Widnes Examiner. — 1890-12-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MARRIED WOMAN. SERIOUS ASSACLT 61:7 A on Monday. a At the Warrington Borough Co: young man named Cornelius Lennon wag c;....7..?d with -ttiVing assaulted Isabella 'Harding and CharleS Henry 'Barnes in Dallam-lane on Saturday night. The Chief Constable said that Mrs. Harding was confined to her house,the assault having brought on a premature confinement. From the evidence that waS then given it riptt,alea that Mrs. Harding is the wife of an elkdihe driver employed at Dallam Forge. Rather hat fn Saturday night she was taking her husband's supper and while going alongDallam-lane, the prisoner rushed out of a gateway and seized her by the throat. He pressed his fingers into her windpipe so that she was unable to call for help. A pin that she fastened her shawl with, however, ran into his hand and made him release his grasp when she at once ran towards a window from which a light shone and shouted " murder." This shouting attracted the attention of Charles Henry Barnes who went to his door and saw the prisoner again seizing the woman. Lennon ran away on seeing Barnes but the latter gave chase and caught him, and his brother coming to his aid they identified the pnsoner, who was afterwards apprehended. A sentence of six months' hard labour was passed on the prisoner and the two Barnes's were complimented by the Mayor on their conduct, and they were each awarded half-a-crown for their loss of time. LAWLESS PROCEEDINGS IN A LODGING HousE. At the Warrington Borough Court, on Monday, Bodelia Knockton, a young woman who is often dealt with by the magistrates, was charged with having been found on Sunday morning, shortly after midnight,in the cellar of Ann Farrell, lodging-house keeper, Cloth Hall Yard, with intent to commit a felony. P.S. Taylor said that on Sunday night he was sent for to Mrs. Farrell's house and on searching the cellar he found the prisoner hiding behind some timber. Mrs. Farrell said that the prisoner was often brought into her house by her son,and the Chief Constable added that there had been several cases of robbery from lodgers at Mrs. Farrell's house,and he believed they were largely due to the landlady's son, and the prisoner who acted in connivance with each other. Alderman Harrison asked if such a house should be registered, and the Chief Constable replied that the matter had been reported to the committee, but as Mrs. Farrell had kept a lodging-house for thirty years and was not herself to blame for the robberies they did not like to knock her off the list—Ellen Farrell, daughter of the landlady, said that on Saturday night she saw her brother knock a man down in the kitchen and rob him while Bodelia Knockton held the door. The Mayor considered this was a disgraceful state of affairs. The witness, in answer to a question said both she and her mother were frightened of her brother who often threatened them.—Alderman Harrison (to Mrs. Farrell ): You should turn your son out of the house.—Mrs. Farrell : He would kill me. The Chief Constahle told Mrs. Farrell that she would have to be taken off the list of lodginghouse keepers. The Bench sentenced Knockton to three months' hard tabour, and as she was being taken from the dock she threatened " to do for" Mrs. Farrell when she came out.