Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-06-18 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CHARGE OF DREAMING A ARM.  John Cobbeit.;;;broUght up for assaulting his wife Margaret. —This woman is the one who was flossing from Weymouth for some time, and had to be afterwards Ltched from London. She did not now appear.—The Superintendent said the woman came last night with her arm broken, and otherwise beaten about, so that he thought it necessary to apply for a warrant fur prisoner's apprehension. It was said the woman had been in the neighbourhood that morning • the Superintendent suggested she might have stayed out of the way on purpose, and perhaps the Bench woukl remand the prisoner in custody, and issue a warrant for the apprehension of the woman The case was, however, delayed till another had been heard, and meantime a constable went out and fetched the woman.— Margaret Cobbett appeared in a state seemingly the worse for liquor. She said she resided at No. 3, Weston-terrace. Yesterday her husband nearly murdered her; she was mangled altogether, with kicks and knives, and so forth. It was said that the woman made Cobbett a miserable home.—Margaret : And do ye say I had been dhrinking yestherday ? Well, then, am I to be murdhered for that, Blaming I did dlirink ?—The magistrates decided to remand the case, and let the husband out on ball.—Supt. Vickery (to the woman) : You'll have to appear here to-morrow morning.—Margaret: I'll thrust me life in yer hands; shure, I won't go away at alt; I'll thrust me life in yer hands. I'm satisfied to go home, if ye II only send me home with a broken aria and broken ribs ; I'm satisfied to go home. _  1 She was quite sober; but they had a quarrel in the garden.— The prisoner said a palthry dhrop of beer was the cause of all this throuble. It did not suit him to be going this journey, appearing it, a police court, and he hoped It would never occur again. He never kicked his wife ; but she was in liquor, fell again the stairs, and that caused the arm to lyi broken. It would be nmre trouble for him to get it mended, and the " heft " of the children and all fell upon him.—The wife said she did not wish to hurt her husband.—Alexander Murray, of 3, Weston Terrace, the same house as defendants, said on Monday, he came home with Corbett. They only hail had four pints of beer in a walk of 10 miles, and Corbett was sober. As soon as Corbett entered, his wife, who was drunk, used filthy latigu go to him, directly he came back. She called him a filthy little thief. To his knowledge she had been drinking all day. He Was in the front area, and the woman came out to Corbett, who was in the front garden : she called him names, and he said "Woman ! you are drunk !" She ran in, and lie heard her fall against the balusters; she came out again, and said she'd have to get some one to go to the hospital with her, as her arm was broken ; but she did not say her husband broke her arm Ile was often annoyed by the prisoner coming to his rooms when drunk, and declaring that she'd give her husband six months, for getting her in Dorchester gaol.—The Bench cautioned Corbett, and gave him the benefit of the doubt, discharging him on his agreeing to pay the costs, 103 ad. A week was allowed for payment.