Folkestone Herald 13-6-1964
Local News
Two youths involved in a fracas at the Bouverie Arms
public house, Cheriton Road, from which, it was said, they had been banned, on
March 13th, were charged with assaulting the landlord, Mr. Harry
Elliott, at Folkestone Magistrates` Court on Tuesday. The youths, who pleaded
Not Guilty, were fined £3 each. Postle, however, chose the alternative of seven
days` imprisonment.
Mr. Elliott said that at about 8.30 p.m. on March 13th
the youths, Edward Postle (19), of 14, Samian Crescent, Folkestone, and Michael
Huntley (18), of 56 Bradstone Road, Folkestone, were in the toilets at the back
of his premises. A customer told him that there was a disturbance there and he
went to investigate. “When I saw them I turned round and walked back to the
door of the lounge bar”, witness said. “As I went in I was grabbed from behind
and pushed into the bar. Postle did this. The other one went for my son and
knocked him against the fireplace. I went to help him and there was a general
scrimmage. I called for help and a customer from the saloon bar came through
and helped me to get them out”. Witness said he was struck about the head and
in the ribs, and later went to hospital for an X-ray. His wife and son were
also involved.
The son, Jeffrey Elliott, said he stood at the door while
his father went to investigate. When they went back they were grabbed. His
father was pushed over the counter and he was pushed over the fireplace.
Eventually his mother came along and took a reasonably active part in the
scuffle. Witness
said it was Huntley who tackled him and Postle who assaulted his father.
Leslie Avis, landlord of the Devonshire Hotel,
said he was sitting in the saloon bar and on hearing two cries for help went
into the other bar. “I went through”, he said, “and there was absolute chaos.
Postle was pulling Mr. Elliott`s tie and his son was grappling with Huntley on
the fireplace”.
Huntley told the Court that he and Postle were
walking along the road to go to a cafe and met a girl outside. They wanted to
use Mr. Elliott`s toilets, so they walked up the passage by the pub. There were
a few cars parked there and they had to squeeze past a black car to get
through. He tripped and they both fell through the bar door. Mr. Elliott and
his son tried to push them out. Huntley continued “When we were pushed Postle
went for the son and I held Mr. Elliott and kept him away from the scuffle. I
could not have hit him as my hand was wrapped up in plaster. Mr. Elliott`s wife
came in and started hitting me over the head and kept saying “If you don`t let
my husband go I`ll call the police””.
Postle gave similar evidence.
Miss Gwenda Mann said she met defendants by
the Bouverie Arms and they went to use the toilets. When they had tried to
squeeze past a black car they fell into the bar doorway. The landlord came out
and pushed them back. She shouted “Please don`t fight”.
Folkestone Herald 17-4-1965
Local News
Irish Labourer Joseph O`Loughlin struck a costly blow
when he smashed the public bar window of the Bouverie Arms Hotel in Folkesrone
on April 3. He was fined £5 by Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday for causing
wilful damage, and ordered to pay £45 for the cost of repairing the window.
Chief Inspector Frank Corke, prosecuting, said that
at about 11.45 p.m. the licensee of the Bouverie Arms, Mr. Harrv Elliott, saw a
man trying
to look through thej saloon bar window. He did not take much notice of him and the
man went away. Several minutes later, however, the public bar window, measuring
over 6ft. by 2ft. 6in., was smashed. Mr. Elliott left the hotel, and saw
O`Loughlin, the man who had tried to look into the saloon bar, in Millfield,
holding one of his shoes in his hand. He handed him over to the police, who
were told later by O`Loughlin “I did it because they said “Ignore him; he`s a
Paddy””.
O`Loghlin told the Court he had been drinking all
that day.
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