Drunk and Disorderly(1862)

Post date: Mar 27, 2013 6:14:48 PM

Extract from Maidstone Telegraph, 8th February 1862. Probably Gibbons was put into the conveniently close village lock-up.

Drunk and Disorderly.—

John Gibbons was charged with being drunk and disorderly at Wateringbury, on the evening of the 28th December. Police Serjeant Morgan said that about midnight of the 28th December, he heard a disturbance at the King's Head, and on going there saw the defendant at the door, with his coat and waistcoat off, drunk, and challenging to fight any two men in the place. He got him into the road, when defendant offered to give him something too and took hold of his coat, which he tore up the back. He was obliged to strike defendant several times before be would yield his hold. He was so incapable that he locked him up, and released him early next morning. Defendant acknowledged being drunk, but said he did not tear the coat purposely. Morgan threw him into the street, and to save falling into the gutter he seized hold of the coat, and it was torn.— He was fined 40s., paying 10s. and obtaining three weeks in which to settle the whole.