Charles Savage Scutt ca 1864-ca 1952

Notes [Dover Express 1888 Nov 30. A woman drowned in the Harbour ....] [Dover Express 1890 Mar 28. Burglary at Dover ....] [C S S living in 1918 at 2 Stanhope Road, Dover, Kent.] [Dover Express - Friday 27 February 1920 Violent Assault on Police. At the Dover Police Court on Friday, before Messrs. H. F. Edwin (in the chair), W. D. Atkins and H. J. Burton, Bertram Dowry was charged with being drunk and disorderly in London Road, and further, with assaulting P.C. Scutt by kicking him in the mouth and striking him in the head. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and said that he did not remember anything about it. P.C. Scutt said that at 10.30 the previous evening he was in London Road, and saw a man and woman trying to get prisoner into a house near Buckland Bridge. He was drunk and using obscene language. Thinking prisoner lived there, he persuaded him go indoors. When he got inside the gate he rushed out and struck witness on the head with his fist. Witness closed with him and threw him, and whilst on the ground he kicked witness in the mouth, splitting both his lips. He also tore witness's coat. He was very violent, and with the assistance of Mr. Gage, witness brought him to the Police Station. The Chief Constable said that prisoner had been fined for drunkenness the previous year. A brother of the prisoner appealed to the Bench, saying that prisoner had served in the Scots Guards throughout the war, had been wounded three times and blown up once. Now the smallest drop of drink made him mad. Prisoner had been back from sea only eight days, and was not home very often. The Chairman said that it was a very serious offence, and the police must be protected. Prisoner had been very violent, had done damage to garments, and had also used bad language. But for his war service the prisoner might have received months imprisonment. He would be fined £5, or default, a month's imprisonment. The money was paid.] [C S S - 88yr.]