From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 11 October, 1867.

EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF THE SUDDEN CHANGE OF WEATHER

Richard Sandford, an elderly man, was charged with being drunk and incapable on the Commercial Quay, late upon the proceeding evening.

The defendant pleaded that he was "seized with the cold" on endeavouring to find his own house on the preceding night, and was so overpowered that he fell to the ground, where he lay till the policeman found him.

The Magistrates let him off on his paying 2s. for the hearing.