Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 28 August 1929
Licensing Summonses.
Case Against Conisborough Man Dismissed.
Summonses for selling intoxicating liquor to a drunken person, and of permitting drunkenness on licensed premises, brought at Doncaster West Riding Court, yesterday, against a Conisborough licensee, William Tarlton, of the Eagle and Child Hotel, Wect Street, were dismissed.
Florence Davies, married, of Conisborough was fined 20s. for being drunk on licensed premises.
Prosecuting, Mr. F. W. Smith, of the West Riding County Council, explained that June 25th Police-constables Dobson and Driver saw Davies enter an hotel in Conisborough, apparently drunk. She was ejected and was ordered home by Police-constable Dobson. She walked on, but fell full length on the pavement outside Tarlton’s promises, and suddenly disappeared.
The officers entered the Eagle and Child, and there saw Davies. She had some beer in front of her, and Tarlton was in the act of handing her a bottle of beer. Mrs. Tarlton saw the officers and said to her husband, Why did you serve her; you know she is drunk?”
When spoken to, he replied, “It is just my luck. Let it drop; I have £900 at stake here.” Supporting evidence was given by the two officers.
Tarlton declared that his wife told him not to serve Davies, and he had never supplied a glass of beer to the woman. She snatched up the glass belonging to man nearby and started drinking from it, but (Tarlton) took it from her. He did not make the replies to the officers.
The Bench said that there had been a lot conflicting evidence, and defendant would be given the benefit of the doubt.