Mexborough and Swinton Times, June 3.
Lively proceedings at Conisborough.
Louisa Long of Conisborough, was charged by Mary Anne Cook of that village, with assaulting her.
The complainant stated that on the previous Saturday night she heard a noise and went to the yard to a see what was the matter. Her husband was standing with her. Whilst there she saw the defendant was beastly drunk. The husband of the defendant kicked her out of the house, and she lay on the kerbstone until a policeman picked her up and took her into the house. She (defendant) was not many minutes before she came out again, as her husband had been again beating her.
The defendant then went up to the witness, and began abusing her with her tongue. She had never been so abused in all her life; the language was unfit to be repeated. Defended also struck her in the face three times, and said she didn’t care if she served three months in Wakefield for it.
The defendant said the woman was a lying, false swearing woman, and she wondered that she was not afraid of dropping dead in the box.
Complainant said the defendant was more likely to drop.
Defendant said she had been summoned out of revenge, because she (defendant) was up at the court last week.
The defendant was behaving in a very excited manner, and Lord Auckland observed that she was drunk.
Defendant said she would like to know this complainant and a mark upon her face.
No mark was perceivable though the woman said she had a black eye when she went for the summons.
The magistrate´s clerk said he never saw the woman with a black eye (Laughter.)
Alan J was called by the complainant, and evidence in favour of the defendant was given by a married couple, named Alfred and Alex Bell.
Lord Auckland, said the bench thought that the two parties were as bad as one another and the case would be dismissed.