The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1889-06-01 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

BAL.  DRUNK AN D DMIONDERLY.—MichaeI Ratakin, labourer, of the Saltisford, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in the Market Place on Saturday.—He pleaded guilty.—Police-constable Hawkins said he found the prisoner drunW and very quarrelsome. He wanted to fight someone. —The Bench ordered defendant to pay the costs 35. CONTEMPT OF COURT .—A woman named Annie Blakeman, who was summoned the previous week for not sending her child regularly to school, and against whom the case was adjourned to allow her to obtain a medical certificate, failed to produce the same, and she was fined ss.—The Chairman remarked that the case was adjourned in defendant's own interests, but she had treated the court with contempt.  said that she had seen defendant repeatedly turn his•wife and child into the street. She had heard frequent cries of murder, and only three weeks ago several men went into the house and fetched him out because he was illusing his wife. On the day following this incident complainant showed her her arms, which were braised and black. On Sunday week complainant's child had a black eye. —By the Clerk: So far as she knew, complainant was a well-conducted woman.—Defendant crossexamined this witness. In reply to his questions, she said that she had seen his wife getting his meals, and she believed she kept his house clean. —Have you not seen her going out as soon as my back is turned ?—She goes out the same as other women. Defendant then addressed the Bench, and said that any married man in the court would agree that it Wali( a perfectly natural desire on his part to know where his , wife was going when she went out, whereas the complainant used to tell him to mind his own business. He was sure that was enough to make any man use strong language to his wife.—The Magistrates' Clerk said the complainant had made several applications to him for summonses against defendant, and acting on his advice, she had deferred taking out a summons until now, in the hope that her husband would reform.—ln reply to the Bench, defendant said he was a gentleman's servant, but was just now with the Art and Book Company, Bedford Street, where Mr. Newdigate had got him a situation at 10s. a week until he could obtain something better. He gave his wife the 'Whole of this 10s. and provided food besides.—The complainant: No you don't. We were without bread two days last week.—The Mayor said they believed the wife's evidence, and considered the defendant had inflicted a cruel assault on her. He would be fined 21s. including costs, a mitigated penalty upon which they had decided in consequence of defendant's impecunious condition.—The complainant then applied for a separation order.— The Mayor said the Bench would grant the separation order, and defendant would have to pay the costs 6s. 6d. and ss. a week towards the maintenance of his child. The defendant protested that he had not received justice. The Bench intimated that if the fine were not paid, defendant would be sent to gaol for a month. They declined to allow time.—Defendant then retired to the back of the Court under the surveillance of a policeman. He continued to exclaim that he had not received justice, and that it was all a plot on the part of his wife's relatives.  _