Another Trade Outrage at Conisboro

At the Doncaster Police Court, on Saturday, Joseph Barrow, John James, and Francis Holden were summoned for assaulting Reuben Jones, blower. Complainant, a non-unionist, went into the Fox Inn, at Conisboro, on the night of the 22nd ult., in company with four other young men. As soon as they got in the defendant James seized him by the collar, and said he and his friends must leave the house, as they were “— black sheep,” and could not stay there.

Complainant made reply, and James then struck him on the eye and knocked him over a table. Holden also hit him. A friend named Widby got complainant into another room out of the way of the unionists, but James followed him and dragged him to the door and out into the street. The other defendants were standing there, and Barrow made use of a threat, and Holden said, “Let me have a — punch at him.” James then gave Jones a parting kick, and Barrow and other men also beat him severely.

Eventually Jones got away, and a policeman subsequently escorted him home. He was very much injured, and had been attended ever since by Mr. Hills, surgeon. Several witnesses corroborated the complainant’s statement; but there appeared to be some doubt as to Barrow’s complicity, and eventually the Bench gave him the benefit of it, and dismissed the case as against him.