Excerpt from Intemperance and Crime, 1883: Leaves From the Diary of an Old Lawyer
I saw upon that table the skull of young B who was killed by his most intimate friend in a drunken brawl at Harts town, and the respectable proprietor at whose hotel the murder was perpetrated, and who sold the maddening spirit that prompted the deed, was a witness at the trial. He said he had a license from that respectable court to sell liquor; yes, from the very court then sitting in judgment on that act, which was but the natural sequence of the license it had sold and granted.
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