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Prince Albert 1890s

Folkestone Chronicle 1-2-1890

At the Hythe police court on Thursday, Dudley Jeffrey, of the Prince Albert Hotel, Folkestone, and his servant, George White, were summoned for cruelly ill-treating a horse on the 4^th December.

Mr. Minter appeared on behalf of the defendant, and Mr. Colam prosecuted.

Horace Wratten, a shepherd, stated that on the day in question he was on the Race Meadow and saw Mr. Jeffrey riding a horse, which fell on it`s knees and then on it`s nose and near side. It`s legs were doubled over. It laid on the ground about five minutes, and was then led to the stable. Witness stopped with it during the night. The defendant White went next morning to fetch the horse.

Cross-examined by Mr. Minter: Mr. Jeffrey got some straw and made the horse comfortable. He heard Jeffrey say to Mr. Jordan that it was not a fit place to put the horse.

P.C. Hobday said he saw the horse about 40 yards on the Folkestone side of the Swan. The defendant White was in charge and was coaxing the horse along as best he could. It appeared to be very feeble on it`s fore feet. He asked White where he brought the horse from, and he said the Race Meadow, at West Hythe, and that he was going to take it to Folkestone. At the Swan stable it laid down in a helpless condition.

Thos. Elliott, proprietor of the Swan, said he saw the horse outside his stables on the 5^th of December. Mr. Jeffrey brought a bottle of embrocation and rubbed the horse with it for about half an hour. It was decided to kill it.

Cross-examined by Mr. Minter: He thought it was an ordinary breakdown, and using the embrocation was the right treatment for an ordinary case.

Inspector Blake Jones, R.S.P.C.A., said he visited the stable on the Monday, and saw the horse in a loose box. It was prostrate and dying. He tried to get the animal on it`s feet, but could not do so. He examined the legs, and found the near fore leg was intensely inflamed due to some severe injury of the fetlock joint. The off fore fetlock was swollen, but not so badly as the other. After the horse was killed the near for leg was cut off. Immediately the knife was inserted behind the knee, quite half a pint of matter gushed from the leg. HE handed the limb to Mr. Hogben for examination.

Mr. Hogben, veterinary surgeon, said the break was the worst he had ever seen. It ought not to have been moved a foot after it broke down.

Mr. Minter pointed out that it was simply an error of judgement on Mr. Jeffrey`s part, and he took every possible care to treat the horse for the injury.

Mr. Henry Jordan said he was with Mr. Jeffrey on the 5^th December. He thought the animal had broken down slightly in it`s fore legs. He saw Mr. Jeffrey rub the horse`s leg with embrocation, and foment it with hot water.

The Bench fined each defendant 10s. and £1 11s. costs.

Folkestone Express 17-8-1895

Local News

At the Police Court on Monday, two women of very unprepossessing appearance, Bridget Marshall and Agnes O`Brien, were charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night.

Mr. Bradley remarked “I see these ladies have no fixed residence. I suppose they are visitors to Folkestone”.

Superintendent Taylor: Yes, sir. Season visitors.

P.C. Bean said his attention was called to the defendants about eleven o`clock, near the Prince Albert Hotel, Rendezvous Street. They were drunk, and he persuaded them to go away. At 12.45 he saw them again on Mr. Surrey`s doorstep, singing, shouting, and disturbing the neighbourhood. He spoke to them, and they used very bad language, and he took them into custody.

Both defendants expressed regret, and said it was the first time. They could not get any lodgings, or it would not have happened.

Mr. Bradley: But you only had 6d. between you. You could not get lodgings with that.

Mr. Holden told them all their talk went for nothing. They had no business to get drunk, and no business to use obscene language.

They would be fined 5s. and 4s. 6d. costs, or seven days`. They went below.

Folkestone Express 8-5-1897

Local News

On Monday evening a man about 27 was taken to the Police Station, and subsequently handed over to the Dover police. It appears he was formerly employed at the Prince Albert Hotel, but left there and gave himself up to the County Police, alleging that he had embezzled money belonging to his employer. The latter declined to prosecute, and the man was released, when he begged of his late master to prosecute him. On Monday he was found on the line near the Abbot`s Cliff signal box, with a handkerchief tied tightly round his throat. He told a man named Banks, who discovered him, that he had jumped off the cliff, but as he was not killed he tried to suffocate himself. Dr. Gilbert applied restoratives and the man was removed to the police station, and subsequently to Dover.