From our local paper’s archive of 100 years ago –
At Kelso Burgh Police Court on Saturday, Bailee Neil on the Bench, a tramp who is blacklisted in Berwickshire, was charged with having attempted to purchase a glass of beer at the Red Lion Hotel. He pleaded guilty and was dismissed with an admonition, being warned that he would be punished if he repeated the offence.
Happy days eh? Proceedings on a Saturday, blacklisted – one assumes this means barred from pubs and not outlawed just by his presence in the County. Mere use of the ‘black’ in listed would draw howls of condemnation today.
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