From the Deal, Walmer, and Sandwich Mercury, 29 April, 1871. 1d.

ANOTHER OFFENCE

The landlord of the "Royal Marines," beer-house, Gladstone Road, Samuel Barber, was summonsed or having his house open before half-past 12 on Sunday, the time in this case being about half-past eleven. The offence was admitted. Supt. Parker said that he visited the house at the hour named, and found five persons in the private room, four of whom were strangers, the other being a man named Edward Eastes. There was some beer on the table in the room where the men were. When he first entered the house he asked the landlord, who had let him in, whether he had anybody in the house, and he replied that he had not except lodgers. When he saw Eastes, however, he knew that he was not a lodger, and told the landlord so, and he then said he had forgotten Eastes was there.

Barber now said that Eastes merely came into the house to show one of the lodgers a plan. He thought he was at perfect liberty to supply the lodgers with beer, and if he had not thought so he could easily have got the beer away as he saw Mr. Parker when he was some distance from the house coming towards it. He did not serve Eastes with any beer. This was the first time he had ever been summoned.

The Magistrates took the same lenient view as they had the former, and allowed the summons to be withdrawn on the payment of 6s. 6d.