Mexborough & Swinton Times, November 13, 1891
Notes From Conisborough.
False Swearing & Outrageous Assaults
By-the-bye, I think Conisborough is doing its best to lose the stigma which was some months ago passed upon it of being the worst place in the petty sessional division for “false swearing “and outrageous assaults. Latterly the oases from Conisborough have been comparatively trivial and the people seem to be living on fairly terms with one another. I hope they will continue to do so, for it is certainly very degrading to a community to see in the daily and weekly newspapers repeated accounts of brutal “assaults.” ” cowardly attacks.” and so on.
What is this a little bird whispery! A doctor mauled about by an infuriated husband? Surely not.
This story which I am given from Denaby Main surely belongs to Drury Lane or some other place at a distance, for I won’t believe any miner in this locality would be guilty of what my informant alleges to the case. The statement may be of sufficient interest to reproduce it, so here it is—
” The doctor had been asked to attend upon the miner’s wife who was ill in bed. He came, but his arrival was not sufficiently prompt for the husband, who met the medical gentleman at the door, abused him violently with his tongue and afterwards showed his bellicose tendency in a more practical way by following the gentleman for some distance along the street, assaulting him repeatedly on the way.”
Somebody must have been dreaming this! Our doctors are too much respected to be thus dealt with. The horse whipping king of Tim Healy must have been preying on my informant’s mind I