Mexborough and Swinton Times, November 12.
Murderous Assault at Station Hotel
On Tuesday afternoon last the village of Conisborough was thrown into considerable excitement through the scene of a murderous assault.
An Irish woman who had but recently been an inmate of the Doncaster Union, went into the Station Hotel to search for her husband, named John Carr, and there found him enjoying his glass. He made no secret of his distaste at her advent, and told her she was to be off to the Union, for she should not live with him.
The wife, not relishing her reception, seized his glass, and exclaimed, “Then you shall have no more beer.”
The husband instantly struck her on the right side of the head with a stick, and cause an incision in one of the veins which traverse the scull. The woman was quickly covered with blood.
With almost superhuman energy she walked up to Dr Hill’s surgery, but that gentleman being out visiting patients, she was taken to Mr George Harrison’s chemist, who was fortunately able to stay the effusion of blood.
She was afterwards sent back to the Union Workhouse, under the protection of the police.