From The Cheshire Observer of 1 January 1876: "CITY POLICE COURT - HE WOULD HAVE HIS WAY - Samuel Crimes, wheelwright, Black Diamond-street, was charged with being drunk in Frodsham-street, on 29th ultimo. - The policeman who prosecuted said the defendant refused several tiimes to go home when requested, and taunted him with not having paid for the clothes he wore. - The defendant denied being drunk, but the policeman's evidence as to his condition being corroborated by the officer who booked the charge, the magistrates imposed a fine of 10s. and costs, with the alternative of seven days. - Defendant: Let's have the seven days (Laughter). He was then admitted within the dock, in which, on friend of his coming forward to pay the money, he jumped up, calling him loudly not to pay the money, as he was determined to do the seven days. The money was however paid, and an officer unbarred the door of the dock to allow Crimes to go. He, neverthless, doggedly refused to move outwards, but, as it were, bolted down the stairs to the cells, thinking, no doubt, he would be safe from the importunities of his friends. Whether he was safe or not we cannot tell, but we doubt not he very quickly breathed free air when the officers were at liberty after the rising of the court." From The Cheshire Observer of 31 May 1879: "DEATHS On the 20th inst., at Black Diamond-street, in this city, aged 51, Samuel Crimes." |