The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1881-04-30 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ADJOIIIINHO BAD MEAT CANC.—The Bench gave their decision in the case respecting Mr. Wilson, I butcher, of Paxton-street, which they adjourned to consider a technical objection raised in the case of Mr. Dent's appointment. The Bench ruled that the way in which the case had been brought forward by the Town Clerk in his official capacity was substantially sufficient. With reference to the merits of the case, they considered it a very bad one, and would impose a penalty of £5 and costs. NIUGHBOURS' Quannera. Elizabeth McKnight charged Mary Ann Myles with assaulting;her.—Complainant said that on the Thursday previous to Easter defendant threw her mat down the stairs. She afterwards went to remonstrate with her when defendant charged her with stealing half a sovereign. She then struck her two or three times, and took a brush which she had tewcatch hold of to prevent being struck with it. Defendant's husband afterwards came out and took the brush from them. The defendant denied all the statements made by complainant, and said that the complainant made a practice of shaking her mat at the door' and never afterwards cleared away the dirt. She had also good reason to make the remark she did about half sovereigns.—The Bench did not consider the case proved, and dismissed the case.— The second case was one in which Sarah Jane Campbell against Mary Jane Irvine, both residing in the huts, Old Barrow, whilst the defendant in this action took out a cross-summons against Bernard Campbell, complainant's husband, for an assault at the same time and place.—Mr. Bradshaw, solicitor, appeared for the Campbell; and Mr. Williams for Mary Anne Irvine.—Sarah Anne Campbell said that on Saturday the 16th, she had been with her husband in Barrow marketing and reached home about 11 o'clock. She called at a shop at the end of her own street for some things, and her husband went on home. On reaching her own house afterwards, she noticed a crowd at their window, and on asking what was the matter before she had time to do anything Mary Anne Irvine struck her two or three blows on the cheek, which stunned her. She had no peace with complainant since, and before that time she had her bound over to keep the peace.— Mr. Williams : She had never spoken a word to complainant, nor seen anything that took place prior to getting struck. She did not want to get out again.—B. Campbell, husband to last witness, said that on arriving home, he sent his daughter to the shep where his wile called to help her home with some things, and shortly after he heard his daughter's voice, and ran out, when he found her and the defendant's daughter fighting. He separated them, and after this the defendant came up and struck him. His wife came up at the same time, and she rushed at her also, and struck her two or three times. He tc ok his wife away from her, and said that he would summon her. They closed the door afterwards.—James Murdock, who lodged with Campbell, said he was in the house at the time. He heard the noise, but saw nothing of the row until the last two witnesses came in, when he went to the door and locked it against Mrs. Taggart. —The solicitors agreed to take the case of Irvine against Campbell next, when Mary Anne Irvine said in cross-examination by Mr. Bradshaw that Robert Campbell had assaulted her daughter, who cried "murder, mother" several times. When she went to her rescue Campbell got hold of her by the hair of the head, and afterwards by the back of the neck, and his wife got her around the waist and tore her dress. She was held in that position over five minutes. She had been so treated by Mrs. Campbell, that she drew her water the night previous so as to avoid her.—After hearing some further conflicting evidence the solicitors in the case agreed to their clients being bound over in the sum of £5 for three months to keep the peace.—B. Campbell next charged Eliza Jane Taggart with breaking the window the same night, the evidence given in support was not sufficiently clear and the case was dismissed. AN