The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1882-01-21 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

VIOLENT ASSAULT .ON A  HUSBAND.  Ar the Borough Police-court, on Monday, before Mr. Preston, Winifred Woods, a hardfeatured woman about 30, well known to the police, was charged with unlawfully cutting and wounding her husband, David Woods, on Sunday night. David Woods, of No. 1, William-street, fireman, whose face was a mass of bandages, said that at about 10 minutes past 10 on Sunday night he was sitting in the parlour of his house when his wife came into the room and without speaking a word threw a cup at him. It broke against his face, inficting a severe cut on the right aide. She then picked up a piece of s broken saucepan and sta nck him in the face with it, cutting him again. He bled freely, losing about two quarts of blood. She then ran out and came in again, when she began to break the pictures. A child in the street told a policeman thitt she was 'rowing" and that he was bleeding to I death. The constable came to the house and I complainant was taken to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed, several stitches being put in his face. He came back and went to his brother's house, and his wife was kicking up a tow then. The prisoner crossexamined witness as to some occurrences in the afternoon, with the view of showing that he began the quarrel by coming in drank and throwing the dinner behind the fire, but this he denied, asserting that there was no dinner ready when he came in in the afternoon. . James Hayman, sen., a fitter, living in the same house as the complainant, said that at about 10 o'clock on Sunday night the (tom. ( plainant was sitting with him in the parlour of the house when the prisoner rushed in out of the kitchen with a sup and struck her husband in the face. The cup broke on his face, cutting the cheek, and he bled profusely. Both the prisoner and her husband had had drink but were not drunk. He saw no more of the affair. James Hayman, Jun., son of the last witness, gave similar evidence. P.C. Challoner, said that about 10.30 on Sunday night he was called to No. 1 Williamstreet. He found the prosecutor sitting on chair bleeding. There was a great quantity of blood lying about. There was a wound on the side of his face from the nose to the chin, and his lip was cut through. Witness asked him if he would go to the hospital, but he did not wish to, so witness went out and fetched Inspector West, and together they got him to the hospital. The plisoner was in the house at the time, and had got her husband up-stairs while witness went for the inspector. Witness afterwards apprehended the prisoner, and charged her, when she said she did not strike her husband with a cup but with a pan. He threw the pan at her and she threw it back at him. Mr. Willey, junior, house-surgeon at the hospital, said that about 11.30 on Sunday evening the prosecutor was brought to the hospital suffering from a very severe Wound in the face. There was a cut extending from a little below the right eye to the chin, the cheek being cut to the bone, and both lips severed, Sever al small vessels were cut, and the wound bled profusely. He sewed the wound up with several stitches, and applied the necessary bandages. The wound might have been produced in the manner described, by a broken cup. There was also a separate wound in the throat. Mr. Preston, addressing the prisoner, said she had been before the court upwards of 40 times, and had been more than 30 times convicted of various offences. The prisoner said her husband could hit and murder her as much as he liked, and had taken up with another woman. Mr. Preston committed the prisoner for trial at the next quarter sessions.