Folkestone Express
25-11-1922
Local News
Folkestone Herald
25-11-1922
Local News
At the Folkestone Police Court on Tuesday (Mr. G.I. Swoffer
in the chair), the licence of the Black Bull Hotel was transferred from Mrs.
Cavey to Mr. Albert Edward Springate.
At
the Police Court on Wednesday morning, the following transfer of licence was granted:
Black Bull Hotel, from Mr. Springate to Mr. William G. Wilson, St. Albans.
Folkestone Express
12-1-1924
Local News
Folkestone Herald 12-1-1924
Local News
On Wednesday the Licensing Justices approved the transfer of
the licence of the Black Bull Hotel from Mr. A.E. Springate to Mr. W.G. Wilson.
Folkestone Herald 26-4-1924
Local News
At the Folkestone Police Court on Friday the Black Bull
Hotel was granted an extension of licence for one hour on Wednesday next on the
occasion of a musical evening by the R.A.O.B.
Folkestone Express 6-9-1924
Friday, August 29th: Before Mr. G.I. Swoffer and
other Magistrates.
Frank Waller was summoned for assaulting Mrs. Alice Daisy
McElroy, and he pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. H.W. Watts appeared to prosecute.
Mrs. McElroy, 26, Athelstan Road, said that on Saturday last
she was outside the Black Bull Hotel at 10.05 with her mother. Defendant was
there with another man, and they were using very bad language, and she said
“Will you moderate your language?” Waller never said anything, but hit her a
violent blow in the mouth with his fist.
Mr. Watts: What kind of a blow was it?
Mrs. McElroy: I cannot tell you. All I know, I got ut.
Complainant said four teeth were knocked out by the blow.
She was bleeding, and her mouth was still bruised. She fell down. She had her
purse in her hand. There was 30s. in the purse, and it was gone when she got
up. Someone went to her assistance, and took her to the police station. She was
bleeding when she got to the police station.
By the Clerk: She had been in the Black Bull Hotel, but did
not see defendant there. She only received one blow, and fell at once. She lost
her senses, and had to be assisted to her feet. She had not said anything to
Waller before he struck her.
Cross-examined by Waller: She did not go up to him, and she
did not scratch his face. She was never near him. She got the blow because he
ran at her. She was not the worse for drink, she had only had two. She never
said anything about his daughters.
Ernest Crumby, brother-in-law of the complainant, 6, Mead
Road, said he was with her on Saturday night outside the Black Bull Hotel, and
she was sober. Waller used bad language, and said he was not frightened of the
best man who came out of the bar, and would take them across the field and fight
them for 5s. or £5. Mrs. McElroy asked Waller to moderate his language, and he
ran after her, and knocked her down.
Cross-examined by defendant: He picked defendant up off the
ground. He did not go down home with Waller.
By the Clerk: He could not say how Waller got on the ground.
Stephen Taylor, 6, Mead Road, said when he was in his back
yard he heard a woman screaming, and on going up the road he saw Mrs. Crumby
holding Mrs. McElroy up. He brought Mrs. McElroy to the police station. She was
sober.
Cross-examined by defendant: He did not see him at the Black
Bull Hotel on Saturday night, because he was not there.
Defendant said he went up to the Black Bull Hotel from the
Market, and he had a few goods in his hand that he had not sold. He found he
was a little too late, and stood talking to Mr. Scamp, who had gone away
hopping. Mr. Scamp said “Frank, I owe you 5s., and I will pay you”. He replied
“That is right, I could do with it”. Scamp said he was going away hopping, and
they stood talking, and then the woman started swearing, and calling him over,
and he had never spoken to her in his life. He heard his three girls` names
mentioned, and be told her to be off. She slipped in front of him, and he
pushed her, and she spun round and fell. The two brothers and father rolled
into him left and right, and hit him on the back of the head with a lump of
wood. He got up and “dropped” the younger brother of the two on the ground. He
went down home, and left the others up there. He told his girls about it, and two
of them went up there, but when they got there there was no-one there. He stood
in self-defence, as he was not a man who kicked up a row.
Mrs. McElroy was summoned for assaulting Frank Waller.
Waller gave similar evidence to his statement above, and said
she scratched him down the face. The woman was completely drunk.
Cross-examined by Mr. Watts: He did not strike Mrs. McElroy.
He did not see her face was bruised. Any drunken woman was liable to fall on
her face and smash it. He was there when she was lying on the ground.
Mr. Watts: Did she lay down on the ground of her own
account?
Waller: No, I pushed her down.
Waller said he could not see any witnesses. They had gone
off hopping from what he could see about them. He had wired for them, but they
had not turned up.
The Chairman said the case against Mrs. McElroy would be
dismissed, and the one against Waller was proved.
The Chief Constable (Mr. A.S. Beesley) said there were
thirteen convictions against Waller, including five for assault, the last one
being in 1920, when he was fined £1.
The Magistrates having retired, the Chairman said it was a
very serious charge, and a ver brutal assault, and Waller would go to prison
for one month`s hard labour.
Folkestone Herald 6-9-1924
Friday, August 29th: Before Mr. G.I. Swoffer
and other Magistrates.
Frank Waller was summoned for assaulting Mrs. Alice Daisy
McElroy.
Mr. H.W. Watts appeared for the complainant, who said that on
the previous Saturday at 10.05 p.m. she was outside the Black Bull. Defendant
and another man were using violent language, and witness asked them to moderate
it. Waller struck her on the mouth, knocking out four teeth and sending her to
the ground. Her mouth bled, and it was still bruised. The purse which she had
in her hand was lost when she got up.
By defendant: She did not scratch his face. She was not the
worse for drink.
Ernest Crumby, of 6, Mead Road, brother-in-law of the last
witness, corroborated. Cross-examined by defendant, he said that he picked
Waller off the ground when he tripped.
Stephen Taylor, of Mead Road, also gave evidence.
Defendant stated that he went to the Black Bull to sell some
goods. He was talking to a Mr. Scamp, when Mrs. McElroy started “calling him
over”. She slipped in front of the two of them, and he pushed her away, and
down she went. He was hit on the back of the head with a piece of timber.
A cross-summons against Mrs. McElroy for assaulting Waller
was then heard.
Waller repeated his previous statement and said that Mrs.
McElroy told him that she “would give him something”. She “tore him down the
face” and he pushed her away. She was completely drunk, and she slipped to the
ground.
By Mr. Watts: He pushed her down.
The Bench dismissed the case against Mrs. McElroy, but held
that the summons against Waller was proved.
The Chief Constable stated that there were thirteen previous
convictions against defendant, five of which were for assault. They were minor
offences.
The Magistrates considered the assault a very brutal one,
and sentenced Waller to one month`s hard labour.
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