An Unprovoked Assault

On Saturday at the Doncaster West Riding Police Court, a Denaby bookmaker, named Tom Gough, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, using abusive language, and assaulting a miner named Henry Smith.

Complainant said that on the 20th inst. as he was returning home, about 11 p.m., he saw defendant standing near a lamp post in Clifton Street. When complainant was passing defendant the latter hit him on the bridge of the nose, knocking him on his back. Complainant was picked up by a man named Henry Brocklehurst.

Sergeant Slack corroborated, and defendant was ordered to pay the costs for the abusive language, and was sent to prison for two months, with hard labour, for being drunk and the assault, the sentences to run concurrently.