All Bad Together.

Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3757, 26 August 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

All Bad Together.

Mr. Charles Downes, innkeeper, of Hayton, Leicestershire, who was fined one pound and costs by the magistrates at Ludlowon Monday, can hardly complain thatheh»s been treated with any undue severity. The offence of which he was guilty was that of supplying four little boys, aged nine years or thereabouts, with sixpenny worth of rum, a quart of_ ale, a pint of cider, pipes, and tobacco. It is satisfactory to know that the children themselves paid the penalty of their rash indulgence, all having beeu made ill, whilstone, in addition received a flogging; so that this first debauch is hardly likely to have left a. very pleasant impression upoo their minds. But what is to be said of the man who, for the sake of his miserable profit on the articles he sold, allowed these infants to he half poisoned in this fashion ? If the fine had been twenty timea as large, the amount would have been trivial in comparison with the offence committed. We can only hope that the facts will be borne in mindjwhen in due course this worthy applies I for a renewal of hia license,