A Violent Fellow Sent to Prison

On Thursday at the Guildhall, Doncaster, before the Mayor (Robt. C. Bentley, Esq.) and other magistrates, a young man named Frank Joy was brought up charged with wilfully damaging a window and with assaulting Henry Ellis.

The prisoner had twice been in prison for felony, but his father had lately allowed him to return home again and to assist him in his business as a greengrocer. On Wednesday prisoner went with his father’s cart to Conisbro’ and there got very drunk. He returned home between eight and nine in the evening, and was asked for the money he had taken during the day. Instead of handing it over he began to pay his parents in another way, knocking his mother on to a sofa, and striking her several times in the face with his clenched fists, and then treating his father in a similar manner, striking and kicking him.

He then went outside and began smashing the window, when Ellis, to whom the property belongs, interfered, and received a black eye for his trouble. Ellis, however, seized the fellow and handed him over to a police constable.

He was sent to prison for two months, and in addition fined 1s. and costs, and ordered to pay the damage.