Sheffield Independent – Tuesday 09 December 1884

Drunkenness at Mexbro’

Patrick Fullan, collier, Denaby, was summoned before Mr. C. E. S. Cooke, at Doncaster, yesterday, for being drunk and using obscene language on the highway at Mexbro’, and was fined 5s. and 9s. costs.

James Meadley, hawker, was fined 5s. and 8s. 5d. costs for being drunk at Mexbro’ on the same day.

The hawker said he had been held down by two men and robbed of his licence and his money, and the magistrate said “there was no wonder when he was helplessly intoxicated.”

The policeman said when he saw the defendant he was staggering near the river, and was so “dead drunk” that he ran great risk of drowning.

Both defendants were sent to Wakefield for ten days.