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Brewery Tap 1920 - 1924

Folkestone Herald 18-12-1920

Friday, November 17^th: Before Dr. W.J. Tyson, Mr. G.I. Swoffer, Mr. G. Boyd, Mr. W.J. Harrison and Miss E.I. Weston.

Albert Taylor, landlord of the Brewery Tap, was summoned for a breach of the Shops Order. Mr. A.F. Kidson prosecuted, and Mr. V.D. De Wet appeared for the defendant, who pleaded Not Guilty.

Mr. Arthur John Wort said at 6.10 p.m. on Wednesday, November 21^st, he visited the defendant`s house. He asked for a packet of cigarettes, and he was served by the defendant`s son with a 6d. packet.

Cross-examined, witness said defendant`s son and he had played football together. He did not know him personally as he did not speak to him in the street. (Laughter)

Mr. De Wet submitted that the Order did not apply to licensed victuallers. They were exempted under the schedule which exempted other trades. The licensed victuallers were never asked if they wished to be exempted from being allowed to open on Wednesday afternoons. Were 110 licensed victuallers, not consulted, to be bound by a three-fourths majority of the tobacconists?

Defendant was fined 10s.

Mr. De Wet said this was a trade affair, and he asked the Magistrates to state a case, which request was granted.

Gertrude Florence Lucas (True Briton Hotel) and Ernest Mainwood (Harbour Hotel) were each fined 10s. for similar offences.

 

Folkestone Express 25-12-1920

Local News

On Friday morning at the Police Court summonses were heard against three defendants for a breach of the Shops (Closing) Order, for having sold cigarettes on a Wednesday afternoon, which day is the recognised half day holiday for shops in Folkestone.

The Magistrates were Dr. Tyson, Mr. Swoffer, Councillors Miss Weston, Boyd, Mumford, and Harrison. Mr. A.F. Kidson (Town Clerk) prosecuted, and Mr. De Wet defended.

Albert Taylor, licensee of the Brewery Tap, was concerned in the first case heard, and Mr. De Wet pleaded Not Guilty.

Arthur John Wort said he visited the Brewery Tap about 6.10 p.m. on the 24^th November, and asked for a packet of cigarettes. He was served by the defendant`s son, Albert George Taylor. He paid sixpence for the cigarettes.

Cross-examined by Mr. De Wet: No-one was in the bar when he went in, and defendant`s son was behind the bar, and he thought he took the cigarettes from a shelf. He used to play football in the school team with defendant`s son. He did not know him personally – he did not speak to him in the street. Mr. Pearson went to the door, and he gave him the cigarettes.

Mr. De Wet submitted that the Order did not apply to licensed victuallers. They were a class which were exempted by the very schedule the Town Clerk had referred to. Licensed victuallers were not retailers of tobacco and smokers` requisites. Had all the 110 licence holders to be bound if they were not consulted for the purposes of securing a three-fourths majority of what they were not – retailers of smokers` requisites? He asked the Bench to hold that the case was not applicable to licence holders.

The Bench retired, and on their return to Court the Chairman said the Magistrates had decided to convict, and the defendant would be fined 10s.

Mr. De Wet said it was a trade offence, and asked the Magistrates would agree to state a case.

Mrs. Lucas was summoned for the same offence.

Mr. De Wet said the case was similar to the other, and he must plead Guilty, with compunction.

A.J. Wort said he visited the True Briton, and was served by Mrs. Lucas with a packet of cigarettes.

Fined 10s.

Ernest Leonard Mainwood was similarly summoned, and A.J. Wort said he visited the Harbour Hotel about 6.15, and purchased a packet of cigarettes, for which he paid 6d.

Fined 10s.

Editorial Comment

Probably we have not heard the last of the licence holders and their action concerning the sale of tobacco on the early half-closing day. The penalty inflicted on Friday last was not a severe one, but it shows they are breaking the law if they serve to their customers after the hours for the sale of tobacco. It, on the face, appears unjust, that when those hours were fixed by the Town Council, following a request by the tobacconists of the town, that the licensed victuallers were not consulted as to their wishes. If they had been the voting would doubtless have been different to what it was. It seems an anomaly that at Cheriton and Sandgate cigarettes and tobacco can be purchased on the early half-closing day, yet on the Folkestone side of the boundaries a smoker, if he has run out of his choice weed, will have to wait until the following day before he can enjoy his pipe or cigarette again. There are always officials ready to pounce on innocent offenders, but to the man in the street it seems strange that so much time can be devoted to pin-pricking tradesmen, who are endeavouring to make an honest living, yet at the same time such danger spots as that brought to the light of day by an inquest held last week are allowed to exist in a civilised community and in a fashionable town like Folkestone. It would be of interest to learn what action the Sanitary Department took in that particular matter.

Folkestone Herald 25-12-1920

Editorial

Bumble oracularly declared that “the law is a hass”. It is not unlikely that many people, after reading the reports of the cases in which three licensed victuallers were fined for the heinous crime of selling cigarettes on Wednesday afternoon, expressed themselves in a similar fashion. We make no reflection upon the Folkestone Magistrates who heard the prosecutions. The law being as it is, they probably felt they had no alternative but to fine the defendants. At the same time they would have shown a greater appreciation of the fitness of things by imposing a mere nominal penalty of one shilling. But the amount of the fine is not a very serious matter one way or the other. The material point is the state of things in which it is an offence for a publican to sell a cigar, cigarette or tobacco after one o`clock on Wednesday. One satisfactory result of the proceedings is that the Magistrates consented to state a case, and, as we understand, the licensed victuallers intend to take steps with a view to securing the removal of this gross anomaly. We are firm believers in law and order, but when the application of the law leads to such a pass as this we venture to suggest that it is time to enquire whether there is not some error either in the application or in the law itself.

The cases were the outcome of the operation of the Shop Hours Act, containing provision for the closing of shops one half day in every week. That measure allows a certain amount of latitude to tobacconists. They are set apart in a class distinct from shopkeepers generally; they are under no obligation to shut on the customary closing day unless a two-thirds majority petition the Town Council to make an order that they shall do so. That is what happened some years ago. The tobacconists wished to come within the scope of the general order, and the necessary majority memorialised the Corporation accordingly. But – and this is a big “but” – the licensed victuallers, who are also tobacconists, were not consulted in the matter at all. Yet they are expected to conform to an order in the making of which they had no voice! Could anything be more unfair? Simple justice and common sense alike dictate that either they should be regarded as “tobacconists”, and therefore consulted before the order is applied to them or they should not be affected by the order. Licensed victuallers are, indeed, provided for by legislation as a separate class, and they are hedged about and harassed by many restrictions from which other traders are immune. They have therefore the stronger claim to consideration in this matter.

Possibly the result of the case to be stated by the Justices will be a decision that they cannot be regarded as coming within the scope of the order. If not, then it must be hoped that the powers that be will rule that the publicans must be classed as “tobacconists” in so far as the matter of petitioning the local authority for an order is concerned. In justice to the tobacconists it must be said – so we are informed on good authority – that the majority of them are not opposed to licensed victuallers and cinemas selling cigars, cigarettes, or tobacco on Wednesday afternoon. But it is not merely the tobacconists or the licensed victuallers who have a claim to be heard on this subject. The public generally has a voice in the matter, and many people consider it is a serious grievance that they are debarred from purchasing their smoking materials at hotels and public houses on Wednesday afternoons when the ordinary tobacconists are closed. True, smokers living at Morehall, at Cheriton, at Sandgate, and at Hythe can get what they want that afternoon from the ordinary cigar stores, these being open for business as usual. Viewed in the light of this fact, the state of things at Folkestone is a still greater anomaly.

There is another aspect of the case. We are convinced that it is detrimental to the interests of Folkestone as a health and pleasure resort that the tobacconists as a body close on Wednesday afternoon, especially in the summer. If, however, they elect to close, they are free to do so. But let those who wish to meet the convenience of the public by supplying them with cigarettes and the like and also the public itself be likewise free to do as they wish. Let us have freedom all round.

Comment

The recent prosecution of certain licensed victuallers and the Managing Director of a cinema, for selling cigarettes on Wednesday afternoon has been the subject of much comment since the cases were reported in last week`s Herald. The state of affairs is anomalous in the extreme. Whilst an innocent cigarette is forbidden to freedom loving Britons in Folkestone on Wednesday afternoons, he can cross the border either to Sandgate or Cheriton and purchase all he desires in this respect. Surely it is time that steps should be taken to bring about some alteration.

With the object of securing the views of “The Trade” on this subject a Herald representative waited on the Chairman of the Folkestone and District Licensed Victuallers` Association (Mr. Rivers) at the Victoria Hotel, Risborough Lane. Unfortunately he was confined to his room through indisposition, but he kindly sent a message through his daughter to the effect that it was a most absurd position that a body of about a dozen men (an insignificant minority) should be able to control a majority as was done in this case.

Mr. Albert Hart, the energetic Secretary of the Licensed Victuallers` Association, on being asked his opinion on the subject, emphatically replied “Absolutely rotten. In the first place I should think the Health Committee of the Town Council would be doing a good thing if they directed Inspector Pearson to get on with his duties as Sanitary Inspector, instead of hiding up behind walls and doors whilst a boy is utilised to trap honest traders. Here is the situation. Some time ago about fourteen members of the tobacco trade (if indeed there was such a number) asked the Council to apply the provision of the Shop Hours Act to the tobacco trade in the borough. Now the enforcement of the Act means that 300 licensed tobacco dealers in the town are prevented from selling tobacco in any form after one o`clock on Wednesday”.

In answer to another query, Mr. Hart said “Yes, it applies to hotels and restaurants. All liberty-loving Englishmen revolt at such a situation, and they revolt also at the methods employed in order to secure a paltry conviction. We as a trade – combined with other tobacco licensees – intend to take steps to secure the revocation of this absurd application of a law, which was never intended to apply to the tobacco trade”.

Our representative also interviewed the manageress of a large hotel, and she kindly showed him her written instructions that tobacco could not be sold in any licensed house after one on Wednesdays, nor after eight p.m. on other days, with the exception of Saturday, when the hour was extended till nine. It was possible if a chance bar customer ordered a meal to secure a cigarette or cigar, but as to what constituted a meal there was some doubt. Some men, she remarked, could make a good meal off a hunk of bread and cheese, whilst another would probably require several courses to make up a meal. Hotel guests cannot be served after the hours mentioned above unless they are sleeping in the house.

The Manager of the Leas Tobacco Company, Sandgate Road, said it was necessary in the interests, not only of the trade itself, but the public generally, that the vexatious restrictions should be swept away. It was intolerable that an insignificant minority should rule, as in this case.

Folkestone Express 1-1-1921

Local News

On Monday John Allen, of the M.G.C., was charged before the Folkestone Magistrates with breaking into the shop of of Mr. E. Lambrini, 49a, Tontine Street, on Sunday night.

Mr. A. Taylor, licensee of the Brewery Tap, said that at 11.10 on Sunday night he heard a smashing of glass, and on going to the door of his premises he saw accused standing in front of Mr. Lambrini`s shop. The window of the shop was broken, and there was broken glass on the pavement. Prisoner took a box of cigars from the shop front and placed them in the doorway of the adjoining shop. When he asked prisoner what he was doing he replied “I will let you see if you touch me; I will hit you with this” (a boot). After taking another box of cigars from the window prisoner ran away, and witness followed him as far as the church. Allen threw the box of cigars into the middle of the road, and witness picked them up. He also recovered the other box of cigars and a pipe-case which was on the pavement.

Mr. Arthur Taylor, son of the previous witness, corroborated, and said he followed prisoner into Foord Road. He gave information to a policeman in Rendezvous Street, and he later pointed out Allen to Sergt. Stiles near the Central Station, where he was talking to some civilians. Prisoner had one of his boots unlaced when they caught him.

Mr. E. Lambrini, tobacconist and hairdresser, 34 and 49a, Tontine Street, said the pipe produced belonged to the case picked up by Mr. Taylor. The value of the property was about £3.

Sergt. Stiles said prisoner was under the influence of drink when he arrested him, and his right hand was bleeding. On the way to the police station prisoner said “It is no good beating about the bush; I broke the window. I did it to get my ticket”. The pipe was found when prisoner was searched at the police station, and he also said “I am a hospital patient. I broke out of hospital”.

The Magistrates committed prisoner for trial at the next Quarter Sessions.

Folkestone Herald 1-1-1921

Local News

At the Folkestone Police Court on Boxing Day, before Sir Stephen Penfold and other Magistrates, John Allen, of the Machine Gun Corps, was charged with breaking into the shop of Mr. E. Lambrini, 49a, Tontine Street, on the previous night.

Mr. Albert Taylor, licensee of the Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, said on Sunday night, about 11.10, he heard a smashing of glass in the street. He immediately went to the door and saw the prisoner standing in front of Mr. Lambrini`s shop, 49a, Tontine Street. Witness walked down to the shop, and he noticed broken glass on the pavement. The window was smashed. It was a very thick, plate glass window. Prisoner was taking a small box of cigars from the shop front, and he placed these in the doorway of the shop next door. Witness asked him what he was doing, and he said “I will let you see if you touch me, I will hit you with this” (a boot he was holding in his hand). Prisoner then took another box of cigars from the window, and ran round witness and away up the street. Witness followed him as far as his wind would allow him to run. He followed as far as the church. Accused threw the box of cigars away into the middle of the road. Witness picked them up. His son, who had been with him, kept up the chase. When he went back to the shop he collected the other box of cigars, which was in the adjoining doorway. He also found on the pavement a pipe case, which was empty. He later handed the articles over to Mr. Lambrini. The prisoner had had too much to drink.

Arthur Taylor, junr., the son of the last witness, gave corroborative evidence. He said prisoner threatened to knock his father`s brains out. Witness went for a police officer, but when he had gone a little way he turned round and saw prisoner was making off, so he immediately took up the chase. He followed him and saw him go into Foord Road. He went into Rendezvous Street, where he saw a policeman, and later they saw the prisoner in Cheriton Road standing talking to some civilians. Witness pointed him out to Sergeant Styles, who then arrested him. When they caught the accused he had one of his boots unlaced.

Mr. Ernest Lambrini, tobacconist and hairdresser, carrying on business at 34 and 49a, Tontine Street, said the shop was safely locked up on Christmas Eve. He was called to the shop by the first witness about 11.20 on Sunday night. Later Sergeant Styles showed him a pipe (produced) which belonged to the case picked up by Mr. Albert Taylor. The value of the whole property was about £3.

Sergeant Styles said he arrested the prisoner near the Central Station. Prisoner was under the influence of drink. His right hand was bleeding. On the way to the police station prisoner said “It`s no good beating about the bush. I broke the window. I did it to get my ticket as I am suffering from a disease”. When searched at the police station the pipe produced was found on him. Later prisoner said “I am a hospital patient. I broke out of hospital and got into these clothes”.

Accused was committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions.

Folkestone Express 15-1-1921

Quarter Sessions

Monday, January 10^th: Before Sir Lewis Coward.

John Allen (26) was charged with feloniously breaking and entering the shop of Ernest Lambrini, 49a, Tontine Street, and feloniously stealing therein two boxes of cigars and one tobacco pipe in case, of the total value of £3. Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. He was further charged with having received the said goods, well knowing them to have been stolen, and he also pleaded Not Guilty to this charge. Mr. J.W. Weigall (instructed by Mr. A.F. Kidson) prosecuted on behalf of the Crown.

 

Albert Taylor, licensee of the Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, said that at 11.10 on the 26^th December he was at supper and heard a crash. On going to the door he saw the prisoner in front of Mr. Lambrini`s shop. He walked towards prisoner, and he saw him take something from the window and put it in an adjoining shop door. The window was broken, and there was a lot of glass on the pavement. He saw prisoner take a box of cigars from the window, and asked him what he was doing. Prisoner replied “I will let you see if you touch me; I will bash your head in with this” (indicating a boot he had in his hand). Prisoner, who had one boot on and one off, immediately put his hand in the window, took another box of cigars, and ran round him. Witness followed him as far as the Congregational Church. Prisoner threw the gigars into the road, and he picked them up, and gave up the chase. His son then followed prisoner, who was under the influence of drink, but he could run all right.

Albert George Taylor, son of the previous witness, corroborated, and said he was going for the police, and on turning round he saw prisoner running away. He then followed prisoner as far as Foord Road. Later on he saw prisoner talking to some civilians near the Central Station, and he was arrested by Sergt. Styles.

Sergt. Styles said that when he arrested prisoner he was bleeding from a cut on the right hand, and his right boot was not laced. Prisoner said “It is no good beating about the bush; I broke the window to get my ticket, as I am suffering from venereal disease”. At the police station he found a pipe in prisoner`s pocket. Prisoner also said “I am a hospital patient. I broke out of hospital and got into these clothes” (indicating his khaki uniform).

Ernest Lambrini, hairdresser and tobacconist, said 49a, Tontine Street, was a lock up shop, and identified the cigars and pipe and case. The value of the articles was £3.

Prisoner elected to give evidence on oath, and said that on the night in question he was drinking, and was with two men. He did not remember breaking the window, but two men proposed that the window should be broken. If it was broken, the other two men must have broken it, and he told them he had no wish to break it, or to steal from anyone.

In reply to the Recorder, prisoner said he had served four years in France and Belgium with the Yorkshire Light Infantry. He had a good character when he left the Army. He was demobilised in January, 1919, and joined the M.G.C. in May, 1919.

Cross-examined by Mr. Weigall: He could not say who the two men were – they were casual strangers to him. He left them at eight o`clock, having promised to meet them at ten o`clock.

The Recorder: I should like to know how the pipe got into your pocket. – I may have done it under the influence of drink. Probably I put it there, but I cannot remember it.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.

Lieut. Leslie Shepherd Boyd, 1^st Depot, M.G.C., produced the prisoner`s conduct sheet, and the Recorder said it disclosed a terrible record.

Prisoner said he was wounded in the head while fighting on the Somme in 1916, and every time he got drunk it played on his head.

The Recorder sentenced prisoner to twelve calendar months` hard labour, and described the Army record as a scandal.

Folkestone Herald 15-1-1921

Quarter Sessions

Monday, January 10^th: Before Sir Lewis Coward.

John Allen, 26, a private in the Machine Gun Corps, was indicted for having, on December 26^th, broken into and entered the shop of Ernest Lambrini and stolen therein two boxes of cigars, and a tobacco pipe in case, value £3. He was further charged with reeiving the goods knowing them to have been stolen. Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. J.W. Weigall appeared for the Crown.

Mr. Albert Taylor, the licensee of the Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, deposed that at 11.10 p.m. on December 26^th he heard a crash. He went outside, and, seeing the prisoner standing in front of Mr. Lambrini`s shop, 49a, Tontine Street, he went up to him. He saw him take something from the window. He asked him what he was doing, whereupon accused threatened him, and said he would bash his head in with a boot, which he had in his right hand. He put his hand into the window again, and took another box of cigars (produced). He then dodged round witness, and made off. Witness followed him as far as the Tontine Congregational Church. His son kept up the chase, and witness returned to the shop. Prisoner was under the influence of drink. He was in a stupefied condition, but he could run all right.

Mr. Albert George Taylor, son of the last witness, stated that he went to fetch a policeman, but on looking round he saw the prisoner making off, and so he took up the chase. At the corner of Rendezvous Street he saw a policeman, and later they saw prisoner near the Central Station talking to some civilians. The police officer arrested the prisoner. He heard the prisoner threaten his father with a boot. Accused was under the influence of drink, but he could run very well.

Sergeant Styles, who arrested the accused at the Central Station, said Allen had a cut on the right hand, his right boot was unlaced, and he was under the influence of drink. On the way to the police station prisoner said “It`s no good beating about the bush. I broke the window to get my ticket as I am suffering from venereal disease”. A pipe – found on prisoner – fitted an empty pipe case picked up by Mr. Taylor. Prisoner also stated that he had broken out of hospital.

Mr. Ernest Lambrini identified the two boxes of cigars, which were handed to him by Mr. Taylor on the night of December 26^th. The valued of the cigars and pipe was about £3. It was a very thick plate glass window, and it would require a heavy blow to break it.

Prisoner, on oath, said on the night of December 26^th he was drinking. As to telling P.S. Styles that he broke the window and stole the articles he did not know what he did at the time. He did not think he broke the window. He was with two men and they proposed that the window should be broken. He thought that when it was broken these men must have made off. He (witness) was only half sober at the time. He told the two men he did not want to break the window or steal anything from anyone. He was drunk at the time, and the two men might have influenced him to break the window. When he had too much to drink he became a bit mad. He was demobilised in January, 1919, after serving four years in France and Belgium with the Yorkshire Light Infantry. He had lost his discharge papers, but he left with a good character. Being unable to find employment, he joined the M.G.C. in May, 1919. Since then he had been stationed at Shorncliffe and Grantham.

Cross-examined, defendant said he did not know who the two men were. They were perfect strangers to him.

The Jury found a verdict of Guilty.

The Clerk of the Peace (Mr. H.W. Watts) said prisoner was further charged with having been convicted at Litchfield on August 5^th, 1919 for stealing a bicycle.

Prisoner said that was so, but he was not Guilty then. His mate took the bicycle.

 

Lieutenant Leslie S. Boyd, 1^st Depot Battalion, M.G.C., handed to the Recorder Allen`s conduct sheet, and the Recorder said prisoner had a very bad record.

Accused said he was wounded on the Somme in 1916, and since then he had been bad, and every time he got drink it played on his head.

The Recorder sentenced prisoner to twelve months` hard labour.

Folkestone Express 26-2-1921

Local News

Mary Ann Williams made another appearance to the Folkestone Police Court on Monday, when she was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Tontine Street, and she pleaded Guilty.

P.C. Stevens said at 8.25 on Saturday night he ejected prisoner from the Brewery Tap, where she had refused to pay. When ejected she used filthy language.

Prisoner: I am very sorry again. I had a little drop, and it overcame me. If you will be lenient with me I will try to be good again.

The Clerk: Word for word that is what she has been saying for a long, long time.

Mr. Reeve (the Chief Constable) said prisoner was the biggest nuisance in the town. She had been convicted four times last year, three times in 1919, twice in 1918, three times in 1917, once in 1916, and so it went on right back until 1900, and altogether there were 25 convictions against her.

Prisoner was committed to prison for 14 days` hard labour.

Folkestone Express 7-1-1922

Local News

The following extension was granted at the Police Court on Tuesday: Mr. Taylor, Brewery Tap, occasional licence from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Drill Halls, Shellons Street, on the occasion of the local R.F.A. Battery dance.

Folkestone Herald 7-1-1922

Local News

At the Folkestone Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Mr. A. Taylor, of the Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, was granted an occasional licence to sell at the Drill Hall, from 8 p.m. yesterday till 1 o`clock this (Saturday) morning for the annual Territorial Ball.

Folkestone Express 11-3-1922

Adjourned Licensing Sessions

Wednesday, March 8^th: Before Mr. G.I. Swoffer and Colonel P. Broome-Giles.

Mr. Reeve (the Chief Constable) said Mr. Taylor, the licensee of the Brewery Tap, in Tontine Street, applied for an occasional licence to sell drink in the Drill Hall on Friday evening, on the occasion of a boxing tournament. The notice Mr. Taylor had sent to him was from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. He understood the boxing tournament did not commence until 8 o`clock, and why they wanted to start selling at 6 o`clock he did not understand.

Mr. Taylor said Major Bell had asked him to get the occasional licence. The present bar would be closed during the boxing, and they wanted the outside public to be on the same footing as members of the Club.

The Chief Constable suggested that the licence should be granted from 7.30 to 10.30, and he thought that would meet the case.

The Magistrates granted the licence from 7.30 to 10.30.

Folkestone Herald 11-3-1922

Adjourned Licensing Sessions

Wednesday, March 8^th: Before Mr. G.I. Swoffer and Colonel Broome-Giles, C.B.

Mr. Taylor, the licensee of the Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, was granted an occasional licence to sell drink at the Drill Hall last night, on the occasion of the boxing tournament, from 7.30 to 10.30.

Folkestone Express 9-12-1922

Local News

At the Police Court on Tuesday Andrew Devine was charged with having been drunk and disorderly the previous day in Rendezvous Street, and he pleaded Guilty.

P.C. Thorne said that at 2.20 p.m. he saw the prisoner in Tontine Street. He was offering to fight two working men, and he thrust a clenched fist into their faces. He advised defendant to go away, and he went. He saw him enter the Brewery Tap public house, and he went after him and stopped his beer. With the assistance of the landlord he ejected him.

The Clerk: What do you mean; prevented him being served?

P.C. Thorne: Yes. At 2.45 he saw the prisoner in Rendezvous Street and enter the bar of the Rose Hotel. With the assistance of P.C. Simpson he took prisoner to the police station.

Devine: I am sorry it happened.

Inspector Bourne said prisoner had been in the town about a month. He had no money in his possession.

Devine:My wife has got the money. I came here on account of my health. (Laughter)

The Clerk: You have been doing nothing since you came here except rest?

Devine: That`s it, sir.

The Clerk: And this is the end of it.

Fined 10s.

Folkestone Express 20-10-1923

Monday, October 15^th: Before Mr. G.I. Swoffer, Alderman Dunk, Mr. W.R. Boughton, Mr. G. Boyd, Dr. Nuttall, and Councillor Miss I. Weston.

Edward Care was charged with having been drunk and disorderly, and also with committing wilful damage. Defendant pleaded Guilty to both offences.

P.C. Oliver said that at 9.15 on Saturday night he was in Tontine Street, and heard the smash of glass. He ran back to the Brewery Tap, where he saw the landlord, who pointed out the defendant, and said “That man has broken my window”.

Mr. Albert Taylor, the son of the landlord, said defendant went into the bar and was refused drink, and he said he would fetch a policeman and doctor to prove he was not drunk. He became very excited, and smashed the window.

Mr. Taylor, the landlord, said the value of the broken window was £6.

Defendant said he had been up until about two o`clock in the morning, and he was tired. He had a glass or two, which upset him, and he did not remember much about it.

Inspector Bourne said defendant had not been in Court for about eighteen years, and since that time had led a very respectable life. In February this year he was presented by the Mayor with a gold medal for splendid services rendered to an American Ship.

Defendant said the medal was presented to him by the late President Harding for saving life at sea.

Defendant was fined 5s. for having been drunk and disorderly, 5s. for the wilful damage, and 15s. costs, and the Chairman said they had never before let a man off without paying for the full damage.

The Clerk (Mr. J. Andrew) said it was the first time since he had been at the Court.

Folkestone Herald 20-10-1923

Monday, October 15^th: Before Mr. G.I. Swoffer, Mr. G. Boyd, Alderman W. Dunk, Mr. W.R. Boughton, Dr. W.W. Nuttall, and Miss E.I. Weston.

Edward Care was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Tontine Street and doing wilful damage.

P.C. Oliver stated that at 9.15 p.m. on Saturday he was on duty in Tontine Street, near Messrs. Stokes` Stores, when he heard a smash of glass behind him. He ran back and saw the landlord of the Brewery Tap, who said “That man broke the window”, and pointed to defendant, who was being carried away by two men. Defendat shouted “I will smash the ---- house up”. He asked defendant if he had broken the window, but he made no reply, and continued shouting. With the assistance of P.C. Stevens he brought him to the police station.

Albert Taylor, son of the landlord of the Brewery Tap, said about 9.05 p.m. on Saturday he noticed Care come up the street with his wife. He was the worse for drink. He followed witness into the public bar and he then went round to the private bar, where he was refused drink. He went outside and said he would fetch a policeman and a doctor to prove he was not drunk. He made a rush at the window and smashed it.

Mr. Taylor, landlord of the Brewery Tap, said the glass was valued at £6. It was insured.

Defendant said he had been at work until 2 o`clock and was tired, and had a drink or two. He was drunk, but he did not remember breaking the window.

Inspector Bourne said it was a sad case. Defendant had not been in Court for eighteen years. In his younger days he had been there four times, but since that time he had lived a respectable life. On February 28^th last he was presented with a gold medal, which had been given him by the late President Harding, by the Mayor of Folkestone for his services in rescuing passengers off an American ship.

The Chairman said defendant would be fined 5s. for being drunk and disorderly, and 5s. for causing wilful damage, and he would have to pay 15s. towards the cost of the window. If it had not been for his good character he would not have been let off so lightly.

The Magistrates` Clerk said the Bench had never previously let off a man without making him pay the full cost of the window.