Fined for Buying a Wounded Soldier a Drink, 30th June 1916

“FINED FOR TREATING WOUNDED SOLDIER.

“WOMAN'S OFFENCE AT LINCOLN.

“At Lincoln to-day [30th June 1916], before Mr. Wm. Rainforth and Mr. J. Mills, Emily Staniland, of Coddington, was fined £2 for procuring for Private Charles Cotterill, who was under hospital treatment, intoxicating liquor, contrary to the Defence of the Realm Regulations.

“Sergt. Capes said that after 9 p.m. he saw the defendant leave a tram car in the company of a soldier wearing the clothing of the hospital. Both were under the influence of drink and there was another woman assisting them. As witness could not get a satisfactory answer as to where they obtained the drink he took them to the police-station, and informed the defendant that he would report her for obtaining intoxicating liquor for a wounded soldier. It was then elicited that she made the acquaintance of the soldier while at Newark. She met him at Lincoln by appointment on the day named, and they had a quartern of whiskey at the Millers' Arms. In the evening at the Clinton Arms she got a quart of beer and took it to a house in Prince's-street.

“Defendant denied that she gave the soldier anything to drink. Someone filled a glass of beer for him when at the house in Prince's-street, but he spilt it.

“Sergeant Capes informed the magistrates that the soldier was conveyed to the hospital in the ambulance.”

'Nottingham Evening Post', 30th June 1916.