Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1874-09-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LICENSE.--Ntr J. B. Owen applied for and obtained an occasional license to the gala field in Oxbridge-lane, on the occasion of the licensed victuallers' cricket match next Thursday. WOMEN'S Quanuens.—Harriett Barrett summoned Lucy Harris for assaulting her son William Barrett, on the 17th September. A cross. summons charged Harriet Barrett with assaulting Lucy Harris on the 17th September. The magistrates had some difficulty in getting a word in between the speeches of the two women, but it appeared that on the day in question Mrs Harris sent her little girl, about four years old, upon an errand, with 2d in her hand. She got to the shop witu a penny, and said that Mrs Barrett's boy, aged nine years, took 11 d from her on the way, and put it in his boot. Mrs Harris went after young Barrett, and there found the Money concealed in one of his laced boots. She then took him home to his mothcr, and was saluted by a blow on the side of the head from Mrs Barrett, and an indignant repudiation of the accusation. Two witnesses said they saw Mrs Barrett strike Mrs Harris on the head, and two others _said they never saw her strike at all. The Bench said thet Mrs Barrett ought to have been obliged to Mrs Harris instead of assaulting her, and ordered her to pay a penalty of 20s 6d including costs, or undergo fourteen days' hard labour. The charge against Mrs Harris WHA  dismissed. ASSAULTING MR NEss.—William Ness summoned Jane atias Lavinia Morton for assaulting him on the 7th Sep:ember. Complainant said that a fortnight ago, about one o'clock, he was going down Ye.rinlane, when the defendant went up and abused him in a very bad way. She accused him of saying something derogatory about her to a woman named Jane Robinson, a person he did not know even by name. She followed him along the street, threatening, "If it was dark, I would stone you." Just on turning the corner of another street, a ' stone strtick his hat, producing the bruise exhibited to the Bench, and had it struck his head the results might have been fatal. Complainant proceeded to i-ay :—This woman has been annoying me for years. Sergt. Heslop, Mr Booth, and Sergt. Oyston know that she has made statements that I have murdered a child of her's at Darlington. I never saw the woman at Darlington in my life. This has been going on for years. I have had my silting-rOOl windows broken by her five times ; night soil has been put on my door:, and I have been very much annoyed. In answer to the charge, defendant admitted throwing the stone, but pleaded provocation, stating: I save been led away by this man, and have had several children to him, almost since I was a child. I have had good situations in this town, but he has led me away from them. The Bench: If he has done badly by you, that is a case for another court; we cannot deal with that. The defendant then said: I was excited.—Complainant : I don't want to press the ease against the woman; but I have been annoyed by her for year., and wish her to be bound over to keep the peace.—Defendant: I hays been a poor girl led away by that man; he has treated me shameludy.—Complainant : Can I claim damages for the injuries done to my hat. Look at it, gentlemeal—The Clerk: You cannot on the present summons.—Mr Jackson: She must pay a line of 2s 6d and 14s 6d costs.—Complainant: Can I have this person bound over to keep the 1-s34B(37—Mr Jackson : Not on the present occasion, but if she annoys you again, get a summons to have herbound over to keep the pe.me.—Complainant : I have plenty of evidence in letters that she has written threatening my life. I know it is a disgraceful affair, or I should not have borne it so long, and if the letters were produced it would be worse. Complainant then retired. COMPULSORY Entrommi.--Sergeant Heslop reported that he had executed several distress warrants to recover penalties from different persons who had been fined for neglecting to send their children to school. In the case of a man named Micklewright and an. other named William Russell, there were no tffects. The Bench made orders for these to be imprisoned seven days each.