Thanet Advertiser, Saturday 1 September 1883.

William Christian and Elizabeth Christian, husband and wife, were summoned for being drunk on the licensed premises of the "Volunteer Inn," kept by Arthur Dales, on the 22nd of August.

The man pleaded guilty and the woman not guilty.

P.C. Wells said that on the day named, at 12:30 p.m., he saw the defendant's in the "Volunteer Inn" both the worse for drink. The landlord came to the door and said, "All right; I have not served them with anything, and don't intend to." The defendants, when they came out, kept rolling against one another.

A Mrs. Packer was then called, and said that she was standing at her door when Mr. Christian came by and called her all the names he could think of, and then said he would fetch his wife to thrash her. The man was certainly drunk, but she could not say anything about the woman.

Superintendent Buss:- Did you not tell P.C. Wells that the woman was drunk.

Witness:- I can't say whether the woman was intoxicated. She had had a little to drink, but was not so drunk as I have seen her.

Elizabeth denied that she was drunk, and said she went to fetch her husband home from the public house. She asked for an adjournment till next Monday, in order to call evidence in support of her statement, and the application was granted.

Her husband was fined 1s. and 10s. costs, which he paid.