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Saturday, 22 March 2014

Packet Boat (2) 1915 - 1919



Folkestone Express 24-7-1915

Local News

Amy Partridge Marsh, of Tulse Hill, London, who was charged at the Police Court before Mr. J. Stainer and other Magistrates on Saturday morning with attempting to commit suicide, said strange things to Mr. Harry Edward Stokes, who took her from the sea, into which she had cast herself.

Mr. Stokes, who is a plumber in the employ of the South Eastern and Chatham, was at work in the Company`s shops when two lads came and said that a woman had thrown herself into the water. He went to the door and saw someone in the sea. Then he made his way to the rocks, a matter of 100 yards away, and, on getting nearer to the woman (the accused), she struggled to get on to the dry rocks. Taking her by the arm he asked what she was doing, and she said she was trying to commit suicide, and that she had killed her father. Mr. Stikes said “Don`t talk like that, Madam”, and began to take her towards the Company`s shops. On the way she remarked “I have left my father on his death-bed”. Subsequently he took her to the Packet Boat Inn, and, as she asked for a policeman to be sent for, he went to the police station and gave information of the occurrence.

To the Packet Boat Inn then came Inspector Lawrence, who found the accused sitting before a fire in the kitchen. He cautioned her, and she said “I am not fit to live. I left my father, who is dying, in London. I had nourishment in the house to give him, and I have not done so”. At the police station she said “This is all through neglecting my father”.

The Bench bound the woman over, and handed her over to the care of her friends. They highly commended Mr. Stokes for his action in the matter.

Folkestone Express 7-9-1918

Local News

At the Police Court on Tuesday the licence of the Packet Boat, Radnor Street, was temporarily transferred from Mr. Goodhall to Mr. F. Kennett, a dairyman, of Coolinge Lane.
Folkestone Herald 7-9-1918

Local News

The temporary transfer of the licence of the Packet Boat Inn, Radnor Street, from Mr. Goodall to Mr. F. Keeler (sic), Coolinge Lane, was granted by the Folkestone Justices on Monday.

Folkestone Herald 28-9-1918

Local News

At the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday (Mr. E.T. Ward in the chair) the licence of the Packet Boat Inn, Radnor Street, was transferred to Mr. Frederick Kennett, of the Metropole Dairy
 

 

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