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Habitual drunk asked to leave


Source: Welshman 07/11/1851       Date: 1851
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ABERYSTWITH. At the Town-hall on Tuesday, before T. Jones, junior, and David Edwards, Esq., borough magistrates. John Morgan, of Little Dark Gate-street, a youthful barber, of rather intemperate habits, was summoned for being drunk and disorderly. Police constable Powell deposed that he was sent for by the landlord of the Ship-a-ground, to turn the defendant out of his house, and before arriving there met defendant in the street, and desired him to go home, on which he began to create a great disturbance. The policeman was asked by their worships- how many times the defendant had been brought up before them ? and in reply stated that he bad been so many times that he had lost all reckoning He was bound in recognizances with two sureties in £10 to be thenceforth of good behaviour.
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Ship-a-ground , St James Square / Princess Street, Aberystwyth