A Clergman charged with being Drunk
Sensational Statements

A great sensation was caused in Rushden on Friday night by the arrest of the Rev. Charles James Hinkson, the new Curate-in-charge of Newton Bromshold, near Rushden, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. On Saturday morning the prisoner, who is a native of Dublin and speaks with a marked Irish brogue, was brought before Mr. E. B. Randall and charged with being drunk and disorderly in the public streets of Rushden. Prisoner presented a most woe-begone spectacle, his clothes being bespattered with mud, his boots covered with dirt, his face unshaven, and his general appearance was deplorable.

In reply to the charge prisoner said: I was not disorderly, surely.

Mr. Randall asked prisoner if had anything to say why the case should not be adjourned to Wellingborough on Friday.

Prisoner: This will ruin me!

Mr. Randall: I cannot deal with this charge here. It must be tried at Wellingborough.

Mr. W. H. Simpson (justices' clerk) said the Bench would accept prisoner’s own bail. Inspector Onan:  He was admitted to bail previous to this, and I offered to send him home to Newton but he would not go, as he said there would not be a bed ready for him. I also offered to send a man with him to get him lodgings for the night but he would insist on going to Higham Ferrers, and the consequence was that he had more liquor and he was ringing people's bells, knocking at the doors, and coming a nuisance generally. Then he was locked up.

Prisoner was remanded to Wellingborough on Friday and was admitted to bail on his own bond.

In The Workhouse

On Tuesday, Mr. Hinkson applied for a medical order to see the parish doctor, at Wellingborough, which was granted. He also obtained an order for admission to the Workhouse. In making the application, he stated that he was quite destitute, and that the Bishop inhibited him. He was accommodated in the receiving ward. Mr. Hinkson left the key of the register of Newton Bromshold with the Relieving Officer. It is understood that Mr. Hinkson was formerly headmaster of a Collegiate School, but of late years had held livings in Ireland. He had only been in Newton Bromshold about a fortnight prior to the charge of drunkenness, and had been a teetotaller.