Folkestone
Daily News 19-1-1910
Wednesday, January 19th: Before Messrs.
Ward, Herbert, Fynmore, Leggett, and Linton.
The licence of the Bellevue Tavern was transferred from
Mr. Warren to Mr. Taylor.
Folkestone
Express 22-1-1910
Wednesday, January 9th: Before Messrs. E.T.
Ward, W.G. Herbert, R.J. Linton, Major Leggett, and Lieut. Colonel Fynmore.
Folkestone
Herald 22-1-1910
Wednesday, January 19th: Before Mr. E.T.
Ward, Lieut. Colonel Fynmore, Major Leggett, and Messrs. W.G. Herbert and R.J.
Linton.
Folkestone
Herald 27-5-1911
Thursday, May 25th: Before Mr. W.H. Herbert,
Major Leggett, Messrs. J. Stainer and R.J. Linton.
Frederick George Fennell was charged with stealing two
breeching straps, the property of Mr. E.G. Moat.
Joe Mills, a vanman in the employ of Mr. E.G. Moat,
carrying on business in St. John Street, identified the straps produced as
being a portion of the harness of a horse which was the property of his
employer. On the 23rd inst., at about 3.30 in the afternoon, he took
the horse out of the van, and hung the harness on a peg in the stable in St.
John Street. Witness missed the straps the following morning at about 7.30,
when he went to harness the horse. The straps were valued at 5s. 6d., and were
almost new. Witness saw the prisoner in the Belle Vue Inn about half an hour
after he had taken the straps off the horse.
John Francis Simpson, a dealer, of Folkestone, was then
called. He stated he was very deaf, and some difficulty was experienced by the
Clerk in keeping him to the point. He stated that he saw the prisoner in the
Fishmarket on Tuesday. He was not sure whether it was in the afternoon, or at
dinner time. “You see”, he began, “I had been there all the morning and....”.
Here he was cut short by the Magistrates` Clerk, who requested him to keep to
the point. Prisoner brought two straps to witness, who did not seem sure at
first whether the straps produced were the same. He explained that he had a lot
of old harness, “tons of it”, holding up a few straps tied with a piece of
string. He commenced a statement about his business, which was, however, nipped
in the bud by the Clerk. When he was brought back to the point again, witness
stated that prisoner asked 1s. for the straps. Finally, however, witness gave
him 6d. He said he did not know whether prisoner wanted to sell them, or whether
he simply wanted a drink. Witness told him that he would keep the straps, and
if prisoner wanted them again he could have them by paying 6d. He did not ask
prisoner where he got the straps, which he handed over to Inspector Lawrence
the next day.
Inspector Lawrence stated that he visited the shop of
the previous witness, who handed him the pair of straps now produced, which
were later identified by Mr. Mills as the property of Mr. Moat. Witness later
saw prisoner in the Clarence Hotel. He showed him the two straps, and said “I
want you to come to the police station with me. I shall charge you with
stealing these straps from Mr. Moat`s stable yesterday”. Prisoner replied “All
right, sir”. At the police station prisoner said that he did not know anything
about the straps.
Accused pleaded Not Guilty, and said that he saw a man
on the Fishmarket, who asked him to sell the straps. He did not steal them. He
took them, and at this man`s request, he asked the witness Simpson 1s. for
them.
The Chairman: Do you expect us to believe a tale like
that? Do you mean to say that you would sell anything for a man you did not
know?
Prisoner: Yes, sir. I have often done it.
The Chief Constable said there were twelve previous
convictions against prisoner, ten for drunkenness, one for assaulting the
police, and one for larceny.
The Chairman said there was no doubt in the minds of
the Bench that prisoner had taken the straps, and he would be sentenced to 21
days` hard labour.
The
licence of the Belle Vue Hotel, St. John`s Street, was transferred from Mr.
Herbert Warren to Mr. F.J. Taylor
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