
and 8s. costs.
Folkestone Express 29-11-1890
Wednesday,
November 26th: Before The Mayor, J. Holden, J. Clark, S. Penfold,
and J. Pledge Esqs.
Thomas Hall
was charged with selling intoxicating liquors during prohibited hours on the 14th
November.
Mr. Minter,
who prosecuted, said on the 14th inst. the police appeared at the
house at 25 minutes past eleven and found two soldiers and two prostitutes.
There was an excuse made that the soldiers were going to stay there, but they
said they were not. He understood it was the first offence, and as the
defendant had pleaded Guilty he would leave the Bench to deal with it.
The defendant
desired to know how the police got the information. He did not know the women
were prostitutes.
Superintendent
Taylor said he did not press for a heavy penalty. It was the first offence, and
up to that time the house had been very well conducted.
The Bench
fined the defendant 50s. and 8s. costs.
Folkestone Express 13-12-1890
Saturday,
December 6th: Before Captain Carter, J. Holden and E. Ward Esqs.,
and Aldermen Pledge and J. Sherwood.
Two soldiers
and also two “ladies” were charged with being found on licensed premises at the
Globe Hotel on the 14th November.
P.C. Dawson
said he visited the house at 11.35 at night and found the four defendants
there. The landlord had been fined 50s. and costs.
The
defendants all pleaded that they did not think it was so late. The men said
they had only recently come from India and were not aware of the rules.
The
defendants were each fined 5s. and 9s. costs.
Folkestone Chronicle 29-8-1891
Wednesday,
August 26th: Before J. Clarke, J. Pledge, J. Holden, W. Wightwick,
H.W. Poole and F. Boykett Esqs.
Annual
Licensing Sessions
Superintendent
Taylor objected to the renewal of the licence of the Bellevue Hotel (Mr.
Adams), and also to the renewal of the licence of the Globe Hotel (Mr. Hall).
The latter was represented by Mr. F. Hall.
The licenses
of both these houses were withheld until the adjournment.
The adjourned
Sessions will be held on the 23rd of September.
Southeastern Gazette
1-9-1891
Licensing Sessions
The annual
Licensing Sessions were held on Wednesday, when objections were raised against
the renewal of the licences for the Globe Hotel, the Bellevue Hotel. The Bouverie
Hotel, and the Tramway Tavern. Mr. Rooke appeared on behalf of the council of
the Folkestone Temperance Society, and the whole of the cases were eventually
adjourned until Sept. 23.
Folkestone Chronicle 26-9-1891
Wednesday,
September 23rd: Before J. Clarke Esq., Major Poole, J. Holden, W.
Wightwick, F. Boykett and J. Pledge Esqs.
Adjourned
Licensing Sessions
The Globe
Hotel
Mr. Hall
attended for a renewal of the licence of the Globe Hotel. Mr. F. Hall appeared
for the applicant.
Superintendent
Taylor stated that Hall was fined 50s. and 8s. costs on the 26th of
November for allowing four persons to remain in the house after closing time.
In answer to
Mr. Hall, the witness said they were discovered about twenty five minutes after
eleven. He had had no other complaints about the house, the general conduct of
which was good.
The Chairman
said the licence would be renewed, but he would advise the landlord to be very
careful in future as there was a disposition to reduce the number of licences.
Folkestone Express 26-9-1891
Wednesday,
September 23rd: Before J. Clark, J. Holden, H.W. Poole, W. Wightwick, F.
Boykett and J. Pledge Esqs.
Adjourned
Licensing Day
The Globe
Hotel
Mr. F. Hall
applied on behalf of Mr. Thomas Hall for a renewal of this licence.
Superintendent
Taylor said on the 21st November last applicant was convicted for
selling during prohibited hours. The licence was not endorsed.
In answer to
Mr. Hall, Superintendent Taylor said the time was between eleven and half past.
Two soldiers and two women went in after hours. There had been no other
complaint against the house, the general conduct of which was good.
The licence
was renewed, the applicant being cautioned as to the future conduct of the
house.
Sandgate
Visitors` List 2-10-1891
Local News
A burglary was committed at the Globe Hotel,
Folkestone, early on Thursday morning, and a sum of £40 and a silver watch
belonging to the landlord, Mr. Thomas Hall, stolen. The burglar was disturbed
and chased, but managed to evade capture.
Folkestone Chronicle 3-10-1891
Local News
At the
Folkestone Police Court yesterday, before The Mayor, Alderman Sherwood, Captain
Carter, Alderman Pledge, and W. Wightwick Esq., Edmund O`Burke, of New York,
was charged with burglariously entering the Globe Hotel at an early hour on
Thursday morning, and stealing therefrom £35 in gold, a pocket-book, £1 6s. in
silver, a £5 bank note, and a silver watch and chain.
The case
created a great deal of public interest, the Court being densely crowded.
The prisoner,
who pleaded Guilty to the charge, is about 5 ft. 6 ins. in height and about 25
years in age.
P.S. James
Campany, of the Dover Police Force, said: At twenty past eight this morning I
was in Military Road, Dover. I there saw the prisoner. In consequence of
information I had received from the Folkestone Police, I arrested him. I told
him I should take him into custody on a
charge of robbing an hotel at Folkestone. He said “Very well”. I took him to
the Dover Police Station, where I searched him. I found one £5 Bank of England
note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, a foreign silver coin, fivepence
in bronze, a silver watch and chain, a pocket book –
Prisoner: And
a Continental phrase book.
Witness
(continuing): I brought him to the Folkestone Police Station. On the way he
told me he had left his shoes in the Hotel, and asked me if I thought they
would let him have them. I told him I didn`t know.
Thomas Hall
said: I am the landlord of the Globe Hotel, and woke about half past four
yesterday morning. I was awakend by seeing a light go past my bedroom. I did
not hear anyone in my room. I looked out of the door and asked who was there,
but I received no answer. I heard a window pushed up in the next room, and I at
once looked out of my own bedroom window. I saw a man drop from the
window-ledge of the adjoining room. He landed on the cellar flap, and then ran
away. I could not see his face distinctly, and am unable to identify the
prisoner. He appeared to be dressed similar to the man in the dock. I called
out “Stop, thief!” Mr. Goldsack, the sweep, was coming round the corner, and he
ran in pursuit of him. They ran in the direction of the Bayle Steps. I examined
my bedroom, and found that he had taken my keys from my trousers pocket, and
unlocked my portmanteau. He had taken my wearing apparel out of my room, and I
afterwards found them in the scullery. I missed £35 in gold from the
portmanteau; also one five pound note, and about £1 6s. in silver. The money
was in a little pocket book. I missed the watch and chain, produced, from the
till in the bar, and I found the pair of boots, now produced, in the scullery.
The boots are not my property.
Superintendent
Taylor asked for a remand until Wednesday.
Prisoner: I
should regard it as a very great favour if the Bench will sentence me at once.
Mr. Bradley
said even if a prima facie case were made out against prisoner, the Bench could
not deal with it. He would have to be sent to the Maidstone Assizes.
The Chairman:
You will be remanded until Wednesday.
Prisoner: May
I have my boots to wear, gentlemen?
Mr. Bradley:
You won`t want them just yet. (Laughter)
The prisoner
was then removed below.
Folkestone Herald 3-10-1891
Local News
Late on
Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning, a daring burglary took place at
the Globe Hotel. Mr. Hall states that he was sleeping alone on the night in
question, and was aroused by a man walking about his room with a light. He at
once challenged him, but received no reply. Mr. Hall at once dressed himself,
and the miscreant made his escape through the window. A cry was raised of
“Stop, Thief!”, and a man endeavoured to close with the burglar, but he was
soon lost to view. An examination of the hotel proved that a serious burglary
had taken place, and the police were at once communicated with, who, with
commendable promptitude, put the telephone and electric wires at work, with the
result that the man “wanted” was found at Dover early yesterday (Friday)
morning. The police deserve great praise for the successful measures they took
to ensure the capture of the man.
Police
proceedings yesterday
Before The
Mayor, Capt. Carter, Alderman Sherwood, Mr. W. Wightwick, and Mr. James Pledge.
Edward
O`Burke, who gave no address, was brought up and charged with burglary at the
Globe Hotel on the night of Wednesday last, and with stealing £36 6s. in money,
a Bank of England £5 note, watch and chain, etc.
The evidence
of Mr. Hall, who identified the articles produced as his property, and that of
a police sergeant from Dover proving the arrest, having been heard, the
prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next.
Southeastern Gazette
6-10-1891
Local News
A burglary was
perpetrated at the Globe Hotel on Thursday, when about £50 and a watch
belonging to the landlord were stolen. The burglar was alarmed and pursued,
leaving his boots behind.
At the Folkestone
police-court on Friday, before the Mayor, Alderman Sherwood, Capt. Carter,
Alderman Pledge, and Mr. W. Wightwick, Edmund O’ Burke, of New York, was
charged with burglariously entering the Globe Hotel at an early hour on
Thursday morning, and stealing therefrom £45 in gold, a pocket-book, £1 6s. in
silver, a £5 note, and a silver watch and chain. The prisoner, who pleaded
guilty to the charge, is about 6ft. 6in. in height, and about 25 years of age.
P.S. James Campany.
of the Dover police force, said he went to Folkestone Road and arrested the
prisoner. On searching him witness found one £5 note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d.
in silver, a foreign coin, 5d. in bronze, a silver watch and chain, and a
pocket-book.
Prisoner: And a
Continental “phrase-book.”
Thos. Hall said:
I am the landlord of the Globe Hotel, Dover (sic). About half-past four
yesterday morning I was awakened by seeing a light go past my bedroom. I did
not hear anyone in my room. I looked out at the door and asked who was there,
but I received no answer. I heard a window pushed up in the next room, and I at
once looked out of my own bedroom window. I then saw a man drop from the window
ledge of the adjoining room. He landed on the cellar-flap and then ran away. I
could not see his face distinctly, and am unable to identify the prisoner. I
called out, “Stop thief.” A man was coming round the corner, and he ran after
the person escaping. I found my wearing apparel in the scullery. I missed £45
in gold and other money from my portmanteau, the keys of which had been taken
from my trousers pocket.
Supt. Taylor
asked for a remand until Wednesday.
Prisoner: I
should regard it as a very great favour if the Bench will sentence me at once.
The prisoner was
then remanded.
Folkestone Express 7-10-1891
Local News
Early on
Thursday morning a burglary was effected at the Globe Hotel, which is kept by
Mr. T. Hall, and the burglar, we hear, got clear away with about £40 in cash,
and an old silver double-cased watch; the maker`s name “Boxer, Folkestone” is
engraved upon it. Mr. Hall states that he was sleeping alone in a front room of
the hotel, his wife being at Sandgate. About a quarter to five on Thursday
morning he was awoken by someone in his bedroom with a light. He called out to
know who was there, but there was no answer. He got up and went to the window,
when he saw a man drop from the window ledge on to the trap door of the cellar
in front of the house. He opened the window and called out “Stop. Thief!” A man
named Goldsack, who has a stable at the back, came out, and ran after the man,
who seems to gave gone across the garden of the old Parade houses and down to
High Street, and Goldsack lost sight of him. Mr. Earl states that a stranger
was stopped by his dog about that time in the morning. Mr. Hall examined the
premises, and came to the conclusion that an entry had been effected by placing
a ladder up to the closet window, after which the thief went downstairs and
opened the door and removed the ladder, which was found lying on the ground.
Mr. Hall`s clothing was found in the scullery, having apparently been taken
from the bedroom and carried down there to be searched to find the keys. Then
the thief returned and from a pocket book in a portmanteau he took about £40,
consisting of £32 or £33 in gold, a £5 note, and £1 in silver. The burglar had
removed his boots, which were found just inside the kitchen door. They were
patent leather, with brown tops, and a man who wore similar boot has, it is
said, been seen about the house lately. In the dim light Mr. Hall was unable to
recognise the man, but he was rather tall and dressed in dark clothes. He had
been into the bar, where he helped himself to some sherry and cigars. The boots
and other articles are in the hands of the police, but up to last night no
tidings had been heard of the thief.
The
Folkestone Police, having received information which led them to believe the
burglar had taken refuge in the Warren, were busily engaged all day on Thursday
searching for him. Information was also sent by Superintendent Taylor to Dover,
where members of the police force were also on the alert. Sergeant Campany, of
the Dover Police, succeeded in apprehending a man answering the description
which was given of a stranger who had been seen wandering about in the Warren,
and nearly the whole of the missing property was found upon him. He at first
refused his name, but subsequently gave that of Edmund O`Bourke, saying he was
an American and of no occupation. He had obtained another pair of boots from a
person to whom he represented that he had lost his others while bathing. He
stated to the police that he came from Calais on Wednesday night, and came
straight on to Folkestone, committing the burglary in the morning.
The prisoner
was brought up at the Folkestone Police Court on Friday morning, when he was
remanded after the following evidence was given:-
Sergeant
James Campany, of the Dover Police, said:
About twenty minutes past eight this morning I was in the Military Road
at Dover, and there saw the prisoner. In consequence of information received
from the Folkestone Police I arrested him. I told him I should take him on
charge of robbing an hotel at Folkestone. He replied “Very well – all right”. I
took him to the police station at Dover and searched him. I found on him a £5
bank note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, a foreign silver coin,
fivepence in bronze, a silver watch and chain, and two small books.
Prisoner: A
pocket book and a Continental phrase book.
Witness: I
produce the note and the money. I handed prisoner over to the Folkestone
police. On the way to Folkestone, prisoner told me he had left his shoes in the
hotel, and asked me if they would let him have them. I replied I did not know.
Prisoner
asked no questions.
Thomas Hall
said: I am landlord of the Globe Hotel, Folkestone. Yesterday morning I was
awoken about half past four or a quarter to five by a light going by my
bedroom. I went outside and asked who was there and got no answer. I looked out
of the bedroom door and asked who was there. I received no answer. I heard the
window go up in the next bedroom to mine. I looked out of my own window, and
saw a man drop from the window ledge of the adjoining room. He landed on the
cellar flap beneath the window, and I saw him run away. I could not see his
face distinctly, and I cannot identify the prisoner. The man was dressed
similar to what the prisoner is – in dark clothes. It was between the lights
and there was a gas lamp burning. I called out “Stop. Thief!”. Mr. Goldsack, a
sweep, was coming round, and ran after the man, who went in the direction of
the Bayle Steps. I missed my clothes from my bedroom, and found them in the
scullery. My keys I kept in my waistcoat pocket, and they were missing. I also
had an American coin in my pocket. That produced is the one. On returning to my
bedroom I found a portmanteau had been unlocked. The key was on the bunch taken
from my waistcoat pocket. I missed from the portmanteau about £35 in gold, a £5
note, and about 26s. in silver. No bronze money. The money was in a little
pocket book. I afterwards missed a watch and chain, which was taken from the
till in the bar. The watch and chain produced is my property. The name on the
watch is “Boxer, Folkestone”. I do not know the number. In the scullery I found
the pair of boots produced. They are not my property.
Prisoner
said: I came from New York to Havre. I should regard it as a kindness if would
sentence me at once.
The
Magistrates` Clerk: The Magistrates can`t deal with you. If there is a prima
facie case, you will go for trial at the Assizes.
Prisoner, who
is a man about 25, said part of the money belonged to him.
Folkestone Visitors` List 7-10-1891
Parish Patrol
We don`t
often have a scare about burglars in Folkestone, but last Thursday morning,
just at break of day, an alarm was given that aroused the dwellers on The
Bayle, and one of the “Bill Sykes” fraternity might have been seen dropping
from a first floor window of the Globe Hotel and making a rush for the Parade
Steps, closely followed by a sweep in pursuit!
Mr. Hall, landlord
of the Globe, had enjoyed the sleep of the just through the night, and was
aroused by a light carried by the unjust interloper in his bedroom. On jumping
out of bed, throwing up his window, and calling out “Stop, thief!”, Mr. Hall
saw his intruder drop out of the next window, down to the ground. On searching
the premises Mr. Hall found that his clothes had been removed downstairs to the
kitchen, where they had probably been searched by the thief and some keys
extracted from the pockets. With these keys it is presumed that the robber
returned to the bedroom, unlocked a portmanteau, in which was a pocket book
where Mr. Hall had placed about £40, and which was appropriated by the burglar
– over thirty pounds in gold, a five pound note, and some silver. In the bar it
was found that the stranger had helped himself to some cigars and sherry, and
at the back door of the house, which was found open, a pair of brown leather
shoes stood on the mat. These were the only objects of interest secured by Mr.
Hall. The thief also purloined an old silver watch, on which was the name of
“Boxer, Folkestone”, a watchmaker of half a century ago.
This burglar
pal of Bill Sykes vanished for only a few hours. On Friday morning at twenty
minutes past eight o`clock Sergeant Campeny of the Dover police spotted him
walking into Dover by the Military Road, and by the intuitive instinct of a
thief-catcher recognised him as the man enquired for at Folkestone. The police
sergeant immediately bade him good morning and insinuated that he had been
robbing a hotel, to which he replied “Very well, all right”, and submitted to
be searched at the police station, when £28 10s. in gold, one £5 Bank of
England note, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, and 5d. in bronze – blow the fivepence,
these policemen are so particular – were found in his possession. He had also
the identical silver watch and chain and two books on him. On being asked to
describe the books the sergeant of police hesitated, when prisoner volunteered
the description – “pocket book and Continental phrase book” – by which it would
appear he was off to the “Continong”.
Superintendent
Taylor asked for a remand till Wednesday next, when prisoner, who answered to
the name of Edmund O`Bourke, said that he had come from New York, and that he
would regard it as a great kindness if the Magistrates would sentence him at
once, but the Magistrates` Clerk said he would have to come up again on
Wednesday, and then be committed to the Assizes to take his trial. He was
accordingly remanded to this day.
O`Bourke must
have passed about the most miserable twenty four hours between the time of his
coup at the Globe and his capture possible to conceive. He made tracks direct
for the Warren, where he was literally run to earth. Being traced going in this
direction, the police to a man turned out and scoured the locality through and
through, from the sea shore to the top of the cliffs. At one time the prisoner
alleges that as he laid hid in the middle of a blackberry bush he heard two men
conversing, when one said he would make it hot for the robber if he came across
him. He tried the smugglers` cave for a short time, but the pursuit was hot,
and from there he got to the railway at Abbot`s Cliff Tunnel, and begged of a
watchman a pair of shoes, saying he had lost his own while bathing. All night
long he kept close, and crept into Dover early in the morning. He went to a
coffee house and ordered breakfast, but could not eat. He was wet through, and
his clothes smeared with mud and chalk. This aroused suspicion, and the police
were communicated with – then came the inevitable.
Sandgate
Visitors` List 9-10-1891
Local News
The man who committed the burglary at the Globe Hotel,
Folkestone, last week, was arrested at Dover on Friday morning. He gave the
name of Edmund O`Bourke, and said he was an American. He was handed over to the
Folkestone police, and brought up before the Magistrates and remanded till
Wednesday, when he was again brought up and committed for trial at the Assizes.
Folkestone Chronicle 10-10-1891
Local News
At the
Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday, before Captain carter, J. Clark Esq., and
Aldermen Dunk, Pledge, and Sherwood, Edward O`Burke was placed in the dock,
charged with having burglariously and feloniously entered the Globe Hotel on
the 1st instant, and stolen therefrom upwards of £40, the monies of
the landlord, Mr. Thomas Hall.
The
depositions of Sergeant Campany, of Dover, who apprehended the prisoner, were
read over and confirmed, and also those of Mr. Hall. The latter added that all
the doors of the hotel were fastened by him on the night in question, but that
there was no fastening to the ground floor window at the back of the house.
Stephen Goldsack
was then called, and said: I am a chimney sweep, and live opposite the Globe,
on The Bayle. About half past four on Thursday morning I was in my stable,
which is behind the Globe Hotel. As I passed the hotel with my pony I saw a man
getting up off the cellar flap in front of the house. There is a Bray`s lamp
near the spot, and the man passed close to by. He was near the lamp, and went
towards the Parade Steps. At that time Mr. Hall called out from his bedroom
window “Stop that man: he has robbed me”. I left my pony and ran after the man.
I did not overtake him. I nearly caught him at the top of the steps when he
sprang to the bottom, and when I got there I lost him. I did not notice whether
he had any boots on. I had noticed a light in a bedroom of the Globe. It
disappeared when I opened the stable door.
Thomas
Kennett, a gardener in the employ of Mr. Pilcher, at Bowles Well, near the
Junction Station, said: I was in the garden at ten minutes to six on the
morning of Thursday. At that time a man came to me and asked for a drink of
water. I took him to a shed and gave him some. He then turned away to the right
and went in the direction of the Warren, by the Warren Road. He had no shoes on
– only brown socks. The prisoner is the man.
Lewis
Gatehouse, a constable in the employ of the South Eastern Railway Company,
said: It is my duty to patrol the line between Dover and Folkestone. About
twenty minutes to nine on Thursday morning I was walking from Dover to
Folkestone along the line. I walked through the Abbot`s Cliff Tunnel, and met
the prisoner at the other end. I asked him his business. He said he was going
to Dover. I told him he could not go that way, but that he must go back again,
and I offered to show him the road up the cliff. He said he could not walk
fast, as he had no shoes, and that he had lost them whilst bathing on the
beach. I took him to the signal box, to John Hickmott, who gave the prisoner a
pair of shoes. The prisoner offered me a shilling, but I told him he could give
it to Hickmott for the shoes if he liked. I showed him up the cliff and did not
see him afterwards.
Police
Sergeant Lilley said he visited the Globe Hotel about half past six on Thursday
morning and examined the premises. He found that no forcible entry had been
effected. On Friday he met the prisoner in custody at the Junction Station. He
said he got into the house through the back window, from the yard on the ground
floor. He commenced talking about the robbery without witness questioning him.
He said it was a big jump getting out and that he hurt his feet. When the
charge was read over to him he said “Those boots (indicating the boots
produced) are mine. Can I have them? I shall plead Guilty and make a short job
of it”.
Prisoner said
it was not true what witness had said. He made no observation, only when
questioned.
The usual
caution was read over to the prisoner, who, when asked if he had anything to
say, said “I reserve my defence”.
Prisoner was
committed for trial at the County Assizes.
Prisoner: Can
you tell me about when that will be?
Mr. Bradley:
Probably at the end of this month.
Prisoner:
Thank you.
The Court was
densely crowded throughout the hearing and a great number were unable to gain
admission.
Folkestone Express 10-10-1891
Wednesday,
October 7th: Before Captain Carter, J. Clark Esq., Aldermen Pledge
and Sherwood.
Edmund
O`Bourke was brought up on remand, charged with burglary at the Globe Hotel on
Wednesday morning.
The evidence
taken on Friday was read over as follows:-
Sergeant
James Campany, of the Dover Police, said:
About twenty minutes past eight this morning I was in the Military Road
at Dover, and there saw the prisoner. In consequence of information received
from the Folkestone Police I arrested him. I told him I should take him on charge
of robbing an hotel at Folkestone. He replied “Very well – all right”. I took
him to the police station at Dover and searched him. I found on him a £5 bank
note, £28 10s. in gold, £1 7s. 3d. in silver, a foreign silver coin, fivepence
in bronze, a silver watch and chain, and two small books.
Prisoner: A
pocket book and a Continental phrase book.
Witness: I
produce the note and the money. I handed prisoner over to the Folkestone
police. On the way to Folkestone, prisoner told me he had left his shoes in the
hotel, and asked me if they would let him have them. I replied I did not know.
Prisoner
asked no questions.
Thomas Hall
said: I am landlord of the Globe Hotel, Folkestone. Yesterday morning I was
awoken about half past four or a quarter to five by a light going by my
bedroom. I went outside and asked who was there and got no answer. I looked out
of the bedroom door and asked who was there. I received no answer. I heard the
window go up in the next bedroom to mine. I looked out of my own window, and saw
a man drop from the window ledge of the adjoining room. He landed on the cellar
flap beneath the window, and I saw him run away. I could not see his face
distinctly, and I cannot identify the prisoner. The man was dressed similar to
what the prisoner is – in dark clothes. It was between the lights and there was
a gas lamp burning. I called out “Stop. Thief!”. Mr. Goldsack, a sweep, was
coming round, and ran after the man, who went in the direction of the Bayle
Steps. I missed my clothes from my bedroom, and found them in the scullery. My
keys I kept in my waistcoat pocket, and they were missing. I also had an
American coin in my pocket. That produced is the one. On returning to my
bedroom I found a portmanteau had been unlocked. The key was on the bunch taken
from my waistcoat pocket. I missed from the portmanteau about £35 in gold, a £5
note, and about 26s. in silver. No bronze money. The money was in a little
pocket book. I afterwards missed a watch and chain, which was taken from the
till in the bar. The watch and chain produced is my property. The name on the
watch is “Boxer, Folkestone”. I do not know the number. In the scullery I found
the pair of boots produced. They are not my property.
Prisoner
said: I came from New York to Havre. I should regard it as a kindness if would
sentence me at once.
The
Magistrates` Clerk: The Magistrates can`t deal with you. If there is a prima
facie case, you will go for trial at the Assizes.
Prisoner, who
is a man about 25, said part of the money belonged to him.
Mr. Hall now
added to his evidence: I have recovered my keys. They were in the portmanteau.
I locked up the house on the night of Wednesday, the 30th. At eleven
o`clock I locked all the doors and saw that all the windows were fastened
except the kitchen window, which had no fastening. It is on the ground floor at
the back of the house. When I returned to my house after pursuing the prisoner
I examined the premises. I found the scullery doors open, and also the door
leading from the yard into the lane. All the other doors were secure. I bolted
the doors the previous night, but did not lock them. The lower sash of the
window of the bedroom adjoining my bedroom was open. It was shut when I retired
to bed on the previous evening, and fastened. I did not shut my bedroom door
when I went to bed. The American coin which I lost is that produced. It`s value
is one dime.
Stephen
Goldsack said: I am a chimney sweeper, and live on the Bayle, opposite the
Globe Hotel. About half past four on Thursday morning I was going to my pony in
the stable. As I passed The Globe I saw a man getting up off the cellar flap.
He appeared to have fallen. There is a Bray`s lamp at the corner of the
enclosure in front of the hotel. The man passed me near the lamp and ran in the
direction of the Parade Steps. I saw his face, and I identify the prisoner as
the man. Just at that time Mr. Hall called out to me to stop the man, who had
robbed him. I left my pony and ran after the man, but could not overtake him.
He jumped from the top step right down, and I lost sight of him. I did not see
whether he had boots on or not. When I first entered the stable I noticed a
light in a top bedroom window of the hotel, and it disappeared.
Thomas
Kennett said: I am a gardener in the employ of Mr. George Pilcher, and work in
his garden at Bowles Wells, between the Dover Road and the permanent way. I was
in the garden on Thursday, about ten minutes to six. A man came to me and asked
for a drink of water. I took him to the shed to get the water, when he said “Never
mind about the water”, and turned to the right and went towards the railway
bank. I saw him cross the Warren Road and go in the direction of the Warren. I
noticed that he had no shoes on. He had brown socks. I identify the prisoner as
the man.
Lewis Gatehouse
said: I am a constable in the employ of the South Eastern railway Company. It
is my duty to patrol the line between Dover and Folkestone. About twenty
minutes to nine on Thursday evening I was coming from Dover to Folkestone along
the line. I walked through Abbot`s Cliff Tunnel, and in the tunnel I met the
prisoner. He then had on a different pair of shoes. I asked him his business.
He said he was going to Dover. I told him he could not go to Dover – he must go
back again. He went back. He said he could not walk fact because he hadn`t got
any shoes. I saw then that he had no shoes. He told me he had lost them while
bathing on the beach. I took him to the signal box and then showed him the
Royal Oak path. John Hickmott keeps the signal box. I asked him to give the
prisoner a pair of shoes, and he did so. Prisoner asked me what he should give
me. I told him I did not want anything, but if he liked he could pay the man
for the boots. He said “Here`s a shilling for you”. It was not a shilling, but
some other piece of money. I saw him go up the path, and saw no more of him.
Sergeant
Lilley said: On Thursday morning, October 1st, I visited the Globe
about half past six. I observed the premises, but could not find that any
forcible entry had been effected. On Friday, the 2nd, I went to the
Junction Station, and met Sergeant Campany with the prisoner in custody.
Prisoner said “I got in the back window on the ground floor in the yard”. He
was talking generally of the robbery all the way to the police station without
questioning. He said “It was a big jump getting out, and I hurt my foot very
much”. At the police station the charge was read over to the prisoner by Supt.
Taylor in my presence. Prisoner said “Those boots are mine. Can I have them? I
shall plead Guilty and make a short job of it”. The boots produced came from
the Globe Hotel.
Prisoner: He
is quite incorrect in some parts of his evidence.
Mr. Bradley:
Very well. You can ask him any questions.
Prisoner: You
say I said that without any questions? – I do.
Prisoner: I
said nothing to you about the job. I used no slang at all. I said nothing to
you except on being questioned.
Mr. Bradley:
Is that so? – No, sir.
Prisoner: It
is useless for me to question these gentlemen if I am to be made out a liar.
Sergeant
Lilley said: I did not receive the boots produced from Mr. Hall. They were at
the police station when I saw them.
The evidence
was then read over, and also the formal charge and caution.
Prisoner: I
reserve my defence.
Captain
Carter told the prisoner he was committed for trial at the Assizes.
Prisoner: Can
you tell me when it will be?
Mr. Bradley:
About the end of the month, I should think.
The Dover
Chronicle on Saturday said: About seven o`clock yesterday (Friday) morning a
man, shabbily dressed, entered the Railway Coffee Tavern, on the Folkestone
Road, and said he wanted a wash and brush-up. Mr. Turner, the proprietor, took
him into the kitchen, where the man ordered a mutton chop for his breakfast,
and also wanted a room, so that he could change his clothes. He further wanted
a tailor, a barber, and a bootmaker to be called in. Mr. Turner – who had been
furnished by the police with a description of the man wanted at Folkestone –
believed that his new customer was the same person, and at once informed the
police. When the police arrived, the man had just left Mr. Turner`s shop and
was walking up the Christ Church steps. He was overtaken by the police on
Military Hill and arrested on suspicion.
Southeastern Gazette
13-10-1891
Local News
On Wednesday, at
the Town Hall, a young fellow of somewhat slim and shabby appearance, who had
given the name of Edmund O’Bourke, was charged on remand with stealing, at the
Globe Hotel, about £40 in cash, a silver watch, and a few other articles, the
property of Mr. Thomas Hall, the landlord.
Sergt. Campany,
of the Dover police, deposed to arresting the prisoner at Dover on Friday
morning. Prisoner had on him a £5 Bank of England note, £28 10s. in gold, £1
7s. 3d. in silver, 5d. in bronze, a silver watch and chain, and two small
books.
Thomas Hall,
landlord of the Globe, deposed that about a quarter to five on Thursday morning
he was awakened by a light passing the door of his bedroom, which was partly
open. He called out, “Who is there?” and hearing the window go up in the adjoining
room he looked out of his bedroom window, and saw a man drop from the ledge of
the adjacent window. Witness found his clothes had been removed from his
bedroom to the scullery.
His keys had been taken from his waistcoat, a portmanteau, which was in his
bedroom, unlocked, and about £35 in gold, a £5 note, and 26s. in silver taken;
also an American coin, a “dime.” A watch and chain had been taken from the till
in the bar. Witness identified the watch and the American coin found on the
prisoner.
Evidence was also
given by Stephen Goldsack, Thomas Kennett, and Louis Gatehouse, a constable in
the employ of the S.E.R. Company.
Sergt. Lilley, of
the Folkestone police, deposed that when he received prisoner the latter began
talking generally about the robbery, said he got in at the back window on the
ground floor, that “it was a big jump ” getting out, and that he hurt his feet
very much.
Prisoner, who
said he reserved his defence, was committed to the Assizes.
Folkestone Express 5-12-1891
Local News
A telegram
was received on Tuesday by the Superintendent of Police, stating that during
the previous night Edmund O`Burke, alias Toomey, who was awaiting his trial at
the Assizes for burglary at the Globe Hotel, had escaped from Canterbury gaol,
and he is understood to be still at large. The prisoner is a man of slender
build, 5 ft. 7 in. high, fresh complexion, dark brown hair, blue eyes, and was
dressed in dark clothes, conststing of brown jacket, bluish coloured striped
trousers, prison shirt, socks, and flannel hard round felt hat. The man has
undergone various terms of imprisonment, and was only released from Chatham a
few days before he was apprehended at Folkestone.
Folkestone Chronicle 12-12-1891
Local News
The Globe
Hotel burglar appears to have made his escape from Canterbury prison in a very
clever manner. He was confined in one of the upper cells, and by making a hole
in the wall he gained the top of a network of walls, along which he made his
way, dodged the warders, and eventually reached the females` exercising ground.
This portion of the prison is not patrolled at night, so that he was able to
get away without detection. O`Burke is an old hand, having already served five
years` penal servitude.
Kent Winter
Assizes
The
commission of these Assizes was opened at Maidstone on Monday by Baron Pollock.
The trial of prisoners commenced on Tuesday. The following case was disposed of
on Wednesday.
In the case
of Edward O`Burke, 24, tailor, who was charged with burglariously breaking and
entering the Globe Hotel and stealing a Bank of England note of the value of
£5, the sum of £36 6s. in money, a pocket book, and a silver watch and chain,
the money and goods of Thomas Hall, on the 30th September, Mr.
Matthew asked that the witnesses might be discharged, the prisoner having
escaped from Canterbury Gaol, and there being no probability of his being
recaptured.
Southeastern Gazette
12-12-1891
Assizes
Edward O'Burke. 24, tailor, who was charged with feloniously
and burglariously entering the dwelling- house of Thomas Hall, and stealing
therein a Bank of England note of the value of £5, the sum of £36 6s. in money,
a pocket book, and a silver watch and chain, the moneys and goods of the said
Thomas Hall, at Folkestone, on the 30th Sept. Mr. Matthew applied that the
witnesses might be discharged, prisoner having escaped from Canterbury Gaol,
and there being no probability of his being re-captured.
Folkestone Chronicle 9-1-1892
The man
O`Burke, who contrived to escape from Canterbury prison by eluding the warder
on the 30th November last, was, by a remarkable coincidence
recaptured at Dover on Wednesday. It will be remembered that prisoner was
awaiting his trial on a charge of burglary at the Globe Hotel, Folkestone, he
having been arrested at Dover, and committed for trial at the Kent Assizes recently
held. The remarkable feature in the affair is that the arrest was effected on
both occasions through the instrumentality of a local eating house keeper, Mr.
R. Turner, of the Railway restaurant, Folkestone Road.
From the time
the prisoner made his escape from Canterbury no trace whatever could be found
of his movements, though vigilant enquiries and active searches were instituted
by the police authorities. The following is the description of the man
circulated: Edward Toomey, alias O`Burke, who escaped from H.M. Prison,
Canterbury, on 30th November, 1891, while awaiting trial at the Kent
Assizes for burglary at Folkestone. Age, 25; height, 5 ft. 7 in.; complexion,
pale; hair, dark brown; eyes, grey; large scar on top and back of head; three
small scars on stomach; scar left side; two scars left hip; scar left buttock
and knee; top joint little finger bent. Convicted C.C.C. 29th Mat,
1883, burglary, 18 months; ditto, 14th December, 1885, 12 months;
ditto, 10th January, 1887, receiving and previous convictions, 5
years P.S.; and convicted four times summarily at Greenwich. The opposite side
of the card on which this was printed contained photos, front and side face, of
the prisoner. It now appears that the secret of his long elusion of the police
authorities, in spite of all their precautions, is due to the fact that the
prisoner, who is said to be an American, succeeded in getting to the London
Docks, where he secreted himself on board the American liner, France. He was,
however, discovered when in the Channel, and put ashore at Dover, where, owing
to the sharpness of Mr. Turner, he had not been long before his arrest was
effected. The prisoner had managed to get safely to the Priory Station, and in
all probability he would yet have been at large, had it not been for his timely
recognition. Prisoner was taken back to Canterbury the same afternoon.
As the fact
of Mr. Turner`s assistance in the capture of O`Burke in the first place was not
adduced at the preliminary trial, our representative called on him on Wednesday
evening, for the purpose of obtaining particulars pertaining to this, which
will no doubt be perused with interest by our readers.
In reply to a
question as to how he came to suspect the prisoner, Mr. Turner said: on the
Thursday night previous to the day on which O`Burke was arrested, I was given a
description of the prisoner by the police, who stated him to be 5 ft. 9 in. in
height, with a scraggy beard, and in brown clothes. The following morning a man
came in, who did not answer this description in one point. He asked to be
allowed to have a wash and brush up, which I granted, and after ordering dinner
he asked me if he could have the use of a room in order “to change his clothes
before he went to see the old folks”. He also asked me whether there was a
barber`s shop about, and wished to see a daily paper. Despite the fact he did
not answer the description, something seemed to tell me that my visitor was
O`Burke. I mentioned the matter to my wife, who tried to persuade me that I was
wrong, but the conviction was so strong that I determined to give information
to the police. Slipping out by the back way, I went to the police station, and
told them that I believed O`Burke to be at my house, but that he did not answer
the description they gave me. I then went back, and found prisoner just
preparing to go. I kept him in conversation for a few minutes, but he left
before the police arrived. As he went out he looked down the street and saw the
police sergeant coming up. Instead of turning into the barber`s shop as he had
stated to be his intention, he kept on, and went up the steps leading past the
back of my house. When the sergeant came into the house, I told him the way the
prisoner had gone, and took him through my house, and he thus effected O`Burke`s
arrest.
And I
understand you got no credit for the arrest, Mr. Turner?
No. Not the
least. My name was not mentioned in connection with the matter.
That gave you
very little encouragement to assist in his recapture. In what manner was your
attention drawn to O`Burke today?
Well, I
happened to go to the door (which is a partially glass one), and on looking
through, you may conceive my astonishment on seeing O`Burke pass. Considering
how I had been treated before, I at first thought to let him go, and take no
trouble in the matter, but just at that time, Mr. Baker, the Market Inspector,
happened to pass, and I told him the escaped prisoner from Canterbury had just
gone up the street towards the station. At his request I went with him to the
Priory Station, where, on my pointing out the man, he arrested him.
A reward of
£5 was offered for the re-arrest of O`Burke, and we think this has been justly
earned by Mr. Turner, who speaks in high terms of the courtesy shown him on
Wednesday by Superintendent Sanders.
Folkestone Express 9-1-1892
Local News
The man
O`Burke, alias Toomer, who was awaiting trial at Canterbury gaol for burglary
at the Globe Hotel, Folkestone, and who escaped from prison a few days before
the Assizes, was recaptured at Dover on Wednesday under strange circumstances.
It will be remembered that after the burglary a man named Turner, an eating
house keeper at Dover, was instrumental in effecting his capture. O`Burke had
stowed himself away on board the France, which left London docks, but he was
discovered and put ashore at Dover. He was passing the eating house of Turner,
on his way to the Priory Station, about one o`clock on Wednesday, when Turner
recognised and followed him. At the station Turner pointed prisoner out to
Market Inspector Baker, and he was at once arrested. The prisoner had 4s. in
his pocket, and was no doubt anxious to get away as soon as possible from such
a dangerous neighbourhood. He was taken to Canterbury by the two o`clock train
and safely lodged in prison.
Folkestone Herald 9-1-1892
Local News
O`Burke,
alias Thomas Toomey (sic), who was committed for trial at the Assizes for
burglary at the Globe Hotel, (a piece of the report torn here) eluded the
warders and escaped from Canterbury Prison, was captured at Dover on Wednesday
last. It will be remembered that the prisoner was arrested at the last named
place through the instrumentality of an eating house proprietor named Turner.
From the time the prisoner escaped from gaol no trace whatever could be found
of him, in spite of searches and enquiries instituted by the police
authorities, until Wednesday, when by a strange coincidence he was detected by
the same person at Dover. It appears that the prisoner succeeded in getting to
the London Docks and secreted himself on board the American liner, France. He
was, however, discovered when the vessel was in the Channel, and sent ashore at
Dover, where he had not been long before he was recognised by Turner. The
prisoner has been removed again to Canterbury Gaol.
Folkestone Chronicle 20-2-1892
Local News
Before the
County Magistrates at Canterbury, Edmund O`Burke was charged with having
committed damage in Her Majesty`s Prison at Canterbury, while confined there
awaiting trial for a burglary at Folkestone.
Mr. R.M. Mercer
prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury.
The evidence
of the prison Governor (Mr. R.W, Chidley) went to show that O`Burke disappeared
from his cell one night in December. During the two months he had occupied the
cell he had succeeded in loosening the screws of an iron grating communicating
with the ventilation shaft and removed the bricks from the interior of the
wall, which was two feet in thickness. By dropping the debris into the
ventilator and re-fixing the grating every morning, no trace was observable of
the damage until after the night of the escape, when it was found he had broken
the remaining crust of the wall inside and out, and crawling through, had
managed, by means of a scaffold pole, to scale the exterior wall. He made his
way to London and secreted himself on an outward-bound vessel, but was
discovered and put ashore at Dover. There, by a remarkable coincidence, he was
noticed by the individual who had previously been the medium of his capture,
and he was, after a month`s liberty, again incarcerated.
The
Magistrates committed the prisoner for trial for prison breaking.
Folkestone Express 20-2-1892
Local News
At the
Central Criminal Court on Friday, three men, two named Milligan and one named
Martin, were charged with wounding Henry Smith, a constable, with intent to
murder him. The allegation was that the three prisoners were surprised while
committing a robbery at the Maze Hill Station of the South Eastern Railway, on
the 4th January. Martin, it was contended, was in bed at the time,
and the witnesses had made a mistake, the real man being a man named Toomey,
who was committed for burglary at Folkestone, escaped from Canterbury gaol, and
was at large on the 4th January. Martin was acquitted, and the
others sentenced, one to fifteen years, and the other to seven years penal
servitude. Toomey, it seems, made his escape, and got on board an outward bound
vessel, from which, it will be remembered, he was put ashore at Dover, and
re-apprehended.
At the St.
Augustine`s Petty Sessions on Saturday, Edmund O`Burke, who is confined in St.
Augustine`s gaol, awaiting trial for burglary at Folkestone, was brought up in
custody, charged with having wilfully broken a quantity of bricks in the wall
of Her Majesty`s Prison, Canterbury.
Mr. R.M.
Mercer prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury, and stated that the accused was
brought to prison in October on a warrant, charged with having committed
burglary at Folkestone. He was confined in a cell on A wing, on the first tier.
On the 30th of November, he was seen in his cell in the evening, and
his safety could be proved. In the morning, however, at about five o`clock, he
was gone. Mr. Mercer went on to explain that in the right hand further corner
of the cell were two wooden shelves fitted in the wall. One of them was only 10
or 12 inches from the ground. Under this shelf was an iron grating
communicating with the ventilation shaft. The grate was closely barred and
fastened with screws. These screws the prisoner appeared to have loosened. He
also picked out the bricks and dropped them down the ventilating shaft, thus
making no mess in the cell. The grating was evidently replaced every morning
before the warder visited the cell. Having completed the destruction of the
wall and left a thin layer of bricks inside and also outside, he finally broke
away the shelf, and, picking away the inside crust, made a hole big enough to
get through. Taking his bedding with him, he went round to the back of the
prison and got on to the top of the shops. He moved some slates, evidently with
the idea of getting some of the tools out, but unfortunately for the prisoner
there was a boarded ceiling to the shops under the roof. Then he went opposite
to the female department, where some building operations were going on, and on
getting one of the scaffold poles went round to the back of the debtors` prison
where there is a low wall. By means of the pole he got over the wall, leaving
his bed inside. He was not recaptured until the 6th January.
Mr. Robert
William Chidley, Governor of Canterbury Prison, deposed that the prisoner was
received in custody in October for burglary at Folkestone, on a warrant dated 7th
October. Witness saw prisoner on the 30th November, soon after ten
in the morning. In the further corner of the cell were two shelves, one about
ten inches from the floor. Underneath was an iron ventilator, which passed
under the cell floor. It was secured with screws. On the 7th
December, in consequence of a report, witness examined the cell. Witness found
the shaft had been removed. The ventilator was left it it`s proper position,
but one screw had been loosened. There was a large hole in the wall going right
through to the outside. That was caused by the removal of bricks, which laid on
the cell floor. The hole was only just large enough for a man to pass through.
There were small pieces of wood, which appeared to have been used for the
purpose of working away the mortar. There were some bricks in the shaft between
the cell wall and the outside wall. There were no bricks in the yard outside.
From the utside to the inside he should say the wall was about 2 ft. thick,
including the shaft. There were some scaffold poles near the female prison. His
attention was drawn to a scaffold pole which had been placed against the
exterior wall, and also the blankets and bedding of the prisoner`s cell.
Prisoner was received back on the 6th January. On the 8th
February he served the prisoner with a notice that he would be brought before
the magistrates for breaking out of prison. He explained to him that he could
consult a solicitor if he felt inclined, communicate with his friend, and write
letters, etc., for his defence, the same as if he were outside the prison.
Walter
Harrison Wall deposed that he locked the prisoner up in his cell at 8.20 on the
evening mentioned. At 5.30 the watchman rang witness`s alarm bell unusually
loud, and on going down the watchman made a report to him of the removal of a
scaffold pole. Witness sent him to look at all the walls, but he could not find
it. Witness himself went round, and saw the scaffold pole against the exterior
wall. When the officers came at six o`clock, witness sent a warder round to
examine every cell. A report was made to him that a hole had been found in the
wall, and also that the prisoner had gone. He was at the gate on the 6th
January at three o`clock in the afternoon, and received the prisoner back from
Superintendent Sanders, of Dover. Prisoner asked him when the Assizes would be
held, and witness said he did not know.
Prisoner was
committed for trial at the Assizes.
Folkestone Express 12-3-1892
Kent assizes
At the
Assizes on Monday, Edmund O`Burke, 24, tailor, was charged with feloniously and
burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Thomas Hall, and
stealing therein a Bank of England note of the value of £5, the sum of £36 6s.
in money, a pocket book and a silver watch and chain, the monies and goods of
the said Thomas Hall, at Folkestone, on the 30th September, 1891.
Prisoner was further charged with breaking out of H.M. Prison at Canterbury by
breaking, cutting, and removing a quantity of bricks from a part of a wall on
the 30th November, 1891. Prisoner pleaded Guilty to both charges.
Mr. D`Eyncourt, who prosecuted, gave particulars of the offence prisoner had
committed, and proceeded to describe how and by what means he had tried to
escape from the gaol. Prisoner admitted a previous conviction in 1878, and was
now sentenced to seven years` penal servitude.
Folkestone Herald 12-3-1892
Local News
Edward
O`Burke, the young tailor, 24, who broke into the Globe Hotel in this town, and
stole a £5 note, the sum of £36 6s. in money, a pocket book, and a silver watch
and chain, the moneys and goods of Thomas Hall, on the 30th Sept.,
1891, and who was further charged with breaking out of H.M. prison at
Canterbury, pleaded Guilty at the Canterbury Assizes last week to both charges.
He also admitted a previous conviction in 1878, and was now sentenced to seven
years` penal servitude.
Sandgate
Visitors` List 12-3-1892
Local News
Edmund O`Bourke, the man who burglariously entered the
Globe Hotel, Folkestone, was at the Maidstone Assizes on Monday sentenced to
seven years penal servitude.
Folkestone Express 9-4-1892
Wednesday,
April 6th: Before H.W. Poole, J. Brooke and W.G. Herbert Esqs.
Transfers
The licence
of the Globe Hotel was transferred to Mr. W. Rickett
Folkestone Express 23-4-1892
Wednesday,
April 20th: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Pledge, Sherwood and Dunk, J.
Fitness, J. Holden, Geo. Spurgen and W. Wightwick Esqs.
Transfer
The licence
of the Globe Hotel was transferred to Mr. M.H. Ricketts
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