Widnes Examiner. — 1884-09-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE ALLEGED MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT SUTTON. Michael Finegan and Martin Finegan, Irish labourers. were brought up at Runcorn Petty Sessions, on Monday, to answer a charge of having on the 14th inst. unlawfully wounded Griffiths Griffiths, of Sutton. The prisoners were before the Bench on the previous Friday, and discharged, but Superintendent Leah had them immediately re-arrested on the same charge.-0a Monday, Mr Percy Davies, of Warrington, appeared on behalf of the prisoners, and contended that the prisoners could not be re-arrested on the same charge after being discharged unless fresh evidence was forthcoming.—The objection was noted by the Clerk, and the case proceeded. The evidence prieviously reported in this journal was repeated.—A. man named Yarwood, keeper of Sutton turnbridge, was called, and he stated that he saw the whole of the disturbance. He alleged that Griffiths was the worse for liquor, and that he was the aggressor, being the first to attack Finegans.-On this evidence, Mr F Rigby, the presiding magistrate, discharged the prisoners. IMPOSING ON A RUNCORN PUBLICAN —kt Runcorn Petty Sessions on Monday, before Mr C Reynolds and Mr F Rigby, Joseph Elopes, a young man, was charged with obtaining food add lodging by false pretences.—Marzaret Morris said she was a widow and kept the Nelson Hotel in High-street. On Saturday morning when she got up she found the prisoner inside the bar. He told her he had come from Walton Hospital, where he was employed to look after the patients, and that her brother-in-law was getting on very well. Thinking he was whatehe reported himself to be, she gave him breakfast, dinner, and tea, and promised him a bed. He was also supplied with a glass of beer and two pennyeorth of whiskey. If she had known that he was not a warder she would not have given him anything.—P.C. Smith deposed that from what he heard he went to the Hotel on Saturday night and saw the prisoner( who informed him that be was a warder in Walton Hospital, and that be was going there next day. From what Mrs Morris told him, he took him into custody. That morning he had charged the prisoner with obtaining food on false pretences. ,He replied, "All right, ball did not get the bed." Later he made a voluntary statement to the effect that he had made a mistake by telling Mrs Morris he was a warder when he was not.—lnspector Roach said he had searched the prisoner and he had no money whatever upon him.—The defendant made a long statement to the effect that he had been seen by Mrs Morris' brother-in-law in the hospital and he delivered a message to Mrs Morris for him. He also told her he bad been in the bar business, and she had said that if he liked he could stop and assist her in the bar in the evening. She asked him to have his dinner with her, or he should have made his way back to St Helens, where he lived, with the money he had in his pocket. He acknowledged that he had partaken of Mrs Morris's hospitality, and that he had falsely reported himself to be a wieder, and asked the Bench to deal as leniently as they could with the case, as a warning to him.—Mr Reynolds : You would like to be let off on profnising not to offend again.—The Prisoner: If you could see your way.—Mr Reynolds: Well we cannot ; we consider the offence proved. —Samuel John Bertram, assistant to Mr Lea, ironmonger, then described how nine months ago at St. Helens, the prisoner by falsely reporting that he had come from a Liverpool captain had obtained four meals from him.—The prisoner was sentenced to a month's hard labour, which Mr Reynolda said he richly deserved,  I A HALEBANK FARM LABOURER AND His