Peacock Inn, Lake Street
c.1910 [Z1432/3/1/8/5]
Thursday
28th February 1918: William Dickins, a 60 year old labourer from
Chalk Hill, Houghton Regis, has been charged with being drunk and disorderly on
the highway at Leighton Buzzard on Tuesday. Police Sergeant Dennis said that
Dickins was throwing his arms about in Market Square and a crowd of children
had collected around him. Dickins was advised to behave himself and leave, but
he went round to the back of the Peacock Inn where he said he had a gun. He was
told he would not be allowed to have the gun and was asked to leave the
premises, but he eventually had to be arrested and locked up. Earlier in the
evening he had been seen running after German prisoners in Bridge Street; his
conduct towards them had been very bad. Dickins said he remembered nothing
about it and was sorry for what he had done. He had three sons serving the
country and had got rather excited as one had just gone back to the front. The
Chairman of the Bench noted that it had been five years since Dickins had last
appeared in Court and fined him five shillings.
Source:
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 5th March 1918
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