The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-03-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

YORK ASSIZES.  The York Assizes were commenced on Monday before Mr Justice Collins. There were fifteen cases, all of a simple character. Two of them were from Middlesbrough. and Orme.eby, one being burglary and the other theft.—His Lordship, in charging the Grand Jury, alluded to the lightness of the calendar which only contained the names of 11 prisoners, none of which cases presented any difficulty, and he missed them at once to their duties.—Johu Hurst, 32, was sent to prison for one menth on pleading guilty to stealing the Rev. By. Vyvyan a handkerchief at York.—Wm. Saunders was committed to_prison for a month for being a traveller on the North-Eastern Railway between North Shields and ScarbenJugh, and obtaining by false pretences the sum of tre Us, the supposed value of a box and contents alleged to have been last on the railway between the 3rd and 19th September last.—James Lindsey, 25, labourer, was waiteneed to two months' impriseument for stealing a gold watch and appendages, value £l5, the goods of Annie Le Never, at Middlesbrough on the 28th of February last. Arthur lklcCinskey (21), labourer, pleaded guilty to having burglariotts/y entered the dwelling-houses of William Thomas Lawson, at Ormesby, on the 20th January, and was sentenced to one month's hard Lebout—Toni Ward (22), labourer, was indicted for an unlawful assault upon Eliza Ann Picken, aged 13 years, at York, on the 27th December. Prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to six calendar months' hard labour.— William Todd (20), hawker, and George Moore (20), hawker, were arraigned for having abducted Rebecca Petty, aged 15 yeers, for an unlawful purpose, at Ir ork, on the 7th February. Tha defence was thee Todd intended to marry the girl. Both prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced -to six months' hard labour.—Ada Ward (le), domestic servant, pleaded guilty to concealment of birth at Sunk Island. on the 18th December last, and was ordered to be imprisoned for three days, the effect of which was that she was liberated at night.— John DesborOugh (2e), Printer, pleaded guilty to breaking into the dwelling-house of Henry Archer, at Scarborough, on the Gth February, and stealing a pair of boots. He was sentenced to eighteen calendar months' imprisonment. —John William Faith/jug (27), fisherman, was indicted for having, shot at his wife, Alice Eva /Paulding, with intent to murder her, at Hull, on the 30th November last. Prisoner, it appeared, had been married about five years, during which he had had frequent quarrels with his wife, whom he had threatened several times. On the 28th November she left the prisoner, and went to live with her mother. Two days afterwards the prisoner bought a revolver and some cartridges,which fact he communicated to a friend, adding that he "meant to do" for his wife. In defence it was argued that the prisoner had Ino ill-intent, bet that he had suffered from insomnia, and had merely tired the revolver to frighten his wife. The jury found the prisoner guilty of shooting with intent to do grievous Wily harm, and he was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.—James Hoyle (32), labourer, was found guilty of an unlawful assault upon Jane Ann Roebuck, aged 15 years, at Wawne, on the 25th. December, and was sentenced to 20 months' hard labour.— Jam Gray (27), labourer, Frederick William Foster (:.2), labourer, and Charles Wilson (21), sawyer, were indicted for having committed an unlawful assault upon Annie Staveley Sparkes, at Beverley, on the 2tith November.—The jury found a verdict of "Not guilty," and the prisoners were discharged.