The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-01-14 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

DIMINKENNESS.—Thomas Kendall was fined is, and coats for being drunk at Ulveraton on the Bth.—Wm. Greenhow was fined 88. and costa for being drunk at Utterston on the 7th instant.  ASiSAULTS. —Edward Cleminsun charged T. Clark with assaulting him on the sth iit,, at Mverston.—Complainant said that defendant had had his door locked against him for a week. His daughter wanted her clothes from the house. Eventually he got in, and he told defendant's wife he wanted the articles he had lent him. Defendant said he had nothing belonging to complainant, and took him by the throat and threw him across into the fireplace. He told him he would make him pay for it, when defendant knocked him down, and beat him.—For the defence, Mrs. Middleton said she lived in Lower Brook-street; heard complainant use very abusive language. Defendant took him by the shoulders and pushed him out She (witness) was in the house all the time, and could have seen had an assault been 'committed. He never struck him. Other witnesses were called, but their evidence did not bear upon the assault —Case dismissed.  W. Hannah, butcher, of Ulrer,ton, chzo-ged W. Johnson with assaulting him on the 11th ult., at Ulverston.—Mr. S. 11, Jackson aPpNwed for the prosecution.—Complainant said that on the day in question he had walked to Barrow and back. In coming through the town, he called at Mr. Troughton s. the Braddyll's Arms. Iu coming out, a little before 11 o'clock, Johnson and another man were there. Johnson said, " Here's girt fat Hannah. he threatened to wallop me; let's thrash him" A policeman came up and ordered them away. He (complainant) then went to his home in the Gill; Johnson came up, struck kin', tore bis coat, and he and the others threw him down, and kicked him. The other, began of him because he seized JohnJohnson's mother came up, and called 'murder " and " police," when Johnson kicked aim in the back, and then ran away. The speel bone of his leg was broken.—P.C. White heard defendant and complainant and another man quarrelling in the Braddyll's Arms yard; he ordered them off. Johnson was drunk, and he reported him for it. He was fined. Defendant said Hannah had frequently threatened him. On the night in question be was going to thrash him, when he slipped, and broke his leg.—Case dismissed. Mary Ann King charged Howland Enjoy with assaulting_ her at Glverston ou the Bth inst.—Mr. T. Postlethwaite appeared for the defence—Mrs. King said that on the sight in question, defendant and others were quarrelling and fighting in the street ; she interfered, when Elleray butted her with his head.—John Stable, spoke to the assault —For the defence, John Townson said Mrs. King struck.Elleray twice; he did not strike her. She struck him twice on the breast " before he did nothing: Mrs. Lug next charged Jas. Postlethwaite, brother of last defendant, with assaulting her at the same time and place. This offence was of a more aggravated character than the last and was proved by Mr. Stables and Mrs. Garth, —James Postlethwaite was fined .Z 2 and costs, or a month in default, and Rowland Klleray or a fortnight's imprisonment—Agnes Elleray, mother of the two last defendants, charged Mary Ann King (the complainant in the above case) with assaulting her on the Bth inst. at Hlverston.—The case, not being proved, was  I bim  dismissed.