South Yorkshire Times March 6th 1965
Denaby Licensee
The bachelor night and following wedding day celebrations of a relative had an unhappy sequel for 20-year-old George Coyne, unemployed, of Cliff Street, Denaby.
For at Doncaster West Riding Court on Monday Coyne appeared on seven charges arising out of incidents spread over the two days. He pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr. Norman Bulmer, licensee of the Denaby Main Hotel, and damaging his spectacles valued at £4 10s on Friday, February 20th. Coyne also admitted being drunk and disorderly the following night and assaulting P.C. Butterfield, behaving in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace, using violent conduct and using obscene language. He was remanded in custody to await sentencing at the next West Riding Quarter Sessions.
Chief Insp. John Bradshaw told the Magistrates “Drink is the arch thing here. It is when this man has had a drink that he acts in this manner. He has a bad record.”
The Chief Insp. Also told how Mr. Bulmer was struck in the face by Cone after asking him to leave the licensed premises. Coyne, who had been balancing a table on his hand, was eventually ejected by customers. He was seen the next day by three police officers as he was leaving another public house accompanied by another man, said the Chief Insp. “For no reason he stripped to the waist and struck the other man in the face. This man proved to be Coyne’s 40-year-old uncle, added Chief Insp. Bradshaw.