A Caution for those who Drive through Denaby

Thomas Carmel, Wath, was charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart, at Denaby, on the 11th inst. Mr. F. Parker-Rhodes appeared for the defendant.

P.C. Midgley said that on Saturday the 11th of the present month, he was on duty at Denaby, and about six o’clock in the afternoon of the day in question heard that a child had been run over in the street. He went to the place, and found the defendant in charge of a horse and trap which had run over a child. The child was almost black in the face and in a bad condition. He got a man to go with the defendant to fetch Mr. Hills, surgeon.

The defendant was drunk. Francis Bacon said that he was at Denaby on the day in question and saw the defendant. He could not swear the defendant was drunk, but he was not sober.

Elizabeth Ashby said the defendant ran over her child. He went into the house to look at the child and said he was very sorry. The child was one and a half years old, and it ran across the street without her knowledge.

Ann Foster said one of the wheels ran over the child between the shoulders. The defendant was not sober.

John Slater, landlord of the Reasby Arms, Denaby, said the defendant was drunk, and was driving very fast. He pulled up after he had run over the child across the chest.

Mr. Rhodes, in defence, denied that the defendant was drunk. He was driving an awkward horse, and he could not stop it very easily. When the child toddled across the road he did not give it time to get out of the way. The defendant had only had two glasses of whisky and two glasses of beer during the day.

Mr. Rhodes called Mr. and Mrs. Oxley, who were riding with the defendant in the cart, and they denied that he was drunk.

The defendant was fined 10s. and costs.