Folkestone Herald
28-11-1925
Elham Petty Sessions
Thursday, November 26th: Before Dr. W.J. Tyson,
Mr. A.S. Jones, Mr. W.G. Tester, Alderman C.E. Mumford, and Mr. J.S. Clark.
Mr. Roy Smiles, licensee of the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton,
applied for an extension of hours from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. on December 9th
on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Cheriton Gardeners` Society. The
application was granted.
Folkestone Herald
23-1-1926
Obituary
We regret the death, at the Swan Inn, Dover Road, of Mrs.
Annie Buller Saunders, at the age of sixty years. Deceased was the widow of the
late Mr. “Sid” Saunders, who was successively landlord of the Railway Bell
Hotel, Folkestone; the White Lion, Cheriton; East Cliff Tavern, and the
Fountain Hotel, Seabrook. Her happy and cheerful disposition endeared her to
all. To do a good and deserving turn to others afforded her real joy. To her
only child, Mrs. Herbert, the wife of Mr. S. Herbert, of the Swan Inn, sincere
sympathy is extended.
The funeral took place at the Cemetery.
Folkestone Herald
13-3-1926
Elham Petty Sessions.
Thursday, March 4th: Before Dr. W.J. Tyson, Mr.
W.G. Tester, Mr. C. Sheath, Mr. H.F. Jacques, Mr. H. Strahan, Colonel R.
Wayland, and Mr. J.S. Clark.
Mr. Roy Smiles, of the White Lion, Cheriton, was granted an
hour`s extension on March 17th on the occasion of the dinner of the
White Lion dart Club.
Folkestone Herald
5-6-1926
Friday, June 4th: Before Mr. G. Boyd and Dr. W.W.
Nuttall.
Leonard Dennis Boorn was charged with an indecent exposure
in Radnor Park on Thursday, June 3rd. Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
Evidence was given by two girls, aged 13½ and 10 years
respectively, their testimony differing considerably, and by Mr. Drury, the
park-keeper.
The Chairman said there was not enough evidence to convict,
and the case would be dismissed.
Prisoner was further charged with a similar offence in
Radnor Park on April 18th. He pleaded Not Guilty.
Evidence was given by two little girls and by Detective
Constable Budgen, who stated that the prisoner was paraded for identification
with nine other men, and the two witnesses pointed him out without hesitation.
When charged, defendant said “It is false”.
Prisoner gave a complete denial to the charge, and said no
man in his sane senses would do such a thing.
The Magistrates intimated that they considered the case
proved.
Inspector Pittock said prisoner was born in Folkestone in
1876. He went to St. Mary`s School, and on leaving was employed at the White
Lion Hotel, Cheriton. He then left Folkestone, returning in 1914, when he
joined the army, and served until 1918. Since then prisoner had been licensee
of a public house at Elham. He had now retired, and was living in St. John`s
Street, having a wife and one child. The police had had many complaints about
indecent exposure in the Radnor Park, and they attributed most of them to the
prisoner. In one case before them the parents would not allow the children to
come forward, and the police could not proceed with it. There were no previous
convictions against the defendant.
The Chairman said the Bench were quite satisfied that
prisoner was Guilty. He was a public nuisance, and would be sentenced to six
weeks` imprisonment with hard labour.
Prisoner: The sentence is not just.
Folkestone Herald
13-11-1926
Elham Petty Sessions
Thursday, November 11th: Before Dr. W.J. Tyson,
Mr. W.G. Tester and Mr. C. Sheath.
Mr. R.S. Smiles, of the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, was
granted an extension of licence on November 12th until 11 p.m. on
the occasion of a dinner in connection with the Cheriton and Morehall Branch of
the Conservative Association. He was granted a similar extension on November 24th,
the occasion being the annual dinner of the Cheriton Gardeners` Society.
Folkestone Herald
5-2-1927
Elham Annual Licensing Sessions
Thursday, February 3rd: Before Dr. W.J. Tyson,
Alderman E.J. Bishop, Alderman C. Ed. Mumford, Mr. A.S. Jones, Mr. W.G. Tester,
Mr. R. Rigden, and Mr. C. Sheath.
The Superintendent of the Elham Division, K.C.C. (Supt. F.H.
Golding) presented the following report: I have the honour to submit to you my
annual report on the licensed houses within the Elham Petty Sessional Division,
the number and description being as follows: Ale houses, 26,; beer houses on,
8; beer houses, off, 3; grocers, etc., 5; Total 42.
The population of the Division is 17,310, which gives a ratio
of one licence to 412 persons. During the past year the licences of four ale
houses and two beer houses have been transferred. One licensee has been
proceeded against for an offence against the Licensing Act, and the case was
dismissed. No proceedings have been taken against any person during the year
for drunkenness. The number of persons proceeded against dor drunkenness during
the past eight years is as follows: 1919, 1; 1920, 2; 1921, 1; 1922, 3; 1923,
2; 1924, 2; 1925, 2; 1926, nil.
All the licensed houses have been generally well conducted
during the past year, and I have no objection to the renewal of any of the
licences.
The Chairman said that the Bench had pleasure in signing the
report as satisfactory.
Mr. Rutley Mowll, of Dover, applied on behalf of the
Folkestone and District Licensed Victuallers` Association to extend the
permitted hours under the Licensing Act, 1921.
Mr. Mowll said he appeared to ask the Magistrates to remove
a curious anomaly that had arisen with regard to the licensing hours in the
district. Since he had the honour of appearing before the Magistrates on a
similar application the circumstances had, he ventured to say, very much
changed to the advantage of the applicants, as they had now got on either side
of their jurisdiction the very conditions prevailing which he was asking the
Bench to apply to its jurisdiction. That was to say Hythe had got the
privilege, and so had Folkestone, so that on either side of them they had got
the licensing hours during the seasonable months extended from 10 until 10.30.
He was there to ask the Magistrates to do that for the licensees in their
district in their desire to cater for the needs of the public. When it was last
before the Bench it was a little uncertain as to whether the Folkestone
Magistrates would assent to that very reasonable course. They did assent, and
he though the was right in saying that it had been found to work most
satisfactorily both at Folkestone and also at Hythe. He thought that they
wanted no more striking illustration of the ridiculous way in which the matter
worked out at the present time than to take the town of Sandgate. It was true
that Sandgate had not a Mayor and Corporation of its own; it was ruled by a
District Council and consequently came within the Elham Division area. Suppose
anybody arrived by bus at 10 p.m. at the foot of Sandgate Hill. The Fleur de
Lis, at Sandgate, was within the jurisdiction of the Folkestone Magistrates,
and consequently customers arriving by bus could go and get a drink there at ten
o`clock, and remain there until 10.30. Immediately opposite was the Military
Tavern, which was within their jurisdiction, and unless they granted the
facility for which he applied, the Military Tavern had to close its door at ten
o`clock, and therefore the Fleur de Lis had that advantage over the Military
Tavern. Persons who wanted intoxicating liquor had to leave the Military Tavern
at ten o`clock, and they could walk across the road and get those facilities at
the Fleur de Lis. It was laughable; it did not want any comment by him. That
was the position. The only difficulty tha Magistrates had in his mind in
assenting to the proposition was the fact that within their jurisdiction were a
number of houses in a purely rural area. If they examined the type of trade,
the quantity of trade that was done in their urban houses, as distinct from
their rural houses, they would find that by far the larger portion was done in
the urban houses. Let them take such houses as the White Lion at Cheriton, or
the Victoria Hotel in Risborough Lane – they were obviously, to all intents and
purposes, town houses. Within half a mile of the White Lion, such was the need
for licensing facilities, there was an application now pending before the
Folkestone Bench to grant a full licence; to transfer, in fact, a hotel licence
from the Borough of Folkestone to that point to a place called the Morehall
Wine and Spirit Stores. If that was granted – he was not pre-judging it at all
– there would be an anomaly there. That house would be open until 10.30 under
the rule of the Folkestone Magistrates, and the adjoining house, the White
Lion, would have to close at ten o`clock. The thing was absurd. What he was
asking the Bench to do was to have regard to the majority of the needs of the
district, to say that they were not going to penalise the licensed victuallers
who came within their district by prohibiting them from having the privilege
which the licensed victuallers on either side of them enjoyed. They could not
have a better record than that which they had heard in Superintendent Golding`s
report; not a single licensed victualler convicted of any offence and not a
single case of drunkenness. If they could not trust those licensed victuallers
he did not know who they could trust. He asked the Bench to grant the
application. He would point out to them if they felt any difficulty regarding
the rural area that while he did not think they had any right to split up their
licensing district – he thought one rule must apply throughout the district –
if their rural houses did not require that facility there was no reason on
earth why they should use it. The facility was needed for the urban houses.
They had every reason to need it and he was suggesting to the Bench that it was
only fair and right that they should have it. Every Bench had to decide for
itself, but it must be within their knowledge that the facility for which he
was asking was already enjoyed in one for or another by almost every other town
on the coast in Kent. They had got it at Dover, at Deal, Folkestone, Hythe, and
they had got it at places like Margate and Broadstairs. There was only one
place he knew of where it was not granted in those seaside towns and that was
at Ramsgate, but it could not be long before common sense prevailed there. He
asked for common sense to prevail in their Division, and he appealed to the
Bench to help the licensed victuallers under their jurisdiction to carry on
their business at a time when all seaside people were making their living.
After a brief retirement of the Magistrates, the Chairman
announced that the hours would remain the same as last year.
Folkestone
Herald 11-2-1928
Elham Petty Sessions
Thursday, February 2nd: Before Mr. C. Sheath
and other Magistrates.
Charles Howse, jun., of 13, Alma Road, Cheriton, was
summoned for assaulting William Thomas Stevenson, of 10, Sidney Road, Cheriton.
Complainant said that on January 15th, at
about 8 p.m., he had been for a walk with his wife and on their way back they
went to the Victoria Hotel, Cheriton. While he was in there defendant came in,
tapped him on the shoulder, and said he wanted to speak to him outside. Witness
went outside, and when he still had his hand on the door handle, defendant
struck him on the bridge of the nose. He afterwards struck him a second blow.
He accused witness of getting him “the sack” from Council work.
Mrs. Stevenson said she saw her husband with his nose
bleeding and with a handkerchief saturated with blood.
Defendant, on oath, denied calling defendant outside,
and said complainant asked him to step outside. Mr. Stevenson attempted to
strike him, and he put out his fist to ward him off, so that his hand must have
caught him on the face.
A fine of 30s. was imposed, defendant being given
fourteen days in which to pay.
Folkestone
Herald 16-3-1929
Local News
Sincere regret is felt in Cheriton at the approaching departure
of Councillor Roy Smiles, licensee of the White Lion, Cheriton, who is leaving
Cheriton after residing there 30 years. Mr. Smiles will leave Cheriton on April
8th for Southall, Middlesex, where he will take up the
proprietorship of the Marching Hotel. Mr. Smiles is the son of the late Mr.
Joseph Smiles, best known as a splendid Chairman of the Elham Board of
Guardians, besides filling other important offices.
Owing to a nervous breakdown on the part of his father,
Mr. Roy Smiles took over the reins of business. Originally he intended to
become a tailor, and was apprenticed in this connection to the tailoring trade
to Mr. H. Charles Lye, of Guildhall Street, Folkestone. Subsequently he
proceeded to Leeds, where he became very popular. He returned to Cheriton, and
took over not only his father`s business, but identified himself with many
public movements. When war broke out he volunteered for duty, joined the ranks
of the Royal Garrison Artillery, and went on active service to France, leaving
his business at the White Lion in charge of two managers and staff. Mr. Smiles
was a member of the Elham Board of Guardians for seven years, and for a similar
period served Cheriton well as a member of its Urban District Council.
It may be mentioned that Councillor Smiles was one of
the principal founders nine years ago of the Cheriton Christmas Dinner Fund –
an organisation which has done untold good amongst the poor. Mr. Smiles –
always out to do good – established some years ago a Thrift Club. In the first
year of its existence £400 was paid in and distributed. So great was the
enthusiasm which Mr. Smiles put into the organisation that the club has paid
out at Christmas time £1,000 and over to its men and women members.
A footballer himself, he it was who ran the Cheriton
Football Club for some years.
The Cheriton Gardeners` Society, too, realise that they
are losing a good and practical friend. He has acted for years as the Society`s
hon. Secretary and helped its progress in many ways, and to the extent of placing
his beautiful annexe at the disposal of the Society for its monthly meetings.
Councillor Smiles, amongst other activities, has
interested himself greatly in the Folkestone and District Licensed Victuallers`
Association, of which he was Chairman and is now President. His aim has always
been to elevate the tone and raise the status of the trade in this district. In
this connection it is interesting to note that he is a past Chairman of the No.
10 District of the National Licensed Victuallers` Association, which embraces
the counties of Kent, Sussex and Middlesex.
Folkestone
Herald 30-3-1929
Local News
An application by Mr. Roy S. Smiles, of the White Lion,
Cheriton, who is shortly leaving the district, for the temporary transfer of
the licence to Mr. P.S. Moss, of Gillingham, was granted.
Folkestone
Express 8-6-1929
Thursday, June 6th: Before Mr. L.G.A. Collins, Alderman C.E. Mumford, Mr. F. Seager, and Alderman T.S. Franks.
Rose Braden was charged that on the 4th June in this Borough
she stole from Daniel Addley, the sum of £14 10s. Thomas David Braden and Archibald Parry were charged with having
received that money knowing the same to have been stolen. The three prisoners
pleaded not guilty.
Daniel Addley, a visitor staying at 13, St. Winifred Road, a labourer,
said on Tuesday last he went into the White Lion Inn in Cheriton at 11.10 a.m.,
and there saw all three prisoners. They were strangers to him. He entered into
conversation with them and had several drinks which he paid for, and stayed
there until twenty past two. When he went into the hotel he had £17 in notes on
him. He left the house in company with prisoners. When he left the house he had
£14 10s. He was under the influence of drink himself. He lost his memory to an
extent end could not really say where they went. The next thing he remembered
he was lying on some grass on a piece of waste ground in Cheriton Road. His
head was clear, but he was paralysed. Nobody to his knowledge was with him, but eventually - he was in a
doze - the female prisoner said “Give me that money”, and she took the money
from his inside breast pocket It was loose. Prisoners must have seen the money
when he took out the notes to pay for the drink in the public house. He never
recovered any portion of the money.
Rose Braden: Do you remember going into the coffee shop?
Witness: No.
Thomas David Braden: How much money do you think you spent?
Addley: I had about £14 left.
Do you remember dropping any money? - No.
'
When we left the house had we had a bottle of whisky and four quarts of
beer? - I don’t know.
You gave my wife £4 outside the coffee shop? - No.
Miss Charlotte Morton,
employed at her mother’s restaurant at 39, High Street, Cheriton, said the
last witness and David Braden came into the shop on the 14th June. The latter
ordered two dinners. She went to serve them, and when she came back the woman
prisoner and Parry had come in. David
Braden ordered dinner for them. The last witness could not eat his
dinner. She thought he was ill. The other people had a bottle of beer, which
they poured out into cups and drank with their dinner. The woman prisoner said
she was going to take the last witness to have a sleep, and they went away
towards Folkestone. Several minutes after she returned, and had tea with the
two men who had remained. They were whispering between them. Then the woman
went out again alone, and did not return. A minute or two after the other two
prisoners left. Braden went first, and then Parry. That was the last she saw of
them.
Rose Braden: That was quite right what the young lady saw.
Miss Morton, recalled, said Addley paid for the dinners. He gave her 4s.
in silver. She did not see him with
any notes. She saw no notes with any of
them.
Patrick Whelan said about a quarter to three
on June 4th he was working on a building at 29, High Street, Cheriton, and
noticed the woman prisoner with Addley. In his opinion if she had let go of him
he would have fallen. They went to a field 50 yards away behind some boarding.
They sat down, but were not there a few minutes before the woman left the man
and returned to the cafe. She came out again, and went to the man,
who was still lying on the ground. She bent over him for a minute and then ran
away across the road. He saw nothing of the two men.
P.S. Marsh said he received on the 4th June
certain information, and in consequence ho went to Ashley Park allotments and
saw a man lying near the bill posting hoarding in a drunken stupor. About three
yards from him he saw a wallet (produced). It contained no notes, He aroused the man, and from what he said
he made enquiries, and then communicated with the Folkestone Police.
Mr. Turner, landlord of the Little Rose Inn,
Canterbury, said on the evening of the 4th June, at about 7 o`clock,
the three prisoners came in and had some drink. The woman paid with a £1 note.
They remained until 8 p.m., and had some more drinks. Whilst they
were in the bar, the woman pulled some paper money out of her stocking. They
were green notes. She was showing them to some old lady. They spent about 10s.
altogether in the house.
Det.-Sergt. Bowe said in consequence of
inquiries he made on the 4th June, Parry was arrested at Canterbury
and the other prisoners at Chatham. He saw the Bradens at Chatham, and told
them he would take them to Folkestone on suspicion of being concerned together
with stealing! about £14 10s. from a man of whom they were in company at Folkestone.
Thomas Braden replied “We were having a few drinks in the pub with him, but I
know nothing about the money”. Rose Braden said "We had some drink with
him in a pub, and he took us in a coffee shop and gave us dinner. He went out
and he left us in there and we never saw any more of him. He was chucking his
money about in the pub, and he gave me four
quid. Prisoners were then brought to Folkestone where all three were later
charged. They were cautioned and Rose Braden replied “I’ll say nothing”. Tom
Braden said “I reserve my defence”. Parry said “I have nothing to say about it.”
None of the notes had
been recovered.
Rose Braden said the old gentleman (Addley) said “Would you mind your
wife taking me to the corner to see me home?” and her husband said “Certainly”.
When they got outside Addley said "I am going to treat you”,and he gave her £4. He
then said “Let me lie down”, and went and sat down on the grass. She
went back to the coffee shop* j and then said “I am going to see if the old
gentleman is all right”, and went over and then returned to the shop.
David Braden said on that particular morning he had
been mending chairs in Cheriton Road. He met Parry and told
him that if he would like to wait until he had finished the chairs, he could
have a drink. They then went to the White Lion and met Addley, who asked if he
would like some drinks, which he gave them. As for the money, he (Braden) knew
nothing about it.
Parry: I can’t say any more than
my mate said.
Braden said he earned sometimes £2 or £3 a
day, and he was not always drinking.
The Chairman said the Bench found Rose Braden
guilty of the charge and dismissed the case as regards the other two prisoners.
Inspector Pittock said the woman had a terrible
record. There were five convictions against her for drunkenness, two for obscene
language, nine as a riotous prostitute, five for soliciting, one for sleeping
out, two for indecent behaviour, and one for obstructing the police. She had
been indicted at the West Kent Sessions for five cases as an incorrigible rogue
and was given twelve months on each occasion. So far as he knew there were no charges of felony against her.
The Chairman said she would be sent to prison
for three months and any money found on her was to be returned to the prosecutor.
Folkestone
Herald 8-6-1929
Local News
A remarkable story of the theft of £14 10s. from a
visitor at Cheriton was told to the Folkestone Magistrates on Thursday, when
Rose Braden, who, to quote a police inspector, had a “terrible record”, was
sentenced to three months hard labour for the offence.
The woman was charged with stealing the money from the
person of Daniel Addley, and Thomas David Braden, her husband, and Archibald
Perry were charged with having been concerned together in receiving from her
the money, well knowing it to have been stolen. All three prisoners pleaded Not
Guilty.
Mr. Daniel Addley, of Mile End Road, London, a visitor,
staying at 13, St. Winifred`s Road, Folkestone, a labourer under Stepney Borough
Council, said that on June 4th he went into a public house at
Cheriton at 11.10 a.m., and there saw the three prisoners in the public bar.
They were strangers to him. He entered into conversation with them, and they
all had several drinks, for which he paid. He stayed with them in the public
house until twenty minutes past two in the afternoon. When he went into the
public house he had £17 in notes in his possession. Whilst in there he took out
the notes to pay for the drinks. When he left the house at 2.20, in company
with the prisoners, he had about £14 10s. on him. He was under the influence of
drink. He lost his memory to an extent, and could not really say where they
went. The next thing he remembered was that he was lying on some grass in a piece
of waste land in Cheriton Road. It was raining. It was just inside some
hoardings. He was in a daze, nut as he woke he saw the woman prisoner was
leaning over him. She said “Give me that money”, and away she went. He saw her
take the money, which was in an inside breast pocket.
In reply to the woman prisoner, prosecutor said he did
not remember going to a coffee shop after leaving the inn.
Replying to Thomas Braden, witness said he did not
remember dropping any money in the public house. He did not remember having
four dinners in the coffee shop. He denied giving Mrs. Braden £4.
Mrs. Charlotte Morton, employed at a restaurant at 39,
High Street, Cheriton, said that on June 4th Thomas Braden and the
prosecutor came in together and had two dinners. Afterwards the other two
prisoners came in and Braden ordered two dinners for them. Prosecutor, whom she
thought was ill, could not eat his dinner. The prisoners had beer with them,
and this they drank with their dinner. After the meal the woman said she was going
to take prosecutor to have a sleep, and went out with him, assisting him along.
A few minutes afterwards she came back alone and had tea with the two men who
had remained there. They whispered together. The woman went out alone again and
did not return. The men left a minute or two afterwards, one at a time.
Prosecutor paid for the meals in silver. She saw no notes at all.
Mr. Patrick Whelan, of High Street, Cheriton, said that
at 2.45 on the day in question he was working on a building opposite Ashley Park.
He saw the woman prisoner come along with Addley. She was supporting him and if
she had let him go he would have fallen down. They went behind the hoardings.
They sat down, and after a few minutes the woman left. She went into the cafe.
A few minutes later she came out, and went straight to the place where she had
left the man. She went to the man, who was lying on the ground, and he saw her
bend over him. Then she went away at a sharp walk – practically running.
Sergeant Marsh, K.C.C., stationed at Cheriton, said
that at about 4 p.m. he went to the Ashley Park allotments, where he saw the
prosecutor lying near the billposting hoardings in a drunken stupor. About
three yards from him he saw a wallet. It contained no notes.
Mr. Addley identified the wallet as his property.
Proceeding, Sergeant Marsh said he roused the man and
from what he said made certain enquiries and communicated with the Folkestone
police.
Mr. Thomas Edward Turner, landlord of the Little Rose,
East Street, Canterbury, said that on the evening of the 4th the
three prisoners came into his inn together about 7 o`clock. The woman paid for
drinks with a £1 note. He saw her pull some green Treasury notes from her
stocking and show them to an old lady in the bar. They spent about 10s. in his
house.
Detective Sergeant Rowe said that the previous day he
caused Parry to be arrested at Canterbury and the other two prisoners at
Chatham as they were getting off the train. At Chatham, when he told the two
Bradens he would take them to Folkestone on suspicion of stealing the money,
Thomas Braden replied “We were having a few drinks in the pub with him, but I
know nothing about the money”. The woman said “We had some drinks with him in a
pub, and he took us in a coffee shop and gave us dinner. He was chucking his
money about in the pub and he gave me four quid”. They were brought to
Folkestone, where all three were later charged and cautioned. The woman replied
“I say nothing”. Thomas Braden replied “I reserve my defence”. Parry said “I
have nothing to say”. None of the notes had been recovered.
The woman told the Magistrates that in the public house
prosecutor said to her husband “Would you mind if your wife takes me as far as
the corner to see me home?”, and her husband said “Yes, there`s no harm in
that”. When prosecutor got outside he said “I am going to treat you, my girl”,
and gave her £4. Then he said “Let me go and lie down”. She put him on the
grass and left him. She went back and told the men and afterwards went back to
see if prosecutor was all right.
Thomas Braden said prosecutor “stood” them a number of
drinks. “As for touching anything belonging to that man, I know nothing about
it” he declared.
Parry had nothing to say.
Thomas Braden said there were many days when he made £1
or 30s. a day mending chairs.
The Chairman (Mr. L.G.A. Collins) said the Magistrates
found the woman Guilty, but dismissed the case with regard to the two men.
Inspector Pittock said the woman had a terrible record.
She had five convictions against her for drunkenness, two for obscene language,
nine as a riotous prostitute, one for sleeping out, two for indecent behaviour,
five for soliciting, one for obstructing the police, and had been indicted on
three different occasions at the West Kent Sessions as an incorrigible rogue
and sentenced to 12 months on each occasion. She was before that court on April
22nd on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. The case was proved
against her but she was discharged on promising to leave the town.
Sentencing prisoner to three months` hard labour, the
Chairman said the money found on her would be returned to prosecutor.
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