American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-12-19
BOW STREET.

Bryan, of Bainbrdge street, in the Parish of ST.
Giles, presented themselves before the magistrates,
begging that he would be pleased to settle matters
between them.-each having 81 ven the other bro
ken head.
Casghan Mccarthy took the lead in explaining
the rights of it TO his Worship" An Place your
honor" said he" this is the fsther-iD-law to me,
becaze married the daughter OF him-Norah Bry.
an that was, but Mrs. Mccarthy that is, now that
she's my own wife, any day since Michaelmas
twelyemonth and she isn't the likes OF him at ali,
but peaceabIe and quiet, your honor --bsrrn the
nights | gets drop two in me, and that
isn't often. And Mykle Bryan, the iather.n-law
to me, and own father to her-that's Norah, your
honor, is never aizy for walloping his wfe-the
ould creatur that's mother-in.lsw 10 meself, and
own mother to me wife, and will be grandmother
to my childer, PLACE Cod"
The Magistrate requested Mr.. Callaghan NC
Carthy to be less lengthy in his explanation, and
come to the broken heads soon possible.
:" shall your honor, and have plenty of Witnesses
to the fore. for your honor's inspectjon.-So he
waloped the ould woman last night, and she runn'd
away from him, and com'd 10 my place, as she al
ways does when he bates her ondacently, and we
ook her into IT, and gave her some beer to wet her
sorrow-good luck to her and your honor Present
ly comes Mykie Bryan tearing after her wi tho
drink in his head and the vengeance in his heart agen
the poor oud cratur--snd where is she 2 says he
thro the kayhole for mesef had made the door fast
that he shouldn't come into it that night sand where
is shep says he. Get along with you, pacealy, Myke
Bryan says /. Sorrow bit I'll let you into it tc
night at al' says 7. 'Deevle burn ye, says he, 'to
keep me out of it, & my wife in it at this same
time BE aizy, Myke,' says I, but he wouldn't.
and he comd 10 at the windy with his head behind
your honor's presence, for sure enough
he put his safe in at it first and took the 6ioto-
BELLS to bate him back again with the broad OF en
upon his safe, but he rou'd inward, and the women
squaed, and the bits a'tay things and the beer was
upset, and he got the bow-bellis out of me hand,
and gives meset the swatest clout on me head with
them Och, but me own place spinn d round with
me like windy mill ~
"What, he broke yoar hpad?" asked his Wor-
ship.
Not altogether your honor" replied Mr.. Call
laghan Mccarthy, smiling, 4" or meself wouldn't be
here spanking; but he left his mark upon me, as your
honor may persave.
This mark was lump about the size of half
cricket ball, immediately the top oil his head the
hair had been away from it, and il was curiously
strapped down with adhesive plaster. Mr.. Calag
han M CARLY, however, seemed to make very light
OF 1t, and assured the magistrate that he only want
led pace for the time to come-and that Mykle
should be bound down to the law not to ch0p the
Ioud woman.
Ii was now Mykle's turn to spnice. Poor Mykle
seemed to have much the worst of it; for, indepen-
dent OF the bellows operation upon his safe, and at
least shalt dozen broken heads" his whole face
was so bruised, that it looked more like green
pumpkin than any thing else
He began his defence, by declaring that the oulG
woman bad one, and So fond OF the drops, that
she set up business as fruitcress in the on
her own account, entirely unknocnst 10 him,
purpose to get money to buy sin--and may be
something stronger and then. This causediN
blood between them, for he thought it quite onda-
cent for an oud woman, the mother OF thirteen chill
der, to be takin drops in gin shop, when she had
good husband OF home, who never let her want for
any thing--barrin the gin. Then his daughter,
Mrs. Caaghan Mccarthy and Mr.. Callaghan Mp
Carthy encouraged the ould woman in all this, and
sometimes kept her away from him for fortnight
together. On the night in question he went TO see
for her, and they wouldn't let him into the house,
but he knew enough of the law to know that where
his wife was, there he had right to be. Sc he
got in at the windy backardS forards," and it would
all have been right enough it that devil, Mccarthy.
had not smackd him on the hinder end with the
broad of the bellows. AS it was, he no sooner got
into the house, than his daugh ter, the oud woman.
and Carhy, all set upon him at once't, and he
cteeping out at the windy again. when Mccarthy
pulled him back by the leg, broke his head with his
own Shoe and then sent him home without his wife,
and with only one shoe.
/ The Magist ate asked whether the ladies were in
attendance, and, finding they were not, he sent for
them; al the same time ordering the gentlemen to
be lockedsup in the same cell, IN order that they
might talk over matters coolly.
] In an hour or two afterwards, the " oud woman"
her daughter, and whole posse of their friends
rived Messrs. Bryan and Mccarthy we're brought
from their cell much cooler than they went in, and
after another halt hours alteration, the magistrate
dismissed the affair altogether with assurance to
Messrs Bryan and Mccarthy, that he would hold
them both to bail if they broke the peace again.
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