On 20th April 1914 at 1.30pm Pc Bartram visited The Bushel Inn at Grimston. He was looking for George Daws who had been summoned to the petty sessions that day and had not appeared. He was found in the pub kitchen in a very drunken state. Daws got up to walk out but fell against the passage wall. Landlord Charles Cobb removed him from the premises and Daws fell down in the back yard. With it being petty session day it had been a busy day at the pub for Charles who also had a brewers dray in the yard that needed attending to. He had not noticed how drunk Daws was. Charles Cobb was subsequently summoned for allowing drunkenness on his property. However, Superintendent Lewis said that Daws was from Castle Acre, not Grimston and was not well known. He also said that Charles had always kept the pub to a high standard of good conduct. The case was then dismissed with the chairman saying that it was right of the police to bring the case forward, but they thought that Charles was under misapprehension with a strange man coming into the pub. George Daws did not fare so well. He was found guilty of being drunk on licensed premises in addition to his original charge for which Pc Bartram had gone looking for him.

At 9.30pm on Christmas Eve 1915 Charles had trouble with Congham Labourer William Goodburn. He had already had too much to drink and when he asked for another half pint, Charles refused. Goodburn refused to leave and Charles had to literally remove him from the premises. Charles took the matter further and Goodburn was found guilty of being disorderly on licensed premises and refusing to leave the premises. He was fined 6s