>From Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, April 15, 1899; Issue 7622. OXFORD CITY COURT, Friday. Before the Deputy-Mayor ( Alderman Gray ) A WELL-MERITED SENTENCE. Albert COULES, labourer, of 3, Church Fields, Margate, was charged on a warrant for bastardy arrears amounting to £7 16s. ( Seven Pounds Sixteen Shillings ). The prisoner offered to take charge of the child if the complainant would forego her claim for the arrears. The Deputy Mayor : A pretty fellow you are to have charge of a child. The complainant refused to assent to the prisoner's offer. The Deputy Mayor said the prisoner had treated the complainant in a diabolical manner, and he would be sentenced to the longest term of imprisonment which they had power to give, viz., three calendar months with hard labour.