A Public-house Brawl
24th May 1850
Daniel Marlow,
a silk-weaver, of Desborough, charged Edward Coe and William Buckley,
silk-weavers, of the same place, with assaulting him on the 24th of May.
Complainant stated that about ten o'clock on the night of the 23d he
went to the New Inn, and stayed till two o'clock the next morning. On
coming out the defendants knocked him down. He afterwards took hold of
Buckley's neckcloth for protection, and begged of them to let him go.
They knocked him down again in the middle of the street, and a third
time assailed him against his own house, and struck his wife who came to
the door. After he went in home defendants threw dirt at the window to
get him out again. Defendants brought witnesses to prove that
complainant was drunk, and challenged all in the house to fight; that he
was drinking other people's beer and calling bad names; that he came
scuffling out of the public-house with defendants; that they were
provoked, and acted in self-defence. The Bench thought the affair was
disgraceful to all parties, and dismissed the case.
Sarah, wife
of Daniel Marlow, then charged Edward Coe with assaulting her in her own
house on the 24th of May. From complainant's statement it appeared that
on hearing the disturbance outside she opened the door and pulled her
husband in, when Coe struck her a blow on the head. Witnesses, however,
distinctly swore that Coe was not present, and the case was dismissed.
Northampton Mercury,
Saturday 08 June 1850