Selling Beer Without a Licence

At Doncaster on Saturday Wm. Weber, excavator, Conisbro’, was charged with selling beer without a licence.

On Sunday P.C. Trueman went to the house of a neighbour of the defendant. At twenty minutes to nine, and at nine o’clock, he sent one of the lodgers to the defendant’s, and each time he returned with a quart of beer.

At ten minutes to eleven Roberts, who occupied the house, went and fetched another quart, and Roberts now stated he paid for this.

On Friday afternoon Superintendent Blake went to the defendant’s house. Passing the back window he saw a man drinking out of a pint pot. In the front room he found a nine gallon barrel of beer on tap. In a small back kitchen he found two 18-gallon barrels of beer.

The defence was that the defendant had three or four sons coming home, and besides that he had eight or ten lodgers. These lodgers paid so much per week for board, including beer, and the beer was got for them, the defendant thinking he had the right to do this.

He was fined £25, including costs, and the beer found at the house was ordered to be forfeited.