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The Whitehaven News - May 18 1899
 
COCKERMOUTH POLICE COURT.
 
(Before COLONEL SEWELL (Chairman),   CANON SHERWEN,   CANON HOSKINS,   W. L. ALEXANDER,   T. PAISLEY,   and   J. WILSON, Esqs.)
 
LICENCE TRANSFERS.
 
This being the quarterly licensing day, the following full transfers were granted: -
 
On the application of MR. BURN, the Board Inn, Gilcrux, from ANN CHAMBERS to ANDREW BEATTIE;
the Skinner's Arms, Cockermouth, from WILLIAM ANDERSON to JOSEPH STARKEY.
 
On the application of MR. BROATCH, the Fish Hotel, Buttermere, from JOHN WILSON, Keswick, to BRAITHWAITE EDMONDSON;
the Rampant Bull, Cockermouth, from ISAAC BARNES to J. W. TODHUNTER;
and the Bush Hotel, Cockermouth, from J. W. TODHUNTER to ISAAC BARNES.
 
On the application of MR. TURNEY, the Board Inn, Maryport, from W. J. BLYTH to JOSEPH DEANS;
and the Limekiln Inn, Brigham, from JOSEPH MOSSOP to WILLIAM IRVING.
 
Temporary transfers were also granted of the Old Hall, Cockermouth, from S. WAITE, deceased to F. WAITE, his son,
and of the Horse Shoe and Sickle, Bridgefoot, from ROBERT HARDY to JOHN HENRY KERSHAW.
 
COLONEL SEWELL did not adjudicate on these cases.
 
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PLAYING PITCH AND TOSS.
 
GEORGE FREDERICK LAMONBY and ABRAHAM STARKEY, two Cockermouth youths, were charged with playing pitch and toss at Cockermouth on Sunday, the 7th inst.
 
STARKEY pleaded guilty, but LAMONBY did not appear.
 
SERGEANT JAMESON stated that at 10.45 on Sunday he saw the two defendants pitching and tossing a copper coin in the Albion Yard.  They ran away when they saw him, but about twenty minutes afterwards, he saw them doing the same thing near MR. BYERS's field.  There had been many complaints of this sort of thing about the Albion yard.
 
LAMONBY, who had been convicted for petty larceny and for playing pitch and toss before, was fined 8s 6d, including costs, or 7 days in default, while STARKEY was ordered to pay the costs, 5s.
 
The Chairman said there would be no conviction, but if he came up again it would be registered against him.
 
ANOTHER VACCINATION PROSECUTION.
 
GEORGE BRASH, newspaper proprietor, Cockermouth, was charged with an offence against the Vaccination Acts, at the instance of JOHN EDGAR, vaccination officer.
 
MR. BRASH did not appear, but had sent the following letter to MR. WAUGH, the Clerk to the Magistrates : ---
 
Dear Sir, - As my time is very much occupied on market day, I regret I shall not be able to appear at the Court in answer to the summons served upon me for neglecting to have my daughter vaccinated.
 
I plead guilty, and respectfully ask you to use your influence with the Bench to take the case in my abasence.  It was through oversight that I neglected to apply for the usual exemption before it was too late.  Nevertheless my conscientious objection remains the same. - Respectfully yours, GEO. BRASH.
 
The Vaccination Officer said the defendant had a child unvaccinated.
 
The Bench discharged the summons, defendant to pay the costs, 8s.
 
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