Folkestone Express
24-2-1940
Lighting Order
On Tuesday there were more summonses, when the
Mayor (Alderman G.A. Gurr) presided on the Bench, and the oilier
magistrates were Alderman Mrs. E. Gore, Mr. P. Fuller and Mrs. A.M.
Saunders.
Mrs. Florence Sutton, Clarendon Hotel, said she had
no idea the light was shining out.
Police
War Reserve Harris said at 11 p.m. he was in Dover Street when he saw a very
bright light shining from an upper room window at the rear of the Clarendon
Hotel. A gap in the curtains allowed a beam of light to be ejected on the wall
of the houses opposite. He saw the defendant and told her she would be
reported. The colour of the curtains was distinctly red, which assisted in the
light being more pronounced. He saw the owner of the premises and later the defendant, a maid
at the hotel, and she admitted it was her room.
The
defendant said the curtains, which were bright, were given to her by the
proprietress. She had the light screened as much as she could. She had been at
the hotel since November.
The Clerk: There are no black curtains?
The defendant: No, but we have had them put up
since.
A fine of 10/- was imposed.
Folkestone Express
15-6-1940
Lighting Order
Mr. Richard Muddiman, Clarendon Hotel, explained, when
summoned in respect of a light showing at the back of the house at 10.25 on
June 1st, that at the hotel there were seven rooms unoccupied, and
he could not understand how the light came to be on in one of the rooms until
he made enquiries, and then ascertained his boy had been up to the room to gt a
book, and had left the light on till he took the book back.
Fined £1.
Folkestone Herald
6-7-1940
Local News
The licence of the Clarendon Hotel, Tontine Street, was transferred
from Mr. R. Muddiman to Mr. A.R Bonsor, of Tunbridge Wells, at a sitting of
the Folkestone Police Court on Tuesday.
Folkestone Herald
14-12-1940
Local News
A scene in a public house on Sunday night was described by a
witness for the defence as “Only a friendly fight”, a view which was not shared
by other parties concerned. Sapper Andrew Hargie, described as “a good soldier,
but apt to be a little wild when he has had one or two drinks”, was summoned
for assaulting Arthur C. Bonsor, licensee of the Clarendon Hotel, Tontine
Street. There was a further charge of wilful damage. Hargie pleaded Not Guilty
to both offences.
Mr. Bonsor said defendant was present in the hotel shortly before closing
time on Sunday evening. Witness was called to the saloon bar, where defendant was arguing with a party
of soldiers and civilians. He asked Hargie to behave himself or get out. Defendant pushed him out
of the way and witness called over to his barman for assistance. He again told defendant that if
he could not behave he must leave. Defendant then kicked him in the thigh and
witness closed with him. Defendant ripped off his suit during the subsequent
struggle. A number of people at length came between witness and defendant.
Hargie was apparently
sober.
Ernest W. Sutton, a barman at the Clarendon Hotel, corroborated Mr.
Bonsor’s evidence.
Cpl. E. Weeks, of the same unit as defendant, said Hargie’s friends
started singing. He told defendant to be quiet as he was using obscene and
abusive language and there were ladies present. The landlord tried to pacify defendant who then
assaulted him (Mr. Bonsor).
Defendant said they were singing and then someone started singing Roman
Catholic songs. An argument on religion followed.
Sapper R. J. Knowles, called by the defendant, said it was only a
friendly fight.
The Clerk (Mr. C. Rootes): Tell us how this friendly fight between the landlord
and one of his customers started.
Witness: The corporal
(Cpl. Weeks) said Hargie
was disgusting. “I
thought the corporal was disgusting and caused some of the fighting”, added
witness.
Hargie said they were singing ordinary songs and the chap he was with started
singing Roman Catholic songs and there was an argument. The landlord struck him
(defendant) three times. He denied kicking Mr. Bonsor.
The Clerk: Didn’t Mr. Bonsor ask you to leave?
Defendant: He didn't give me much chance.
he came up and struck me. I don’t know who was assaulted but I think it
was me.
Defendant also pleaded Not Guilty to a further charge of committing
damage to an iron and wooden table, four chairs and eight glasses, to the value
of £3.
The landlord said Hargie commenced smashing glasses on the edge of the
table and then throwing them over his shoulder. He next picked up a table and
tried to ram people. The table was so heavy, however, that defendant fell over
and in so doing he broke two of the iron legs and wrecked two chairs. Two other
chairs were also damaged.
P C. Mitchell, who was called, stated that he found a table and four chairs badly
damaged. Several broken glasses were also lying on the floor.
Police War Reserve Bailey said he formed the opinion defendant had had
one or two drinks.
Hargie said his condition had been given as “apparently sober”,
“disgusting” and “having had one or two drinks”. No one seemed to agree on
that. Defendant added that he did not see why all the damage should have been
“imposed” on him.
The Clerk: Do you suggest someone else did some of the damage?
Defendant: Yes.
An officer stated that defendant was a good soldier with six years’ service,
but he admitted Hargie was apt to be wild after having one or two drinks.
The Chairman (Dr. W.W. Nuttall), sitting with Mr. P. Fuller, said the
Magistrates found defendant Guilty on each charge. He would be lined £2 for
the assault and 10s. on the second charge. He would also have to pay 30s. compensation.
The alternative would be 14 days’ imprisonment on each summons, the
sentences to run consecutively.
The fine was
paid.
Folkestone Herald 6-7-1946
Local News
Emily Maud Munton, of 11, Browning Place,
Folkestone, who was said by a police inspector to have “begun to become a
menace to us”, was sent to prison for six months by Folkestone Magistrates on
Tuesday. Munton was charged with stealing articles valued at 12/6 from an upper
room of the Clarendon Hotel, Tontine Street.
Arthur Clement Bonser, of the Clarendon Hotel,
said the previous evening defendant entered his premises about seven o`clock.
At about 9.20 someone in the bar drew his attention to the fact that defendant
had left. “I raced upstairs”, he said, “and saw her coming down the stairs from
my wife`s bedroom. She had removed her shoes and was carrying a box containing
a tablet of soap and a rosary belonging to my wife”. Witness said he told
Munton “I have got you this time”. Defendant replied “This is all I have got”.
P. Sgt. Dolbear said he found defendant sitting
on the stairs in the hotel sobbing. She said “Yes, I did take them, but won`t
you please let me go?”
Defendant asked for another offence committed at
Dover to be taken into consideration.
Chief Inspector Butcher told the Magistrates that
defendant was well-known to the police and to the Bench. She had had four
previous convictions. “She is subject to epilepsy”, he said “and drink combined
with the illness is making her so that she is beginning to become a menace to
us”.
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