Mr John Henry Webb, landlord of the Defiance, Ipswich, was found guilty of having kept a quantity of tobacco in a non entered room. Mr John Morson, an excise officer, had entered the house under the authority of a search warrant and found an earthenware jar containing 2lbs 6oz of tobacco secreted under the mattress of a bed. Mrs Webb admitted moving the jar from the bar and hiding it as she was worried it contained too much tobacco. In his defence the landlord told the court he was unaware of his wife’s actions, he was also new to the trade having spent most of his life involved in the South Sea Fisheries…