Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1871-09-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England)

TER N CISME AT LINTHORPR. Thomas Great. head, butcher, was summoned for depositing a quantity of animal matter and garbage on premises in Linthorpe-road on the 25th ult.—lnspector Reed said that on the 31st July, having heard complaints of the nuisance in question, he visited the field. Mr Greathead promised to have it covered up, and he heard no more about it till last Monday week, whe-ii he again went out to Linthorpe, and found that the nuisance was creating an intolerable stench. On the 25th ult., he reported the nuisance to the Sanitary Committee, to whom the defendant promised to have the nuisance ploughed into the ground at once. His men ploughed on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, and did not touch the refuse. On Wednesday he went out again with Dr Dickinson, and found the smell " something frightful." On Thursday morning some fresh blood was deposited. Dr Dickenson said the smell from the held on Wednesday was enough to make any one aiak. Some of the refuse was now ploughed in, bus a good deal of it, and that of the worst character, was still exposed. It was a nuisance, and was injurious to the health of the people living near. Del,endant said he had ordered his men to plough in the stuff, and if any more refuse had been put-on it was without his authority. He was away from home at the time. He was ordered to abate the nuisance within three days, to put no more refuse on tlie fields, and to pay the costs, £4 9s 641, including one guinea to Inspector Reed, who had been out to Liuthorpe 17 times in consequence of the nuisance. —Defendant said Reed was a public servant, and as he paid rates, he did not see that he should have to , pay his wages twice over. A FORGIVING Wure.—Samuel Watson, slater, was charged with assaulting Mary Watson, his wife, on Thursday. Sergt. Tomlin said on Thursday night, at half-past nine o'clock, he heard screams proceeding from the defendant's house in Spencer-street. He had to force open the door before he got in, after which he saw the defendant strike his wife on the face.—P.C. Jolly said he saw the defendant attempting to throw his wife out of the window.—Defendant: She screamed out before she was hurt, like all the rest of them. (Laughter.)—llis wife told the Bench that be had never struck her, although she was screaming dreadfully.—Sergt. Tomlin said she told him it was not the first time her husband had struck her.—The Bench said that if defendant's wife had prosecuted he mieht have been committed six months. As it was he was fined 40s, including emits, or three weeks imprisonment. Aw UNHAPPY CoUPLE.—John Kemp Caning, stocktaker, a young man, was charged by Ann Carling, his wife, with assaulting her and using tLreatening language to her. The case had been adjourned for a week for the parties to settle their differences, and defendant having again assaulted his wife, was apprehended on a warrant. Complainant said that defendant struck her, and compelled her to go to her sister's to sleep. He burst in the door and took down the Venetians. She said rather than they should go to his father she 'meld destroy them, and she fetched an axe for the purpose. He got her head under his arm and said he would murder her before the night was out. He had also threatened her last Sunday.--Defendant said his wife had taken away the furniture which was presented to her, and he thought he had an equal right to take away the things which were given to him.—Complainnat's sister told the Bench how she Iliad "clothed them and fed them," in consequence pf the defendant's neglect.—Defendant called Mr BroVghton, auctioneer, to prove that he had done his best to obtain a reconciliation since the day the case had been adjourned, but that he had been thwarted by his sister-in-law, who said that if her sister went back to him she would turn her back on her for ever. He was bound ' over in the sum of £lO to keep the peace for six months.