Marquis Of Lorne 1890s

Folkestone Chronicle 22-2-1890

Thursday, February 20^th: Before J. Clarke Esq., and Alderman Pledge.

Harry Austin and John Sullivan were charged with stealing one pair of stockings, one cotton shirt, and one sheet, valued at 5s., the property of Mrs. Kennard, on the 19^th instant.

Mary Ann Kennard, living at 60, Dover Street, said she hung some clothes out to dry at the back of her house on the 19^th instant. Amongst the articles there were a pair of stockings, a cotton shirt and a sheet. She last saw the articles safe at four o`clock and missed them about seven. She went to the police station about nine o`clock, and she was then shown the sheet. It was her property. She identified it by it`s general appearance. The articles were worth 5s.

Harry Spillett, landlord of the Star Inn, said the prisoner went to his house at seven o`clock on Wednesday evening. Austin showed him a sheet and asked him to buy it, but he refused. Sullivan asked witness to buy a shirt and a pair of stockings, but he refused. He offered them to some people in the taproom, but no-one would buy them.

Ann Warwick, a servant employed at the Marquis Of Lorne, said the prisoner had lodged at the Marquis Of Lorne for a week. She met them at the Radnor Street arches on Wednesday night. Sullivan pulled out a shirt from his coat and asked her if she could sell it. She said she did not know where to sell such a thing.

P.C. Knowles said he saw Austin on Wednesday evening outside of the Marquis Of Lorne with a bundle. He followed him through the house and asked him his name. He said “Johnson”. Austin said “That`s my parcel”. On the way to the station he said “It`s no use; my name is not Johnson, it`s Austin”.

P.S. Butcher said he saw the prisoner Sullivan outside of the Brewery Tap on Wednesday evening, and charged him with being concerned in the theft. He replied “All right, sergeant”

Sentenced to one month`s hard labour.

 

Holbein`s Visitors` List 18-3-1891

Wednesday, March 11^th: Before W. Wightwick Esq., Surgeon General Gilbourne, and W.G. Herbert Esq.

The license of the Marquis Of Lorne was transferred to Mr. Spillett, who holds the licence of the Star Inn, a house which Supt. Taylor said was conducted in a very proper manner.

Folkestone Chronicle 4-4-1891

Monday, March 30^th: Before Colonel De Crespigny, Surgeon General Gilbourne, Major Penfold, and W.G. Herbert Esq.

John Murray and Daniel Harford were charged with stealing two pairs of boots, valued at 15s. 6d., and the property of William Bull.

Charles Smitherman, a polisher, said he was in the Royal George Inn shortly before nine o`clock on Saturday evening, when the prisoner went into the bar and offered a pair of boots for sale. He asked witness if he knew where he could sell them, and he took them to Mr. Carter at the Oddfellows, but he would not buy them. He went back to the Royal George and found Murray waiting.

Joseph Whiting stated that Harford lodged at his house, the Bricklayer`s Arms, and on Saturday evening both prisoners called at his bar for some beer, but he refused to serve them.

Winifred Whiting identified Murray as the man who called at her uncle`s house on Saturday afternoon with a pair of elastic side boots. He waited until Harford came in and they both went out together.

P.C. Keeler deposed that he found Harford at 11, Fenchurch Street, a house hired by Mr. Whiting as a lodging house. Witness asked him if he had a pair of new boots, and he gave him the pair produced. He said he bought them at the Bricklayer`s Arms for 3s. 6d. from a man whom he did not know. Witness took him to the police station, and later on he went to the Marquis Of Lorne, where he found Murray in the bar. He had been drinking.

Both prisoners denied the charge. Murray stated that he bought the boots from a strange man and sold them to Harford.

Each prisoner was sentenced to one month`s hard labour.

Folkestone Express 4-4-1891

Monday, March 30^th: Before Colonel De Crespigny, Surgeon General Gilbourne, Major Penfold, and W.G. Herbert Esq.

John Murray and Daniel Harford were charged with stealing two pairs of boots, value 15s. 10d., the property of William Bull, of High Street.

Prosecutor said on Saturday night, about a quarter to nine, he missed a pair of boots from outside his shop. P.C. Swain called upon him and about five minutes after he was gone he missed a second pair.

Charles Smitherman, a polisher, said he was in the Royal George Inn about a quarter to nine on Saturday evening, when the prisoner Murray went in with a pair of boots and offered them for sale. Murray asked him if he knew where he could sell them. He took them to Mr. Carter at the Oddfellows, but he would not buy them. He returned to the George with the boots. Murray was still there. He thought one of the loops of the boots was broken.

Joseph A. Whiting, landlord of the Bricklayers Arms, said Harford lodged in his house. Both prisoners went to his bar between seven and half past seven on Saturday evening. They called for beer but he refused to serve them.

Winifred Whiting said she recognised Murray as having gone to her uncle`s house about half past four on Saturday afternoon with a pair of new elastic side boots. He asked for Dan, meaning Harford, and she told him he was not at home. He waited until he came and they then went out into the back yard together.

P.C. Keeler said he went to No. 11, Fenchurch Street, a house hired by Whiting as a lodging house, and found Harford there. He asked i he had a pair of new boots, and he showed him those produced, saying he bought them from a man he did not know, whom he met at the Bricklayers Arms, and gave 3s. 6d. for them. Witness took him into custody, and when charged by Sergt. Ovenden he made no reply. About half past eleven he went to the Marquis Of Lorne, in Radnor Street, and found Murray in the taproom asleep. He had been drinking. When charged at the police station with stealing two pairs of boots he made no reply.

Prisoners elected to be tried by the Magistrates. Harford pleaded Not Guilty, and Murray Not Guilty. Murray said he bought the boots of a man and sold them to Harford.

The Bench convicted both prisoners and sentenced them to a month`s hard labour.

Folkestone Express 25-4-1891

Wednesday, April 22^nd: Before J. Clark, J. Fitness, J. Pledge, J. Holden and E.T. Ward Esqs.

Transfer

The licence of the Marquis Of Lorne was transferred to Mr. Spillett

Folkestone Chronicle 26-11-1892

Wednesday, November 23^rd: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Sherwood and Pledge, Councillor Holden, and Messrs. H.W. Poole, J. Fitness and E.T. Ward.

Mr. Poole announced that owing to the absence of Mr. W.G. Herbert, the Bench would not give their decision in the case of Henry Spillett for a fortnight.

Folkestone Chronicle 10-12-1892

Wednesday, December 7^th: Before Major H.W. Poole, Mr. Wightwick and Mr. Herbert.

The adjourned summons against Mr. Spillett, landlord of the Marquis Of Lorne Inn, in respect of an alleged unsanitary water closet again came on for hearing. It appeared that the house is the property of Messrs. Ash and Co.

The Bench decided to dismiss the case on the grounds that the Corporation should have proceeded against the owners instead of the occupier.

Folkestone Express 14-4-1894

Saturday, April 7^th: Before The Mayor, Alderman Pledge, and H.W. Poole, W. Wightwick, and W.G. Herbert Esqs.

Temporary authority was granted to H. Jasper to draw at the Marquis Of Lorne.

Mr. Wightwick asked if the applicant was 21 years of age.

Supt. Taylor said he was 35. He was a discharged soldier.

 

Folkestone Chronicle 2-6-1894

Local News

At the Police Court yesterday (Friday), John Gibbons, a private in the East Lancashire Regiment, who was charged with having been drunk and damaging the door of the Marquis Of Lorne public house, was sentenced to 21 days` in default of paying a fine of 30s.

Folkestone Express 9-6-1894

Local News

On Friday, John Gibbons, private in the East Lancashire Regiment, was charged with refusing to quit the Marquis Of Lorne, and fined 5s. and 2s. 6d. costs, and also with breaking two glass panels in a door, for which he was fined 12s., including costs. In default he went to prison for 21 days.

Folkestone Chronicle 27-7-1894

Local News

At the Police Court, Folkestone, on Saturday, before The Mayor, Alderman Banks, and Messrs. Herbert, Pursey, and Poole, James Hickey, hawker, of the Marquis Of Lorne, Radnor Street, pleaded Guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Harbour Street on the 7^th of July, and in default of being able to pay a 5s. fine, with 9s. costs, was sent to prison for 14 days.

Folkestone Chronicle 26-10-1894

Local News

At the Town Hall on Friday a travelling general dealer named William Knell was brought up in custody charged with breaking a quantity of glassware, of the value of 12s., the property of Robert Jasper, of the Marquis Of Lorne Inn, on the previous evening.

Prisoner was ordered to pay the damage, and was fined £2, with 5s. 6d. costs, making £2 17s. 6d. in all, or in default to go to prison for one month with hard labour. He went to gaol.

A second charge of assault was withdrawn, prosecutrix stating that the glass which struck her might have been thrown by prisoner without intention of assaulting her thereby.

Folkestone Express 27-10-1894

Friday, October 19^th: Before The Mayor, Alderman Banks, and W. Wightwick Esq.

Walter Knell was charged with breaking three squares of glass and other articles, value 12s., the property of Robert Jasper, and assaulting Elizabeth Martin.

Prosecutor, landlord of the Marquis Of Lorne, said at 5.30 on Thursday prisoner was in the bar parlour. He went from there into the bar. Witness cautioned him not to enter his private room again. He was there trying to lure his wife`s sister away from her home. Prisoner challenged him to fight, and said “If I can`t do you any injury, I can do you some damage”. He took up three glasses and hurled them through a glass partition. He broke three squares of glass, three tumblers, a plate, and a basin, altogether of the value of 12s. One of the glasses bounced off the counter, struck Mrs. Martin in the mouth, and knocked a tooth down her throat. He followed prisoner out to Saffron`s Place and the police took him into custody.

Elizabeth Martin said she could not say whether it was a glass or a piece of basin which struck her. It knocked her tooth out. She thought she was struck by accident.

Prisoner said “Before you send me to prison, will you telegraph to the Home Office or to Canterbury Prison? The doctor will tell you I am not fit to be sent to prison”.

Superintendent Taylor said the prisoner was drunk when taken to the station. He had a fit, from which he recovered. He feigned another and Dr. Bateman was sent for and applied a galvanic battery and he soon “found his feet”. Previously he had been cursing and swearing.

Prisoner had not been before the Court since 1889, when he was sent to prison for six weeks for assaulting a man named Tutt. He is an old offender.

Superintendent Taylor said his record dated to 1878.

The Bench fined defendant £2, damage 12s., and costs 5s. 6d., £2 17s. 6d. in all, and in default one month with hard labour.

Folkestone Visitors` List 24-4-1895

Police Court Jottings

Mary Ann Docharty was charged on Friday, before Mr. J. Fitness, with having broken a pane of glass in the Marquis of Lorne public house.

The evidence showed that Mary Ann was the worse for drink, and when she was ejected from the house she smashed the window with her fist, the value of the pane of glass having been put down at one shilling.

The Magistrate reminded the prisoner that she had a twenty years` record at the Court for bad character, but he would give he another chance and inflict a nominal penalty of half a crown, or seven days` imprisonment in default.

Folkestone Express 7-11-1896

Friday, October 30^th: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Salter and Pledge, and T.J. Vaughan, J. Fitness and J. Holden Esqs.

Two men, one named Driscoll, a discharged sailor, and the other named Trusler, a cook on board a collier, were charged with assisting a soldier to desert and with receiving and disposing of part of his kit. Driscoll appeared in the dock minus “breeks”, and bare footed, his lower limbs being enveloped in a police blanket. He wore a jacket and vest, but his shirt was missing. It appeared that he had divested himself of his own garments, and arrayed the deserter in them, donning the soldier`s clothes himself. These the police removed.

The soldier, named Dungay, gave evidence to the effect that they went on board the ship, where he changed his clothing. The left the ship and went to a beershop just under the arch. Driscoll put up his small kit for sale, and sold one or two things to the people who were drinking there – a clothes brush for 1d., and a pair of laces. They then went to the Marquis Of Lorne, where they sold two pairs of boots, three pairs of socks, and a shaving brush. Driscoll sold them to different men lodging there. A new pair of boots he sold for half a crown, and another pair for 4d., and the razor case and brush for 6d. Driscoll received the money, and after paying for beer and for the lodging he handed over 5s. 4d. to the police sergeant at the station. He sold one pair of socks for 4d., another pair for 2d., and a shirt for 1s. and an old one. A set of boot brushes he sold for 2d., and a Guernsey for 6d.

Frederick Sendall, a sailor on board the Cumberland Lassie, said he was on board between seven and eight, and saw Dungay and Driscoll go on board with another man. Two were in uniform – Dungay and the man who was not in court. They asked him if he wanted to buy some clothes, and he said no. They then asked the cook, Trusler, and he said no. They also asked the boy. Driscoll asked if he had any plain clothes, and Trusler said he would have a look. He gave Driscoll a vest, jacket, and cap, and the cabin boy gave him a pair of canvas pants. The soldier, Dungay, gave Trusler 6d, and then put on the uniform, and they all went together to two public houses. At the first they sold a pair of braces and a clothes brush, and at the other house two pairs of shoes and some stockings and other articles.

Driscoll said the witness took them down into the cabin and supplied them with clothes to desert with. He also helped to drink the beer bought with the money.

P.C. Smoker said after he brought the prisoner to the station he went with the landlord of the Marquis Of Lorne to the Cumberland Lasise. They went below and saw Sendall and Trusler in bed together. He asked them what clothes they had got belonging to the soldier. Sendall got out of the bunk, and with the help of witness`s lamp they searched the cabin, and found between two sails the articles produced – one glove marked 6103 H.L.I., a Glengarry cap, and a spoon marked 6063. Sendall said the soldiers had left them aboard. Driscoll had a pair of pants on, which Dungay identified.

Trusler was discharged as there was no evidence against him.

Driscoll said Dungay told him at Dover that he had 11 months bad service out of 13, and that he owed £9. He was in a draft going out to India, and had made up his mind to desert. He spoke with the purest Cockney accent and at a very rapid rate.

The Bench sentenced him to three months hard labour for assisting Dungay to desert, and fined him 3s. 9d., treble the value of the articles disposed of, 20s. fine, and 8s. 6d. costs, or a month. The sentences to run concurrently.

Folkestone Chronicle 27-11-1897

Friday, November 19^th: Before The Mayor, Messrs. Fitness, Vaughan, Wightwick, Salter, Pledge, Banks, Holden, and Stock.

Charles Lloyd was charged with stealing a half pint glass, value 3½d.

George Henry Bishop said he was in the Marquis Of Lorne, Radnor Street, the previous night, and saw the prisoner go outside and put the glass in his pocket.

Robert Jasper, landlord of the Marquis Of Lorne, deposed to the prisoner taking the glass. He handed it back when spoken to and ran away. Prisoner was sober.

The Magistrates inflicted a fine of 2s. 6d. or seven days`.

Folkestone Express 4-12-1897

Friday, November 26^th: Before The Mayor, Aldermen Salter, Banks, and Pledge, J. Fitness, W. Wightwick, T.J. Vaughan, and H.D. Stock Esqs.

Charles Lloyd was charged with stealing a glass, value 3½d., the property of Robert Jasper.

George Henry Bishop, a labourer, living at the Marquis Of Lorne, Radnor Street, said prisoner was in the bar on the previous night and called for a pot of beer. He went outside with a friend and drank the beer, and put the glass in his pocket.

Robert Jasper, the landlord, said he went after the prisoner and asked him for the glass. He took it out of his pocket, saying “Here it is”. Its value was 3½d. Prisoner said he was sorry he did it. He found the glass in his pocket.

Prisoner said he expected he was guilty, but he did not remember doing it.

The Bench fined the prisoner 2s. 6d. or seven days`.

Folkestone Chronicle 20-8-1898

Saturday, August 13^th: Before Messrs. J. Holden, T.J. Vaughan, G. Spurgen and J. Pledge.

John Watson was charged with stealing a woollen shirt, value 2s. 6d., the property of Samuel Terry.

From the evidence of Mary Ann Mellish, landlady of the Marquis Of Lorne (sic), a common lodging house, it appeared that she washed the shirt and hung it out to dry. She missed it soon afterwards. Prisoner and prosecutor both lodged in the house.

P.C. Nash arrested the prisoner, who pleaded Guilty.

He was sentenced to 14 days` hard labour.

Folkestone Up To Date 20-8-1898

Saturday, August 13^th: Before J. Holden, J. Pledge, G. Spurgen, and T.J. Vaughan Esqs.

John Watson, a young man, was charged with stealing a coloured shirt, the property of Samuel Terry. The prisoner pleaded Guilty.

Mary Ann Mellish said: I am a single woman, living at the Marquis Of Lorne, a house kept by Mrs. Terry, who is my sister. Yesterday I washed a grey woollen shirt, hanging it on a line in front of the house. The shirt is produced. I saw the defendant in the kitchen a few minutes before the shirt was missing.

Samuel Terry said: I am a foreman in the employ of the Electric Lighting Company. On Friday night I gave the last witness a shirt to wash. I can identify the shirt by a stain, etc. Its value is 2s. 6d.

P.C. Nash (22) deposed to finding the prisoner with a paper parcel under his arm. The parcel was opened and the shirt produced was found in it. The prisoner said he did not steal the shirt, but gave a shilling and a pot of beer for it.

The prisoner now pleaded guilty, his defence being that he was drunk at the time he committed the theft.

He was sentenced to 14 days` hard labour.

Folkestone Herald 20-8-1898

Police Court Report

On Saturday, John Watson was charged with stealing a shirt.

Mary Ann Mellish, living at the Marquis Of Lorne, Radnor Street, deposed that she was the sister of the landlord. She hung out a shirt on the line, and afterwards missed it. She now identified it. The defendant had lodged in the house the previous two nights. She saw it in the kitchen before she missed it.

P.C. Nash deposed that he went to the Wellington beerhouse and found the defendant there. He had a paper parcel under his arm. Witness asked to see what he had. He gave witness the parcel. He undid it, and saw the shirt produced. Defendant said he bought it and gave a shilling and a pot of beer.

Defendant pleaded Guilty, and said he was drunk at the time.

The Bench sentenced him to 14 days` hard.