DRUNKENNESS. Thomas Fairey, a labourer, was charged with being drunk at Hitchin on Tuesday the 20th inst. Fined 10s or seven days imprisonment. (May 1873)

 

George Fairey, a labourer (aged 34 born at Preston)was fined 5s and 7d damage for refusing to quit and breaking a pint pot at the Crown public-house at Ley Green on the 24th October. The landlord, James Carter, proved the case. (November 1874)

 

Thomas Thrussell (aged 18 of Frogmore End) of Preston, who did not appear, was convicted in his absence of being drunk and riotous on the 28th ult. Fined 5s and 12s 6d costs. (November 1874)

 

Joseph Thrussell (aged 46, a hay binder living at Sootfield Green in 1871) of Preston, who did not appear, was charged with being drunk and incapable while in charge of a horse and cart on Tuesday, the 5th inst. Defendant was fined £1 and 17s 6d costs. (January 1875)

 

Henry Jeeves (aged 26, straw plaiter living in Preston in 1861), George Fairey (aged 25 born in Preston) and Joshua Palmer  (aged 30 a labourer of Preston) were charged by Mr Thomas Maxey, the landlord of the Red Lion public-house at Preston, with refusing to leave his house when requested to do so. (The three men became quarrelsome and used disgusting language and when refused more beer, they went across the Green to the Chequers. There they bought a can of beer from Henry Bradden and returned to the Red Lion to drink it. Mr Maxeysent to Hitchin for a policemen to deal with his troublesome customers.)  Fined 10s each including costs. (August 1865)

 

John Farr (aged 20), labourer of Preston, was charged with being drunk and riotous at Preston in May 1870. Prisoner summoned to appear, but absconded. Fined £1 including costs. (August 1871)

 

Thomas Fairey (aged  28 of Preston) was charged with being drunk and asleep on the highway at Gosmore. Fined 7s 6d. (January 1875)

 

Charles Fairey (aged 17) a labourer was charged with refusing to quit a beer house at Ley Green kept by Chas. Squires. Complainant stated that the defendant came into his house on the 6th inst. and called for a quart of beer. He commenced rowing with another man and complainant told him he would not allow it. He was very abusive and finished up by kicking in a panel of the door. There was a previous conviction against the defendant for a similar offence and the Bench fined him 15s including the damage 4s 6d and costs. (May 1875)

 

Joshua Farmer of Preston was charged with being drunk and riotous. Police-constable Day proved the case and the defendant was fined 5s and 12s 6d costs. (August 1878)

 

James Freeman (born 1837) of Preston was charged with being drunk and riotous on the 15th of June. Police-constable Day said that on Sunday evening, the 15th of June, there was a disturbance at Gosmore. He went to the defendant who was there and told him to go home, but he would not do so. He was very drunk and riotous. Defendant said he was not drunk. The defendant did not appear the previous Bench day, but was found in Hitchin market in a state of drunkenness after the Court rose and was taken into custody on a warrant. The bench told defendant he had increased the costs by not appearing to the summons. He would be fined 2s 6d and 16s 6d costs. (June 1870)

 

 

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Charles Fairey of Preston (son of Thomas and Catherine b 1858c) was charged with being drunk and riotous on the 15 January. Pc Day said on the above date, the defendant was coming along the road at Charlton with others making a great noise and using the most abominable language. Defendant followed witness about the village who made a great noise.

The defendant denied being drunk and said he spoke civilly to the constable when passing him and he replied in a very uncivil way to the defendant and told him to go home. He bade the policeman goodnight and nothing more took place. The Bench fined the defendant 2s 6d including costs. (Jan 1881)

 

Charles Fairey of Preston (b 1858c) was charged with being drunk and refusing to quit the licensed premises of Thomas Dunn of Preston on the 8 July.

Dunn said on the evening of Sunday 8 July at about half-past nine o’clock the defendant went into his house and asked for a pint of beer which he drank and on his asking to be supplied with another, the prosecutor refused and the defendant then used insulting language and threatened to strike him. He then ordered him to leave the premises, which after a time he did. Defendant afterwards again went into the house and took a broom and upset a haycock which was at the back of the house.

Mrs Dunn corroborated the above and said the language used by the defendant was of the most filthy and disgusting character.

The Bench fined defendant 15s including costs or 14 days’ imprisonment. The Chairman said the prosecutor and his wife were much to blame in serving a man with more beer when he was already the worse for drink. (July 1883)

 

Thomas Bushel (living with Thomas Palmer in 1841 b 1821) was fined 5s for being drunk and disorderly and making a riot and disturbance at the Red Lion at Preston on Saturday night the 11 February when he struck John Buckingham, the constable, who put him out of the house. (Feb. 1843)

 

William Cannon, baker, of Ippollitts was charged by Mr John Foster of Preston with negligent driving. Mr Foster stated that he was returning from Hitchin to Preston on the 14 August about eight o’clock in the evening in a pony chaise in which Mrs Foster was also riding, when he saw the defendant, who was quite drunk, driving in a horse and cart and coming towards the complainant. He called out to him, but the defendant took no notice and drove right up to the complainant’s chaise. Defendant was very abusive to Mr Foster when he remonstrated with him on his conduct. Fined £2 and 10s costs and allowed seven days to get the money. (Aug 1843)

 

CHARGE OF DRUNKENNESS Joseph Thrussell of Preston (hay binder of Sootfield Green b 1829) was charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart. Pc Berry said that on the 17 September he saw the defendant driving a horse and cart along a road in the parish of Offley, the horse was going as fast as it could. The defendant was very drunk. The defendant denied being drunk. The pony he was driving was 20 years old and blind and he urged that if he had been drunk he could not have driven it. The case was adjourned for a week for further evidence. (Sept 1879) At the next hearing, Ebenezer Foster corroborated the evidence of the policeman. Amos Abbiss who saw the defendant at an inn between three and four o’clock on the afternoon of 17 September said Thrussell asked the landlady to draw him some beer, but she refused as she thought he had had enough. This was after he had been seen by the policeman.

For the defence, Emily Lawrence, a young woman living next door to the defendant was examined. She said the defendant was none the worse for drink when he came home between five and six on the afternoon of the 17 Sept. Mary Thrussell, the defendant’s daughter and Sarah Thrussell, his daughter in law, gave similar evidence.

The defendant was fined 30s including costs.(July 1879)

 

These articles are reproduced by kind permission of the Hertfordshire Mercury.

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