Widnes Examiner. — 1886-12-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ALLEGED ASSAULT AT PA.Tat.—At the Town Hall. on that a fall would ciose the injury.—In reply to Mr. Swift, ,o visits paid hy Lord Blandthe defendant would be fined "s Cd and costs, and he must Friday, a young man, rumen John Evans, of Merton Bank- witness said there were several 'uruises on prosecutor's lee% ee Dr. Bird to Lady Colin Cempbell, lane, was summoned on a charge of assaulting Jos. Heaton. and the prosecutor said another man, not the prisoner, had orat Lord Colin bad at any time been un- be more careful in future. '-' ..,ate with her. The case was adjourned till Wed- ....._______________ of Higher Parr-street. Complainant stated that on Satter- caused therre—p C. Ratcliffe said he apprehended the priaeay, when Rose Fisher, wee Baer, formerly Lady Colin day night last he was delivering bread from a cart in Back- soner at his residence, and charged him with the offence, &toms° Nutmeg IN SNEFFtELD. _On Wednesday, lane. While he was in a house defendant struck the horse whereupon the prisoner replied, " Oh, tha charges me, and about noon, a German Engineer, named esenieb murdered and made it rear: Complainant asked him what he was we in bed."—For the defence, Mr. Swift submitted the evia marrifd woman named Jubb, landlady of the Royal aniddr,ord waswas examined frequent at geraelal great caller eunpgotnh .LaSdh; stated Nutmeg doing and he said he would do the seine to him. Cm.- dence for the prosecution Was full of discrepancie., and conquickly b; Messrs.to - t ieHotel, Sheffield, and afterwards committed suicide. The plain-Lle then Pushed hint away and 'went into another tended that his client had been in the houe,e from ten o'clock that hpLieersl'itj'asßymelad about an hour; that he had accompanied her two had been acquainted for Some years, and Thmich house. When he came OM defendant struck him several on the night in question, and he did not again go out that t h. -.., Messrs. Bishop and Clark. her ; and that Lady Colin very frequently wrote eod im. eeuts; Mr. John Pea- home at three in the morning and then entered a room with seemed to have tried to force his aseenei„„ on /qrs. Juhh. tunes. This conduct Was repeated on his coining out of night. tie ureert that the prosscutor had sustained his in- quickly burnt through righ into In regard to events at Leigh Court, witness admitt . that who gave him he encouregen,ent. Tee German went several other houses. Ha was struck several times, but he juries in a free fight, and that the case had been brought all into the house on Weduesd ,y morning, and immedietelv (complainant) did not strike back. several witnesses were through spite.—The J3ench decided to commit the prisoner o'clock, despite the efforts of the fire she had made mistakes, and that she had made statements _ /lames spread to St. Mary Magdalen Church, to her fellow-servants which she could not support by evi- on Mrs. Jubb entering the room where sle so, several pis- celled in corroberation.—Defendant said complainant hit for trial, and the prisoner eaid. he was not guilty. and that ...“ was soon well a-light. and it was evident the lit was deuce; but she held to her assertion that Lord Blandford r e toa shots were beard. Ta, leadiaey st,ggered into the him first, and then challenged him out to fight.—Taemagis. he never saw Pennington that night. He went to bed at , doomed to serious damage. A later account says the Church and Lady Colin Campbell occupied adjoining rooms. and kitchen, bleeding from a bnilet wound in the chest. Us- twee dismissed the c ase. se . ten o'clock, and never went out again. nich then shot himself in the body and heed, and fell dead. chief in Lady Colin's room. The case was again ad.. the has been almost destroyed, and the total damage done will that on one occasion she found a gentleman's hapdker- • eras to be ac- not he less than .ElOO,