Assault at Denaby.

Richard Wright, miner, Denaby, and Charlotte Wilson, married woman, were each fined £2 including costs, for assaulting John Glynn, of Denaby.

Mr. Baddiley appeared for complainant.

Complainant said that on Saturday night last he was walking along the road when he saw the female defendant. She flung several bricks and stones at him. He was severely hurt on the head in several places, from which blood was flowing freely. Wright then came up and gave him a violent blow in the mouth, knocking a tooth out. He had given them no provocation whatever.

Female defendant: did you not insult me four times on Saturday? Complainant: no.

Defendant: and you also struck me.

Wright said he had been taking union money that night at Denaby.

Father O’Brien said she saw the woman fling the bricks that the complainant: she also knelt on him after she had knocked him down. The wounds in his head were bleeding very much.

Female defendant: Didn’t you see the complainant strike me and give me a black eye.

Witness: no, I did not.

Defendant: who has given it me then? Witness: your own husband.

Edwin Hatton said he was standing in the middle of the street at the time of the assault, and he bore out the previous witness’s evidence.

Mrs Massey and George Tennant (colliery deputy) also gave evidence for the prosecution

Dr Denson stated that he dressed the man’s wounds. Some of which reached to the bone of the head. One of which was 2 ½ inches long. They appeared to have been caused by a brick or something blunt. He was afraid of erysipelas setting in. His lower jaw was almost much injured.

The defence was that the complainant was very drunk, and had caused the wounds himself by falling among some bricks. It was stated that he had previously assaulted Mrs Wilson, and that Wright only struck back after being first assaulted. Glynn was charged with having assaulted Mrs Wilson by blacking one of her eyes, and inflicting injuries on her body. It was contended that her husband gave her the black eye.

The case was dismissed.